For the last seventeen years or so, fans and even players of the Oakland Raiders have shouted from the mountain top that the New England Patriots got gifted a win due to a ruling in a 2001 Divisional Round game that is best known as the ‘tuck rule’ game.
That call prevented a turnover by fumble and gave Tom Brady another opportunity to lead his team to victory. Fast-forward to 2019, and Peyton Manning just found out the truth about this game from Brady himself.
In a preview for an upcoming episode of the ESPN+ series, Peyton’s Places, Brady and Manning are talking while golfing and discussing moments throughout their career when the ‘Tuck Rule’ game came up.
Manning asked Brady about cornerback Charles Woodson blitzing him and forcing him to fumble, to which Brady responded by saying it was a fumble and he thought the game was over.
“The Tuck Rule game, was it a fumble?” Manning asked.
“Oh, yeah,” Brady said. “I thought [the] game’s over. For the record, I was pulling it [the ball] down.”
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That call would ultimately lead to Brady’s first ring, and as we know, he has won several more since then, but that first one was the most controversial.
