Tom Brady and Bill Belichick will team up to fill the void left by Peyton Manning last season. While last year we heard “Peyton Manning legacy,” “What will Peyton Manning’s legacy be?”
“How will this game affect Peyton Manning’s legacy?” ad nauseam at this a time year ago…take it away NBC’s Cris Collinsworth.
Collinsworth on Super Bowl XLIX: “This will be a legacy Super Bowl. Will it be Seattle winning back-to-back Super Bowls with a young team capable of many more, or Tom Brady and Bill Belichick winning their fourth?”
That was released in a statement by NBC Sports Group late Sunday night, and this is just the first of many times that we will hear Brady and Belichick legacy, Belichick legacy, Brady legacy, blah, blah, blah over and over and over again until our ears bleed.
Every possible relevant angle to the game will be dissected, vivisected, analyzed, over-analyzed and meta-analyzed over the next two weeks. It’s going to get absurd. The long term legacy of Tom Brady and Bill Belichick will be trending topic number one.
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