In post-game remarks, Patriots owner Bob Kraft compared his team overcoming the scandal known as deflategate to when the Patriots won the first Super Bowl after 9/11:
“You know, to all the Patriot fans out there, wherever you are, this is our fourth Super Bowl championship in the last 14 years. The first one we won I thought was pretty special, because it happened at a unique time in or country, when it meant a lot. I never thought another trophy could feel as special but this one absolutely does,” said Kraft, after last night’s game.
“And every true Patriot fan understands it.”
That first Patriots Super Bowl victory was on February 3, 2002, just months after the worst terror attack on America in history.
