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For years, the New England Patriots were the team everybody loved to hate.
The Spygate scandal seemed to put an asterisk next to some of their wins.
Tom Brady looked to prove that he was the best in the game, and HC Bill Belichick was pretty close to leading his team to immortality.
They were quite close to becoming the second team in NFL history to finish a season with a perfect record, but Eli Manning and the New York Giants had other plans.
Looking back at Super Bowl XLII for Apple TV’s new documentary on the Patriots’ dynasty, Brady admitted that he was absolutely crushed after that loss (via CBS Sports).
The Patriots were the biggest dynasty in the game for quite a while, and he had more than enough chances to get back to the mountaintop later in his career, winning seven Super Bowls.
Even so, it was just the perfect storm for the Giants to win a game no one expected them to win.
Brady failed to connect with Randy Moss on back-to-back plays that would’ve put them in field-goal range to get the win, and what was an automatic completion throughout the course of the season just couldn’t happen that day.
He’s considered to be the greatest quarterback of all time and the ultimate competitor and winner, but it’s crazy to think how much different his legacy would’ve been with a win that season, especially in the wake of the Spygate scandal and how they would’ve stuck it to the rest of the league.
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