A massive crowd was on hand to celebrate the AFC title and send the Patriots off to Atlanta.
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots have the Super Bowl send-off routine down pat.
Break out the “Super Bowl Bound” banner. Queue up the highlight video. Take a few shots at those loser cities that don’t have annual championship pep rallies. And round up the usual suspects: owner Robert Kraft, coach Bill Belichick, quarterback Tom Brady and the rest of the team captains.
“We’re not at the end yet,” Brady told a sea of fans that covered the entire field at Gillette Stadium and filled most of one side of the lower seating bowl. “We’ve got one more to go.
