The NFL Thread 2015: Denver Broncos win Super Bowl 50

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noname2200 said:

MTZehvor said:
So ESPN posted a transcript of what happened at the coin toss. It seems like Matthew Slater thought that the ref was asking him what side of the field he wanted to defend...

Blakeman: "Heads is the call."

Blakeman: "It is heads."

Blakeman: "You want to kick?"

Slater: "We want to kick, that way."

Slater: "Hey, we won. Don't we get to choose?"

Blakeman (mic off): "You elected to kick."

...that's one way to lose a game.

See, at least Cousins can rightfully claim that his idiocy was a panic move, and it didn't cost him the game.

Slater did what Belichick said to do, he according to post-game question, he asked BB 3 times.

 

Slater says Belichick told refs before captains went to midfield that Patriots wanted to kick.

— Doug Kyed (@DougKyed) December 27, 2015