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00:46The following is a WBZ 4 News special.
00:50Today's Patriots victory celebration.
00:56In 2001, New England's view of pro football changed forever.
01:02I'm going to tell you about my town.
01:04Well, Boston was always known as a Red Sox town.
01:07And even with the mild success that we had previously had.
01:12And the Celtics?
01:15Whoa.
01:17It was not like the experience that New England felt after winning Super Bowl 36.
01:23It kind of put the Patriots on the map.
01:25Yeah, down by the river, down by the banks of the river, Charles.
01:35This was a time when the Lombardi trophy was still new to New Englanders.
01:41When more than a million people gathered to celebrate their first pro football championship.
01:48It was one historic party.
01:51And before it ended, the Patriots were invited to dance on the Red Sox' hallowed infield.
02:03A franchise had been reborn.
02:06Its players cast as heroes.
02:08And among them, none was made bigger or remained humbler than quarterback Tom Brady.
02:17He made everybody feel special.
02:19Like, you know, when a lot of times the media or certain powers that be was trying to make it
02:25like it was just Tom, he would immediately diffuse that.
02:30Brady shared his first ever Hollywood cameo with his close friend, safety lawyer Malloy.
02:37And in June of 2002, the Super Bowl MVP was sure to make time for one of the men most
02:44responsible for his success.
02:47I was supposed to get out of the hospital on Saturday afternoon after a Friday operation.
02:53If all went well.
02:55And he was stopping by on Saturday morning to see me.
02:58It's too early for cameras.
03:02And when he walked in, I was in intensive care in critical condition.
03:07What?
03:09The picture painted was not a rosy picture.
03:13But Tommy, he actually stayed for most of the next 48 hours until family members could arrive.
03:24Complications following gastric bypass surgery forced Charlie Weiss in and out of a coma for the next seven days.
03:33His hospital visit ultimately required more than two months to recovery.
03:41There, throughout it all, was his young quarterback.
03:46Tommy was one of the reasons why I got back to work quicker than Thunder.
03:52This is a season after they had already lost Dick Rabine.
03:58To a young age of 45.
04:00And Weiss was about as old as he was.
04:06So.
04:11Than you normally would because of his pushing.
04:15And I think that mentally and emotionally, he was a big, you know, big uplifting person for me.
04:22Our personal relationship and our professional relationship now became one,
04:28which I think allowed us to evolve together and move along at a quicker pace than it might have originally.
04:37Weiss returned to the sideline by the start of the 2002 regular season.
04:43The year began with a bang.
04:47Then, it began to fizzle out.
04:50That's what I'm talking about.
04:51One missed assignment.
04:52There's a difference between seven points and three points.
04:55They're on the goal.
04:56Hey, man, we find every way to lose a game.
04:58We can't give up long passes and big plays.
05:02I'm telling you, we suck.
05:04We suck.
05:07In 2002, New England missed the playoff.
05:12Once again, the world champion Patriots looked like a once-in-a-lifetime team.
05:20Eight and eight.
05:22I think they were the only defending champions between 99 and, like, 2020 to miss the playoffs.
05:40Especially to go eight and eight.
05:42Bill Belichick began a quest to upgrade his defense.
05:47The talent search led to a 30-year-old safety San Diego had just cut.
05:54It was a slow free agency period for me because I didn't spark a lot of interest because people thought
05:59I was hurt.
06:00People thought they believed what Marty Schottenheimer said, that I couldn't play anymore.
06:05And then New England called.
06:08I hop on a flight with shorts on because out in California, it's about 80 degrees.
06:14Fly to New England.
06:15I get there.
06:16I wake up.
06:16It's like 22 below zero.
06:20I'm freezing my butt off.
06:23One of their young guys picks me up and says, okay, Rodney, are you hungry?
06:27I'm excited because I'm like, I'm starving.
06:29I just had a long flight.
06:31Maybe we'll do something really nice.
06:32It's really like a Ruth Chris or something like that.
06:35They take me to a place called the Ground Round.
06:41Belichick has this little.
06:42Yeah, I'm a dummy.
