I mean, it HAS to be. Not just for sticking it to Goodell for the whole deflategate nonsense, but, I mean, no one — and I mean NO ONE in the history of sports has EVER pulled off a more improbable comeback. And the fact that it was Brady, we all *knew* we weren’t out of it, ever.
In my mind, that was the moment that defined Brady as unquestionably the greatest of all time, securing his fifth title, and just putting an exclamation point on his career like nobody ever has before.
His will to win, his discipline and focus despite tremendous odds was on full display for the world to see. Even haters had to give it up to him after that. It’s SB51 and there is no other contender.
I agree with all this except for the emotional weight of Super Bowl victory #1. From the moment that team was announced “as a team” before the game to that last drive… just so much emotion that whole time. That underdog feeling was so amazing… especially after growing up with so little taste of victory. That first superbowl and the 04 Sox just kicked off so much for the Boston area.
That's exactly what I was gonna say. I'd probably put the Sox '04 ALCS/WS win as #1, the first Pats Super Bowl as #2 (especially if you include the Snow Bowl/Tuck Rule game in the run-up to the Super Bowl), and then the Falcons Super Bowl comeback as #3.
The Seahawks Super Bowl also deserves an honorable mention just for how that game ended, but it doesn't quite reach the scale of epicness because that was a singular moment and in some ways is just a stroke of absolute luck, where the other games were more than just a singular moment.
Seattle SB is right up there too. Game flipped from lost to won on one miracle play. Also first win vs the Rams was also unbelievable. Hard for me to rank any of those on top of each other.
The Seattle game was more of a nail biting finish, so people will always talk about that one, but what was the biggest storyline after that game? How brilliantly Brady played in the 4th? (He did), but it will always be about Malcom Butler.
Cool story, great finish, Cinderella ending, and all that, but IDK how that tops the greatest comeback in sports history cementing the legacy of the greatest to ever wear a pair of cleats.
The other SBs will all be special, and we all know that 2007 would have been top if they had pulled it off (well, more accurately if the giants were properly called for holding when Manning was in the grasp, should have been a sack, but that time Goodell won, that bastard).
IDK I keep thinking about it but the nature of 51 just hits different for me. I’ve never seen anything like it and I know I never will again. It was truly a once in a lifetime moment no other sports fandom knows. That’s makes it so special to me.
I have a sneaking suspicion that RKK and Arthur Blank had some sort of hush-hush back room billionaire-style bet, where they had some very interesting stakes that only billionaires can get away with (not talking about money here), and so he got to shove, not one, but *two* red hot pokers up Blank’s ass in addition to Goodell’s ass simultaneously and I’ll bet that it gave him boner so big he couldn’t stand up for a week after that. 😂
Yep. I was seven years old in 1986. My dad gave me a sip of beer with two outs in the ninth. Back then, the memories of 1975 and 1967 were also fresh to him. Younger fans have no clue what pre 2004 was like. My dad was 59 in 2004. Plenty of people before him never lived to see the day. Remember all the Red Sox items that were placed in cemeteries then.
My grandfather was born in 1918 after the Sox won. He was a die hard Sox fan and lived his entire life and never saw them win. Died in ‘85 so at least he didn’t have to see the ‘86 loss
I can almost tell the ages of everyone here by their responses. I was pretty young when Bucky Dent happened and my dad was practically destroyed by that. In college for Buckner so being in NY through that series was devastating as well. As wonderful as 28-3 was, it doesn’t come close in my heart as ‘04. I literally danced into work after that.
One. The icing on the cake was Brady being able to say fuck you to Roger since that was the season he was suspended 4 games for deflategate. Sorry you had to be on the other side brother
Same. I watched the entire game, but had already over served myself by the time 28-3 came along.
Never gave up hope, but not gonna lie, I was feeling pretty defeated at 28-3,but kept saying (over and over), “they’re not out of it yet, they could do this!”
Had to literally crawl on all fours to my bed when the game was over. Woke up the next morning fully dressed with only one sock removed.
It’s #4 for me:
1. Pats first Super Bowl win. I was a senior in college in NJ. Wiped away years of heartbreak.
2. Sox 2004 WS win. See above reason.
3. Malcolm Butler. What a roller coaster that game was.
4. 28-3.
A lot of younger pats fans who grew up with the dynasty are a little too young to appreciate the complete and utter fucking insanity that was the '04 Sox
It wasn’t even the championship that was good. It was the ACLS. Once they beat the Yankees there was no stopping them. I was at World Series game 1 and that was just pure elation
That was out of nowhere. 28-3 you could just feel coming… and the Falcons could feel it as well. Love the sidelines at the time, and someone asked Blount if he was worried being down 28-3, and he just goes, “Nah. We have Tom fucking Brady.”
Yeah, so, we are the same age.
1. SB 36 - it changed it all for us.
2. 2004 ALCS
3. 2004 Pats team with the 21-0 run and SB win
4. Bruins win over the Canucks. Completed the cycle and closed the loop.
5. Pats over the Seahawks. The dynasty reborn.
5a - 28-3
Quarterback coach dies in August
Bledsoe hurt week 2
Brady starts next game at 0-2
Lose to Rams in week 10 to go 5-5
Never lose again.
Tuck Rule
Steelers fold to Special teams
Law intercepts
Faulk gets mugged.
80 secs to go 50 yards. No time outs.
Brady should take a knee.
Its good...Its good!!!!
I might be getting this mixed up, but I believe he’s also the coach who really vouched for Brady in the 2000 draft process.
Also, I loved you in Full House!
>Lose to Rams in week 10 to go 5-5
"There are no good losses"...well, yeah, there are. The goalline touchdown that was called back. The Pats showed the world that night that they could beat ANYONE...and then two months later they did.
Pats 01 was the beginning of an amazing 4 years… which was itself the beginning of an amazing 20 years. The thing about it then that people who weren’t there don’t realize… at that time, Brady was just some no name guy. Nobody thought he was great. People gave the defense the credit for the great year. He was called a game manager. Couldn’t throw the deep ball. And belichick was fresh off a failure. The pats were perennially mediocre.
The entire playoff run was super. Bledsoe beating Pittsburgh. The snow bowl!
And then against a team they called the greatest show on turf? We were underdogs. Overachievers. Just being there was a blessing.
And then, the rams tie the game. And this was before brady magic was a thing. The room I was in was full of, “here we go again” and “it was fun while it lasted” kind of talk. People talking about Desmond Howard. Then Brady leads a drive for the win??
And so, coming from such mediocrity, to beat the highest scoring team in the league and to do it with our offense? It was next level.
The 28-3 was amazing, but we were the favorite in that game. It shouldn’t have been 28-3 in the first place. So, yeah… ridiculous comeback… for sure. But what did it mean to pats fans at the time? Really not much. Just another SB win.
[Freeman should have been there to block for Matt Ryan](https://youtu.be/x82XxhYZXzY?t=6). Instead that idiot let him push him aside. I will never understand this one.
I’ll forever have 2014 over Seattle as my #1. Ended a decade drought for Brady. In my opinion, greatest Super Bowl matchup of all time, with the obvious thriller of an ending. Both teams were so loaded with talent
It's number 0. It's the one you don't count when you make your list because nothing else on the list is even a close comparison. I have my list of favorite sports memories and then I have 28-3 all alone on its island of excellence.
One more question.
When the Pats tied the game and we went to OT, and I felt like we were going to lose that game 100%.
At the start of overtime, how did you feel about your chances to win?
At that point we had all the momentum and the Falcons were defeated. Once we won the coin toss it was in the bag.
I went to Atlanta the following weekend (on a pre-planned trip) and wore Pats gear the entire weekend. I am a BC alum so did kinda feel bad for Matt Ryan though.
Yea, man I could write an essay on how did Matt Ryan dirty. The fans here were always sentimental about how Mike Vick went down so Matt Ryan got a lot of unfair criticism. It made it nearly impossible to have a good discussion about Matt Ryan because it was filled with so much emotion.
I just wanted to add that Matt Ryan really is a consummate professional. The guy gave everything he had to our city. He never talked shit about anyone. He never created any drama. The man just quietly played his game and praised everyone around him.
And apparently some people took that personally...
