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By Victor Mather | New York Times
If you sat through Sunday’s football-related entertainment, you could be forgiven for swearing off Super Bowls forever.
That might be too precipitous. Quite a few recent games have been thrillers with lots of touchdowns and exciting moments.
Just last year the Philadelphia Eagles won their first championship in half a century in a 74-point classic. The year before the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons battled into overtime. In the last 10 years, we have had Patriots 28-Seattle Seahawks 24, Baltimore Ravens 34-San Francisco 49ers 31 and Giants 21-Patriots 17.
Sunday was more of a throwback to the late 1980s and early ’90s, when the Denver Broncos or the Buffalo Bills were getting demolished year after year and Super Bowls let the public down as frequently as Star Wars prequels.
And come on now. Was Sunday’s game even really all that bad?
Yes. Yes it was. ...
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