06:46Apparently, six other Super Bowl champions missed the playoffs next season during that span.
06:52So, I was completely wrong.
06:58But, anything, all that matters is what they did in 03.
07:07Raggedy sweater on with this beat up, holy pair of pants.
07:11And he's just looking terrible.
07:13And I look at him and he says, hey, we want you.
07:16And when he gave me that look in my eye, I said, I'm a done deal.
07:20I said, let me tell my agent, work out the numbers.
07:23I want to be here.
07:24This is the place for me.
07:25His reputation, a hitter.
07:31He was real aggressive.
07:35He had a lot of energy.
07:37The people that know me say that.
07:39The people that know me say that.
07:40The people that don't know me, they say I'm a dirty player.
07:43What's that?
07:44Shut up.
07:45I'm going to hit him right in his mouth.
07:49In San Diego, illegal hits had cost Rodney Harrison more than $200,000 in fines.
07:58He was the kind of player you hated to play against.
08:02But love to have as a teammate.
08:06His 70, 80 percent is like some guy's 100 percent.
08:12We had to let him know, like Rod, we appreciate it.
08:16You know, we love it, man.
08:17But let's just save it for Sundays.
08:20Leadership is something that's not feigned.
08:22Either you have it or you don't have it.
08:24Rodney obviously had leadership.
08:26It didn't take but a short time for the team to recognize and look to him for guidance.
08:33I think Richard Seymour pulled me to the side and he just told me, we really want to nominate you
08:38as a captain.
08:39I thought he was joking.
08:41I thought he was playing a joke.
08:42But I saw a look in Richard's eyes that I only see during game day.
08:46So I knew he was serious.
08:48That was probably one of my proudest moments in my career.
08:55For them to look at me and say, we feel like you should represent what the New England Patriots are
09:00about.
09:01I mean, that really touched me.
09:04The heartstrings of New England were tugged unexpectedly.
09:08Just five days before the first game of 2003.
09:13A real stunner from the Patriots.
09:15Today, the team cut Lawyer Malloy, one of their most popular players.
09:19His locker was already bare by the time the media got to the locker room late this morning.
09:24Today's move makes Malloy an unrestricted free agent.
09:28You'd like to say that a team as professional as the Patriots would have been able to handle the release
09:35of Lawyer.
09:36But remember now, this is one of Tommy's closest friends.
09:42He showed up every day, never missed the end, never missed the practice, never complained.
09:46Lawyer was one of those players that we loved on the team.
09:49Now we can get off the rock.
09:51One, two, three, three.
09:52To see him go was like a part of, you know, all of us leaving as well.
09:57Everyone was hurt and stunned by it because I thought that it was going to be, you know,
10:03Lawyer and myself as the safeties back there.
10:06I was looking forward to it.
10:07That was one of the reasons why I signed with New England.
10:09Molloy inked a new deal in Buffalo where he would play in the regular season opener against the New England
10:17Patriots.
10:22Spoiler, Bills smoked them 31-0.
10:28And I think they knocked Tom Brady into five years earlier and his helmet goes with it.
10:38The coaches and the players, I mean, because everyone was so bitter at Bill for the situation with Lawyer.
10:45He said, you guys are going to be upset, but eventually you're going to have to get over it.
10:49It's part of the business.
10:50It makes a lot of sense.
10:52But at the same time, we didn't get over it because we went out there and we played like crap.
11:01And here it is.
11:02In the end zone.
11:03Touchdown.
11:04Touchdown.
11:05Wide open.
11:08We, uh, we went up there and we were flat.
11:13They gave us a pretty good beating.
11:15And Lawyer had a great game.
11:18The absolute last thing the Patriots wanted.
11:21They got it.
11:23I know it was all said and done.
11:24I can remember vividly the score being 31-0.
11:28In your face, Bill Belichick.
11:30You know, all the critics started saying, hey, this Lawyer Molloy's situation is going to destroy this team.
11:36This team won't win eight games.
11:38I want to say this very clearly.
11:39They hate their coach.
11:42And their season could be over depending on how quickly they can get over this emotional devastation they suffered because
11:48of Lawyer Molloy.
