{"id":15854,"date":"2019-02-03T22:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T03:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=15854"},"modified":"2019-02-03T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T03:04:56","slug":"patriots-defeat-rams-win-lowest-scoring-super-bowl-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2019\/02\/03\/patriots-defeat-rams-win-lowest-scoring-super-bowl-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots defeat Rams; win lowest scoring Super Bowl ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15855\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/02\/gosto.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/02\/gosto.jpg 600w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2019\/02\/gosto-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Gostkowski kicked a field goal to put the Patriots up 13-3 in the closing minutes of Super Bowl 53. The field goal pushed the game total to just 16, setting an all-time low for the Super Bowl. Rams kicker Greg Zuerlien missed a 48-yard field goal.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest scoring Super Bowl had been Super Bowl 7 in which the Dolphins defeated the Redskins 14-7 for a total of 21 points.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime of Sunday&#8217;s game the Patriots and Rams were tied at 3. In the fourth quarter Patriots running back Sonny Michel was able to <a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2019\/02\/03\/patriots-score-first-touchdown-of-super-bowl-in-4th-quarter\/\">score from two yards out<\/a> pushing the Patriots to a 10-7 lead. The Rams were within range of scoring a game tying touchdown before Stephon Gillmore was able was able to pull down an interception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Gostkowski kicked a field goal to put the Patriots up 13-3 in the closing minutes of Super Bowl 53. The field goal pushed the game total to just 16, setting an all-time low for the Super Bowl. Rams kicker Greg Zuerlien missed a 48-yard field goal. The lowest scoring Super Bowl had been Super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,23,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-15854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-new-england-patriots","10":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15856,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions\/15856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=15854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}