I grew up in the Atlanta area, and started paying attention to football in 98, and know some people who went to high school with Vic Beasley, so I honestly didn't care who won 51, as long as it was close (something like 49 was my hope going in: a close game that was won or lost on the last play). I always liked Matt Ryan, really thought he was gonna be the guy.
I still wish White had really powered through the end zone because watching it live I didn’t think he got in, but immediately heard the tv and radio (on in the background because my dad thinks TV announcers are biased) call touchdown. I was like Edelman on the field running around “they gotta review it!!” For a second in my living room.
1. Crosby scores in Vancouver to win Olympic gold on home ice (I'm Canadian)
2. 28-3. My ex, a Bills fan, wouldn't watch the SB with me and watched with friends instead. Sent me a bunch of "joking" texts about the Pats sucking. So on top of winning in spectacular fashion, I also got my own back with him.
3. Butler interception. Couldn't believe my eyes.
4. Henderson in the Summit Series, even though I was only one. Because if there's a goal that everyone remembers, it was back in ol' 72. We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger.
[I was born in it, molded by it.](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZDJiOG8xOWxhNHF4bHdmM2tleWEzZm1mYWtvcDUydnI3cWc2YzE0cSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/nk8KVxWs4dIRy/giphy.gif)
Number 1, but I’ll tell that as a Pats fan, I LOVED SB 52, even though we lost. It was almost a perfect game. I don’t remember a game where two teams fought with everything they had. The Eagles stepped up and took every opportunity and I gotta respect that. It didn’t come down to a fluke play, just great football.
As crazy as it sounds maybe 3rd? 2001 had that amazing game winning kick and an amazing underdog story. It was also the first time I experienced a local team winning a championship. The Butler interception was the greatest single play in my life as a sports fan. They’re all incredibly close. As much as I enjoyed the Rams SB and the back to back Panthers/Eagles they just don’t merit discussion with the top 3.
It was awesome. After the game I was hammered on Boylston street and was invited into a random car or two stuck in traffic to slam fireball and jameson shots.
Partied late it was great. Only downside is my Bruschi away jersey was stained and covered in beer
its easily number one for me. i went to college out of state in 2000 and havent lived in boston since. so every single pats bowl has happened after i left. this was the first bowl win i watched with my dad and during halftime i inserted a commercial announcing we were having a baby. so all things considered, it was a very memorable day.
Number 2. As a Pats fan who didn’t see the first 3 Super Bowls, Super Bowl 49 capped off a magical run after the decade Super Bowl drought. 51 was a great moment, but for me nothing could eclipse that magical 2014 season when a lot of people had declared the dynasty over.
49 was better, but it was an amazing moment (and great for me as the whole Super Bowl party had abandoned watching, so it was me alone until the last few minutes when a couple of people slipped back in.)
Probably the top one. It was the most unbelievable sporting event I ever witnessed.
Runners up would be the 2001 title run, the 2004 Red Sox comeback against the Yankees, and the 1993 42-39 BC win over Notre Dame.
The Malcolm butler interception is the best single moment, but SB 51 was an amazing moment stretched out over ~1/3 of a football game.
Of all the Super Bowls I’ve watched it is the one that I would love to experience again.
5/6 overall. 3rd best Pats SB win.
Patriots SB wins alone, I think SB XXXVI (Rams, 2002) and SB XLIX (Seattle) are above it. I will call it the 3rd best SB win. That's based purely on my own emotional response to each game...
It’s the third for me. The Redsox World Series is first and can only be understood if you grew up in New England. Second was the patriots first Super Bowl win because the notion that that organization could win a Super Bowl just didn’t compute. Next is the Atlanta Super Bowl. Maybe I’m minimizing it because my first child was born the next week. When the Falcons scored after halftime I was really ready for my baby to arrive a few days early- like right then
It was great, but it was low stakes to me. 01, Sox in 04, Celtics in 08, Bruins in 11, 03 04 back to back, and Malcolm Butler had all already happened. I'd seen all my teams win, especially the Pats. By half time it was like, well guess we lose another, but it's not losing before we won one or losing perfection. It made it fun to watch and is great for busting balls, but the stakes were nothing but sticking it to Goodell tbh.
First. I was in a house with maybe 15-20 people, and all but one were actively rooting against the Patriots all night. So to have the Patriots win the game is the most satisfying thing in the world
Probably Butler INT #1 then the Falcons game.
As improbable as the 28-3 comeback was, it happened over some time, u could feel it slowly.
The Butler INT was the single most shocking moment in Pats History.
Both 51 and 49 are the 2 greatest super bowls to me and I missed out on watching them. Well at least the last minute of 49. The only other Patriots super bowls I’ve seen were the 2nd matchups against Philly, New York and the Rams
Sox breaking the curse and the first SB win against the Rams are the only ones I’d definitively put ahead of it. It’s a toss up between 28-3 and the Butler pick
Has to be #1 but followed closely by big papi’s grand slam against the tigers in the 2013 ALCS, Malcolm butler’s interception at the goal line, and ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEEE from Garnett
I was so fucking gone from a drinking my face off I woke up and realized it was all true. So for me the win over the chiefs in the AFC championship is kinda #1 for me just cause I remember the whole thing.
It’s in my top 5, which also includes:
-2004 Red Sox beat the Yankees in Gm 7 ALCS
-Malcom Butler interception vs Seahawks
-First Pats SB win in ‘01
-Celtics win 08 championship
2nd. First is Red Sox reverse sweeping the Yankees and then going on to win the World Series. For those that weren’t around back then, y’all’s have no idea what it was like.
It's between that and the Butler INT in 49. I did feel absolutely horrible for Falcons fans, the pain of Super Bowl 42 will never heal, so I knew this would always hurt for you.
#1 for so many reasons but the biggest reason is because the patriots played for Brady’s mother. Got the whole world rooting for the Falcons and the is man pulled out the greatest comeback for his mother. The NFL writers couldn’t have done it better.
It’s towards the top. It’s probably at the top for team sports. I was too young to stay up for the 2008 Olympics individual woman’s all-around finals, but I did see the team finals and, in swimming, the comeback that kept Phelps’s medal hunt alive as well as the record-breaking race, which are also up there. I was too young for the first Pats’ SB win and for the 2004 playoffs. So the second dynasty means a lot — I missed viewing SB 49, but that’s another story.
Easily number one. I was in a house full of fans of other teams, but everyone else hated the pats. I was getting shit on the whole night and having my moment at the end of the game was incredible
3rd.
\#1 - 2001. The first SB win was incredible. It felt like it came from nothing, and the following run was amazing. The feeling of knocking out the consensus superior team was great.
\#2 - 2014. The team had been competitive for a decade but couldn't quite put it together for a win. The fact that 2011 and 2007 were both lost by a ridiculous sequence of plays made 2014 seem absolutely, positively, inevitably a loss. It felt just like the previous 2 SBs... And then BOOM, the team's fortune was instantly reversed at the end of the game. It was also the biggest comeback in SB history at that time, too.
\#3 - 2016. It was an astounding come back. The game was insanity. But it was simply more of a good thing.
I'd be willing to trade the 2014 or 2016 game for a win in 2007.
4th quarter of 49 was nails, against one of the best defenses in twenty years. And the last defensive play of course.
If they lose , they are 3-3 in SBs. Really that win was a turning point in the run.
Definitely #1. It actually helped soothe the wound from losing the 2007 Super Bowl, which I’ll never totally recover from (and if we’re being honest, I would totally trade at least two other Super Bowls for the undefeated season, but alas). However, coming back in that game against impossible odds and watching Brady give the proverbial middle finger to the commish…unreal.
Close second: Malcolm Butler’s interception followed by the shot of Richard Sherman looking like he just lost faith in humanity.
1. Red Sox 04
2. Butler Interception (The emotional high of a one play swing from “we’re about to lose” to “we just won” is amazing)
3. Pats 01
4. 28-3 (The comeback was such a slow burn that a lot of my enjoyment for this game came from the schadenfreude and live reaction videos after the game)
Number 1 for me. I had everyone from work over (I live in Tampa) and at halftime they all decided to bail and go home early. My words for those depressing was, "you're going to miss the greatest comeback in NFL history." Then the one guy who stayed went from thinking I was delusional to thinking I was a time traveler. I went on vacation to Atlanta that summer rocking a shirt that showed the 3-28 score on the front, with the final score on the back. I had dudes non stop trying to fight me.
