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Super Bowl LI
New England Patriots
(AFC)		 Atlanta Falcons
(NFC)
DateFebruary 5, 2017
StadiumNRG Stadium, Houston, Texas
FavoritePatriots by 3[1]
RefereeCarl Cheffers[2]
Ceremonies
National anthemLuke Bryan
Coin tossPresident George H. W. Bush,
First Lady Barbara Bush
Halftime showLady Gaga[3]
TV in the United States
NetworkFox
AnnouncersJoe Buck (play-by-play)
Troy Aikman (analyst)
Erin Andrews and Chris Myers (sideline reporters)
Cost of 30-second commercial$5.02 million

Super Bowl LI will be the 51st Super Bowl and the 47th modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game. The American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots will play the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Atlanta Falcons to decide the league champion for the 2016 season.

Super Bowl LI is scheduled to be played at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas on Sunday, February 5, 2017.[4] It will be the second Super Bowl to be held at NRG Stadium, the other being Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004, which also featured the New England Patriots; and also the third time the Super Bowl has been played in Houston, after Super Bowl VIII in 1974 was held at Rice Stadium.

The event will mark the 50th anniversary year of the first Super Bowl, which was played on January 15, 1967. Super Bowl LI is the Patriots' ninth Super Bowl appearance, the most Super Bowl appearances of any team. It is also their second appearance in three years and their seventh under the leadership of head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. The Falcons are making their second appearance as a franchise and will have the chance to win their first Super Bowl, having lost in their only previous Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII.

The Super Bowl LI halftime show will be headlined by Lady Gaga.

Background

Host-selection process

NRG Stadium in January 2007

The NFL selected the sites for Super Bowl 50 and Super Bowl LI at the owners' spring meetings in Boston on May 21, 2013.[5] On October 16, 2012, the NFL announced that Reliant Stadium in Houston, which was renamed NRG Stadium in 2014, was a finalist to host Super Bowl LI.[6] Houston then competed against the runner-up for the site of Super Bowl 50: Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.[5][6] The South Florida bid for either Super Bowl partially depended on whether the stadium underwent renovations. However, on May 3, the Florida legislature refused to approve the funding plan to pay for the renovations, dealing a blow to South Florida's chances.[7] The NFL ultimately selected Houston as the host city of Super Bowl LI.[8]

Proposition 1 controversy

Proposition 1, an ordinance which would have prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in Houston's housing, employment, public accommodations, and city contracting, was rejected by voters (60.97% opposing[9]) during the November 3, 2015 elections. Subsequently, the NFL announced it will not alter plans to have the city host Super Bowl LI.[10][11] Houston Texans owner Bob McNair donated $10,000 to Campaign for Houston, an organization that opposes the ordinance, which he later rescinded. McNair has a long history of supporting conservative political causes.[12] Corporate sponsorship and entertainment backlash against Super Bowl LI still exist.[10]

Teams

New England Patriots

Main article: 2016 New England Patriots season

New England had recorded at least 12 wins in every year of the 2010s decade, and the 2016 season would be no different. Despite starting quarterback Tom Brady missing the first four games due to a suspension and the mid-season loss of All-Pro tight end Rob Gronkowski to injury, the Patriots still recorded an NFL-best 14–2 record with their only losses coming from the Buffalo Bills in Week 4 and the Seattle Seahawks in Week 10. They scored 441 points (third in the NFL) while allowing the fewest in the league (250).[13]

Brady missed the first four games of the year on suspension due to a 2014 postseason incident known as Deflategate. Jimmy Garoppolo and Jacoby Brissett each started two games in Brady's place. After his suspension ended, Brady took back command of the offense and went on to earn his 12th Pro Bowl selection, passing for 3,554 yards and 28 touchdowns, with only two interceptions. His 112.2 passer rating ranked second in the NFL. The team's leading receiver was Julian Edelman, who caught 98 passes for 1,106 yards and added 135 more returning punts. Wide receivers Chris Hogan (38 receptions for 680 yards) and Malcolm Mitchell (32 receptions for 401 yards) were also significant receiving threats. Gronkowski had caught 25 passes for 540 yards before suffering a season-ending back injury in the eighth game of the year. Tight end Martellus Bennett had stepped up in his absence, hauling in 55 receptions for 701 yards and a team-leading seven touchdown catches. Running back LeGarrette Blount was the team's top rusher with 1,168 yards and a league-leading 18 touchdowns. In passing situations, the team relied heavily on running back James White, who caught 60 passes for 551 yards and added another 166 on the ground.[14] Running back Dion Lewis was also a valuable asset to the offense, rushing for 283 yards on offense and catching 17 passes for 94 yards.

