I will be the first to admit that I am not much of a football fan, at least not since both the Rams and Raiders bailed from Los Angeles after the 1994 season. It’s not that I don’t enjoy watching the game; in fact, I am a huge USC Trojans fan (Fight On!). It’s just that when both LA’s NFL teams left, I no longer had a dog in the race and lost interest in the game. There was certainly no way in hell I was going to root for any professional sports team from San Francisco – not ever – and the San Diego Chargers were… well… the San Diego Chargers. Oh sure, I was happy to see the Rams finally return to Los Angeles from St. Louis this past season, but it was kind of hard to get excited about a team that: A) Had seriously broken my heart, and B) Pretty much sucked.

Throughout the 2016-17 football season I kept an eye on what was happening in the NFL. I mean, let’s face it, it was pretty hard not to with the remarkable season that the oft-criticized New England Patriots were having and even more so Pats quarterback Tom Brady. So when the Atlanta Falcons took a 21-3 lead into the locker room at halftime during Sunday’s Super Bowl and had a 28-3 lead midway through the third quarter, although not overly enthused, I was quite surprised.

To be perfectly honest, I did not watch even one minute of the first three quarters and only kept tabs on the game over the internet. Instead, I was preparing Monday morning’s blog article and only needed the final score to complete it. As I often do, I kept checking Twitter during the game while writing my article and spotted a tweet by Dodgers center fielder Joc Pederson that caught my eye:

Now granted, a game as big as the Super Bowl brings with it a lot of hyperbole (pun intended). It also brings with it a lot of favoritism from fans about who they want to win. But in Joc’s case and in spite of the extremely lopsided score at the time, I couldn’t help but feel that the 24-year-old Palo Alto native might be onto something; after all, it is four-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady that we’re talking about here.

Intrigued by Joc’s tweet and the possibility of some divine intervention (not to mention some Tom Brady magic that always seems to appear when you least expect it), I immediately replied to Joc’s tweet:

Lo and behold, when regulation play ended, Brady had orchestrated an improbable/impossible 28-28 tie (and yes, I was now watching). And then 3:58 into sudden death overtime, Brady’s handoff to James White resulted in what many are calling the greatest Super Bowl win of all time.

After what can only be described as the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history to tie the game at 28-28, Patriots running back James White scores the sudden death overtime winning touchdown to give Tom Brady his NFL record fifth Super Bowl victory. (Video capture courtesy of Fox Sports).

The big question is, of course, what is Joc saying about the 2017 World Series?

Stay tuned…