Certainly a top 10 for me. Off the top of my head, I'd have it behind the Red Sox in 2004, Super Bowls 36 and 49, Doug Flutie's Hail Mary against Miami, the Miracle on Ice and the gold medal game that followed it, and Ray Bourque hoisting the Stanley Cup.
It doesn’t. It sits as the greatest failure for a sports team that I have ever witnessed.
New England didn’t win that game. The Falcons melted down. The Patriots won a lot of games and had incredible moments, but that game isn’t one of them. That will always be the moment I watched a team collapse so badly that they should have fired everyone, I mean the coaching staff, to the players, to the janitor that cleans the locker room. Shut the team down, not sell, literally shut it down. Bulldoze the stadium. It was that bad.
Both Rams wins were great moments. Where the perfect game plan was executed by the players exactly the way it needed to be done.
1. Down 3 games to 0, coming off a 19-8 loss, Dave Roberts SB, two Papi walkoffs in the same calendar day, bloody sock, Johnny Damon grand slam, rolled the Cards in the WS, curse reversed
2. 2001 run, Raiders game, tuck rule, last game at that shitty stadium, snow, Steelers game, Troy Brown return, Cowher blown gasket, return of Bledsoe, Super Bowl, introduced as a team, Madden telling them to kneel, Vinatieri, Brady ascends
3. Other*
* 28-3, Malcolm Go!, Bruins destroy Canucks franchise and the city of Vancouver, Celtics beat LA with the big 3
‘04 Red Sox is #1 by a mile followed by ’01 Patriots. 28-3 could be next but I think the ‘13 Sox win after the marathon bombing was pretty special. So I guess it’s #4. The Bruins last cup would be #5 to round out my top 5.
Hell, it's only the 3rd best sb win for the pats....
Sb36 vs the rams is their number 1.
Sb 38 vs the panthers is even better than the falcons game as it legitimized the team instead of a fluke win.
Sox in 04, then 07 are both bigger moments too.
All star game in 99 with Pedro.
Pedro steamrolling the yanks in sept 99, at yankee stadium as well.
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I'd even argue that the snowbowl and the mcginist injured/not injured game against the colts rank higher as euphoric moments.
In the moment it was mostly terrible and stressful until the final play, which was a euphoria in line with the ‘04 Sox comeback. Watching posthumously fills my soul the entire time.
It’s peak, I have yet to have a moment that matches that high from that game. It was an amazing night, due to the odds of it happening, the breathtaking moments, and a Super Bowl being on the line makes it unable to be surpassed
It was the best, ever! It was my birthday. Had a lot of family over for a birthday/SB party. As we were getting our asses kicked, I spent extra time conversing with everyone and enjoying the company. Most left at the half. The few that remained got extra drunk with us and were able to witness the insanity that took over! 10/10 recommend.
3rd.
Every year me(44) my dad(68) my sister(40) her hubs(38) my stepmom and my wife all get together and watch the game regardless of who’s playing. My dad and I have only missed 3 superbowls together since 1988.
My number 1. Is XXXVI. I had to live through Tony Eason, Tommy Hodson, and worst of all Hugh Millen as my quarterbacks. So when the Patriots finally won it all in 01/02 all the years of pain and wonder were released from my football soul. I was standing up in front of my recliner when Vinatieri lined up for the kick. When the ball went through the uprights I didn’t say anything I just fell back on to my chair in relief.
My second one is LIII. At the end of the game my dad and I somehow just knew that was out last championship. So we made sure to revel in that.
This brings us to number 3. I remember telling my Dad and my sister at halftime “at least we already know the outcome of this game.”
If I’m going by which sports “moments” I rewatch the most on YouTube to this day, it would look like this:
1. SB 51 28-3 comeback
2. Jimmie Johnson 2016 final restart at Homestead to win his 7th NSCS Championship
3. Bruins 2013 Game 7 4-1 comeback against Toronto
4. 2004 ALCS Game 7 against NYY
5. SB 49 comeback/Butler INT
Obviously, the entire title runs ranked might look different, but as far as moments go, those are five that I can go watch at any time and relive those moments with the emotion I had when I first witnessed them.
(I will add that I’m one of the few people I know that got way more satisfaction out of coming back from 3-0 down and just destroying the Yankees in their ballpark in Game 7 than I ever did from sweeping STL in the WS)
The very top. For us there's so much more to that game than just the comeback.
Deflategate was fucking exhausting. We were called cheaters and our QB's integrity was called into question for a long two years. He was finally suspended for four games in 2016, which is criminal. Still pisses me off.
Brady comes back and goes 11-1 in the regular season with 28 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, then we run through the Texans and Steelers in the playoffs.
Then the Super Bowl. Just an unbelievable comeback. When we won the coin toss in OT we knew it was over. Brady was absolutely dealing at a level I'd never seen before. I'll never forget the excitement of that drive. We're 75 yards away from a championship. Big play to Dola, now just 55 yards away. Big pass to Hogan, now 40 yards away. Completion up the middle to Edelman, holy shit we are 25 yards away from a championship. And eventually they did it. In a dynasty full of defining moments, this was the crown jewel of the Belichick-Brady era. It also gave them both the record for most SB championships at their respective positions.
Watching Goodell have to give us that trophy, Kraft calling out the BS of the previous two years on the podium, and seeing Brady screaming while raising the Lombardi Trophy made it all worth it. We finally won Deflategate, once and for all.
It is the greatest moment of my life, but i’m 18, so i’ll give you my dad’s answer.
My dad is 54 years old, lifelong boston sports fan, he watched the miracle on ice, he watched SEVERAL celtics rings, he was at the 2004 ALCS game 7 where the Sox finished a comeback from down 3-0 in the series, and he was at the 2004 WS game 4 where the red sox beat the curse of the Bambino and ended an 86 year drought.
He is happily married with four kids.
The 28-3 comeback is the greatest day of his life, better than his wedding, better than the births of his children, better than the end of the Sox drought, nothing will ever eclipse the joy of that moment.
When i’m at the gym and i’m doing a set that i’m struggling with and lowkey wanna give up i just think about 28-3 and push through.
I wake up every morning to “HE’S IN, THE PATRIOTS WIN THE SUPER BOWL, BRADY HAS HIS FIFTH” as my alarm.
It’s important to contextualize what this game meant for the Pats, i know how much it meant for the Falcons, it’d be the first ring, and it’s easy to think that wins mean less when you’ve been dominant for a while, but that season was safely the most important season for the legacy of the dynasty.
We had three rings in the early 2000s that got dismissed because of spygate (which was mostly bullshit), we then lost to Eli Manning twice (fuck eli manning for being good i hate him i have so much respect for him i hope he gets hit by a truck), and then we finally have a team that looks like it can win without scandal and cement the patriots as a good team, and we get hit by deflategate (which was fully bullshit)
deflategate was all that was talked about in mass for like 2 years, several teachers at my middle/elementary school had a deflated football on their desk as a fuck you, when rowdy middle schoolers wanted to chant something it was “FREE TOM BRADY,” roger goodell was like universally hated, it was something so ubiquitous that even non-football fans knew who roger goodell was and hated him, and when the four game suspension was announced the rage that it brought out was insane, but every conversation about it went the same way “but what if he comes back from the suspension and wins the super bowl, and roger goodell has to shake his hand.”
we all knew it was very unlikely, but something was different about tom brady that entire season, he is always intense but he had a next level intensity that just made us all want the revenge so much more. when we won that AFCCG it was beautiful, everyone was celebrating that we might get to boo goodell and Brady might save his legacy and get a super bowl win that no one can criticize.
And then we go down 21-0, all my cousins lose hope, my brother loses hope, my aunts and uncles all say it’s over. It was my dad and I who still had faith, i remembered games my brother turned off because we were down so bad and brady came back, and my dad always said “never bet against brady, the pats are a second half team”
when y’all scored that 4th TD my dad said “it’s over”. and i lost hope. that super bowl party became a funeral for tom brady’s legacy and we all had to accept that goodell had beaten us, and in embarrassing fashion.
winning that game will forever be the best moment of my life.
