Amidst a game in which football fans have both reveled and diminished the efforts of your New England Patriots, one thing ran true as the clock dipped to zero, the Patriots are going to Indy for the Super Bowl!
The moment that the ball left the foot of one Billy Cundiff, who may have just gotten the Patriots’ game ball, every person watching could see it hooking left, with the score being left at 20-17 Patriots. The magical words of former Pats backup Scott Zolak ringing across the airwaves, “HE HOOKED IT!” have given me chills a half dozen times in the past 12 hours. And seeing the comparisons to Ace Ventura’s “Ray Finkle” become a trend on Boston’s Twitter was fantastic.
So the game ended and the speculation began.
Are these Patriots as good as the New York football Giants? Did they deserve to win that game? Is Bernard Pollard a stone-cold Patriot assassin?
The answer to all of those questions, is yes.
So on we go to what will most possibly be two weeks of pure hell. Replays from every negative moment of the 2007 Super Bowl. Giants talking trash while Bill Belichick and Tom Brady kiss their ass for all of the good things they do. Boston vs. New York. A Manning playing in Lucas Oil Stadium for the first time this year.
What it all comes down to is Sunday, February 5th. Super Bowl Sunday.