The Pats' defensive stand after they botched the onside kick was when the tide began to turn for New England.

Another fun fact: The Pats are the first team to win a Super Bowl without making an extra point. Who had the prop bet on that?

Exponent isn't exactly a bastion of rigorous scientific testing.

And the rolling-back-the-clock finals at the Australian Open for the men *and* the women.

I had some combative reply written that had maybe a 2% of changing your opinion, but, eh, life is short. Today's my birthday. I'm staying positive.

Same thing in baseball. If the BoSox aren't in the Series, I'm supposed to root for the American League? Screw that.

What with Teti engaged in some double secret AVClub project, who knows if he'll be writing a SB postmortem. That said, I'd like to tip my Pats hat his way, and recount the lines from a season's worth of musings, memes, and Phil Simms poetry that made me laugh out loud. Compiling this was the best way I could think of…

But it was an outrageous paradigm!

TUSK!!!

To invoke the AVClub's most favorite phrase, I'm aware that Billy Bragg's "You Woke Up My Neighborhood" might be a bit on the nose. But that song - along with "Tremolo Song" by the Charlatans - just gets me moving.

We're fucking Fredo.

Not sure. But I figured since "Falling Slowly" won the Oscar years ago, a John Carney film-with-music would have at least gotten a courtesy nomination. It's just that I think that "Drive It Like You Stole It" would have been a great choice. Could've gotten Hall & Oates to play in the band during the Oscar telecast.

I also think that Ken Lonergan will get screeplay

I was hoping that something off of "Sing Street" would make the cut. Alas.

She'd pull off that look

*Really* going to miss that guy. I hope he goes on a Corvette Summer Tour. Sammy Hagar can be his driver.

Michelle left home with a mission

Or order a spike on first down on the Cowboys final drive, ostensibly to save them from using their one remaining timeout. Which they never got around to using.

Somebody poisoned the waterhole!

Directed by Steve Nash, another fine Canadian.