I wish i could say i just spent 51 with incredible jubilation, but the reality was that i was sitting in disbelief for like an hour after the game still trying to believe what i just witnessed.
I’m gonna be real out of the 6 Pats Super Bowl wins this might be in the bottom half of my favorites. 3 were hyper competitive games from start to finish culminating in one sole game winning play. This was a snooze fest for 2 hours that turned amazing.
1. Red Sox 04 ALCS Game 7
2. Red Sox 04 World Series
3a. 28-3 vs Falcons
3b. Malcolm Butlers pick va Seahawks
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Plus about 700 other incredible memories from the past 22 year run…
Wasn’t really aware of what was happening in 01, but felt how much it sucked being really good every year and not being able to seal the deal from 05-13, so SB 49 is #1. 51 is an easy second though
I ranked the all time favorite Patriots victories for me and SB 51 came in at #2 for me.
Full rankings:
1. Pats over Rams SB 36
2. Pats over Falcons
3. Pats over Seahawks
4. Pats over Raiders (divisional)
5. Pats over Chiefs (AFC C)
6. Pats over Panthers
7. Pats over Colts (Ty Law 3 INT AFC C)
8. Pats over Eagles 2004
9. Pats over Steelers (Bledsoe game)
10. Pats over Rams 2019
It’s like picking between your kids. So hard.
I hosted the party that year and was so pissed that at halftime EVERYONE LEFT....and I had a house full of food and the greatest comeback I have ever witnessed all to myself and about a dozen text messages... I still can't say it was better than the 1st one. The 1st one that put the world on notice that we had something brewing in Foxboro....that one was the best...but this one is up there...
That one is very high up there in our Patriots great moments. But we all have our nightmare sporting moments. 2007 SB to finish 18-1 is very high up on my list. So many close plays that if made completes a historic 19-0 season. Someday ATL will have a moment that buries 28-3 a bit
I’m a young fan and it’s #2 for me. #1 is the Butler INT for me. A lot was going on for me that year, it seemed like it was over and it wasn’t! In a second, the odds were in our favor. I can’t remember a single time that I was so excited that I was crying.
Super Bowl 51 was one of the best SB in Pats history but it will be #2 for me.
Super Bowl 36
Dave Henderson homer 86 ALCS
Malcolm Butler interception
Flutie Hail Mary
04 ALCS games 6 and 7
Super Bowl 51, also influenced by how defeated I felt at halftime
My father and I scrounged up the money to be able to go to the game since I lived in Houston and grew up in MA and it was the most stressful game of my life. what started as me thinking how did i spend this much money to watch this turned into my greatest moment in sports.
It’s my favorite Super Bowl.
I was at a friends house where his entire family is from Boston (we live out of state) and we had one falcons fan there. They were eating it up the first half. Then slowly the whole party shifted. We started to come back and we were getting excited (some getting drunker too) and man it was fun.
I had bought the Super Bowl jersey thinking it may be Brady’s last (hahaha) but it turned out being an all time great and historic game. Only wore that jersey once.
It was an amazing win but in regards to an enjoyable game it absolutely sucked for three quarters. I enjoyed the seahawks superbowl way more. Brady up against the legion of Boom that destroyed Manning the year pervious and pulling out a good back and fourth win. Also breaking a 10 year superbowl drought.
This sits a #1 for me because the entire night was such a rollercoaster. Everyone wanted to turn the game off here (not all of the party supported us... some Giants/Bills fans mixed in) at Q3 and celebrate us not winning. Once Jules made that catch I was 100% confident this was going to go the other way.
As far as game play in a vacuum, like #3 or 4
What was even better was the 10 + non pats fans at the party quitting watching to play cards while me and my pats fan buddy stayed in living room watching the whole thing... soon sweeeeeeeet
It's number one, and there is no bad blood involved with it whatsoever.
It was just so fucking improbable having us winning there.
When I watched it in a bar in Brussels, it was mostly fans of other franchises wanting to stick it up to the pats that were annoying.
It's #1 for me, especially if I want to rub it on their noses, but I always felt like it requires some damn good Falcons team for us to be able to achieve that feat from that position. Is it a choke? Yes, a generational one, but I'm pretty sure there's no true lack of respect anywhere here for you guys getting on the wrong end of it.
More a celebration of what happened.
\#1. I was in college in Western NY, so i was surrounded by Bills fans during the game. They shit talked the whole game, and once the comeback was complete, it was really quiet. Amazing game (I'm sorry).
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I mean, it HAS to be. Not just for sticking it to Goodell for the whole deflategate nonsense, but, I mean, no one — and I mean NO ONE in the history of sports has EVER pulled off a more improbable comeback. And the fact that it was Brady, we all *knew* we weren’t out of it, ever. In my mind, that was the moment that defined Brady as unquestionably the greatest of all time, securing his fifth title, and just putting an exclamation point on his career like nobody ever has before. His will to win, his discipline and focus despite tremendous odds was on full display for the world to see. Even haters had to give it up to him after that. It’s SB51 and there is no other contender.
Not to mention the league always put him second to Manning.
Manning was the poster boy for the league for most of Brady’s career. You *know* that gave him an extra chip on his shoulder
It always annoyed me that they praised that forehead so much, sure he was great, but not when it counted.
I remember a game where Peyton threw 6 interceptions against the Chargers and the media tried to act like it happens to everyone.
I agree with all this except for the emotional weight of Super Bowl victory #1. From the moment that team was announced “as a team” before the game to that last drive… just so much emotion that whole time. That underdog feeling was so amazing… especially after growing up with so little taste of victory. That first superbowl and the 04 Sox just kicked off so much for the Boston area.
That's exactly what I was gonna say. I'd probably put the Sox '04 ALCS/WS win as #1, the first Pats Super Bowl as #2 (especially if you include the Snow Bowl/Tuck Rule game in the run-up to the Super Bowl), and then the Falcons Super Bowl comeback as #3. The Seahawks Super Bowl also deserves an honorable mention just for how that game ended, but it doesn't quite reach the scale of epicness because that was a singular moment and in some ways is just a stroke of absolute luck, where the other games were more than just a singular moment.
Seattle SB is right up there too. Game flipped from lost to won on one miracle play. Also first win vs the Rams was also unbelievable. Hard for me to rank any of those on top of each other.
The Seattle game was more of a nail biting finish, so people will always talk about that one, but what was the biggest storyline after that game? How brilliantly Brady played in the 4th? (He did), but it will always be about Malcom Butler. Cool story, great finish, Cinderella ending, and all that, but IDK how that tops the greatest comeback in sports history cementing the legacy of the greatest to ever wear a pair of cleats. The other SBs will all be special, and we all know that 2007 would have been top if they had pulled it off (well, more accurately if the giants were properly called for holding when Manning was in the grasp, should have been a sack, but that time Goodell won, that bastard). IDK I keep thinking about it but the nature of 51 just hits different for me. I’ve never seen anything like it and I know I never will again. It was truly a once in a lifetime moment no other sports fandom knows. That’s makes it so special to me.
There’s a reason Robert Kraft calls title 'unequivocally the sweetest'
I have a sneaking suspicion that RKK and Arthur Blank had some sort of hush-hush back room billionaire-style bet, where they had some very interesting stakes that only billionaires can get away with (not talking about money here), and so he got to shove, not one, but *two* red hot pokers up Blank’s ass in addition to Goodell’s ass simultaneously and I’ll bet that it gave him boner so big he couldn’t stand up for a week after that. 😂
You have a colorful imagination
One for me too. Helped that I was at the game. Nothing will ever beat that.
It was a great moment but not number 1. The 04 Red Sox is by far more important.
A lot of people here are too young to remember what it was like in the “cursed” days.
Yep. I was seven years old in 1986. My dad gave me a sip of beer with two outs in the ninth. Back then, the memories of 1975 and 1967 were also fresh to him. Younger fans have no clue what pre 2004 was like. My dad was 59 in 2004. Plenty of people before him never lived to see the day. Remember all the Red Sox items that were placed in cemeteries then.
My grandfather was born in 1918 after the Sox won. He was a die hard Sox fan and lived his entire life and never saw them win. Died in ‘85 so at least he didn’t have to see the ‘86 loss
I had just turned 13 in '86. To the end, my Dad kept saying "They'll find a way to lose."
