New England Patriots 24 -- Philadelphia Eagles 21
Super Bowl XXXIX was played on
6 February 2005
at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida; kickoff was
at 6:38 pm EST.
Alltel Stadium seats over 78,000 people.
The National Football Conference champion will have their choice
of home or away uniforms, and the American Football Conference
champion will decide by how many points they will win.
The game will be broadcast by the Fox Network on television
and by CBS Radio-Westwood One. Last year 144.4 million people
watched the Super Bowl.
The United States National Anthem was sung by the Glee Clubs
of the U.S. Air Force, Coast Guard Academy, Naval Academy, and
Military Academy at West Point.
The American Sign Language performance was given by Wesley Tallent.
The halftime show was designed to contain as much
saccharin-sweet thigh-clenching schmaltz as
the average Branson, Missouri retiree can handle.
The main dish was Paul McCartney served up with an
ample helping of dancing drones. Given the flap over
Janet Jackson's "wardrobe malfunction" last year,
this year's show was as edgy as a giant, suffocating
marshmallow the size of Dennis Hastert's butt.*
The most notable trend this season was the play by teams in
the National Conference. Two teams,
the St. Louis Rams and the Minnesota Vikings, enter the playoffs
with just as many losses
as wins, and the only reason the other teams have winning records
is that they played many other NFC teams.
The Philadelphia
Eagles should have waltzed all the way to the big dance, but
strange things have happened before.
(For the uninitiated: American Football, National Football League,
Super Sunday: a brief primer)
Scoring Summary
1ST QUARTER
- None
2ND QUARTER
- Eagles TD
- L.J. Smith, 6 Yd pass from Donovan McNabb
(David Akers kick is good), 9:55. Drive: 9 plays, 81 yards in 4:36.
- Pats TD
- David Givens, 4 Yd pass from Tom Brady
(Adam Vinatieri kick is good), 1:10. Drive: 7 plays, 37 yards in 3:15.
3RD QUARTER
- Pats TD
- Mike Vrabel, 2 Yd pass from Tom Brady
(Adam Vinatieri kick is good), 11:04. Drive: 9 plays, 69 yards in 3:56.
- Eagles TD
- Brian Westbrook, 10 Yd pass from Donovan McNabb (David Akers
kick is good), 3:35. Drive: 10 plays, 74 yards in 4:17.
4TH QUARTER
- Pats TD
- Corey Dillon, 2 Yd run (Adam Vinatieri kick is good), 13:44. Drive: 9 plays, 66 yards in 4:51.
- Pats FG
- Adam Vinatieri 22 Yd, 8:40. Drive: 8 plays, 43 yards in 3:49.
- Eagles TD
- Greg Lewis, 30 Yd pass from Donovan McNabb (David Akers
kick is good), 1:48. Drive: 13 plays, 79 yards in 3:52.
Postseason Results
Atlanta Falcons
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10 \
\ Phila Eagles
at ------------------
27 / NFC Champs \
Phila Eagles / \
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\ N.E. PATRIOTS
N.E. Patriots --------------------------
----------------- / Super Bowl Champions
41 \ /
\ N.E. Patriots /
at -------------------
27 / AFC Champs
Pitt. Steelers /
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Road to the Conference Championships
Wild card round, 8-9 Jan 2005
(Numbers in parenthesis are the regular season win-loss records.)
Division Playoffs, 15-16 Jan 2005
References
* Original similie was with Dick Cheney's butt. Upon further thought,
I imagine that, despite the girth of his waist, his is probably one of
those withered old-man butts, strained from all these years of
clenching his ass cheeks together tight enough to turn any organic
matter between them into diamond.
Updated 7 February 2005