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Super Bowl LI was the first Super Bowl to go into overtime with a 28-all tie between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots, which the Patriots eventually won with James White scoring a touchdown on the Patriots' first drive.
2014 New England Patriots season
The 2014 season would mark the ten-year anniversary of the Patriots third Super Bowl win, when they defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX. Despite their championship drought, Bill Belichick’s Patriots remained historically dominant throughout much of the 2000s. They qualified for the playoffs nine times—missing only the 2008 postseason—reached the AFC Championship five times, appeared in two Super Bowls and, in the eyes of many, solidified Tom Brady’s status as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. In 2007, the Patriots completed only the second undefeated regular season in the history of the modern NFL (the first being the 1972 Miami Dolphins), as well as the first in since the league expanded its seasons to sixteen games. It was achievements such as these that made the Patriots a particularly intriguing target of interest to the media. A miserable loss in week four against the Kansas City Chiefs where they dropped to 2-2, the frequent off-field antics of tight-end Rob Gronkowski and the highly publicized Deflategate scandal were all important chronicles of the 2014 Patriots’ wild season, the latter of which would ultimately result in the four-game suspension of Brady for the beginning of the 2016 NFL season. Despite all this, the Patriots managed to emerge victorious in the end.