Even those who know better than to count out Tom Brady counted out Tom Brady on Sunday night.
We can’t say we blame them: Brady’s New England Patriots trailed the Atlanta Falcons by 25 points in the second half of Super Bowl LI and faced a 19-point deficit entering the fourth quarter. What followed was one of the greatest comebacks in sports history, culminating in New England’s thrilling 34-28 overtime win.
The dramatic seesaw exposed some unfortunate takes on Twitter, as the “experts” who prematurely wrote Brady and Co.’s eulogies were proven embarrassingly wrong. Among them, of course, was FOX Sports’ Colin Cowherd, who did a complete reversal on his Jimmy Garoppolo stance as Brady floundered in the third quarter.
Sunday’s “playoff clunker” earned Brady his record fourth Super Bowl MVP award.
If there’s good news for Cowherd, though, it’s that his ill-conceived tweet plenty of company. Here are more scorchers that Brady doused with his epic comeback.
Those tweets look pretty bad in hindsight, but Skip Bayless still managed to take the cake. Here’s what the FOX Sports analyst tweeted in the first half of Sunday’s game:
Of course, it’s hard to blame some of these pundits for thinking Sunday’s game was over considering the circumstances, and many owned up to their ill-timed tweets. But that probably won’t make Brady’s revenge taste any less sweet.
H/t to Freezing Cold Takes