Wow...What a Game!

The first thing I said when my 96 year old father called me immediately after the Patriots stunning victory over the Baltimore Ravens (23 – 20) in the AFC championship game yesterday was Wow ! What a game!...“Wow! What a game” is right he responded and I suspect that those 4 words are being echoed far and wide today among those who spent Sunday from 3:00 PM on glued to the tube.

It should be no surprise that it was a close game but no one that knew anything about these teams before hand, would have predicted it would transpire the way it did.

There is no question there were some strange things that happened in the game that have given rise to even stranger explanations and atributation to the late Myra Kraft, wife of Patriots owner Bob Kraft, who apparently has been on the minds of most of the players throughout the season and in his whose honor they would very much like to win a Superbowl championship. All the players hold Kraft,who played a key role in saving football this season just days following his “sweethearts” death, in high esteem and have been wearing "MHK"patches in his wife's honor on their uniforms.

One of my Facebook friends, whom I don’t know personally, wrote on my FB page that God had revealed to him he was going to cause the New England Patriots to lose as just recompense for defeating well publicized Christian Tim Tebow’s Denver Broncos in the preceding week. He even printed God’s words the way he believed he heard them and I responded by giving him the address of a free mental health clinic in his area.

As a long time fan of New England Sports who has witnessed a dizzying array of unexplained and sometimes heartbreaking events that have been explained by supernatural intervention during important games played by the Red Sox, Celtics, and now the Patriots starting with the curse of the Bambino; Lepraucauns sitting on the rims at Boston Garden when the Celtics were winning championships year after year; and now the recently deceased wife of the owner knocking a footbal heading for the uprights off to the left with only 11 seconds  left in the game. 

But there are many other strange thoughts dancing in my head this morning beside Billy Cunfoff’s 32 yard failed fieldgoal attempt including : Raven’s receiver Lee Evans dropping a ball that landed right in his chest after getting touched by a little known Patriot defender names Sterling Moore; Tom Brady unable to complete  a single touchdown pass on a day when his offensive line played great and gave him all the time in the world to find an open receiver; New England’s defense saving a game for the celebrated Patriot's offense that was obviously sputtering, which is something all the pundits said could never happen with the 2011 Patriots.