Super Bowl 49 had a lot of hype leading up to it. There was a lot of controversy swirling around the Patriots because they were accused of having under inflated balls in the AFC Championship game. The Super Bowl was very exciting just like the dispute about the balls.
The game went off to a slow start as the first quarter ended in a zero-zero score. The only action happened when Jeremy Lane, the Seahawks Cornerback broke his wrist after making an interception. The Patriots later took advantage of that.
In the second quarter it was tied at 7, Tom Brady threw a touchdown pass to Rob Gronkowski with 30 seconds to go. Then with 10 seconds left, the Seahawks’ Quarterback Russell Wilson threw a touchdown pass to tie the game at 14. Later, in the third quarter the Seahawks made a field goal and scored to make it 17-14. Billy Wagner intercepted Brady’s pass which later turned into a touchdown for Seattle. The score after the third was 24-17.
Tom Brady entered the fourth quarter ready to step up his game because he was down by 10. Eight minutes into the fourth quarter Tom Brady threw a touchdown pass to Danny Amendola. Then 6 minutes later with two minutes left, Tom Brady threw a perfect spiral to Julian Edelman for the touchdown. The Patriots came back from a 10 down deficit, a first in Super Bowl history. The score was 28-24.
Then after the punt return, Wilson threw a long deep pass to Jermaine Kearse a wide receiver for the Seahawks. Kearse bobbled the ball three times. Once with his foot, then his leg and then his hand before he caught it. At that moment the Patriots were probably thinking how many times is this going to happen? For the Patriots the same thing happened 7 years ago in Super Bowl 42. All the Seahawks had to do is hand the football to the best runningback in the NFL, “Beastmode” Marshawn Lynch. Lynch did run, but he got to the 1 yard line with 59 seconds left. The clock continued to run on the down and you were probably thinking that the Seahawks were going to run it again. It was second and goal when Russell Wilson threw a ball in the endzone and it was intercepted by the undrafted Malcolm Butler who preserved the victory. Wilson made the worst call by a quarterback in Super Bowl history because he should have ran it with Marshawn Lynch. The Patriots exhaled with a sigh of relief. The final moments were just as exciting as the hype before the game. The final score was Patriots 28, Seahawks 24.