ATLANTA – It’s a shame more football fans can’t appreciate the historic beauty in how ugly the Patriots’ defense made the Rams look offensively in Super Bowl LIII at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Sunday.
The NFL began playing a championship game in 1933. There were 33 of those before 53 Super Bowls were held. So that’s 86 title games. And only one of those 86 champions won with fewer than the 13 points the Patriots did while posting the largest margin of victory (10 points) in their six Super Bowl wins.
Or, as Tom Brady said amid all the whining about the lack of points, “How about our defense, man!