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No One Is Happy For The Patriots<em></em>
Let’s start with the obvious, which is that (gun to head) the Patriots are the greatest dynasty in NFL history. Bill Belichick is the greatest coach in history. Tom Brady is the greatest quarterback in history, with last night being the definitive instance of him performing football miracles with li...
A Timeline Of Proposed Super Bowl 51 Headlines From Last Night
The Deadspin staff convened in our staff chatroom last night to discuss and coordinate our coverage of Super Bowl 51 while we all watched it from our various homes and/or Super Bowl parties. As the game unfolded, staffers suggested various headlines for our postgame story; I’ve compiled them into a ...
The Patriots Have Their Revenge
Before last night, the last time Roger Goodell and Tom Brady were in the same building—as far as we know—was in a federal courthouse in downtown Manhattan in August 2015, each seated and silent, flanked by attorneys....
What The Hell Was Kyle Shanahan Thinking?
You’ve watched enough football games to understand what’s supposed to happen when a team is up 28-12 and has the ball with 9:40 left to play. They run the ball as much as they can, they squeeze every second out of the game clock, and they win the goddamn game....
David Ortiz Was Super Pumped About The Patriots' Win
Adopted Bostonian David Ortiz, who knows a little something about improbable comebacks, watched last night’s Super Bowl miracle at home with his family, most likely going from cautiously excited to devastated to deliriously happy like all Patriots fans over the course of the evening. He gave us a gl...
Julian Edelman Caught That Somehow
So, there it is, right there in the above photo. One inch, maybe two, between football and turf? Some barely countable fraction of a second that felt like it took forever as the ball hung, seemingly unmoored from gravity, precisely long enough for Julian Edelman to double-clutch. An instantly iconic...
James White's Super Bowl-Winning Touchdown, As Heard On Patriots & Falcons Radio And Around The World
James White’s touchdown in overtime gave the Patriots their fifth NFL title and ended one of the wildest Super Bowls in history. Here’s how that championship-winning play sounded on nine different broadcasts, including, in order: Fox, Fox Deportes, Patriots radio, Falcons radio, BBC Radio 5, Westwoo...
I Wonder What These Two Are Saying To One Another
I don’t like Tom Brady, you don’t like Tom Brady, but let’s not pretend there’s no upside here....
All The Falcons Had To Do Was Not Lose 23 Yards
If there was a sequence where the Falcons lost this game (in actuality it was every single drive after New England got the ball with 8:31 left in the third quarter, as the Patriots scored on every one of their remaining possessions—all five of them—while the Falcons couldn’t muster another point) it...
Let's Enjoy The Play That Left Tom Brady In The Dust
We all know what happened in the end, but let’s not forget that before orchestrating an instantly legendary comeback against the Atlanta Falcons and proving that freedom’s enemies will always thrive in 2017, Tom Brady spent the Super Bowl playing like a goddamn jamoke, to the joy of millions. With j...
Donald Trump Praises Tom Brady, Vladimir Putin In Batshit Super Bowl Interview<em></em>
The great tradition of powerful people turning to sports reporters so they can seem folksy—aka avoiding any questions or followups of significant consequence—continued this Super Bowl with our nation’s sentient chancre fielding questions from Jim Gray on Westwood One Sports radio. The interview was ...
Tom Brady Seals Status As Greatest Player Ever As Nation Mourns
Those wild, magical assholes managed to do it again. For the fifth time in seven appearances, the New England Patriots are Super Bowl champions....
Halftime Show Dancer Pays Tribute To Patriots' Offense
One of Lady Gaga’s dancers was really into it during tonight’s Super Bowl halftime show. ...
Tom Brady's Pick-Six, As Heard Around The World
So far the biggest moment of tonight’s Super Bowl was Tom Brady throwing a pick-six. For the purposes of critical and educational analysis, we allow you to listen to and discuss the play as it was called by announcers on Fox Deportes, BBC 1, PULS 4 (Austria), and Televisa (Mexico). Which broadcaster...
Tom Brady Throws Pick-Six, Falcons Up Big
Now, I won’t go so far as to say that Jimmy Garoppolo wouldn’t have thrown a pick-six. But Jimmy Garoppolo definitely would have gotten over to make that tackle....
Julio Jones: Smooth Criminal
Julio Jones hauled in a fantastic sideline catch en route to the Falcons’ second touchdown tonight—one viewers around the world felt deserving of the Moonwalker treatment. ...
<i>Hamilton</i> Stars Add "Sisterhood" To "America The Beautiful"
To kick off the patriotic pageantry of Super Bowl LI, three stars of the original cast of Hamilton sang “America The Beautiful”—and ad libbed a little for equality, making a nice contrast to more or less everything else that happened leading into the game....
You Will Fail: Today's Guide To Ignoring The Super Bowl
You there. Yes, you. Guess what you will not be doing tonight. You will not be skipping the Super Bowl. Sorry....
Watch Ray Lewis Deliver A Pregame Speech To The Patriots In A Seemingly Empty Garage For No Good Reason
Have you ever looked around a vacant garage and thought, “Boy, this would be a great place for Ray Lewis to pretend he’s giving a Super Bowl pep talk, repeatedly using ‘we’ and ‘us’ to describe a team he never played for as he pumps up the empty room”? So has the NFL! ...