Despite trading All-Pro outside linebacker Jamie Collins to the Cleveland Browns in the middle of the season, the Patriots defensive line was led by tackle Trey Flowers, who ranked first on the team with seven quarterback sacks, and Jabaal Sheard, who recorded five sacks of his own. Linebacker Dont'a Hightower earned his first Pro Bowl selection and made the second All-Pro team, compiling 65 tackles and 2½ sacks. Linebacker Rob Ninkovich also made a big impact, recording 34 tackles, two forced fumbles, and four sacks. In the secondary, cornerback Malcolm Butler led the team with four interceptions, while Logan Ryan led the team in tackles and intercepted two passes. Safety Devin McCourty ranked second on the team with 83 tackles and notched one interception while earning his third career Pro Bowl selection. The team also had a defensive expert on special teams, Matthew Slater, who made the Pro Bowl for the sixth consecutive year.

By advancing to play in Super Bowl LI, the Patriots earned their NFL-record ninth Super Bowl appearance, as well as their seventh in the last 16 years under Brady and head coach Bill Belichick. The Patriots have also participated only other Super Bowl to be held at NRG Stadium; they won Super Bowl XXXVIII over the Carolina Panthers by a 32–29 score thirteen years earlier. The Patriots have a record of 4–4 in their previous Super Bowl appearances, and 4–2 under the leadership of Belichick and Brady.

With his appearance in Super Bowl LI, Belichick will break the tie of six Super Bowls as a head coach that he shared with Don Shula. It will be his record tenth participation in a Super Bowl in any capacity that overtook the mark of nine that he shared with Dan Reeves. This will also be Brady's seventh Super Bowl appearance, the most appearances by a player at any position in Super Bowl history.

Atlanta Falcons

Main article: 2016 Atlanta Falcons season

The Atlanta Falcons, under second-year head coach Dan Quinn, finished the 2016 season with an 11–5 record, earning them the #2 seed in the NFC playoffs. It was a big reversal of declining fortunes for the team, who had failed to qualify to play in the playoffs in each of the last three seasons.[15]

The Falcons were loaded with offensive firepower, leading all NFL teams in scoring with 540 points. Nine-year veteran quarterback Matt Ryan earned his fourth career Pro Bowl selection, leading the league in passer rating (117.1). While he ranked only ninth in completions (373), his passing yards (4,944) and touchdowns (38) both ranked second in the NFL. His favorite target was receiver Julio Jones, who caught 83 passes for 1,409 yards (second in the NFL) and six touchdowns. But Ryan had plenty of other options, such as newly acquired wide receivers Mohamed Sanu (59 receptions for 653 yards) and Taylor Gabriel (35 receptions for 579 yards and six touchdowns). Pro Bowl running back Devonta Freeman was the team's leading rusher, with 1,078 yards, 11 touchdowns, and 4.8 yards per rush. He was also a superb receiver out of the backfield, catching 54 passes for 462 yards and two more scores. Running back Tevin Coleman was also a major asset on the ground and through the air, with 520 rushing yards, 31 receptions for 421 yards, and 11 total touchdowns. The Falcons also had an excellent special teams unit led by veteran kick returner Eric Weems. His 24 punt returns for 273 yards gave him the sixth highest return average in the NFL (11.4), and he added another 391 yards returning kickoffs. Pro Bowl kicker Matt Bryant led the league in scoring with 158 points, while also ranking third in field goal percentage (91.8%). Atlanta's offensive line featured center Alex Mack, who earned his fourth Pro Bowl selection.[16]

