<Li> The New England Patriots are the most recent team to return to the Super Bowl as defending champions, playing in Super Bowl LII against the Philadelphia Eagles after defeating the Atlanta Falcons the previous year in Super Bowl LI 34 - 28 in overtime . Despite leading 33 - 32 late in the fourth quarter, Eagles quarterback and eventual Super Bowl MVP Nick Foles threw the what would turn out to be the game - winning touchdown to tight end Zach Ertz with 2: 21 left on the clock, giving the Eagles a 38 - 33 lead (two - point conversion no good). On the ensuing Patriots possession, Eagles defensive lineman Brandon Graham sacked Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and forced a fumble which was recovered by Eagles rookie defensive lineman Derek Barnett . The Patriots received the ball back with 1: 10 with no timeouts after a Jake Elliott field goal increased the Eagles lead to 41 - 33 . The Patriots managed to take the ball down to their own 49 - yard line with 0: 09 left, setting up a Hail Mary attempt . Brady was able to avoid a sack and sling a ball down field, but the Eagles secondary was able to cause an incomplete pass with no time left on the clock, securing the Eagles their first Super Bowl victory . Despite this loss, the Patriots remained the last team to repeat in the Super Bowl when they ironically defeated the Eagles 24 - 21 in Super Bowl XXXIX . </Li> <P> The home field curse affects the host team of the Super Bowl . From 1966--2011 (excluding the six Super Bowl games held in a stadium without a professional team), the Super Bowl host team had a record of 249--364--2 . In those 40 seasons, the host teams had 11 winning seasons, four split seasons, and 25 losing seasons . Mathematically, the probability of that many losing seasons or more occurring by chance (assuming a 50 percent chance of having a losing season (disregarding . 500 seasons)) is 7.69 percent . It should be noted, however, that in contrast to the other major North American professional sports leagues (Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League), whose championship round is co--hosted by the two competing teams that season (which gives a higher probability that both teams will have a winning season, to qualify for the playoffs), the Super Bowl host is selected several years before it is played, without regard to the teams that play it (modern stadium amenities and weather are the two most prominent criteria). The only other major professional sports league in North America using this format is the Canadian Football League, where the Grey Cup host city is selected ahead of time . However, unlike the NFL, there have been multiple teams who have won the Grey Cup at home; plus, the CFL has only nine teams, making the odds of such an occurrence greater . </P> <P> So far no team has yet managed to reach the Super Bowl in their home stadium . Four teams with Super Bowls in their home venue have qualified for the divisional playoffs: the 1994 Miami Dolphins, the 1998 Miami Dolphins, the 2016 Houston Texans, and the 2017 Minnesota Vikings, the Vikings being the first to qualify for their conference's title game . </P> <P> Only two NFL teams have reached the Super Bowl hosted in their home market: the San Francisco 49ers, who played Super Bowl XIX in Stanford Stadium, rather than Candlestick Park, and the Los Angeles Rams, who played Super Bowl XIV in the Rose Bowl, rather than the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . Besides Stanford Stadium and the Rose Bowl, the only other Super Bowl venue that was not the home stadium to an NFL team at the time was Rice Stadium in Houston: the Houston Oilers had played there previously, but moved to the Astrodome several years prior to Super Bowl VIII . The Miami Orange Bowl was the only AFL stadium to host a Super Bowl and the only stadium to host consecutive Super Bowls, hosting Super Bowl II and III . MetLife Stadium, which hosted Super Bowl XLVIII, is the home stadium of two NFL teams: the New York Giants and the New York Jets . </P>

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