Comment on Super Bowl puts American football fans on seat's edge

Super Bowl puts American football fans on seat's edge

Glendale (United States) (AFP) - The National Football League's turbulent season reaches its apex Sunday as New England seek to burnish their Super Bowl legacy against a Seattle team out to forge a dynasty.The 49th edition of the NFL's championship spectacular is expected to attract some 115 million domestic television viewers, many of them tuning in to see Katy Perry's halftime show and the television advertisements that for some are as big a draw as the game itself.But despite a whiff of scandal dogging the Patriots, the game promises to be a classic, with New England quarterback Tom Brady leading his team in the Super Bowl for the sixth time trying to join boyhood idol Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as the only signal-callers with four Super Bowl titles.A league probe of whether the Pats purposely used under-inflated footballs on their way to the eighth Super Bowl appearance in franchise history has sparked both serious headlines and a welter of late-night chat-show jokes.It has clouded but not obscured the fact that the Patriots can become the sixth team with at least four Super Bowl titles.To do so they'll have to stop the Seahawks, who demolished the Denver Broncos in last year's championship game and are seeking to become the first team to win back-to-back titles since the Patriots themselves did so a decade ago.Sunday's game at the University of Phoenix Stadium will be played on the same field where the 2007 Patriots brought their 18-0 record into the Super Bowl only to be stunned 17-14 by the New York Giants."I think over the years we've gotten some tough losses, and obviously we made it in '07 and '11, those were challenging games," said Brady, whose Pats also lost to the Giants after that 2011 campaign."I don't think those things discouraged me at all.

 

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