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‘Sound FX’: Best of Super Bowl LI Is Awesome!

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Listen as the New England Patriots and Atlanta Falcons are mic’d up for the best sounds from Super Bowl LI.

Source: ‘Sound FX’: Best of Super Bowl LI | New England Patriots

One of the best parts of winning the Super Bowl is that you get to watch all the end-of-year videos like Sound FX and Turning Point without getting sick because that your team is the one featured! I’ve been savoring the week, just letting what occurred in Super Bowl 51 sink in. I’m still in shock and after watching Sound FX, reality is finally setting in.

Miked up during the Super Bowl for the Pats were Julian Edelman, LeGarrette Blount and Dont’a Hightower and it was full of great moments. Edelman’s intensity is pretty legendary, with my favorite part being at the end when the confetti is falling and everyone is storming the field yet Edelman is yelling at everyone that there’s still time on the clock. It finally takes Belichick to convince him, which is one of the rarest of occurrences — Bill Belichick telling someone to “chill bro”.

Full Version!

51 from Pat Pat on Vimeo.

Mohamed Sanu has plenty of screen time too, with supreme confidence throughout the game. He gets under your skin pretty good and I wish there was one last shot of him after the Patriots won. That was a payoff missed. But Sanu should’ve been confident, they were an awesome offense that wasn’t often stopped, but Taylor Gabriel has to remind him it’s Tom Brady.  The best part was when Sanu was at first sure that Edelman didn’t make his miraculous catch, only to change his tune to “I knew he got it” moments later.

Sanu embodied the shock the entire Falcons teams must’ve been feeling as the game slipped away. You could see it on all their faces, despite coach Dan Quinn trying to keep everyone focused on finishing.

One other favorite part was Matthew Slater reminding a select group of Pats vets of their respective journeys to this exact moment. Easy to see why they were all ready to run through a wall.

After fumbling early in the game, Blount’s role in the show was reduced to sweating things out mostly on the sideline, hoping he wouldn’t be one of the scapegoats if the Pats couldn’t mount a comeback.

Sound FX also did a great job capturing the epic final defensive stand by the Patriots, where they willed the Falcons back out of field goal range and forced a punt to set up the game-tying drive. The magnitude of that drive is still sinking in for me. After studying this defense for so long, that was the series of a legendary defense. To see them come of age like that was incredible.

Hightower’s first down tackle of Marshawn Lynch then Malcolm Butler‘s interception of Russell Wilson to seal Super Bowl 49 were amazing plays, but this was a four-possession stretch where the Patriots defense took over the game. Would one of the early 2010’s defense been able to do that? No way.

The Patriots unwavering focus was on full display in this game. Edelman was telling everyone who would listen “it’ll be a helluva story”. I’m sure there have been plenty of teams that were in big holes that thought they’d write “a helluva story” but the 2016 Patriots are one who actually wrote that helluva story.

The full hour version isn’t available online yet, but I’ll be sure to share it once it’s posted.