11:49He was wrong.
11:50He was flat wrong because he wasn't in our locker room.
11:54So how can he say that we hate our coach?
11:57A hell of a lot of us pissed off at Bill Belichick.
12:00Yes, but we don't hate him.
12:03You know, I looked at Tom Brady and I said, you know what?
12:06I mean, this is National Football League.
12:07I was just released a month or six weeks ago or eight weeks ago.
12:11I said, I mean, it happens.
12:13I said, you know, we got to get over it.
12:16If anything, all the talk and everybody around the media, what they were doing was bringing us closer together.
12:24We came back Monday.
12:25We looked at the film.
12:27We saw the mistakes that we made.
12:29Bill yelled at us and screamed at us.
12:31And we went out there Wednesday and we had one of the most physical practices we've ever had.
12:35And it was out of our system.
12:36And now we're able to move forward.
12:42New England steadied itself with a win in Philadelphia.
12:53Two weeks later, the Patriots looked lost again.
12:58We were very frustrated after a game four against the Redskins because we felt that we had lost to an
13:07inferior team.
13:10Here we are.
13:11Are we going to be an up and down team?
13:13Are we going to be inconsistent like we were in 2002?
13:15As disappointed as we were after the Buffalo loss, the Washington loss, got the team saying, you know, that's the
13:24end of this losing stuff.
13:26The Patriots' next loss came in October of the following year.
13:35We wasn't thinking about a streak.
13:38We were just thinking about rebounding.
13:44New England would win its next 21 games.
13:50The longest winning streak in NFL history.
13:55And they owed it all to short-term focus.
13:59Each week, we would have a team game plan that would be devised to win that one game.
14:06I recall that year us beating the Browns 9-3.
14:13Okay, I recall that year us beating the Titans 38-30.
14:19New England was winning in every possible fashion, thanks to the coach whose wardrobe lacked variety.
14:26Bill Belichick believed that with different games come different situations.
14:31Yeah, no.
14:32The more situations a team mastered, the more games it would win.
14:37No, all I want to do is create different situations, keep them alert, keep them thinking.
14:42Situational football was something that Belichick would take us through.
14:46What are you guys thinking about right here?
14:48Six seconds.
14:50Things that may or may not come up in a game, but when they come up, you have to be
14:55prepared for them.
14:56And be ready for the situations, okay?
14:58And I don't want to hear about what any of the situations are.
15:01You just play them.
15:03Got it?
15:04He'd put a number of end-of-the-game situations, whether it be four minutes to go in a game
15:10or 40 seconds to go in the game,
15:12and make me call plays according to that situation.
15:17You know, are you ready for anything?
15:19I'm ready for it.
15:20Okay.
15:21A lot of guys, young guys and new guys like myself saying, why are we spending so much time on
15:25this?
15:26Are these guys just creating crap for us just so we can sit in meetings?
15:29You know, we've been through a thousand situations, and I know when this happens, you know, we're going to need
15:35to make a gut call.
15:36I recall the Denver Monday night game very vividly because we were down by one with a little bit more
15:43than two minutes to go in the game,
15:46and we were pinned down inside our one-yard line.
15:49We figured that if we were putting from our own one-yard line, we might not have much of a
15:54chance to get the ball back in time to win the game.
15:56So we began discussion on the possibility of taking a safety.
16:03High snap, hits the goal post.
16:06So they give them a safety.
16:08And that is going to be two points for the Broncos.
16:11Everyone on the sideline was looking at Coach Belichick like, what is he doing?
16:14Is he crazy?
16:15Guys are yelling at us, why are we giving up points?
16:18The Patriots were down by three, but the safety allowed them a free kick that improved their field position.
16:26Belichick trusted his defense to get the ball back in time for New England to kick a game-tying field
16:32goal.
16:34The Patriots held Denver three and out, but New England's field goal unit never got its chance.
16:51That was some real good situational football there at the end.
16:55Real good situational football.
16:58You guys did a great job there at the end.
17:01Billy McGinnis in particular.
17:04I came in six o'clock in the morning.
17:07He was there before anyone.