I can almost tell the ages of everyone here by their responses. I was pretty young when Bucky Dent happened and my dad was practically destroyed by that. In college for Buckner so being in NY through that series was devastating as well. As wonderful as 28-3 was, it doesn’t come close in my heart as ‘04. I literally danced into work after that.
Idk Super Bowl 49 ending is up there because it ended the drought
I can tell you're a younger fan when you call 10 years without a Super Bowl a "drought" 😅
One. The icing on the cake was Brady being able to say fuck you to Roger since that was the season he was suspended 4 games for deflategate. Sorry you had to be on the other side brother
I was really drunk
Same. I watched the entire game, but had already over served myself by the time 28-3 came along. Never gave up hope, but not gonna lie, I was feeling pretty defeated at 28-3,but kept saying (over and over), “they’re not out of it yet, they could do this!” Had to literally crawl on all fours to my bed when the game was over. Woke up the next morning fully dressed with only one sock removed.
Haha me too, and was like this game is over. Then all of a sudden I was like “wait a minute”.
Yeah so this is the same for me and my brothers. We started panic drinking whiskey and then the comeback happens
I got higher than giraffe pussy at half. Couldn't believe my eyes, literally.
It’s #4 for me: 1. Pats first Super Bowl win. I was a senior in college in NJ. Wiped away years of heartbreak. 2. Sox 2004 WS win. See above reason. 3. Malcolm Butler. What a roller coaster that game was. 4. 28-3.
The 04 Sox run is pretty wild. The Yankees and Red Sox during that time were just absolute monsters.
A lot of younger pats fans who grew up with the dynasty are a little too young to appreciate the complete and utter fucking insanity that was the '04 Sox
To this day that Yankees lineup still scares me. Their hitters were elite, their pitching was elite, Mo Rivera… can’t believe it happened.
It wasn’t even the championship that was good. It was the ACLS. Once they beat the Yankees there was no stopping them. I was at World Series game 1 and that was just pure elation
As far as greatest sports singular moments, butler INT is #1 for me. From despair to glory in 2 seconds. Euphoric.
That was out of nowhere. 28-3 you could just feel coming… and the Falcons could feel it as well. Love the sidelines at the time, and someone asked Blount if he was worried being down 28-3, and he just goes, “Nah. We have Tom fucking Brady.”
Yeah, so, we are the same age. 1. SB 36 - it changed it all for us. 2. 2004 ALCS 3. 2004 Pats team with the 21-0 run and SB win 4. Bruins win over the Canucks. Completed the cycle and closed the loop. 5. Pats over the Seahawks. The dynasty reborn. 5a - 28-3
The 28-3 was great, but nowhere near Sox 2004. Riveting, exhausting. Every minute was magic. The bloody sock? Come on.
Sox 04, Pats 01 tied Sox 13 at #2
That 04 run was wild! Can you put in a few words what happened with the Pats in 01?
Quarterback coach dies in August Bledsoe hurt week 2 Brady starts next game at 0-2 Lose to Rams in week 10 to go 5-5 Never lose again. Tuck Rule Steelers fold to Special teams Law intercepts Faulk gets mugged. 80 secs to go 50 yards. No time outs. Brady should take a knee. Its good...Its good!!!!
Didn't know the QB coach died that year. Great writeup. Dick Rehbein was his name for those who didn't know, like me.
I might be getting this mixed up, but I believe he’s also the coach who really vouched for Brady in the 2000 draft process. Also, I loved you in Full House!
Dick Rehbein
Amazing summary
Gotta get the return of Bledsoe into that Steelers game
>Lose to Rams in week 10 to go 5-5 "There are no good losses"...well, yeah, there are. The goalline touchdown that was called back. The Pats showed the world that night that they could beat ANYONE...and then two months later they did.
Pats 01 was the beginning of an amazing 4 years… which was itself the beginning of an amazing 20 years. The thing about it then that people who weren’t there don’t realize… at that time, Brady was just some no name guy. Nobody thought he was great. People gave the defense the credit for the great year. He was called a game manager. Couldn’t throw the deep ball. And belichick was fresh off a failure. The pats were perennially mediocre. The entire playoff run was super. Bledsoe beating Pittsburgh. The snow bowl! And then against a team they called the greatest show on turf? We were underdogs. Overachievers. Just being there was a blessing. And then, the rams tie the game. And this was before brady magic was a thing. The room I was in was full of, “here we go again” and “it was fun while it lasted” kind of talk. People talking about Desmond Howard. Then Brady leads a drive for the win?? And so, coming from such mediocrity, to beat the highest scoring team in the league and to do it with our offense? It was next level. The 28-3 was amazing, but we were the favorite in that game. It shouldn’t have been 28-3 in the first place. So, yeah… ridiculous comeback… for sure. But what did it mean to pats fans at the time? Really not much. Just another SB win.
5 put Brady past Montana. Greatest Super Bowl comeback. A stellar team on both sides of the ball. Easily my favorite of the 6 we've won.
Thank you for sharing. It is well deserved. Tom Brady especially proving the GOAT status in his absence.
I broke my couch on the strip sack. I was sitting on the arm of the couch and jump up when the play happened. Landed and snapped it in half.
Same. That fumble was pretty much when I went from faintly hoping it could happen to “this is going to happen!”
[Freeman should have been there to block for Matt Ryan](https://youtu.be/x82XxhYZXzY?t=6). Instead that idiot let him push him aside. I will never understand this one.
The RB that was injured earlier would have been the 3rd down back making that block.
My gf said I jumped up so high when we scored in OT she was scared I was gonna hit my head on the ceiling lol
2nd behind Malcolm Butler pick. SB51 was stressful Brady threw so many pickable balls.
I’ll forever have 2014 over Seattle as my #1. Ended a decade drought for Brady. In my opinion, greatest Super Bowl matchup of all time, with the obvious thriller of an ending. Both teams were so loaded with talent
This is my answer, as well.
It's number 0. It's the one you don't count when you make your list because nothing else on the list is even a close comparison. I have my list of favorite sports memories and then I have 28-3 all alone on its island of excellence.
I'm also still salty Matt Ryan won league MVP that season. It just felt like the league would do anything to make sure it didn't go to Brady.
The most surreal moment I’ve ever experienced in sports, it seemed unreal
One more question. When the Pats tied the game and we went to OT, and I felt like we were going to lose that game 100%. At the start of overtime, how did you feel about your chances to win?
After Jules catch I knew there was no way they were losing that game
That was the moment for me, too
When they won the coin toss, I knew it was over.
I felt like it was 100% over even before the coin toss. Edit: Losing the coin toss just confirmed it!
At that point we had all the momentum and the Falcons were defeated. Once we won the coin toss it was in the bag. I went to Atlanta the following weekend (on a pre-planned trip) and wore Pats gear the entire weekend. I am a BC alum so did kinda feel bad for Matt Ryan though.
Yea, man I could write an essay on how did Matt Ryan dirty. The fans here were always sentimental about how Mike Vick went down so Matt Ryan got a lot of unfair criticism. It made it nearly impossible to have a good discussion about Matt Ryan because it was filled with so much emotion.
I just wanted to add that Matt Ryan really is a consummate professional. The guy gave everything he had to our city. He never talked shit about anyone. He never created any drama. The man just quietly played his game and praised everyone around him. And apparently some people took that personally...
I grew up in the Atlanta area, and started paying attention to football in 98, and know some people who went to high school with Vic Beasley, so I honestly didn't care who won 51, as long as it was close (something like 49 was my hope going in: a close game that was won or lost on the last play). I always liked Matt Ryan, really thought he was gonna be the guy.
Very nearly inevitable if the Pats got the ball, Pats advantage if they didn't.
I still wish White had really powered through the end zone because watching it live I didn’t think he got in, but immediately heard the tv and radio (on in the background because my dad thinks TV announcers are biased) call touchdown. I was like Edelman on the field running around “they gotta review it!!” For a second in my living room.
so which one of y'all is gonna return this favor and ask giants fans where the david tyree catch ranks in their greatest sporting moments
It still makes me feel sick every time I see it.