The Falcons defensive line was led by defensive ends Adrian Clayborn, who recorded five sacks and a fumble recovery, and long-time veteran Dwight Freeney, who ranks as the NFL's 18th all time leader in sacks (122½). Behind them, linebacker Vic Beasley was the team's only Pro Bowl selection on defense, leading the NFL in sacks with 15½; Beasley also forced six fumbles. Rookie linebacker Deion Jones was also an impact player, leading the team in combined tackles (108) and interceptions (three). The Falcons secondary featured hard-hitting safety Keanu Neal, who had 106 tackles and forced five fumbles. Safety Ricardo Allen added 90 tackles and two interceptions. But overall, the defense ranked just 27th in the league in points allowed (406).[16]

This game marks the Falcons' second Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, after having lost Super Bowl XXXIII in January 1999 to the Denver Broncos.

Playoffs

Main article: 2016–17 NFL playoffs

The Patriots, with the AFC's #1 seed, began their postseason run by defeating the Houston Texans in the Divisional Round, 34–16. The next week, the Patriots defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game, 36–17, in what was the third AFC Championship Game matchup between the two teams (the other two matchups occurred after the 2001 and 2004 seasons and both were also won by the Patriots).

The Falcons, with the NFC's #2 seed, began their postseason run by defeating the Seattle Seahawks in the Divisional Round, 36–20, racking up 422 yards. The next week, in the last NFL game ever played at the Georgia Dome, they defeated the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game, 44–21, racking up 493 yards.

Pre-game notes

As the designated home team in the annual rotation between AFC and NFC teams, the Falcons elected to wear their red home jerseys with white pants,[17][18] which meant that the Patriots will wear their white road jerseys.[17]The game is set to feature Atlanta's #1 scoring offense versus New England's #1 scoring defense. This will be the sixth Super Bowl since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to feature a #1 scoring offense against a #1 scoring defense, with the team with the #1 scoring defense winning four of the previous five matchups.[19][20]

Houston Super Bowl Host Committee

The Houston Super Bowl Host Committee is the centralized planning entity for Super Bowl LI and acts as the liaison between the National Football League (NFL), the city of Houston, Harris County, Texas and the local community. The Host Committee is a private non-profit 501(c)(6) Texas corporation, and is responsible for Super Bowl LI festivities and logistics. The Houston Super Bowl Host Committee is led by Honorary Chairman James A. Baker, III, Chairman Ric Campo, and President and CEO Sallie Sargent.[21] Four countdown clocks have been installed around the City of Houston to countdown the days until Super Bowl LI. The LED screen shows the number of days until kickoff and displays other important messages related to preparations for Super Bowl LI. The countdown clocks are located at NRG Stadium, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, William P. Hobby Airport, and Discovery Green.[22]

Super Bowl LIVE is a fan festival that will run from January 28 until February 5 in downtown Houston centered in and around Discovery Green. Super Bowl LIVE is a free event with food, music, entertainment, attractions, and more to allow the whole city to experience the excitement of Super Bowl LI without a ticket to the game. More than one million people are expected to attend the event.[23] The Touchdown Tour is a way to excite the Houston community about the 2016-2017 football season culminating in Super Bowl LI. These are free events located around the City of Houston with music, food, entertainment, and interactive games. The first Touchdown Tour occurred at Space Center Houston on August 27, 2016.[24] The second Touchdown Tour occurred in Sugar Land at Constellation Field on September 2, 2016.[25]

Volunteers are crucial to the success of Super Bowl LI. The committee will utilize up to 10,000 volunteers during the 10-day period leading up to Super Bowl LI.[26] On August 22, 2016, the recruitment center opened to begin the process of interviewing all volunteer applicants. More than 15,000 individuals will be interviewed to create the 10,000-person volunteer team needed to assist in the events leading up to Super Bowl LI and be ambassadors of the Houston region.[27]

Business Connect is a program designed to provide minority, female, LGBT, and disabled veteran-owned businesses opportunities to bid for contracts on events related to Super Bowl LI.[28] Super Bowl LI Business Connect is a partnership between the National Football League and the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee to link diverse Houston area suppliers to contracting opportunities related to Super Bowl LI. The program’s intent is to provide networking, educational and other business development opportunities to encourage greater business success for each participant.

