There are other important things to post (the "man-made global warming" hoax continues to collapse — massively — for one thing), we'll get to those, but it would seem a bit tone-deaf to write anything today without first mentioning the New England Patriots and their true Most Valuable Player, 68-year-old offensive line coach (and former assistant head coach) Dante Scarnecchia, who retired as boss of New England's offensive line in 2014 but was coaxed out of retirement by Bill Belichick after the Patriots' dismal loss in last year's AFC Championship Game, in which New England's offensive line was mercilessly pushed around by the Denver Broncos' pass rush.

During the first half of Sunday's Super Bowl, Atlanta's muscular, physical, defensive front four also came at Tom Brady from all sides, forced him to scramble, hit him from the side as he threw, sacked him, body-slammed Patriots all over the field. Those guys have got arms like the thighs of normal humans; they deserve a little more credit than they've been getting today; they're young and they'll presumably be back, having learned that playing a great 47 minutes of football isn't quite enough.