As a Saints fan that watched an entire Super Bowl-worthy season get salted away in a fashion that was just as unbelievable, inconceivable, and inexcusable, I needed that. As a viewing audience that largely loathes how much success the Patriots have had over the years, you needed that. Hell, they'll never admit it, but even the most braggadocios of Boston sports' fans needed that. By "that", I just don't mean the apparent dawning of Hook-and-Ladder SZN....
...but also an indisputable reminder that no one - and I mean NO ONE - is entirely immune to falling victim to the fickleness of football's freakiest plays. Due to the combination of their own dominance and the undeniable effect it has on opposing coaches that start outsmarting themselves once they take the field opposite it, New England has found a way to end up on the right side of the vast majority of "W...in...T...actual...F" plays since David Tyree caught a fateful pass with his cranium. For that reason, I couldn't be more certain that Gronk was going to come roaring into the screen looking like Tedy Bruschi in his prime only to deliver a perfect form tackle that would make it seem as though it was an ending that Bill Belichick brilliantly drew up in his lab of irregularity. Instead, an otherworldly athlete managed to trip over his own feet like Frankenstein taking his very first step in making the greatest coach of multiple generations look like he got too cute in mismanaging personnel. In all honesty, if the game wasn't being played in Miami - aka Bizarro World Foxboro - Dolphins' fans probably would have had their hopes raised up juuuust enough to make it that much more painful when Kenyan Drake got bulldozed through the turf by a mutant tight end turned last line(backer) of defense. Fortunately, that game was played in Miami, so the concept of "any given Sunday" was able to be emboldened by yet another example, this one coming at the expense of both a team and a head coach that have grown nauseatingly used to seeming smarter than everyone else in setting it.
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