After years of waiting Philadelphia can celebrate winning their first-ever Super Bowl victory. The game was a hard-fought battle with minimal defense being played for both teams. This game consisted of 2 power-house offenses squaring up against one another.
Here are some mind popping stats from the record-breaking Super Bowl.
—The 1,151 combined yards by the two teams is the most in any NFL game ever. The 74 combined points are the second-most ever in a Super Bowl.
—Tom Brady set a new Super Bowl record with 505 passing yards, breaking the record he set in last year’s win over the Falcons (466). Nick Foles threw for 373 yards, the fifth-most ever in a Super Bowl. He also broke the postseason record of 489 yards, set by Bernie Kosar in 1987.
—The Eagles are the fourth team in NFL history to win the Super Bowl after having a losing record the year prior, joining the 2001 Patriots, 1999 Rams, and 1981 49ers.
—The Patriots are the first team in NFL history to put up more than 600 yards of offense in a game and lose.
—Foles is the 28th quarterback to win the Super Bowl MVP award. He is also the 10th different quarterback to start and win a Super Bowl despite starting the season as a backup, and the first to do so since Tom Brady in Super Bowl 36.
—LeGarrette Blount and Chris Long are the third and fourth players in NFL history to win back-to-back Super Bowls with different teams, joining Deion Sanders and Ken Norton Jr.
—Brady is the first QB in NFL history with at least five passing touchdowns and zero interceptions in multiple postseasons. He has 10,226 career postseason passing yards. No other quarterback has more than 7,339.
—Blount now has 11 postseason rushing touchdowns, tied with Marcus Allen for the sixth-most in NFL postseason history.
—James White now has four touchdowns in the Super Bowl, tied for the third-most by any player ever. Only Jerry Rice (eight) and Emmitt Smith (five) have more.
—Corey Clement joins White as the only running backs with 100-plus receiving yards and a receiving touchdown in a postseason game since 1999.
—Rob Gronkowski now has 12 postseason receiving touchdowns, tied with John Stallworth for the second-most all-time. Only Jerry Rice (22) has more. Gronkowski also has three career receiving touchdowns in the Super Bowl, tied for the second-most in the game’s history.
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