n case you were on the dark side of the moon this last weekend I will remind you that the New England Patriots took home their fifth NFL Championship Trophy by beating the Atlanta Falcons 34-28 in overtime. Considering that the Pats were down 24-3 at the half, that’s quite a feat. It was actually two ball totally different games with the Falcons running roughshod over the Pats in the first half and pigskin surgeon Dr. Tom Brady calmly and mercilessly dissecting the Falcon defense in the second half. If you saw close ups of No. 12 in the second half you could see that he had “The Look”! The superman about to leap over a tall building and bend steel in his bare hands look. And sure enough, the Falcons were doomed.
In terms of excitement, it certainly was one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played. Over 30 Super Bowl records were set. On social media the Patriot haters were going crazy at the half with their predictions of New England’s imminent demise. But Bill, Tom, and the Patriot bunch came through again. Was Super Bowl LI the greatest Super Bowl ever play? Well….could be. Are the Patriots of the new millennium the greatest team in NFL history? That’s a definite possibility. Are Bill Belichick and Tom Brady the greatest head coach/ quarterback combination ever? Most assuredly. Is Tom Brady the greatest player in NFL history? It certainly looks that way.
Jackie Robinson Film
I watched the film “42” on HBO. It’s extremely well done and I highly recommend it. It concerns Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the major league baseball “color” line in 1947 by becoming part of the Brooklyn Dodgers starting lineup and being the first black baseball big league player of the modern era. Dodger manager Branch Rickey had been told that Robinson who was playing with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League, was the best all around ball player in the country. He wanted to get the best players for the Dodgers. The film goes into great detail about the everyday horrors that Robinson and his teammates had to endure during that season. What is sad is that it seems little has changed in the nearly seventy years that have pasted since Jackie Robinson first played major league ball.