SAN FRANCISCO — It’s known as the Snow Bowl in New England, where it started a dynasty, but it’s the Tuck Rule Game everywhere else. And it’s a hard subject for Tim Brown, whose Oakland Raiders were on the wrong end of that infamous call in the 2001 AFC divisional playoff game.
“It was a tough game to digest,” Brown told NESN.com’s Michaela Vernava on Tuesday on Super Bowl 50 Radio Row. “You know, people ask me about playing in the Super Bowl and losing it (in the 2002 season to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers), but that’s not the game that drives me nuts. It’s that Snow Bowl game that drives you nuts, because you know you had the opportunity to go to the next week, in the AFC Championship Game, and beat a Pittsburgh team that was just OK at that time. But to not have that opportunity because of that call is really tough to take.”
Brown, wearing his Ring of Excellence from Kay Jewelers as a Hall of Famer, admitted he’s friendly with Patriots owner Robert Kraft, but New England just brings up some bad memories.
“That game will forever stick in my craw, no doubt about it,” Brown said. “… I know they (the Patriots) had nothing to do with the call, but it’s something about being in New England that drives you nuts.”
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