Deal with fan gives Pats Super Bowl (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
"I don't know why the fuck God would want to make a deal like that," said the fan, "but I'm not going to question God's ways. Not with the fucking Super Bowl on the line."
According to the fan, he first heard what was later identified as God's voice right after Tom Brady threw the go-ahead touchdown. "I shout out 'Oh my God! We're going to win!' " he said. "And then I hear this voice in my head and it goes: 'You win only if I say you win."
"And I'm like: 'Who the fuck are you?' And that's when the voice goes: 'I am God.' And then it goes 'Remember the head catch!'
"And I'm scared, partly because I've got a voice talking in my head and partly because I'm looking at the picture that's burned into my brain of David Tyree, a Giants player who nobody ever fucking heard of before or since the '94 Super Bowl, killing the Pats by catching the ball against his head in the last minute of the game. And against Rodney Harrison. How is that fucking possible?
"And the voice goes: 'With God and the Super Bowl, all things are possible.'
"And I go: 'What do you want?' And the voice goes: 'Make me an offer.'
"So I'm really freaked out but I do what any Pats fan would do: I offer my first born son.
"But the voice says, no. It says that it's got too many first born sons to even count. Which is lucky, because I really love my kid. But you know, it is the Super Bowl. And he's a Pats fan, so he'd have understood.
"I'm trying to figure out what I can offer, and the voice keeps telling me what's going to happen on the next play, and keeps calling them exactly, and making demands, and then we're back and forth negotiating, and I find out I'm negotiating against some goddamn Seattle fan, and I end up offering to have God dump a ridiculous shitload of snow if the Pats win, and the voice says 'Done!' and Malcolm Butler intercepts and it's over!
"We win!!!
"To anyone who's not a Pats fan, and has to suffer through the snow and doesn't give a shit who won the Super Bowl, I did the best I could.
"I'm sorry, but God drives a hard bargain.
"To all the rest of you: Go Pats!"