What Can We Learn about Life from This Year’s Super Bowl?

It’s been over two weeks and here at Dandelion Chandelier we’re still talking about it: how on earth did Tom Brady and the Pats win Super Bowl LI?

Seriously: the magnitude of this victory is hard to over-state. 25 points behind at the half. Down 28-9 at the start of the fourth quarter. No Super Bowl team has ever dug itself out of a hole that deep until now: in fact, in the history of the NFL playoffs before this game, 93 teams had a lead of 19 or more points heading into the fourth quarter. Their record was 93-0. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, prior to this game, teams leading by 25 or more points at any time in any NFL game were 2,545-4-2 in the regular season and 102-2 in the postseason. Add it up and only six times in 2,655 games, or 0.2 percent of the time, has a team come back from a 25-point deficit to win a game. The Falcons’ win probability on ESPN was 99.6% with 9 minutes 44 seconds left in the game. It was the first over-time ever in Super Bowl history. This is a Black Swan, if ever there was one. Also the best possible outcome for a memorable Super Bowl party.

So how did the Pats pull it off?  Read more: https://wp.me/p7L2L9-l3