BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has a little nitpick on one of the most unusual Super Bowl statistics in his career.
Yes, it’s true, the team has not scored in the first quarter of any of its prior seven Super Bowl appearances with Brady as the starting quarterback. But Brady said it’s important to look at the fine print.
“There is a little caveat to that, in my opinion,” Brady said this week, showing that the details of the game, even a decade later, don’t escape him. “In 2007, it was our first drive of the game and it just happened to be the first play of the second quarter [that we scored].