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Dont’a Hightower is sick of New England. The weather, that is. That’s why he said he skipped the Patriots’ championship parade. RELATED: Another New England Patriot says he’s not going to the White House “I had enough cold, snow, rain, sleet during the season,” Hightower said, told ESPN’s Mike Reiss. Depending on what happens this offseason,…
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The Atlanta Falcons were one of the youngest teams to reach the Super Bowl, nearly won it but lost to an all-time great performance by an all-time great quarterback, and, you might think, left Houston well-positioned to make another championship run in 2017. Don't count on it. History tells us it has become increasingly difficult for…
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This is what happens when, apparently, you don’t know the rules. With Super Bowl LI in overtime, Fox Sports, at the 12:07 mark, flashed a graphic that simply said: New England Patriots win Super Bowl with touchdown. RELATED: Patriots fans took their celebration to a NSFW level That would be accurate. Under the NFL overtime rules,…
The historic overtime of Super Bowl LI pulled in 111.3 million viewers on Sunday night, down slightly from last year's game, according to Nielsen and Fox. The average audience on Fox was down from the 111.9 million who watched Super Bowl 50 on CBS in 2016. The Patriots, trailing 28-3 in the third quarter, scored two…
HOUSTON -- Tom Brady and Roger Goodell posed together with the Super Bowl MVP trophy to cap yet another comeback for the New England Patriots quarterback Monday at the George Brown Convention Center. "I think James White deserves it, would have been pretty nice for him," Brady said of the unsung third-down back who had a…
HOUSTON -- The Atlanta Falcons have excelled this season by living on the edge and taking the fight out of opponents with daring and big plays. They were on the way to doing just that to the New England Patriots, but got greedy instead of playing smart late in the fourth quarter and the Patriots continued…
After the New England Patriots pulled off a stunning upset victory against the Atlanta Falcons during the Super Bowl LI on Sunday, it didn't take long for crushed Falcons fans and livid anti-Patriots viewers to take to Twitter using the hashtag of "NotMySuperBowlChamps." When news circulated prior to the Super Bowl that President Donald Trump considered…
HOUSTON -- In the halftime locker room facing a 21-3 deficit, Tom Brady looked to be a long way from a fourth Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award. Appearances can be deceiving. "He deserves so much credit," Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said. "He deserves so much credit. At halftime, we came in and Tom was…
HOUSTON -- It was nearly a perfect ending for Kyle Shanahan. The offense that he developed as coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons couldn't be stopped, and the defense was no less impressive. Shanahan's final game with the Falcons, Super Bowl LI on Sunday night before he stepped away to become the presumptive head coach of the…
HOUSTON — This wasn't just another in Atlanta's lengthy series of Hard Knocks and Epic Collapses. This was the absolute worst. This was the game that, with 17 minutes and seven seconds remaining, could not be lost. It was. No team in the Super Bowl's first 50 installments had led by 11 points and not won.…
HOUSTON — The story of the greatest rally in Super Bowl history and one of the greatest comebacks in the championship of a major sport cannot be told without the story of a remarkable choke job. There's no kind way to put it. No sugarcoating. No silver lining in Super Bowl LI. This was the Warriors…
HOUSTON — Nearly nine years ago to the day, New York Giants receiver David Tyree ripped the New England Patriots' hearts out with what became known as "The Helmet Catch." On Sunday, in Super Bowl LI, the Patriots' Julian Edelman delivered a sweet, soul-clearing, memory-sweeping salve to millions of Patriots' fans with an absurd catch of…
HOUSTON — If it didn't happen in front of billions of eyes around the world, it would be hard to describe how the New England Patriots pulled off what might be the greatest comeback in the annals of professional team sports Sunday night. Tom Brady's refusal to give up after the Falcons climbed to a 28-3…
Just hours before the big game, the Super Bowl 2017 point spread remains the same as it’s been for two weeks. The New England Patriots are three-point favorites over the Atlanta Falcons Sunday in Houston, though other aspects of the betting odds have seen changes in recent days. The over/under is still the highest in Super…
When the New Englad Patriots are involved in a big game, it’s typically not a question of if controversy will emerge, it’s when. This time, 聽it was a mysterious drone flying over the Atlanta Falcons’ practice in Houston that has some questioning what really happened, per the Atlanta Journal Constitution: The Atlanta Falcons have been practicing…
Atlanta Falcons Pro Bowl center Alex Mack is expected to play in Super Bowl LI against the New England Patriots despite a fracture in his left fibula. ESPN's Adam Schefter was told by a source that if this were the regular season, Mack could miss six to eight weeks, and the fact that he is playing…
Before Kyle Shanahan was responsible for coordinating the explosive Atlanta Falcons’ offense to the Super Bowl, he held the same position for the Cleveland Browns. Related:聽 Adam Schefter maintains what the Patriots would get as a “minimum” for Jimmy Garoppolo聽 While he was the OC in Cleveland, the Browns drafted Johnny Manziel, but Shanahan preferred Eastern…
HOUSTON -- Psssst. Come closer. I want to let you in on a little secret, one that you shouldn't share with anyone at your Super Bowl LI party on Sunday night -- especially if that party is taking place in the decidedly un-Patriots-loving New Jersey area and you don't want to be wearing the guacamole. But…
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan will be financially rewarded for taking his team to Super Bowl LI. The 31-year-old Ryan will get a new deal, according to Falcons owner Arthur Blank. "He needs to be compensated well, certainly," Blank told ESPN.com on Friday. "And he will be." Ryan still has two years left on the six-year,…
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick are that rare thing: a duo that recognizes what each of them brings to the table. They don't get in each other's way, don't resent each other, and use their individual strengths to carve out a path heretofore unseen and one we might never see again. Their head coach-quarterback combination essentially…
