My initial reaction was the same as most of you, but the more I thought about it, I can understand. If we were really honest, can you image if we lost that game in the same way, how long the thread there would have been on this site demanding a change to the rules. Of course there would have been
BTW- Altanta was doomed as soon as they lost the coin flip. IIRC, on the last 2 drives, the ONLY time Brady even got to a 3rd down was the 3rd and 10 from the 8 that he completed to Hogan. For the rest of that drive and the next one, the Pats never had a 3rd down. (to the best of my recollection). AND had scored on the previous 3 drives as well. When you think about it, this is kind of amazing.
On the other hand if Atlanta HAD won the toss, they hadn't sccored a point in the last 4 drives, and needed that utterly amazing Jones catch, and a blown assignment to the RB, to even get into scoring terrritory once in those 4 drives. So it wasn't exactly a sure thing they could do anything with that first drive.