Touchdown Houston is the Host Committee’s charitable giving program committed to donating $4 million to Houston region non-profit organizations. The program focuses on three key areas: education, health and wellness, and community enhancement.[29]

TD is the mascot for the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee. TD wears a football jersey with the number “51” to represent Super Bowl LI. He can be found at a majority of the Houston Super Bowl Host Committee’s events as well as other events leading up to the game.[30]

Team facilities

The Patriots will be staying at the JW Marriott Galeria and practicing at the University of Houston. The Falcons will be staying at the Westin Houston Memorial City and practicing at Rice University.[31]

Broadcasting

U.S. television

In the United States, Super Bowl LI will be televised by Fox, as part of a cycle between the three main broadcast television partners of the NFL.[32][33] Fox Sports will produce a dedicated Spanish-language broadcast for its cable network Fox Deportes.[34][35][36] On January 12, 2017, Fox announced that it planned to introduce a new feature known as Be the Player, which will allow the presentation of instant replays from the first-person perspective of a player. The system will utilize technology co-developed by Intel, which uses an array of 38 cameras installed around the stadium to reconstruct a player perspective without requiring them to be equipped with cameras themselves.[37]

Advertising

Fox set the base rate for a 30-second commercial at $5 million, the same rate CBS charged for Super Bowl 50.[38] Snickers announced that for the first time in Super Bowl history, it would present a live commercial during the game.[38] Nintendo will broadcast an ad showcasing its upcoming Nintendo Switch video game console.[39]

International broadcasts

Rights holder(s)
 Australia Seven Network, ESPN[40]
 Canada CTV, CTV Two, TSN[41]
 Ireland Sky Sports[42][citation needed]
 Philippines ABS-CBN Sports and Action[43]
 United Kingdom BBC, Sky Sports[42][44][45]

Canadian broadcast

Canadian broadcast rights to Super Bowl LI have been subject to legal controversies; although U.S. network affiliates are carried by pay TV providers in Canada, federal law require these signals to be substituted with those from Canadian broadcast stations ("simsub") if they are carrying the same program in simulcast with a U.S. station. In 2016, as part of a larger series of regulatory reforms, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) banned the Super Bowl from being substituted under these circumstances, thus allowing clean U.S. feeds of the game to co-exist with the feeds provided by CTV, which simulcasts the U.S. feed with Canadian advertising inserted. The CRTC cited dissatisfaction surrounding the practice from Canadian viewers—particularly the unavailability of the U.S. commercials, which the CRTC considered to be an "integral part" of the game. The NFL's Canadian rightsholder Bell Media, as well as the league itself, have displayed objections to the policy; Bell felt that the decision devalued its exclusive Canadian rights to the game, and violated Canada's Broadcasting Act, which forbids the "making of regulations singling out a particular program or licensee." If the ruling is not overturned, Super Bowl LI will be the first to fall under this revised policy.[46] On November 2, 2016, Bell was granted the right to challenge the ruling in the Federal Court of Appeal.[47] Bell, the NFL, and government representatives from both Canada and the U.S., have lobbied the CRTC for the rule to be retracted.[48]

The simsub prohibition will only apply to the game itself, and not pre-game or post-game programming (which will be simulcast with Fox and subject to simsub). Prior to the game, Bell announced that Super Bowl LI would be simulcast across its CTV, CTV Two and TSN networks, feature a special presentation of Letterkenny (a comedy series produced for Bell's subscription video-on-demand service CraveTV) as a lead-out, and that CTV would present keywords throughout the telecast to grant entries into a sponsored sweepstakes awarding cash and automobile prizes.[49][41] Montreal Gazette media analyst Steve Faguy felt that these promotions were an attempt to offset potential losses in viewership to the clean U.S. feed by carrying the game across several of its properties (thus increasing the likelihood that a viewer would watch the game via a Bell-owned channel via saturation), and providing incentives for viewers to watch the game on CTV instead of Fox. Faguy further pointed Bell still had effective exclusivity for streaming Super Bowl LI on digital platforms in Canada as part of its rights, as Fox's online stream is only available to U.S. users.[49] Bell Media cited the decision, among other factors, as justification for a planned series of layoffs it announced on January 31, 2017.[50]

