Super Bowl XXXVI - Pats 20, Rams 17 Congratulations Patriots!!!

NFL ^ | 2/3/02

[Ima Lurker]

St. Louis Rams...The overratedest show on turf! Yeah Patriots!!

[PetroniDE]

Thank You New England Patriots.
Bump for later reading.

[WyldKard]

I was thinking that MLife was some spinoff of Metropolitan Life Insurance or something. Why would AT&T, which has about as good name recognition as any product short of Coca-Cola, spend all these millions on this? Now I know what my AT&T wireless bills are going for!

I've heard that MetLife is suing ATT over this...because MLife sounds "Too close" to MetLife....

[WyldKard]

St. Louis Rams...The overratedest show on turf! Yeah Patriots!!

Yeah..whats that old saying? "Pride goeth before a fall?"

I saw a LOT of the knocks we Pats fans had to take from Rams boosters...if the Rams bought into even a fraction of this crap, they must have been seriously cocky bastards. Whereas, the Pats seemed really humble to me...I was really impressed by them insisting on coming out as a team, instead of as individuals. I also liked hearing about how some of the team vets were harping on the rookies on the team, telling them not to get cocky just because the score was 14 - 3 at the half.

The Pats deserved to win. I honestly think they wanted it more...

[krodriguesdc]

The Taxachussetts Patriots suck. Corrupt Ted Kennedy bought the game.

I agree that teddy is corrupt but The Patriots are SUPER and they are The Super Bowl Champions!

sounds like you lost a bit of dough...

[krodriguesdc]

It doesn't do much good to point out that the Rams didn't have a good game, because the Pats clearly did.

Yup - in order to win you have to have a good game - champions do that without complaining...

I was impressed with Rams' QB Kurt Warner who gave The Pats their due - he said they clearly played like champions and deserved to win...

Kurt's a class act...

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well that was a great game too. But the 49ers weren't the underdogs the way the Patriots were. Also, the 49ers were behind in the game so they had no choice but to go for it. When the Rams tied the game tonight with just over a minute left in the game, even the TV announcers were saying that the Pats should just take a knee and take their chances in overtime after they received the ball around the 20 yard line. But Brady, with zero timeouts, marched the team down the field into field goal range and the rest is history. That was just as gutsy as Joe Montana's drive.

And let's add one more thing: Not only was it just as gutsy, but it's even MORE gutsy, imho, when you consider how long Brady has been in the league... ;0)

Finally, a Patriots S.B. win... It feels like I've been waiting forever for one...

[Chances Are]

Although certainly no fan of Ted's, he did play fullback at Harvard, so, yeah, the likelihood is great he does know what an onside kick is.

Unless he's forgotten it. Which is entirely possible.

Just to set the record straight...

CA...

[michaelje]

GO PATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Buying my 2002-03 season tix today !

[Fury]

I think Bob Kraft sucks, but at least he didn't get his team by drowning someone.

Yes, remember what he tried to do to the team by moving them to - Hartford!!!!???!!!

[Chances Are]

re: All those "eat crow" quotes....

Like the old saw says, talent and a dime will get you a cup of coffee (well, it's not a dime anymore, but the logic still stands!)...

CA....

[No!]

In NO way... SHAPE... or form is SHE a HE!

I know...

You evidently do not.

[Twins613]

And Madden was crazy for telling them to run out the clock. The Pats D-line was dead, and they had very little chance of winning in OT.

Agreed. Somewhere, Dennis Green is sitting at a golf course, looking at a TV and saying, "I'd have fallen on the ball." The 1998 NFC championship was a classic example of a team playing not to lose (the Vikings) and then doing exactly that.

You play games to win them, not to avoid losing. I applaud Belichick for having the guts to try and win the game in regulation, and I'm glad he was rewarded for it.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Most of the liberals up this way aren't football fans anyhow."

You go, boy! Tell it my Bruthah! You've got to testifya!
Some good shots. But some people are just blind and ignorant and like it that way.

[1Old Pro]

Great game, BUT the punter should have gotten the MVP award.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"It doesn't do much good to point out that the Rams didn't have a good game, because the Pats clearly did. "

Not one word I have posted on this subject in the past week has been disparaging towards the Rams. They have a great team.
My comments have dealt only with the TOTAL lack of respect that is being shown towards the Patriots by partisans from the other bench and the media. They didn't get to the Big Dance because of one referee's call. They earned it all season long.
I knew they'd win, but I never expected such a dramatic, exciting game.
Hats off to both teams.

[Whilom]

That was just about my prediction -- Rams 28, Pats 13. But I knew that the game was settled in the first quarter because the Rams are quick starters. When they don't start quickly, they don't do well. You could tell that all of them, not just Kurt Warner, were tense and tight in a very negative way. Martz was playing not to lose; the Pats were playing to win. And you could see all the coaches yelling at the Rams every time they went to the sidelines -- don't make any mistakes! Don't make any mistakes! It was a scared team and scared coaches. They did not look or act like favorites. Sure enough, somebody made a boo-boo when Warner put the ball up for grabs and gave the Pats a touchdown. After that, the Rams looked like a deer frozen in headlights. Even when they came back to tie in the second half, they looked like losers. I nearly died laughing when Madden advised the Pats to protect the ball and settle for overtime. Anyone could see that the Pats were on their way to victory -- and it was an upset only in the sense that a deer has the spread on a Mack truck.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Had the Rams gone for two and not made it, the Pats would have gotten the ball back with a one-point lead with 1:48 left. With no time out left on either side, all they would have needed to do was make one first down and then kneel on the ball for the rest of the game. "

That's all they needed to do when they had the ball and a 17-10 lead with 2:00 or so left. But they failed to get a single first down. The Rams had no time outs. A first down and 3 kneel downs and it's over.
When the Pats failed to get that first down and punted, my faith waivered. I knew the defense was dog tired and thought for sure this was headed for overtime. But the Rams' biggest mistake of the night turned out to be leaving 1:30 on the clock. I'll bet you dollars for donuts that the Rams were cock-sure that there was no way the Pats were going to be able to drive on them the way they did.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"and it was an upset only in the sense that a deer has the spread on a Mack truck. "

That gets my vote for quote of the day!

[Illbay]

I don't normally get interested in NFL football any more because till now Houston hasn't had a team (and I had just recently moved here when the Oilers began to make noises about leaving so I never got a chance get up any interest in them).

But I did watch the SB last night, and was gratified to realize that it was NOT a typical Super Bowl. Usually, they are completely boring games unable to live up to the hype (Never could figure that out, either. Why can't the players get "up" for this ultimate game for all the marbles, like the World Series tends to be?)

But this one was great, going down to the wire, nice ebb and flow, etc.

Could have done without both Sir Paul McCartney's in-depth halftime analysis and Terry Bradshaw's embarrassing attempt to sing "A Hard Day's Night", but otherwise it was great.

I confess I even liked Pats' owner Robert Craft declaring "Tonight, we're all Patriots..." Nice touch.