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Super Bowl: Gen. Custer's actions at Little Bighorn led to Patriots' Super Bowl victories
A little offbeat, but I know all you Pats fans are hungry for more! 
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New England Patriots' Super Bowl lore dates back well beyond the team's first win a decade ago on Adam Vinatieri's clutch kick with seconds to go.
A Dover attorney with a passion for filmmaking takes it back to 1876 and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Alfred Catalfo's 15-minute film, "Bighorn," ties the Patriots' 2002 win to Gen. George Armstrong Custer's decision not bring his band along on what became his last stand. Band leader Felix Vinatieri was Adam Vinatieri's great-great-grandfather.
Catalfo's film opens with a staged and dramatically different outcome to the 2002 Super Bowl. A fictitious kicker named Chucky Watson misses the 48-yard field goal and the Pats lose in overtime. Fans react with shock and disgust, even burning a Chucky Watson dummy in effigy. No one had ever heard of Adam Vinatieri because Caltalfo starts with the premise that Custer had his band leader by his side as they rode into battle.
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/national-sports/2012/02/05/super-bowl-gen-custers-actions-little-bighorn-led/1151031
A Dover attorney with a passion for filmmaking takes it back to 1876 and the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Alfred Catalfo's 15-minute film, "Bighorn," ties the Patriots' 2002 win to Gen. George Armstrong Custer's decision not bring his band along on what became his last stand. Band leader Felix Vinatieri was Adam Vinatieri's great-great-grandfather.
Catalfo's film opens with a staged and dramatically different outcome to the 2002 Super Bowl. A fictitious kicker named Chucky Watson misses the 48-yard field goal and the Pats lose in overtime. Fans react with shock and disgust, even burning a Chucky Watson dummy in effigy. No one had ever heard of Adam Vinatieri because Caltalfo starts with the premise that Custer had his band leader by his side as they rode into battle.
http://www.sunjournal.com/news/national-sports/2012/02/05/super-bowl-gen-custers-actions-little-bighorn-led/1151031
