NFL Superbowl Race

The year of 2017 has been an interesting one, especially in the NFL. Starting with the one-of-a-kind Super Bowl in which a single player won a 5th world championship, never done in Professional Football. Last winter’s Super Bowl will also go down in history as the first Super Bowl to reach overtime. However, most people’s Sundays will be remembered for the record setting deficit and comeback between the Patriots and Falcons. As the teams began preparing for the next super bowl in Minnesota; 6 coaches were hired in new cities. Each of them wishing to earn their franchise a ticket to the January 2018 playoffs. More would succeed than any would have guessed. In a playoff race with just 12 positions 4 were occupied by coaches in their first or second year, and 8 of the twelve... had missed the playoffs in 2017. As the playoffs begun more history was made as both of the lower record teams in the first two games beat the favorites. In divisional week games the legendary Patriots and the confident Jaguars, veteran Vikings and underdog Eagles won to move on to the AFC and NFC championship games. The Patriots’ Tom Brady started 36 playoff games over his storied career, dwarfing the combined 6 starts of Nick Foles (Eagles), Case Keenum (Vikings) and Blake Bortles (Jaguars). The first Super bowl to be held in Minneapolis will pit the top seeds against eachother, in 12 degree weather, for the Eagles first superbowl win since their founding in 1933 and the eigth patriot win since 2002.