Patriots' super surge
INDIANAPOLIS — The New England Patriots don’t talk much about their 10-game winning streak, a long run of success that is highly unusual for anybody but hardly surprising for them.
Nobody is better than the Patriots at pulling off the super surge.
New England has taken more double-digit winning streaks into the Super Bowl than any other team. The Patriots (15-3) haven’t lost since Nov. 6, when they fell 24-20 to the New York Giants, the team they’ll face again on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium.
To put the streak in perspective, the Giants (12-7) didn’t win 10 games during the regular season.
And it’s not a fluke. This is the third time that the Patriots have reached the Super Bowl on a winning streak of at least 10 games, a measure of the way they’ve not only won but dominated down the stretch, when everything is on the line and opponents are just as desperate.
“It’s tough to do — very tough,” linebacker Jerod Mayo said Wednesday. “It’s tough to win one game in the NFL. They are tougher to win when a lot’s on the line as far as the playoffs are concerned.”
Tough, for sure, but it’s the Patriot way.
Of the 92 teams that have reached a Super Bowl, only a dozen have come into the game on a double-digit winning streak, according to STATS LLC
