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Super Bowl Analysis
Tom Brady and the New England Patriots enacted the most extraordinary resurgence in Super Bowl history, triumphing the Atlanta Falcons 34-28, in the first Super Bowl ending in an overtime.
One of the biggest disputes in football is determining who is the greatest player of all time at any given position. Naturally, the leadership positions, like the Quarterback, are debated with even more intensity. Joe Montana and Tom Brady are three quarterbacks frequently designated as “The G.O.A.T,” or greatest of all time. Unsurprisingly, the main statistic focused on in these arguments is Super Bowl wins. Until Super Bowl LI, Joe Montana and Tom Brady were both tied at 4 wins, however, the article states “Brady also became the first quarterback to win
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He is to the NFL as Lebron James is to the NBA. He’s the face of the league, the “Golden Boy,” so to speak, so when he was suspended, it caused a lot of commotion within the league. The article says, “Brady, who threw for 466 yards and two touchdowns, shrugged off suggestions that the win amounted to a personal redemption.” According to Tom Brady, the win wasn’t any kind of revenge against the league or Roger Goodell, the NFL’s commissioner and the person most responsible for Brady’s suspension. Many people, including myself, doubt his claim because even though he argued so vehemently for his an innocent verdict in Deflategate, he was still found guilty, and it’s hard to believe that he doesn’t feel any joy in throwing the league's most prized competition back in its face, after missing four games no less. Nonetheless, I found it interesting that someone was able to record his thoughts, true or not. As aforementioned, football is by far my favorite sport, so it would be anticipated that news concerning its most important game and arguably most important player would capture my attention. News regarding football, good or bad, has and always will have a place in my

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