[ramsburg]

This is going to seem crazy and I know it sounds very conspiracy-theoryish, but--that was the 1st SB after 9/11. It worked out almost too well that a team called the "Patriots" won. Were the refs. encouraged to help them win for that reason? Probably not, but at least that's I'm sticking with and what I've told myself for the past 6 years; helps ease the pain a little. (And I do not mean this in any disrespectful or unpatriotic way to anyone anywhere.) It is just my little conspiracy theory.