Say it out loud: the Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions.
One of the NFL’s most historically snakebitten teams ended their 57-year championship drought in the most thrilling way imaginable on Sunday night at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, racing to an early lead, going step for step in a track meet with the New England Patriots, falling behind in the fourth quarter and rallying behind the back-up quarterback who took over in December when the starter went down to injury.
Seventy-one total points. More than 1,000 yards of combined offense, breaking the previous record before the fourth quarter even started.
It was one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played and now the Eagles, who were left for dead after losing franchise quarterback Carson Wentz in December, are champions of the NFL for the first time since the Eisenhower administration.
How do you beat the Patriots? You get to Tom Brady. It’s been the conventional wisdom for the better part of this NFL generation and nothing had changed as it was refrained throughout the run-up to Super Bowl LII.
It took nearly 58 minutes for the Eagles to get there, but what a reward once they did.
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