Monday Morning Optimist: Thus ends another season

Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty ImagesThus ends another season. A year of innovative offenses chewing up yards and spitting out points is, of course, defined by the lowest scoring Super Bowl ever. It’s defining play was a record long punt, because football is weird and nothing in this game is constant. Well, nothing except for the Patriots. The gravity of their success is difficult to watch. I don’t mean to infer that their wins are of remarkable import or serious nature. I mean gravity in the sense that the Patriots function as close as you can get to a law of nature. When you drop an apple, it falls on another winning season and/or Super Bowl appearance and/or Super Bowl victory for Tom Brady and Bill Belichik.

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