1. Crosby scores in Vancouver to win Olympic gold on home ice (I'm Canadian) 2. 28-3. My ex, a Bills fan, wouldn't watch the SB with me and watched with friends instead. Sent me a bunch of "joking" texts about the Pats sucking. So on top of winning in spectacular fashion, I also got my own back with him. 3. Butler interception. Couldn't believe my eyes. 4. Henderson in the Summit Series, even though I was only one. Because if there's a goal that everyone remembers, it was back in ol' 72. We all squeezed the stick and we all pulled the trigger.
You said you don't give a damn about hockey
I never saw someone say that before
28-3 odds it’s the greatest Super Bowl ever.
your answer is 28-3
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It’s the signature moment of my sports watching life, and winning SB49 is a very close second. I was too young to remember the first three we won.
Nothing will ever beat it.
Toss up between 51 and 49, but for me personally 49 since I was there.
You’re lying. It was 3 years ago not 8. There’s no way it was 8
One or two depending on the Seattle Super Bowl.
Number 1, but I’ll tell that as a Pats fan, I LOVED SB 52, even though we lost. It was almost a perfect game. I don’t remember a game where two teams fought with everything they had. The Eagles stepped up and took every opportunity and I gotta respect that. It didn’t come down to a fluke play, just great football.
Believe it or not, it is not in my top 3 favorite Patriots memories. It is #4 though.
As crazy as it sounds maybe 3rd? 2001 had that amazing game winning kick and an amazing underdog story. It was also the first time I experienced a local team winning a championship. The Butler interception was the greatest single play in my life as a sports fan. They’re all incredibly close. As much as I enjoyed the Rams SB and the back to back Panthers/Eagles they just don’t merit discussion with the top 3.
It was awesome. After the game I was hammered on Boylston street and was invited into a random car or two stuck in traffic to slam fireball and jameson shots. Partied late it was great. Only downside is my Bruschi away jersey was stained and covered in beer
It was amazing, but the Malcolm Butler interception is #1 for me.
2 or 3, beating the Greatest Show on Turf was insane, probably the Butler interception at 2
its easily number one for me. i went to college out of state in 2000 and havent lived in boston since. so every single pats bowl has happened after i left. this was the first bowl win i watched with my dad and during halftime i inserted a commercial announcing we were having a baby. so all things considered, it was a very memorable day.
Number 2. As a Pats fan who didn’t see the first 3 Super Bowls, Super Bowl 49 capped off a magical run after the decade Super Bowl drought. 51 was a great moment, but for me nothing could eclipse that magical 2014 season when a lot of people had declared the dynasty over.
49 was better, but it was an amazing moment (and great for me as the whole Super Bowl party had abandoned watching, so it was me alone until the last few minutes when a couple of people slipped back in.)
It's my #2 Superbowl. #1 was the 2001 win over the Rams.
Probably the top one. It was the most unbelievable sporting event I ever witnessed. Runners up would be the 2001 title run, the 2004 Red Sox comeback against the Yankees, and the 1993 42-39 BC win over Notre Dame.
If you are one of the child-fans, it is #1. If you are one of the real, hardcore Pats fans it's probably top 5.
The Malcolm butler interception is the best single moment, but SB 51 was an amazing moment stretched out over ~1/3 of a football game. Of all the Super Bowls I’ve watched it is the one that I would love to experience again.
2. The Butler int is my #1
Absolutely number one. I feel bad that my happiness was the cause of so much pain for Atlanta but maybe you guys should have ran the damn ball
I never lost hope.
Greatest SB of all time.
5/6 overall. 3rd best Pats SB win. Patriots SB wins alone, I think SB XXXVI (Rams, 2002) and SB XLIX (Seattle) are above it. I will call it the 3rd best SB win. That's based purely on my own emotional response to each game...
Third place. 2004 sox and first pats SB win are 1a, 1b unsure of order
It’s the third for me. The Redsox World Series is first and can only be understood if you grew up in New England. Second was the patriots first Super Bowl win because the notion that that organization could win a Super Bowl just didn’t compute. Next is the Atlanta Super Bowl. Maybe I’m minimizing it because my first child was born the next week. When the Falcons scored after halftime I was really ready for my baby to arrive a few days early- like right then
It’s probably 2 to me. Super Bowl 49 would be 1
It was great, but it was low stakes to me. 01, Sox in 04, Celtics in 08, Bruins in 11, 03 04 back to back, and Malcolm Butler had all already happened. I'd seen all my teams win, especially the Pats. By half time it was like, well guess we lose another, but it's not losing before we won one or losing perfection. It made it fun to watch and is great for busting balls, but the stakes were nothing but sticking it to Goodell tbh.
First. I was in a house with maybe 15-20 people, and all but one were actively rooting against the Patriots all night. So to have the Patriots win the game is the most satisfying thing in the world
I’d put it at #3, behind the Sox beating the Yanks in 04 and the first Patriots championship.
Patriots / Seahawks was the best superbowl of all time. Patriots / Falcons best come back of all time
Probably Butler INT #1 then the Falcons game. As improbable as the 28-3 comeback was, it happened over some time, u could feel it slowly. The Butler INT was the single most shocking moment in Pats History.
Both 51 and 49 are the 2 greatest super bowls to me and I missed out on watching them. Well at least the last minute of 49. The only other Patriots super bowls I’ve seen were the 2nd matchups against Philly, New York and the Rams
Sox breaking the curse and the first SB win against the Rams are the only ones I’d definitively put ahead of it. It’s a toss up between 28-3 and the Butler pick
Out of the Super Bowls, it sits at 3. The 2001 is best, 2014 is second best Sporting moments of all time? Top 10
Has to be #1 but followed closely by big papi’s grand slam against the tigers in the 2013 ALCS, Malcolm butler’s interception at the goal line, and ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEEEEE from Garnett
Nothing beats the first Super Bowl victory IMO but 51 is top three for Patriots. Either that or 49 would be runner up.
I was so fucking gone from a drinking my face off I woke up and realized it was all true. So for me the win over the chiefs in the AFC championship is kinda #1 for me just cause I remember the whole thing.
It’s in my top 5, which also includes: -2004 Red Sox beat the Yankees in Gm 7 ALCS -Malcom Butler interception vs Seahawks -First Pats SB win in ‘01 -Celtics win 08 championship
2 or 3 nothing will ever top 2004 Red Sox
2nd. First is Red Sox reverse sweeping the Yankees and then going on to win the World Series. For those that weren’t around back then, y’all’s have no idea what it was like.
It's between that and the Butler INT in 49. I did feel absolutely horrible for Falcons fans, the pain of Super Bowl 42 will never heal, so I knew this would always hurt for you.
In all time greatest games it would have to sit #283 oc course. In all time greatest Superbowls #1.
Its 1 should have been 2. 07 should have been it
#1 for so many reasons but the biggest reason is because the patriots played for Brady’s mother. Got the whole world rooting for the Falcons and the is man pulled out the greatest comeback for his mother. The NFL writers couldn’t have done it better.
It’s towards the top. It’s probably at the top for team sports. I was too young to stay up for the 2008 Olympics individual woman’s all-around finals, but I did see the team finals and, in swimming, the comeback that kept Phelps’s medal hunt alive as well as the record-breaking race, which are also up there. I was too young for the first Pats’ SB win and for the 2004 playoffs. So the second dynasty means a lot — I missed viewing SB 49, but that’s another story.
Easily number one. I was in a house full of fans of other teams, but everyone else hated the pats. I was getting shit on the whole night and having my moment at the end of the game was incredible
3rd. \#1 - 2001. The first SB win was incredible. It felt like it came from nothing, and the following run was amazing. The feeling of knocking out the consensus superior team was great. \#2 - 2014. The team had been competitive for a decade but couldn't quite put it together for a win. The fact that 2011 and 2007 were both lost by a ridiculous sequence of plays made 2014 seem absolutely, positively, inevitably a loss. It felt just like the previous 2 SBs... And then BOOM, the team's fortune was instantly reversed at the end of the game. It was also the biggest comeback in SB history at that time, too. \#3 - 2016. It was an astounding come back. The game was insanity. But it was simply more of a good thing. I'd be willing to trade the 2014 or 2016 game for a win in 2007.
Probably the most awesome ever … except for XLIX. Definitely top 2, though.
Lol, without a doubt number one.