17:11Watching film on Indianapolis, lifting weights.
17:15Couldn't believe it.
17:16I looked at Willie and said, you're going to have a monster game.
17:21On the Colts' last possession, Willie McGinnis would have an opportunity to stand out.
17:27Just over a minute to play, Indianapolis was driving for a game-winning touchdown.
17:32And New England was out of timeouts.
17:36Ty Law is limping.
17:37Willie McGinnis is limping.
17:39It wasn't nothing major where I blew my knee out or nothing like that, but I twisted my knee.
17:45My knee got caught in the turf.
17:46So it kind of hyperextended.
17:48This defense has been on the field a long time here in the fourth quarter.
17:52And that stops the clock with 1.09 to play.
17:56Where we're taught, again, situational football, if you have an injury, get down.
18:01If you know the Indianapolis coach, if they see a player hobbling off the field, they'll hurry up to the
18:05line.
18:06They'll snap the ball.
18:07And we didn't want that to happen.
18:09Now, you know what's going on here.
18:11Tony Dungy and Peyton Manning are complaining.
18:14They think they're faking to rest up and get more strategy.
18:19I don't know what they're talking about.
18:20I just know we had a couple guys that were tired and cramping up really bad, had leg cramps, and
18:27they really needed help off the field.
18:32After the clock stoppage, the Colts gained a first and goal at the two.
18:37On three straight plays, they could not reach the end zone.
18:41On fourth down, McGinnis was back on the field.
18:46Now, it is all on this one.
18:48Fourth down.
18:50Fifteen seconds to go to head off to Benjamin.
18:53He has stopped.
18:54He has stopped.
18:55Willie McGinnis was a success at the 1-yard line.
18:58Would you believe it?
19:00In another difficult situation, the Patriots recovered just in time.
19:06The way I lined up, I was disguising.
19:08He probably thought I was going to be dropping in coverage.
19:11But I was coming off that edge 100 miles an hour.
19:26There you have it.
19:27Willie McGinnis.
19:30He stepped up big.
19:33Woo!
19:34That's hard.
19:35I can't believe we can win.
19:38At that point in time, I said, something special is going to happen.
19:41You know, this year, something definitely special is going to happen.
19:45Everyone was, you know, basically riding on, you know, cloud nine.
19:51But Coach Belichick.
19:52Let's go to the tape.
19:54That Monday, he came in and he put a film of everything that we did wrong.
20:01Everything, missed tackles, the blown coverages, and everyone looked around like, I thought we just won.
20:10The Patriots were not losing games.
20:12Bill Belichick would not let them lose perspective.
20:16For him, good enough to win was rarely good enough.
20:20Play that way.
20:21Look, six and two.
20:22All right, don't let it go to your head.
20:24Like I told you this week, every time you win, the next game gets a little bit bigger.
20:29Block kicks.
20:30Okay, giving up touchdowns in a red area.
20:32Turning the ball over.
20:33Can't score in a red area.
20:34Okay, made enough plays to win.
20:36All right, but keep it in perspective.
20:38We've still got some more work to do.
20:39One of the things Coach Belichick was always big on was to use different analogies from sports.
20:45You know, one of my favorites is Michael Jordan making that shot to win the NBA championship.
20:51Tiger is probably his favorite because he's always referring back to Tiger.
20:55The world's greatest player, even when he's up by five or six strokes, he wants to not only beat you,
21:00he wants to destroy you.
21:02We wouldn't do it again.
21:03One of the ones that he showed coming down the stretch in that playoff run was Secretariat running into Belmont.
21:11Three quarters of the way through the race, there was Secretariat having a slight lead.
21:16Get the game from the inside.
21:17Fire hit.
21:18The next thing you know, he pulls away and wins by more lengths than anyone in the history of horse
21:24racing.
21:25Secretariat has opened the 20-2 length lead.
21:28He's going to be the difficult time winner.
21:31He didn't start off destroying the race, but by the end of the race, he had left every horse out
21:38there.
21:38That was the message.
21:39Once we get in position, we need to take advantage of it.
