How Superbowl LI Became an Anime Classic

By now everyone should know about what went down in Super Bowl LI. How the Pats stole Christmas, AKA the Patriot’s Christmas Miracle, was a game for the ages. A game that lost a lot of people money in Vegas. While I wish I could’ve thrown my few cents in the catastrophic cookie jar, this isn’t about wasted opportunities. No, this is about entertainment. This is about defeating all the odds. This is about a plot that had been brewing since Super Bowl XLIX and was brought full circle in the season finale on February 5th, 2017. This was an anime classic in the making. No matter how you feel about the Patriots, you should be able to appreciate how good they usually are. Living in Miami, I personally have an extreme dislike for them because of the fact that the Dolphins are in the same conference; however, after the whole Deflategate fiasco in 2014-2015, my extreme dislike became a rather small dislike. Deflategate was a story arc that had the New England Patriots once again painted as the villain. They used footballs that were not deflated to the NFL regulatory standard to give themselves an advantage in a playoff game against the Colts. How much of an advantage can a deflated football give to a team? Who knows, but man were people pissed about it. The Patriots won the Super Bowl because of the Seattle Seahawks’ own story arc, so to many it was a hollow victory. We could say that was the end of the first half of the Super Bowl LI anime. Enter the 2015-2016 NFL anime season. Noth…