You probably don’t remember the most acrobatic catch in Super Bowl history. You probably don’t remember when Atlanta’s Julio Jones leaped into the air, reached over the outstretched fingertips of New England cornerback Eric Rowe, caught the ball at roughly a 60-degree angle to the ground, landed on his left foot, tapped his right toe in bounds, tucked the ball to his chest, then rolled his body completely over to protect the crucial fourth-quarter catch.
You probably don’t remember that catch because it came in the midst of the Falcons’ epochal 28-3 collapse, a disintegration so all-consuming and diabolical that it obliterated all the good works that had come before it, and cast a shadow on everything the franchise has done since.