21:45Belichick was training his team to be the best, something one Patriot felt he may have already become.
21:54Well, Tommy always thought that he was the best at just about everything.
21:59Keep talking, Blake!
22:00I'm the best part of this team!
22:03Do you hear that?
22:04He'd always be getting on Belichick about letting him punt, you know, to show his athletic prowess.
22:11Other than just throwing the football.
22:17He wouldn't have got you.
22:19I'm the true punter on this team.
22:21Tell him bad.
22:23No, he's definitely not the best at that.
22:26He's definitely not the best athlete.
22:28He's not even the best looking on our team.
22:30He's just a quarterback.
22:33Now in his fourth season, Tom Brady was no longer just any quarterback.
22:39Hey, come here.
22:40I'm field guys, come here real quick.
22:41Tommy's development really was a rallying point for the whole team.
22:46You've got to be mentally right to go out there and play.
22:48You play for another 30 minutes, right?
22:50I know things are good, but you know what?
22:52They could turn the other way.
22:53We're in 2001.
22:55The team rallied around him to help pick up the slack.
22:59By this 2003 season, now they knew that any time we were in any situation,
23:05they had a quarterback that could win the game for them.
23:09He shoots it long and deep for Troy Brown.
23:12He's got it!
23:13He's got it!
23:14He's got it!
23:14He's got it!
23:14He's got it!
23:14He's got it!
23:15He's got it!
23:15He's got it!
23:15He's got it!
23:16He's got it!
23:16He's got it!
23:16He's got it!
23:17Touchdown!
23:17And the Patriots win in Auburn time!
23:20Brady was the hero of New England's win in Miami.
23:24When the Dolphins came to Foxborough, his offense was struggling.
23:30This was a game where we had an opportunity to start securing some playoff position.
23:37And we were playing just a stalemate effort.
23:42You're acting like you're down 20.
23:44You're acting like a person who wants to f***ing games out there.
23:47Now wake the f*** up!
23:48Quit making excuses!
23:50Play better ball!
23:51And shut the f*** up!
23:53Charlie Weiss' tirade did not exclude his star quarterback.
23:58You included!
24:00The offense would manage only a field goal.
24:03But given the opportunity, Brady found another way to help his team.
24:08Fourth and nine, Brady.
24:10Will Pooch put it himself?
24:12The ball bounces down to the five, to the two, to the one!
24:17No matter what fight, the Patriots push.
24:21It's perfect.
24:22The self-proclaimed best punter on the team set up a score.
24:28Back to throw, Fiedler on first down.
24:30Fires, intercepted, touchdown, Daniel Bruschi!
24:33He caught it at about the four or five yard line and just waltzed into the end zone.
24:38And the fans are throwing snow into the air.
24:46Most other places, they'd be firing snowballs on the field.
24:50They were just throwing it up in the air.
24:51Snow is flying everywhere!
24:53As long as they don't throw it in the air!
24:57That's where the kid comes out in us.
25:00You know, we want to do that to the game, go up and throw some snow with them, you know,
25:04and celebrate it.
25:10When the snow cleared, the Patriots were the AFC East champions.
25:24As winter progressed, Lacek all season remained the memory of his team's week one horror show loss in Buffalo.
25:33He brought it up after New England's 11th straight win as the season finale loomed against the Bills.
25:41Need a big push this week.
25:43These guys got us pretty good.
25:45Okay?
25:47You don't always get a chance to settle the score during the season.
25:50Okay, we got this one.
25:52We're going to need to take advantage of it this week.
25:54For a team that at this time was sitting at 13-2,
25:58you know, getting beat 31-0 isn't exactly the way that we expected this season to start.
26:03But we knew one thing, it was going to end differently than it started.
26:18The Patriots built a 31-0 lead.
26:24With less than a minute to play,
26:27backup players from both teams were in
26:29as the Bills were on the verge of scoring.
26:32The bulk of New England's goal line defense returned to the field.
26:37The shutout was important because they shut us out.
26:40And trust me, when they had their foot on the gas paddle,
26:43they didn't let off.
26:45So we didn't want to let off.
