Misconduct | What was your favorite Super Bowl?

The section where journalists from the Sports de The Press answer a question with pleasure.

Nicholas Richard

The 2017 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons is not only the greatest Super Bowl in history, but also one of the greatest moments in sports history. Growing up in a family where the Patriots were a religion, it was only natural that I was going to watch this final at home. This Super Bowl is the best of all time, because it brings together everything we love about football: a turnaround, suspense, exceptional quality of play and Tom Brady who ends the game with a t-shirt of champion. At that time, the Pats were at their peak. Nevertheless, my morale was flat at half-time. Nothing was working. My father, stoic, had not lost hope, contrary to the author of these lines. “It’s Tom. Let him go. It’s never over. As a matter of fact, I jumped when Julian Edelman picked up the ball a centimeter from the ground. I watched the entire overtime standing. When James White crossed the goal line in overtime, I knew we had just experienced something that would go down in history.

Richard Labbe

I will answer this glorious question in two parts. One, as a supporter; Once upon a time, when I was young, we gathered in a gang at the famous Champs bar on Saint-Laurent Boulevard, watching the big game while drinking too much cheap beer and swallowing too many lukewarm hot dogs. In this category, the most fabulous game was Super Bowl XXX, when the Dallas Cowboys dynasty collected their third title in four years (a record that still stands, if you don’t take into account the Patriots). Above all, this poetic triumph occurred against the Pittsburgh Steelers, which adds a layer of euphoria. Perhaps the greatest moment of my life, just after the birth of my children, and then precisely, my other great moment, I lived it with the children on the spot, in person, having had the privilege of covering 11 times the Super Bowl for The Press. I remember the last one, the XLIV, because my little boys were there too, under the palm trees, rolling their Lightning McQueen cars in the sand while I wrote about the Saints and the Colts. Thank you, boys, I love you.

Guillaume Lefrancois

Let us agree: the Super Bowl XL, won 21-10 by the Steelers against the Seahawks, will never go down in history for the quality of the show. But this February 5, 2006 was my third day of work in the media, at Radio-Canada. The mandate was to feed the sports section of the website. It was basically my training weekend and my trainer was Jean-François Tremblay, who now leads our Sports section in The Press. He was taking care of the Super Bowl, while I was writing a few lines on the other news that was coming out and which was obviously happening in a vacuum. My specific recollection is of suggesting the title “With a little help from my friends” to JF, in order to underline in broad strokes that the Steelers’ best passer in that victory had been receiver Antwaan Randle El. Ben Roethlisberger had delivered what remains to this day the worst performance by a game-winning quarterback in Super Bowl history. Confession: I was not a fan of Roethlisberger. JF took my suggestion, but the desk changed the title the next day, breaking our hearts. Be that as it may, JF’s open-mindedness at the time is the antithesis of the rigid, uncompromising and angry torturer he was to become as boss.

Justin Vezina

1^er February 2015. Tom Brady and his New England Patriots face off against the Seattle Seahawks and Russell Wilson. The table was set for one of the most thrilling duels, and here I’m not just talking about the traditional buffet that my mother had prepared for the family. Nobody disappoints expectations, except for a poor shark who gets lost in his – to my surprise – Katy Perry-quality concert choreography. I try to get over it by stuffing myself with chicken wings, but I hadn’t finished eating my emotions. The Seahawks orchestrate an offensive push late in the fourth quarter and are now one yard from the end zone with 26 seconds to go. They need a middle finger to win. With three tries to get the small missing rod, a formality with Marshawn Lynch in control of the ground game, Wilson decides to try a pass to Ricardo Lockette. Bravo for the audacity, but Malcolm Butler intercepts the pass and confirms the victory of the Patriots, 28-24. It ended a 10-year Super Bowl drought for the Pats and breathed new life into Brady, who won three of the next six championships.

Jean-Francois Tremblay

My favorite Super Bowl was in 2021, Tom Brady’s famous victory in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniform. In addition to this victory, which allowed Brady to emancipate himself from the genius of Bill Belichick forever, it was also the first time that the Super Bowl was made a family event for the Tremblays. Visit to local butcher shop, purchase of sausages, ribs, potato salad, with some guacamole on top. It was the first time I could experience the Super Bowl with my two children as I would with my group of friends (without the beer for everyone, of course). The result of the match becomes very secondary when it becomes above all the perfect opportunity to spend some father-son time.