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CNN Live At Daybreak

New England Patriots Win Super Bowl XXXVI

Aired February 04, 2002 - 06:52   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Let's talk about the Super Bowl and New England. You know it seemed like no one believed in the Patriots but themselves, and that was certainly all they needed.

Here's CNN's Josie Karp on the not-so-improbable success of the New England Patriots.

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JOSIE KARP, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Every second, every player, every foot, the Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI the way they won all season, from Andruzzi to Vinatieri, they emphasized solidarity and ignored individuality.

TOM BRADY, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS QUARTERBACK: The belief in one another, the belief in each other, the belief in, you know, the goals, it's awesome. It's a different -- you know it's a different belief.

ADAM VINATIERI, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: You can look in a dictionary and they need to change whatever the definition of team is, they need to put our picture in there because we have a lot of guys that didn't really care that much for their own stats or their own well being, they just cared about this team.

TERRELL BUCKLEY, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: You have to have a little bit of luck, but for the most part, we had depth and we had good players playing.

KARP: In a Super Bowl delayed by terrorism, in a game enveloped by the power of pain, in a season of personal trauma and triumph, this seemed planned from the start, Patriots win.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You don't want to be known as a team of destiny because it's sort of -- it's sort of counting on something else to win football games, but it was in the back of my mind. It was in the back of my mind, to tell you the truth.

RICHARD SEYMOUR, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: It's a storybook ending, you know being a Patriots, you know being -- going through the tragedies that we faced and you know just being a patriotic team, you know I think it kind of fits.

VINATIERI: Looking back at it with all the things that have happened this year, being the New England Patriots and what that means, red, white and blue, all the stuff, you know it's just, I don't want to say destiny, but I do look down -- I do look at it and say there was something there that was -- that was helping us out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: America is about patriotism and it was founded on patriots being the underdog and having to -- having to make their own country. And here we were the New England Patriots, the underdog, against the -- against the huge -- the Goliath, St. Louis Rams.

KARP (on camera): Before the game started, following a long introduction of every Rams offensive starter, the Patriots continued a season-long trend and ran out on the field as a group with no single player introduced individually. That dramatic gesture before the game even began said a lot, according to Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady. It captured the essence of this championship team.

At Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans, I'm Josie Karp.

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COSTELLO: So will the whole team be going to Disney World, only time will tell. You know that commercial is going to hit the airwave zoo.

And you do know how it goes, you win the Super Bowl, you get your face on a box of Wheaties. Here's what this year's special edition of the cereal will look like with the key lineup of the New England Patriots. See it's the team.

Because of their strong finish, we can already look forward to next year where they will be trying for serial success. Get it, get it, get it? I know it's bad.

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