26:59It wasn't until you got in the locker room after the game
27:02that you realized that that score was the same,
27:05the reverse of the score that we had opened up the season with.
27:10Payback.
27:11Payback.
27:12Same score, baby.
27:13That's what we like.
27:15Same thing, same thing.
27:17That's a way to finish on a great note.
27:20The end of a 6-10 season prompted Buffalo to fire its head coach,
27:25Greg Williams.
27:27Searching for his replacement,
27:29the Bills targeted Charlie Weiss.
27:33If you're in the playoffs,
27:35you get a small window if you have a bye week
27:38where you can go ahead and interview for jobs.
27:42Of course, you can't get those jobs until your year was over.
27:47Because no one from the organization can offer you a job,
27:50other people that are not working for the organization
27:53relay messages about where you stand.
27:57You know, are you second?
27:58Are you first?
27:59Are you not in the running?
28:01The day of New England's playoff game against Tennessee,
28:05Weiss received an update on his candidacy with the Bills.
28:10Somebody close to the organization called me up and said,
28:13well, Weiss, here's your situation.
28:15You know, if you lose this game,
28:19there's a good chance that you're going to be in Buffalo
28:21and be the head coach.
28:24If you win the game,
28:26there's a good chance that they're moving on.
28:29Weiss's career advancement would wait
28:31as New England's playoff march continued
28:34on the coldest night in Foxborough history.
28:38I can't feel my hands or feet, man.
28:40I'm freaking out.
28:43I tell you, it was brutally cold.
28:45I'm talking about your worst enemy.
28:47You wouldn't want them to stay out there for two or three hours.
28:50It was.
28:51They even told people, don't come out, you know, to the game.
28:54If you had heart problems or you were older
28:57or whatever the case may be,
28:58it was like, stay in the house.
28:59It's too cold.
29:00On their first possession,
29:03the Patriots warm the crowd.
29:05Time.
29:05Fires down the middle.
29:07It's good.
29:08Touchdown, the NFL Johnson.
29:11Leading by three with less than two minutes to play,
29:14the Patriots needed to prevent Tennessee
29:17from driving into range for a game-tying field goal.
29:214-12, Patriots 42-yard line.
29:24The Patriots defense has to make one more play.
29:27To ice the game, Rodney Harrison brought the heat.
29:33McHair takes the snap.
29:35I remember his eyes getting big as I was coming at him.
29:37And I hit him.
29:38And I remember him saying, oh, when I hit him.
29:43And he just threw that ball up.
29:44And I just turned around.
29:46And I just said, please, please, please, somebody knock this down.
29:50He lets it go.
29:51And it is called.
29:54Incomplete.
29:55Incomplete.
29:56We're the Patriots.
29:57We're the best.
29:58We live another week.
30:03Titans really always came close to being champions.
30:10They just never did it.
30:15Normally after a game, you get in the locker room and then you can feel everything start to thaw.
30:21I can tell you it wasn't until the next morning where I can feel those toes move around a little
30:26bit.
30:26I can't feel my toes.
30:28I can't feel my fingers.
30:29I can't feel my knees.
30:31I can't feel my back.
30:33Man.
30:35This is the coolest thing I've ever been in my life, man.
30:37Ever.
30:39Tuesday at one.
30:41And we're getting ready for the AFC championship.
30:45Damon Hewitt.
30:49One of the coaches on our staff, he kind of gave a heads up to Damon on how Peyton operated
30:56it.
31:00Damon did a good job of emulating Peyton Manning.
31:04All the signs and the checks.
31:07The signals.
31:09The walking back from under center to shotgun.
31:15He should have got an Oscar for it.
31:17He just sounded like him a little bit.
31:19Disco, disco.
31:21255.
31:21Disco, disco.
31:23238.
31:24Other than the fact that it wasn't Peyton's body, you know, you would have thought it was Peyton playing in
31:29practice every day.
31:32That Sunday, the Patriots made the real Peyton Manning look like a third-string quarterback.
31:40The end zone.
31:41Intercepted in the end zone from the AFC.
31:55We weren't surprised by what Peyton was doing at the line of scrimmage.
