Murphy’s Law does the Patriots in

Ugh It is an experience common to all men to find that, on any special occasion, such as the production of a magical effect for the first time in public, everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Whether we must attribute this to the malignity of matter or to the total depravity of inanimate things, whether the exciting cause is hurry, worry, or what not, the fact remains. I was looking for some way to describe the end of the New England Patriots season. A season ago when it ended in Indianapolis at the Super Bowl, it was easy to point to “The drop”. With the Patriots having an opportunity to put the game away, Tom Brady fired to Wes Welker in the seam. Whose fault it was would become a topic of conversation for almost a year, essentially ending today. The fact of the matter is that it was credited as a drop in the score-sheet, Eli Manning got the ball back and drove the New York Giants down the field for the game-winning score. In the end the Giants were the better team that day ...