The Snow Bowl Tuck-rule game against the Raiders

[DarrylStingley]

And if you were watching in New England that day, how about the feeling looking outside your window during that game with the total blizzard raging outside? I was in NH, my 12-day old daughter just back from the hospital, and it was just one of the most magical sports moments ever...somehow the snow itself seemed to sort of "connect" everyone in the area that day with what was happening down in Foxboro. Didn't it? Or am I just getting sentimental in my old age? :confused3:



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I agree. Actual blizzard or not, it was snowing big time and the whole thing was magic.

 

[BlueString94]

It's amazing how close so many plays in this game could have very easily ended the game and the season. There were at least 5.... the Troy Brown fumble right in the middle of the field, the 2nd/3rd and short, the tuck rule overturn, AV's kick to tie, and there may be more I'm not remember. To have all those plays go in our favor symbolized that year, we were so fortunate to have won that game, let alone the Super bowl with that offense. The next week we get 2 ST touchdowns and in the SB we get 17 pts almost directly off the 3 turnovers.

2003 we were fortunate too, we were the best team yes but still lots of close calls. What if Drew Bennett doesn't drop the ball at the end of the Titans game which was right in his hands and AV not [barely] hit another incredible kick in inclimate weather? What if Fox didn't go for 2 too early and Carolina's K didn't kick it OOB at the end? This is why as painful as 2007 and this year was after dominating the regular season, I'll take the 3 rings over 10 seasons in a heartbeat. Our time will come, keep the quality seasons coming and the ball will roll our way again eventually.

Exactly. We had NO business winning it all in 2001. The Rams, Steelers, and Raiders all had better years than we did, on we made it on a few fluke plays that we've come to call Legendary over the years.

I mean, what are the chances that Adam performs the best kick of his life, hell, the best kick in the history of the game, right when we need it most? You can't expect that kind of clutch-ness. I love Gostowski, but I'll take Vinateri any day, if nothing else but his name. The other team KNOWS that if we're down by two with the ball at our own 20 with two minutes to go, they're screwed.