32:00That really gave us confidence because we were able to move around and disguise and switch.
32:07Peyton couldn't get a clear fix, you know, if we're playing too deep coverage, if we're blitzing or what.
32:14Peyton takes the pass.
32:16Here comes the pressure.
32:17He throws it to the sideline.
32:21Four interceptions of Peyton Manning today.
32:23And the Patriots are heading back to the Super Bowl.
32:29Here we go, baby.
32:33Hey, Rodney.
32:38You did it.
32:39You did it.
32:44Rodney Harrison was heading to the Super Bowl.
32:47Just ten months after some said, he was washed up.
32:52Belichick, out of all the coaches in the league, he was one guy that looked at me.
32:57He never asked me, are you hurt?
32:58How do you feel?
32:59Can you still run?
33:00Can you still play?
33:01Hey, he said, you know what?
33:02I know what you can do.
33:06We got you.
33:09We got you.
33:10Thank you for believing in me.
33:11Oh, you bet.
33:12Yeah.
33:13You know.
33:13You know.
33:14I see.
33:15We got one more now.
33:16Yes, sir.
33:16Hey!
33:18It just, it worked out.
33:21And I was proud of it.
33:24The plan to sign Harrison was a success.
33:28So was the plan to stop Manny.
33:32One of the most valuable players on the field today didn't play one snap.
33:36But he had as much to do with us winning that game as anybody, and that's Damon Heward.
33:39That was a hell of a job.
33:43The AFC title celebration was capped by Heward's moment.
33:47That was awesome.
33:48Two days later, New England's starting quarterback returned to the spotlight.
33:53This is a CBS News special report.
33:58I saw it on the news, and I was like, what?
34:02Brady's interested in politics now?
34:04It was just kind of funny, because I've seen him at, like, baseball games and courtside and basketball games.
34:10But to see him, you know, at the political office, guys ragged his tail the entire week, and they rolled
34:17him.
34:18Willie calls me a little bush now.
34:21So, they're always razzing me for something.
34:24The pregame laughter had faded by the morning of Super Bowl 38.
34:29By then, the final situation was clear.
34:34The championship was in sight.
34:37All right, and this is, this is what's coming up a lot.
34:45We had been just waiting so long, and then for him to do that was just like, he's teasing us.
34:51He's got it right here in front of us.
34:53All right, and if you think back to our season, no matter what a tough spot you've been in, the
34:59reason why you won was because you might not abide the situation.
35:04You heard the call, and you did your job.
35:09And I'll tell you, I will run through a brick wall when he made that speech.
35:14That's what I was ready to do, run through a brick wall.
35:16And I think I had 52 other guys ready to run through a brick wall.
35:20That's what happened.
35:42No sooner had New England and Carolina taken the field for Super Bowl 38 than their battle for the Lombardi
35:49Trophy began.
35:52We wasn't even in our introduction, and these guys are walking up, like, you know, to our sideline.
35:59A big melee, a big fight almost broke out.
36:02I ain't going nowhere.
36:03I ain't going nowhere.
36:05Let's sell this on the field.
36:06Don't get trashed up with them.
36:08Blue 87.
36:1026 scoreless.
36:12That Panthers team had a chip on their shoulder, and they were not supposed to be there.
36:20But they proved they belonged there.
36:23This minute, the team's exchange blows.
36:27Then, they began swapping points.
36:32Ready.
36:33Play action fake.
36:34Fire.
36:37Picks the snap.
36:39In the pocket he goes.
36:40Downfield.
36:41He throws it up for Steve Smith.
36:42And he's got it.
36:43Touchdown.
36:44Go.
36:44Let's answer right back now.
36:46Let's go.
36:48Let's answer right back.
36:55Touchdown.
36:56Touchdown.
36:57Let's even give it.
36:58Now we've got a football game.
37:00There wasn't no backing down from either side.
37:04We were both going at each other 100 miles an hour.
37:09They were giving it to us, and they were talking trash, and we was giving it to them.
37:13We was talking trash right back.
37:15And I tell anybody to this day, that was the most physical game I've ever played.