Radio

In the U.S., Westwood One will carry the broadcast nationwide, with Kevin Harlan on play-by-play, Boomer Esiason on color commentary, and sideline reports from Tony Boselli and James Lofton.[51] The Westwood One broadcast will be simulcast in Canada on TSN Radio.[52] Each team's network flagship station will carry the local feed, WBZ-FM for the Patriots, and WZGC for the Falcons; under the league's contract with Westwood One, no other stations in the teams' usual radio networks will be allowed to carry the local broadcast, and unlike in recent years when at least one of the two flagships was a clear-channel station, both the Patriots and Falcons use FM radio stations as their local flagships, limiting listenership to those within the local metropolitan areas.

Spanish-language radio rights are held by Entravision as part of a three-year agreement signed in 2015. Erwin Higueros will serve as the play-by-play announcer.[53]

The United Kingdom's BBC Radio 5 Live will again produce a commercial-free broadcast, with Darren Fletcher and Rocky Boiman returning.[54]

Entertainment

Pre-game

On January 22, 2017, it was announced that American country music singer and songwriter Luke Bryan will sing the national anthem.[55] Bryan will be the first male performer to sing the national anthem at a Super Bowl since Billy Joel performed the anthem at Super Bowl XLI. On January 27, 2017, it was announced that Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry and Jasmine Cephas Jones, who originated the roles of the Schuyler sisters in the Broadway musical Hamilton, would be performing "America the Beautiful" before the game.[56]

Halftime show

Main article: Super Bowl LI halftime show

On September 29, 2016, Lady Gaga, who had performed the national anthem the previous year at Super Bowl 50, confirmed that she would be performing at the Super Bowl LI halftime show on her Instagram account with the message: "It's not an illusion. The rumors are true. This year the SUPER BOWL goes GAGA!"[57] Fox Sports president and executive producer of the show, John Entz, confirmed Gaga's involvement adding "[She] is one of the most electric performers of our generation, and we couldn't be happier with the choice to have her headline the Super Bowl LI Halftime Show... It is going to be an incredible night."[58]

Game summary

Box score

New England Patriots vs Atlanta Falcons – Game summary
Period 1 2 34Total
Patriots 0 0 000
Falcons 0 0 000

at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas

Game information

Final statistics

Statistical comparison

Statistic New England Patriots Atlanta Falcons
First downs
First downs rushing
First downs passing
First downs penalty
Third down efficiency
Fourth down efficiency
Total net yards
Net yards rushing
Rushing attempts
Yards per rush
Net yards passing
Passing – completions/attempts
Times sacked-total yards
Interceptions thrown
Punt returns-total yards
Kickoff returns-total yards
Interceptions-total return yards
Punts-average yardage
Fumbles-lost
Penalties-yards
Time of possession
Turnovers
Records set
Records tied

Individual statistics

Patriots passing
C/ATT1 Yds TD INT
Patriots rushing
Car2 Yds TD LG3
Patriots receiving
Rec4 Yds TD LG3
Falcons passing
C/ATT1 Yds TD INT
Falcons rushing
Car2 Yds TD LG3
Falcons receiving
Rec4 Yds TD LG3

1Completions/attempts
2Carries
3Long gain
4Receptions

Starting lineups

New England Position Atlanta
Offense
LT
LG
C
RG
RT
WR
WR
TE
QB
RB
FB
Defense
DE
DT
DT
DE
OLB
ILB
OLB
CB
SS
FS
CB

Officials

Super Bowl LI will have eight officials.[2] The numbers in parentheses below indicate their uniform numbers.

  • Referee: Carl Cheffers (51)
  • Umpire: Dan Ferrell (64)
  • Head linesman: Kent Payne (79)
  • Line judge: Jeff Seeman (45)
  • Field judge: Doug Rosenbaum (67)
  • Side judge: Dyrol Prioleau (109)
  • Back judge: Todd Prukop (30)
  • Replay official: Tom Sifferman

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