It’s almost here. The moment every season culminates in, and one of the biggest sporting events of the year, The Super Bowl. The biggest football stage in the world, and where every aspiring and current professional football player wants to be, the Super Bowl is an epic and often drama-filled game, and the game this year is looking like it will be one of the best. The upstart Rams led by the prodigal son of all head coaches, Sean McVay, with one of the best all-around teams in the league versus the best dynasty the league has ever seen in the Patriots, led by the Darth Vader-esque Tom Brady and football genius Bill Belichick, has the makings of a both a memorable and epic game. With the hype going into this years super bowl, let’s take a look back at some of the other great Super Bowls of the past./cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/61121095/usa_today_9724841.0.jpg)
Super Bowl 51
25 points down. At one point during the game, the Atlanta Falcons looked like they were cruising to victory with a massive 25 point lead over the much-maligned villains of the NFL, the Patriots. With every sports journalist a click away from their “Tom Brady is Done” and “The Dynasty is OVER!” articles, the Patriots scored, and scored, and led the game to overtime. Not only the greatest comeback of all time in NFL history, but it was also one of the best in sports history. With the GOAT Tom Brady throwing for over 466 yards, and relative unknown James White having a career game, it was business as usual for the Pats, who through great coaching, discipline and adjustments brought their 5th championship home to New England.
Super Bowl 3
I might have a little bias being a Jets fan, but along with this being a masterclass in coaching adjustments and film analysis, it was one of the most important games in the Super Bowl Era of the NFL. In a game that featured two NFL Legends, Joe Namath and Johnny Unitas (who only featured for a fraction of time) faced off in a Super Bowl that cemented the AFL as a force that could compete with the NFL. Joe Namath guaranteed a win going into the game, and his swagger and confidence showed, leading the Jets to a convincing 9 point victory over a dominant Colts team, and their terrorizing and historic defense.
Super Bowl 43
A game featuring a number of future Hall of Famers, and borderline Hall of Famers, is destined to be a great one. This game featured two of the greatest plays of all time, James Harrison’s 100-yard pick six and Santonio Holmes’ insane toe tap catch to clinch the game in the dying minutes of the 4th quarter, arguably the most clutch catch off all time. The Steelers vs. Cards epitomises the saying “Big-time players make big-time plays in big-time games” and brought the Steelers their 6th Lombardi trophy, a relatively long-standing NFL record.
