{"id":65460,"date":"2017-02-06T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65460"},"modified":"2017-02-06T07:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T11:23:36","slug":"symbolic-prophetic-the-patriots-historic-super-bowl-comeback-victory-should-inspire-patriot-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=65460","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic &#038; Prophetic: The PATRIOTS Historic Super Bowl Comeback Victory Should Inspire Patriots Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-entry-hero__header-wrap\">\n<h1 class=\"c-page-title\">The Patriots\u2019 comeback victory set 24 new Super Bowl records and tied 7<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"c-entry-summary p-dek\">The Patriots pulled off the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history and a bunch of records were smashed along the way.<\/h2>\n<p>by <span class=\"c-byline__item\">Adam Stites<br \/>\n<\/span>SBNation<\/p>\n<p id=\"UuGn2y\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl\/teams\/new-england-patriots\">New England Patriots<\/a> pulled off the greatest comeback in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/super-bowl\">Super Bowl<\/a> history to win the first Lombardi Trophy ever decided by an overtime game.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ix5QcR\">To achieve the 34-28 win, there was a whole lot of passing by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nfl\/players\/1653\/tom-brady\">Tom Brady<\/a> and the Patriots offense to orchestrate digging out of a 28-3 hole, so it\u2019s not surprising that Super Bowl LI was a record-setter.<\/p>\n<p id=\"VSSmXs\">Altogether, 24 records were topped and seven were tied:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image_uploaded_from_ios_1024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65464\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image_uploaded_from_ios_1024-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image_uploaded_from_ios_1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/image_uploaded_from_ios_1024-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"e-image\"><\/figure>\n<p id=\"2dTI8G\">Some of the records \u2014 like Brady\u2019s career completions and touchdowns \u2014 were already his before the game and were just increased in Houston. But there\u2019s no doubt about it, Super Bowl LI posted some statistics that will be hard for future teams to match.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/lookit\/2017\/2\/6\/14519104\/new-england-patriots-atlanta-falcons-records-super-bowl-2017\">http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/lookit\/2017\/2\/6\/14519104\/new-england-patriots-atlanta-falcons-records-super-bowl-2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots\u2019 comeback victory set 24 new Super Bowl records and tied 7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}