No surprises, the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks will face for the first time ever in a game of Super Bowl and will be in the forty-ninth in the history of the National Football League (NFL) to be as a stage in University of Phoenix Stadium , Glendale (Arizona).
After seen throughout the regular season and competition from the playoffs with respective conference finals, no one questions that the greatest sporting event of the year in the United States , came the two strongest teams currently in the NFL.
Seattle Seahawks defenders in the NFL champions. Photo: AFP |
True, the Patriots won the title of the American Football Conference (AFC) bright and overwhelmingly winning 45-7 blowout of the Indianapolis Colts, the second highest score in the history of the end. While the Seahawks they had to go into overtime and on the verge of defeat before completing the comeback and win 28-22 in the Green Bay Packers in the title game of the National Conference (NFC).
But in the end, the Seahawks , defending the title of the NFC and will do so in the Super Bowl , showed that are real champions, who know how to react, never give up and as recognized head coach of the Packers, Mike McCarthy , in the final stretch of the game always made the decisive moves. The Seahawks got a lesson of what should be a defending champion, fight to the last second, and so could overcome a 0-16 they had in the first part, the greatest in the history of the (NFL). This is history, and now the target of Patriots and Seahawks is refocus their energies on what will be an unprecedented duel competition within the Super Bowl , among the most dominant in the last 15 years and the team wants to continue his passes to be the first since the 2004 season to revalidate the title of champion dynasty. The same will want to snatch the Patriots will seek the fourth in its history down direction quarterback Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick, reaching the sixth Super Bowl since the 2000 season when both began their careers in the Hall of Fame , but with the frustrations of defeats in the seasons of 2007 and 2011. Brady, 37, during the game against the Colts beat another brand to be the best passer in the NFL in the finals, beat Peyton Manning, trying to become the third in history to win four rings Super Bowl and join the immortal Joe Montana, his childhood idol, and Terry Bradshaw.
While Belichick , the winningest coach (21) in the final phase of the NFL to beat the legendary Tom Landry (20), wants to finale to a permanent career successes have earned him to be regarded by many as the best of all time. Confront have a young team under the direction of head coach Pete Carroll, the same as the Patriots kicked at the end of the 1999 season for his position it was occupied by Belichick, what makes players Seahawks have more incentive to strive for during the party into vindicate the value of professional that has led to the top . Carroll has already shown that if he was prepared to make a winning team and under his direction the Seahawks have become the most dominant franchise currently in the NFL.
Despite not being a historical and has secured its second consecutive trip the Super Bowl , something no team managed since I did the Patriots in the seasons of 2003 and 2004 when they also revalidated the title, the same athletic feat which now aspire Seahawks. In fact, Vegas odds and give as favorites for the Seahawks game Super Bowl , and Patriots players themselves recognize that the biggest challenge to overcome not only a rival team in the decider but also do so before the defending champions. In addition, the Seahawks with Carroll forward and the young quarterback Russell Wilson leadership within the team, are very clear that their only goal is to form a new dynasty. The second in the NFL to occur in the XXI Century , allowing them to join the Patriots who have the honor of being the first, and get nothing better than win the most important game of the year.