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Well, that was a football game.

The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots 41-33 in a game that set a record for yardage in a playoff game, with the teams combining for 1,151 total yards. Tom Brady accounted for 511 of those yards while Eagles backup quarterback Nick Foles threw for three touchdowns and caught one more en route to winning the MVP. If that wasn’t enough the Patriots were inches away from connecting on a Hail Mary which would have given the Patriots the chance to tie the game with a 2-point conversion and send it to overtime. But alas, the legend of Brady wasn’t enough to stop Philadelphia from capturing their first Super Bowl.

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