Like sportswriters, sponsors, fans and various fat-cat league officials, Malcolm Butler was limited to the role of observer at Super Bowl LII.
The difference is that Butler was in uniform that night at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Another difference is that he was also in tears.
And now he is in transit.
See you later, Malcolm Butler. Thanks for contributing the single greatest play in Boston sports history . . . and don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Strange, isn’t it? If only for his game-saving, championship-winning interception in the last moments of an earlier Super Bowl — XLIX, played on Feb.