The New England Patriots’ Super Bowl comeback was an instant classic, with the Atlanta Falcons’ late-third quarter lead, 28-3, already a well-worn meme for overcoming insurmountable odds. The stakes of that game, the magnitude of that rally and the unprecedented timing of its conclusion — the first Super Bowl overtime — make that an obvious choice, by any measure, for most exciting NFL game in 2017.
The sports data and video company Thuuz Sports, which is slang for “enthused,” uses proprietary algorithms to compute excitement ratings objectively — not to mention give fans’ personalized recommendations of games to watch and compile custom highlight reels, among other functionalities — and confirms that Super Bowl LI indeed had more excitement than other pro football game this year.