37:22The Patriots had not trailed in a game since week 12.
37:27Midway through the fourth quarter, they fell behind the Panthers.
37:32Touchdown, Carolina.
37:34Oh, my goodness.
37:3785 yards.
37:39Please let the world know my pistol to help.
37:41Oh, boy, this is called a Marvin Harrison and a little guy, but they don't want none of this.
37:45They don't want none of that.
37:47New England's offense answered strength with strength.
37:51Richard Seymour comes into the game, and Mike Bravo comes into the game.
37:55They were both projected in as eligible receivers.
37:59Seymour, the pullback off set right.
38:00Play action fake Brady.
38:02Fired.
38:02Touchdown.
38:04Take the end.
38:05Take the lead.
38:06New England led by seven with two minutes to play.
38:09But the Panthers refused to break.
38:16Deshaun Foster, he comes through the hole.
38:19I'd make a tackle, break my forearm.
38:24I stay in the next play.
38:27I push Moose and Muhammad out.
38:32And I just hear my forearm crack even more.
38:42It was the most agonizing pain that I've probably ever experienced.
38:47My arm is driving.
38:48My forearm is swollen up.
38:50It looks like three softballs are inside of it.
38:53They whisked me off the field into the x-ray room.
38:57I was screaming and yelling, get me to a television so I can see the game.
39:01The x-ray technicians, they turn their backs.
39:05And I happen to open up the door, and I sneak out.
39:09What did you do?
39:09Break your arms?
39:12In Harrison's absence, Carolina tied the score at 29.
39:17Fulton in the end zone.
39:18Wide open.
39:19Touchdown, Carolina.
39:20Now the only question is, have the Carolina Panthers left too much time on the clock?
39:25We're sitting here with 108 left to go.
39:27Okay, we got to finish the game.
39:29You got me?
39:29Regardless of situation, I don't care what it is.
39:33We'll finish the game off the next drive.
39:35You got me?
39:36You got me?
39:39I'm sitting over there sweating bullets, and Ty Law, he looked at me.
39:42He said, Rodney, we're not going to lose this game.
39:45You know why?
39:48Because we have Tom Brady.
39:51He'd already done it earlier in his career,
39:53so not once did it occur to me that we weren't going to score in this drive.
39:58It didn't even enter my mind.
40:01It was, are we going to be in field goal position and had him kick it,
40:04or are we going to score a touchdown?
40:06There's no more practice.
40:07There's no more meetings, man.
40:10This is it.
40:11This is the season right here.
40:14Direct snap to Brady.
40:15Rolls out to his left.
40:18Looking.
40:23Brady completed four straight passes to reach the Panthers' 23-yard line.
40:30And New England with eight seconds left to call a timeout.
40:33How about New England?
40:34It'll be about a 41-yard field goal attempt around a military.
40:47Men of the series.
40:50Stats on the road.
40:51Kick off.
40:52Kick is on the way.
40:53Kick is on!
40:55Kick is on!
41:08I mean, it was like, it was like a fairytale.
41:17And it doesn't matter.
41:19Here goes Larry Sinters, I'm pretty sure.
41:22You talk about an all-time great Super Bowl.
41:26So, let's start with this.
41:28It doesn't matter what title you have when you go into a Super Bowl.
41:32It doesn't matter if you're the underdog or you're the favorite.
41:36You just take it in like it never happened before.
41:42You know, when everyone rushes on the field, I do something a little different
41:46because I rush to stands to get my wife and kid.
41:49I remember just standing back a little bit from that stage
41:53and just being able to share those precious moments
41:57that you'll always remember the rest of your life.
42:08For the second time in three years,
42:12the Patriots lifted the Lombardi Trophy.
42:21This is everything.
42:23We waited so long.
42:24I waited 10 years for this.
42:26It's unbelievable.
42:27Best one in the world.
42:29This is what football is about.
42:30You can have Pro Bowls.
42:31You can have all pros.
42:33You can make a lot of money.
42:34But nothing beats that feeling at the end of the game
42:39when the confetti comes in your head
42:41knowing that you're a world champion.
42:42You can have Pro Bowls.
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