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The five plays that turned Super Bowl LI for New England

Super Bowl LI is in the books, and the New England Patriots earned their fifth Lombardi Trophy with one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history, overcoming a 19-point deficit as the game entered the fourth quarter to seal the win in the first ever Super Bowl overtime.

As with every great comeback, there are plays that needed to happen for it to turn that way, and this game seemed to have a sequence of them, all of which needed to break New England’s way for the Patriots to pull it off. Here are the five plays that turned the Super Bowl:

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