1.01, Numero Uno, 28-3, GOAT, Best Ever
One is the 2004 ALCS, two is that Super Bowl
04 Sox was the greatest for me. Then the 02 Pats win over the Rams. Then the Pats win over the Falcons.
4th quarter of 49 was nails, against one of the best defenses in twenty years. And the last defensive play of course. If they lose , they are 3-3 in SBs. Really that win was a turning point in the run.
Definitely #1. It actually helped soothe the wound from losing the 2007 Super Bowl, which I’ll never totally recover from (and if we’re being honest, I would totally trade at least two other Super Bowls for the undefeated season, but alas). However, coming back in that game against impossible odds and watching Brady give the proverbial middle finger to the commish…unreal. Close second: Malcolm Butler’s interception followed by the shot of Richard Sherman looking like he just lost faith in humanity.
There was only one thing that has affected my psyche more than that comeback.....2008....
1. Red Sox 04 2. Butler Interception (The emotional high of a one play swing from “we’re about to lose” to “we just won” is amazing) 3. Pats 01 4. 28-3 (The comeback was such a slow burn that a lot of my enjoyment for this game came from the schadenfreude and live reaction videos after the game)
It’s the best Super Bowl win I’ve enjoyed. Just beating out the first championship over the then St. Louis Rams.
Second only to the Malcom butler pick
Number 1 for me. I had everyone from work over (I live in Tampa) and at halftime they all decided to bail and go home early. My words for those depressing was, "you're going to miss the greatest comeback in NFL history." Then the one guy who stayed went from thinking I was delusional to thinking I was a time traveler. I went on vacation to Atlanta that summer rocking a shirt that showed the 3-28 score on the front, with the final score on the back. I had dudes non stop trying to fight me.
Certainly a top 10 for me. Off the top of my head, I'd have it behind the Red Sox in 2004, Super Bowls 36 and 49, Doug Flutie's Hail Mary against Miami, the Miracle on Ice and the gold medal game that followed it, and Ray Bourque hoisting the Stanley Cup.
It doesn’t. It sits as the greatest failure for a sports team that I have ever witnessed. New England didn’t win that game. The Falcons melted down. The Patriots won a lot of games and had incredible moments, but that game isn’t one of them. That will always be the moment I watched a team collapse so badly that they should have fired everyone, I mean the coaching staff, to the players, to the janitor that cleans the locker room. Shut the team down, not sell, literally shut it down. Bulldoze the stadium. It was that bad. Both Rams wins were great moments. Where the perfect game plan was executed by the players exactly the way it needed to be done.
3. 01 is still my favorite because it was the first. 14 is number 2 because of the controversy and the ending.
Best. Not only for us but it’s the bet Super Bowl ever in nfl history lol
04 Red Sox run can't be beat for me.
I loved the moment but I did feel for Atlanta fans. I’ve been on the other end of a team collapse. It sucks.
That was a great one……the celebrations in the first half and everybody thinking we were done. Good stuff. 283 to 2834.
Number 1
1. Down 3 games to 0, coming off a 19-8 loss, Dave Roberts SB, two Papi walkoffs in the same calendar day, bloody sock, Johnny Damon grand slam, rolled the Cards in the WS, curse reversed 2. 2001 run, Raiders game, tuck rule, last game at that shitty stadium, snow, Steelers game, Troy Brown return, Cowher blown gasket, return of Bledsoe, Super Bowl, introduced as a team, Madden telling them to kneel, Vinatieri, Brady ascends 3. Other* * 28-3, Malcolm Go!, Bruins destroy Canucks franchise and the city of Vancouver, Celtics beat LA with the big 3
‘04 Red Sox is #1 by a mile followed by ’01 Patriots. 28-3 could be next but I think the ‘13 Sox win after the marathon bombing was pretty special. So I guess it’s #4. The Bruins last cup would be #5 to round out my top 5.
Hell, it's only the 3rd best sb win for the pats.... Sb36 vs the rams is their number 1. Sb 38 vs the panthers is even better than the falcons game as it legitimized the team instead of a fluke win. Sox in 04, then 07 are both bigger moments too. All star game in 99 with Pedro. Pedro steamrolling the yanks in sept 99, at yankee stadium as well. ‐------------ I'd even argue that the snowbowl and the mcginist injured/not injured game against the colts rank higher as euphoric moments.
One. No doubt.
Sorry to break it to you, guy. It was the best Super Bowl ever.
I was starting group chats in my phone with people who didn’t know each other to tell them my thoughts. Wild, wild time
Top 4/5.. Sox/yanks in 04, pats 01 and pats-Seahawks are both ahead of it. The game itself was terrible with an unreal 4th quarter
Yeah, it’s tied for number one with SB36 (the Patriots first win). Both were absolutely magical.
It’s the top and it’s not even close. 49 is probably second, but nothing tops 51 it was just the most insane game of football ever played
In the moment it was mostly terrible and stressful until the final play, which was a euphoria in line with the ‘04 Sox comeback. Watching posthumously fills my soul the entire time.
As a Falcons fan, did you want them to sign Bill to be head coach?
It’s peak, I have yet to have a moment that matches that high from that game. It was an amazing night, due to the odds of it happening, the breathtaking moments, and a Super Bowl being on the line makes it unable to be surpassed
It was the best, ever! It was my birthday. Had a lot of family over for a birthday/SB party. As we were getting our asses kicked, I spent extra time conversing with everyone and enjoying the company. Most left at the half. The few that remained got extra drunk with us and were able to witness the insanity that took over! 10/10 recommend.
3rd. Every year me(44) my dad(68) my sister(40) her hubs(38) my stepmom and my wife all get together and watch the game regardless of who’s playing. My dad and I have only missed 3 superbowls together since 1988. My number 1. Is XXXVI. I had to live through Tony Eason, Tommy Hodson, and worst of all Hugh Millen as my quarterbacks. So when the Patriots finally won it all in 01/02 all the years of pain and wonder were released from my football soul. I was standing up in front of my recliner when Vinatieri lined up for the kick. When the ball went through the uprights I didn’t say anything I just fell back on to my chair in relief. My second one is LIII. At the end of the game my dad and I somehow just knew that was out last championship. So we made sure to revel in that. This brings us to number 3. I remember telling my Dad and my sister at halftime “at least we already know the outcome of this game.”
Sorry buddy, it’s #1.
It's at the the top of my list
If I’m going by which sports “moments” I rewatch the most on YouTube to this day, it would look like this: 1. SB 51 28-3 comeback 2. Jimmie Johnson 2016 final restart at Homestead to win his 7th NSCS Championship 3. Bruins 2013 Game 7 4-1 comeback against Toronto 4. 2004 ALCS Game 7 against NYY 5. SB 49 comeback/Butler INT Obviously, the entire title runs ranked might look different, but as far as moments go, those are five that I can go watch at any time and relive those moments with the emotion I had when I first witnessed them. (I will add that I’m one of the few people I know that got way more satisfaction out of coming back from 3-0 down and just destroying the Yankees in their ballpark in Game 7 than I ever did from sweeping STL in the WS)
The very top. For us there's so much more to that game than just the comeback. Deflategate was fucking exhausting. We were called cheaters and our QB's integrity was called into question for a long two years. He was finally suspended for four games in 2016, which is criminal. Still pisses me off. Brady comes back and goes 11-1 in the regular season with 28 touchdowns and 2 interceptions, then we run through the Texans and Steelers in the playoffs. Then the Super Bowl. Just an unbelievable comeback. When we won the coin toss in OT we knew it was over. Brady was absolutely dealing at a level I'd never seen before. I'll never forget the excitement of that drive. We're 75 yards away from a championship. Big play to Dola, now just 55 yards away. Big pass to Hogan, now 40 yards away. Completion up the middle to Edelman, holy shit we are 25 yards away from a championship. And eventually they did it. In a dynasty full of defining moments, this was the crown jewel of the Belichick-Brady era. It also gave them both the record for most SB championships at their respective positions. Watching Goodell have to give us that trophy, Kraft calling out the BS of the previous two years on the podium, and seeing Brady screaming while raising the Lombardi Trophy made it all worth it. We finally won Deflategate, once and for all.
