Super Bowl XLIX
Super Bowl XLIX was played on February 1, 2015, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28–24 to win their fourth Super Bowl title and their first since Super Bowl XXXIX 10 years earlier. It was the second time the stadium has hosted a Super Bowl, and the third one held in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was named the game’s Most Valuable Player after a then Super Bowl-record 37 completions on 50 attempts for 328 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions.
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Super Bowl XLIX was played on February 1, 2015, at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The New England Patriots defeated the Seattle Seahawks 28–24 to win their fourth Super Bowl title and their first since Super Bowl XXXIX 10 years earlier. It was the second time the stadium has hosted a Super Bowl, and the third one held in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was named the game’s Most Valuable Player after a then Super Bowl-record 37 completions on 50 attempts for 328 yards, four touchdowns, and two interceptions. With the loss, the Seahawks became the fourth defending Super Bowl champions to lose in the following year’s title game, after the 1978 Dallas Cowboys, 1983 Washington Redskins and the 1997 Green Bay Packers. Seattle became the first team to appear in consecutive Super Bowls since New England won two straight. The game was seen by an average of 114. 4 million viewers, with it reaching to 118. 5 million during the Super Bowl XLix halftime show featuring Katy Perry, and then peaking to 120. 8 million during New England’s fourth-quarter comeback. The Patriots, who also posted a 12–4 record, joined the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers as one of the three teams to have made eight appearances in the Superbowl. For the second straight season, but only the third time in the prior 21 seasons, the number one seeds from both conferences met in the league championship game. New England had a rough start to their 2014 season with a 2–2 record and hitting a low point with a 41–14 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.
However, New England recovered with an NFL season-long winning streak, beginning with a 43–17 win over the Cincinnati Bengals in five and a half weeks. After the teams were tied 14–14 at halftime, theeah Seahawks built a 10-point lead to end the third quarter. The Seahawks threatened to score in the final moments, driving the ball to New England’s 1-yard line. With 26 seconds remaining in the game, Seattle decided to pass the ball in a highly scrutinized call that resulted in Patriots undrafted rookie Malcolm Butler making a game-saving interception of Russell Wilson’s throw. The Super Bowl remains the most-watched program in the network’s history, as well as the most watched program in American television history, surpassing the previous year’s game. This is the second Super Bowl contested at Universityof Phoenix Stadium, and theThird Super Bowl held at Sun Devil Stadium in nearby Tempe. The first Super Bowl played in the area was Super BowlXLII in February 2008, which was held at Super BowlXXX was held in nearby Sun Devils Stadium in Tempe, Arizona, in January 1996. It is the third Super Bowl to be held at the stadium, the second of which was Super Super XXXII in January 2008. The NFL owners initially voted in November 2005 to award a Super bowl to Kansas City, Missouri, in honor of Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt, the founder of the American Football League in the 1960s.
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