Taking a level in badass
Would anyone agree that this would be a good place to have a trivia page? Lot's of interesting facts; did anyone know that Fred "Hunter" Dryer played in Super Bowl XIV for the Los Angeles Rams?
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Go ahead and start one. In the web address, replace "Main" with "Trivia" so it is "Super Bowl", then press enter. Once you've created it, click "tools" on the left-hand side buttons and set page type as "Sub page".
Then edit away! :D
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Excuse me, but didn't Detroit's Ford Field host a Super Bowl not that long ago? And Detroit is neither southern nor western. Thus that last bit in the article seems quite inaccurate.
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Unless it had been re-written since you commented it, the statement is not inaccurate. It clearly states "almost exclusively in southern or western locations, or in domes." Ford Field is a dome and Detroit is the "almost".
The New England Patriots keep getting listed as a Butt Monkey, and it's gotten to the point of trope misuse — they've won six on nine appearances since 2001 in a league where teams are lucky to see one Super Bowl berth in a generation. That's the opposite of Butt-Monkey. In the spirit of compromise, I've rewritten the passage since the Pats genuinely were mediocre in the pre-Brady years and were downright terrible before Bledsoe. I offer this up as a discussion point:
"The New England Patriots in their pre-Brady years were this trope. Before the 1990s, they seldom made the playoffs and the one time they went all the way to the Super Bowl, they had the misfortune of facing Mike Ditka's formidable 1985 Chicago Bears. The game was a Curbstomp Battle ending in a 45-10 score. Their next Super Bowl berth placed them in the path of the Brett Favre-led Green Bay Packers, and again, the Pats were vanquished 35-21, though they put up a fight. They finally shook off this reputation when they defeated the 2001 Rams — the Greatest Show on Turf — in Super Bowl XXXVI, and followed up with back to back victories two years later. The surprise defeat of the undefeated 2007 team and the 2011 team to the New York Giants tarnished the team's image entering The New '10s — doubts which the 2017 team's loss to Philly briefly resurrected — but then they won three Super Bowls in 5 years, shedding any lingering doubts of the strength of the present day team. Because of the topsy-turvy nature of the Pats' postseason history, they simultaneously hold records for the most Super Bowl wins (tied with the Steelers at six) and the most losses (tied with the Broncos at five).
Edited by CrimsonZephyr "For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."