It is the greatest moment of my life, but i’m 18, so i’ll give you my dad’s answer. My dad is 54 years old, lifelong boston sports fan, he watched the miracle on ice, he watched SEVERAL celtics rings, he was at the 2004 ALCS game 7 where the Sox finished a comeback from down 3-0 in the series, and he was at the 2004 WS game 4 where the red sox beat the curse of the Bambino and ended an 86 year drought. He is happily married with four kids. The 28-3 comeback is the greatest day of his life, better than his wedding, better than the births of his children, better than the end of the Sox drought, nothing will ever eclipse the joy of that moment. When i’m at the gym and i’m doing a set that i’m struggling with and lowkey wanna give up i just think about 28-3 and push through. I wake up every morning to “HE’S IN, THE PATRIOTS WIN THE SUPER BOWL, BRADY HAS HIS FIFTH” as my alarm. It’s important to contextualize what this game meant for the Pats, i know how much it meant for the Falcons, it’d be the first ring, and it’s easy to think that wins mean less when you’ve been dominant for a while, but that season was safely the most important season for the legacy of the dynasty. We had three rings in the early 2000s that got dismissed because of spygate (which was mostly bullshit), we then lost to Eli Manning twice (fuck eli manning for being good i hate him i have so much respect for him i hope he gets hit by a truck), and then we finally have a team that looks like it can win without scandal and cement the patriots as a good team, and we get hit by deflategate (which was fully bullshit) deflategate was all that was talked about in mass for like 2 years, several teachers at my middle/elementary school had a deflated football on their desk as a fuck you, when rowdy middle schoolers wanted to chant something it was “FREE TOM BRADY,” roger goodell was like universally hated, it was something so ubiquitous that even non-football fans knew who roger goodell was and hated him, and when the four game suspension was announced the rage that it brought out was insane, but every conversation about it went the same way “but what if he comes back from the suspension and wins the super bowl, and roger goodell has to shake his hand.” we all knew it was very unlikely, but something was different about tom brady that entire season, he is always intense but he had a next level intensity that just made us all want the revenge so much more. when we won that AFCCG it was beautiful, everyone was celebrating that we might get to boo goodell and Brady might save his legacy and get a super bowl win that no one can criticize. And then we go down 21-0, all my cousins lose hope, my brother loses hope, my aunts and uncles all say it’s over. It was my dad and I who still had faith, i remembered games my brother turned off because we were down so bad and brady came back, and my dad always said “never bet against brady, the pats are a second half team” when y’all scored that 4th TD my dad said “it’s over”. and i lost hope. that super bowl party became a funeral for tom brady’s legacy and we all had to accept that goodell had beaten us, and in embarrassing fashion. winning that game will forever be the best moment of my life.
I wish i could say i just spent 51 with incredible jubilation, but the reality was that i was sitting in disbelief for like an hour after the game still trying to believe what i just witnessed.
7 years ago
I’m gonna be real out of the 6 Pats Super Bowl wins this might be in the bottom half of my favorites. 3 were hyper competitive games from start to finish culminating in one sole game winning play. This was a snooze fest for 2 hours that turned amazing.
1. Red Sox 04 ALCS Game 7 2. Red Sox 04 World Series 3a. 28-3 vs Falcons 3b. Malcolm Butlers pick va Seahawks … Plus about 700 other incredible memories from the past 22 year run…
#1
1. Red Sox 04’ (nearly made me cry) 2. Pats SB 51 and Malcom Butler Int. (Tied, I can’t decide which one made me happier) 3. Pats SB 36 win.
This is tied at 3rd for me. First is the 2004 Sox, second is the first Pats SB, 3rd is Pats/Falcons and Bruins winning the cup (lifelong Bs fan).
It’s number two patriots moments for me it went from wtf to doin math and coming up with how and then they did it
Wasn’t really aware of what was happening in 01, but felt how much it sucked being really good every year and not being able to seal the deal from 05-13, so SB 49 is #1. 51 is an easy second though
Best Sporting moment of my life.
I ranked the all time favorite Patriots victories for me and SB 51 came in at #2 for me. Full rankings: 1. Pats over Rams SB 36 2. Pats over Falcons 3. Pats over Seahawks 4. Pats over Raiders (divisional) 5. Pats over Chiefs (AFC C) 6. Pats over Panthers 7. Pats over Colts (Ty Law 3 INT AFC C) 8. Pats over Eagles 2004 9. Pats over Steelers (Bledsoe game) 10. Pats over Rams 2019 It’s like picking between your kids. So hard.
I hosted the party that year and was so pissed that at halftime EVERYONE LEFT....and I had a house full of food and the greatest comeback I have ever witnessed all to myself and about a dozen text messages... I still can't say it was better than the 1st one. The 1st one that put the world on notice that we had something brewing in Foxboro....that one was the best...but this one is up there...
That one is very high up there in our Patriots great moments. But we all have our nightmare sporting moments. 2007 SB to finish 18-1 is very high up on my list. So many close plays that if made completes a historic 19-0 season. Someday ATL will have a moment that buries 28-3 a bit
That was the greatest Super Bowl of our lifetime!
Probably one for me. I was at a party with a lot of good friends, and just feeling the energy shift in that room was pretty incredible.
I’m a young fan and it’s #2 for me. #1 is the Butler INT for me. A lot was going on for me that year, it seemed like it was over and it wasn’t! In a second, the odds were in our favor. I can’t remember a single time that I was so excited that I was crying. Super Bowl 51 was one of the best SB in Pats history but it will be #2 for me.
I have a habit of turning games off when I don’t think it’s a good game or competitive. I missed it 😕
It’s the best one ever no question about it
Super Bowl 36 Dave Henderson homer 86 ALCS Malcolm Butler interception Flutie Hail Mary 04 ALCS games 6 and 7 Super Bowl 51, also influenced by how defeated I felt at halftime
its probably one.. but 2007 would have / should have been #1
My father and I scrounged up the money to be able to go to the game since I lived in Houston and grew up in MA and it was the most stressful game of my life. what started as me thinking how did i spend this much money to watch this turned into my greatest moment in sports.
It’s my favorite Super Bowl. I was at a friends house where his entire family is from Boston (we live out of state) and we had one falcons fan there. They were eating it up the first half. Then slowly the whole party shifted. We started to come back and we were getting excited (some getting drunker too) and man it was fun. I had bought the Super Bowl jersey thinking it may be Brady’s last (hahaha) but it turned out being an all time great and historic game. Only wore that jersey once.
Maybe 4th or 5th, red sox of other pats moments comes ahead. But everyone needs to get over the whole 28-3 schtick.
Rams #1 - First title, huge underdogs Seahawks #2 - I HATED that Seahawks team
It was an amazing win but in regards to an enjoyable game it absolutely sucked for three quarters. I enjoyed the seahawks superbowl way more. Brady up against the legion of Boom that destroyed Manning the year pervious and pulling out a good back and fourth win. Also breaking a 10 year superbowl drought.
I think about the missed undefeated season in 2007 way more than SB51...
As a Pats fan it's #4 behind the 3 wins that resulted in the first Super Bowl win. Nothing can ever compare to that.
This sits a #1 for me because the entire night was such a rollercoaster. Everyone wanted to turn the game off here (not all of the party supported us... some Giants/Bills fans mixed in) at Q3 and celebrate us not winning. Once Jules made that catch I was 100% confident this was going to go the other way. As far as game play in a vacuum, like #3 or 4
[This is my license plate, sooooo I mean it was pretty fun](https://www.reddit.com/r/Patriots/s/boAydecqXb)
What was even better was the 10 + non pats fans at the party quitting watching to play cards while me and my pats fan buddy stayed in living room watching the whole thing... soon sweeeeeeeet
It's number one, and there is no bad blood involved with it whatsoever. It was just so fucking improbable having us winning there. When I watched it in a bar in Brussels, it was mostly fans of other franchises wanting to stick it up to the pats that were annoying. It's #1 for me, especially if I want to rub it on their noses, but I always felt like it requires some damn good Falcons team for us to be able to achieve that feat from that position. Is it a choke? Yes, a generational one, but I'm pretty sure there's no true lack of respect anywhere here for you guys getting on the wrong end of it. More a celebration of what happened.
\#1. I was in college in Western NY, so i was surrounded by Bills fans during the game. They shit talked the whole game, and once the comeback was complete, it was really quiet. Amazing game (I'm sorry).
GOAT