Someday in the future when we have flying cars, debit cards that magically get teleported to your house if you forget it at the bar, and wallpaper that plays video in our TV rooms, a replay of Malcolm Butler’s goal-line interception in Super Bowl 49 is for sure going to be on repeat in any Patriots fan’s house. Heck, it might be already. It truly is the gift that keeps on giving in more ways than one.
Aside from breaking a 10-year streak where Tom Brady got agonizingly close to a 4th Super Bowl ring (and the Patriots’ first post-Spygate championship, cause if you’ll think back a bit, at one point it WAS a thing that Bill & Tom “couldn’t win without cheating”), the interception that ended one of the wildest Super Bowls in history has the found-$20-in-my-jacket-pocket bonus of eventually blowing up one of the brashest, loudest, and most brilliant defenses in NFL history.