MINNEAPOLIS — Don’t throw away those dog masks just yet.
Despite winning Super Bowl LII here Sunday night, and despite beating the best coach and the best quarterback the NFL has seen, the Eagles opened as underdogs to win Super Bowl LIII next year in Atlanta, and not just to the greatest dynasty in modern team sports history.
Immediately after their 41-33 shootout victory at USBank Stadium, the Rodney Dangerfields of the NFL opened as underdogs to the Patriots.
Yes, those very Patriots they’d just beaten.
Those Patriots, whose 40-year-old quarterback acknowledged he was contemplating retirement.