I was on the game thread here the whole game. Some of us were referencing miracles, etc...My adrenaline just kept rising, especially after the missed PAT, time was becoming a bigger and bigger factor every minute.
But it was nothing like, say, for example the 1984 Super Bowl, where I knew the Redskins had zero chance in the game. Yes, I hated them, but more importantly, they were simply a vastly inferior (and overrated) team.
I think, in a little over one quarter of football plus the overtime, Bill Belichick got to see all the hard work and effort invested over years with this team, going over procedures and fundamentals and dealing with challenging, time-pressure situations over and over with players and coaches, pay off in a big way. We got that one, huge turnover and won the coin toss. The rest was purely grinding it out.