KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said he was "as excited as he's been in some time" after Sunday's 37-31 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game, and explained the reason for his overflowing emotion on the field.
"The odds were stacked against us," he said after engineering his 57th career game-winning drive to bring the Patriots back from a fourth-quarter deficit or tie. "It hasn't been that way for us for a while. It certainly was this year. We started off so slow.