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It wasn't a great game. First 3 quarters were very underwhelming. A great 4th quarter and first OT in Super Bowl history made up for it.
Yes, it was. And this is obvious to everyone except those who are so bent over the Patriots winning that it impairs their ability to see what is obvious to everyone else.
Don't know why so many people feel that was the GOAT Super Bowl. It's up there for sure, the history and the living legend of Brady and the first overtime will keep it near the top for decades. I love Brady, there is no more debate about the GOAT quarterback, how can there be? He's like what New York City is to the USA--we have LA/Chicago, etc, there are other great cities here, a lot actually, but NY is in a class of its own....
There are other legendary quarterbacks, a bunch of them--we all know who they are. Tom Brady has separated himself from the pack into a completely different class. Most of the GOAT's, pick whoever you like--Montana, Elway, Manning, Starr, Unitas, Marino, Staubach, whoever!--for all there greatness, most of them couldn't have done THAT. Most of them could not have been down 25 points halfway through the 3rd in the fricking Super Bowl and come back and won it. And we can say this rather affirmatively because half of these guys were down big in championship games before and couldn't deliver...
That's a special kind of greatness there. It's the most rarefied of the rarefied air...
It is going to be a lllooooonnnnggggg time before anyone else can be mentioned with Brady. Rodgers is the media darling in today's NFL, but the distance he has to travel to reach this form of Legend status--he's already mid-30s. If he's the closest thing to Brady in the NFL today, odds are nearly impossible he reaches these heights...
As far as the game: SB 49 Pats/Seahawks was a better game. This game sits in the cluster**** of great-to-almost-great Super Bowls of the last two decades: SB 43 Steelers/Cardinals; SB42 Giants/Patriots; SB38 Panthers/Patriots...
It was a good game but all those links...recency bias. If it's at the top of lists like that in another ten years then there may be something to it.
Either that, or a 25-point comeback, including two must-make two-point conversions, the game-tying touchdown (and 2pt-try) in the last minute or regulation, and the game decided in overtime, all engineered by one of the all-time greats who shattered numerous passing records while doing so.
Gee, I wonder which it could be - all that, or just 'cause it happened yesterday?
Either that, or a 25-point comeback, including two must-make two-point conversions, the game-tying touchdown (and 2pt-try) in the last minute or regulation, and the game decided in overtime, all engineered by one of the all-time greats who shattered numerous passing records while doing so.
Gee, I wonder which it could be - all that, or just 'cause it happened yesterday?
It very well could be. That's how recency bias works!
I'm not debating it was a great game. But a "greatest game of all time" list written hours after the game, still in the excitement of the moment? Recency bias. This game will age well. Give it time and we'll probably still be talking about. Maybe then we can all it the greatest SB of all time.
Definitely the greatest comeback in SuperBowl history. Nothing else within a few light years.
New England will be very good next year. They always are. No Peyton Manning to slow them down anymore.
Atlanta? Lots of new teams show up in Super Bowls then pretty well disappear for awhile. There coach may be the next Belichik however. He was an absolute genius...for 2 1/2 quarters. Even Belechik seemed awed during todays press conference.
Yes, it was. And this is obvious to everyone except those who are so bent over the Patriots winning that it impairs their ability to see what is obvious to everyone else.
The game was an exciting one. Not taking anything from the winner but something does not smell right about this game.
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