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Chiang shows documentary in Lang GABRIELLE LEITNER/Northern Iowan

LEZIGA BARIKOR Staff Writer

Not many have the unique opportunity of watching a documentary with the filmmaker present, but that’s just what UNI students, faculty and community members did on Monday, Feb. 4, in in Lang Auditorium.

Independent documentarian and producer S. Leo Chiang was invited to UNI through

the William and Stephanie Clohesy Documentary Film Series. Chiang was born in Taiwan and is now based in San Francisco. His work “A Village Called Versailles” landed an Emmy award nomination.

His most recent documentary, “Out Run,” which was screened on Monday, gained him a Best Cinematography award at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

Chiang spent the first three days of the week on UNI’s campus hosting film screenings, visiting classrooms and meeting with UNI students. He also met with digital media students from Hawkeye Community College.

In addition to presenting “Out Run” and “A Village Called Versailles,” he showed his newest work-in-progress film, “Ma Liang’s Time Machine.”

“Out Run” follows the world’s

campus who care about them even if they don’t know it.”

This will be TWLOHA’s second year benefiting Covenant Clinic. The year before, the proceeds from the auction went to Black HawkGrundy Mental Health Center.

According McDowell, the typical stay at Covenant Clinic Psychiatry’s youth in-patient unit lasts for a week at the most.

“Basically, it’s their crisis intervention and getting them to the place where they feel safe and know they’re support[ed] and then getting them to out-patient,” McDowell said.

“They do a lot of good work in terms of the youth in this area.”

While the silent auction is taking place, there will be entertainment provided by the SingPins, as well as a new local band called Brooklyn Brain.

The evening will also include an open mic portion where audience members are encouraged to recite poetry, sing, share their stories or

anything else they would like.

Cookies and other refreshments will also be served.

The benefit is TWLOHA’s biggest event of the spring semester. They host a 5K every fall, but the group is active throughout the year by holding weekly meetings in the Presidential Room of Maucker Union on Tuesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. The group does different activities each night, such as painting canvases to donate to the art benefit.

“We work on different coping skills,” McDowell said.

“We talk about different mental health disorders. We do certain things like ‘share your story’ nights, so if people want to talk about their past, they can, and it remains as confidential as we can be. Basically, we’re there to be a safe space for everybody.”

Last year, the benefit raised around $250. McDowell hopes TWLOHA can surpass that number this year. The starting bids will all be relatively affordable, with none being more than $10.

first — and at the time, only — LGBT political party. In a character-driven portrayal, Chiang’s film follows Bemz Benedito closely as she and her fellow Ladlad party members attempt to make history in the 2010 Philippine election. Benedito aspires to be the first transgender woman in the Philippine Congress. The film follows her, her trans campaign team and other supporters of their movement from their campaign to the day after the election. The film ends with interviews conducted three years after.

Sophomore political communication major Elle Boeding attended the screening of “Out Run” and thought the film was very impressive.

“I thought it was very inspirational,” Boeding said. “I liked how they followed them through.”

Following the presentation of the film, there was a question-and-answer session with Chiang. Audience members asked him clarifying questions about his work on “Out Run.” Chiang was able to discuss a scene in the documentary with misused gender pronouns. A father used “he/him/his” pronouns for his transgender maleto-female daughter.

“Just to be fair, in English, they do kind of get their pronouns confused,” Chiang said.

“A lot of it is in Tagalog there is no gender in the pronouns.

So I don’t know if people did that maliciously, or carelessly or something that they’re not used to doing.”

Chiang also had updates on the situations of all the main people portrayed in the film and the current political structure.

In the film, Benedito and the Ladlad party lost the 2010 election, but in 2016, the Philippines did elect the first transgender woman to congress with Geraldine Roman.

Chiang was able to give a broader context than what could be included in the film. During the time of Ladlad’s election, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld same-sex marriage. The LGBT community in the Philippines was disappointed in how Ladlad was refusing to campaign on the topic and played it safe instead.

“We were afraid of creating controversy. It was a mistake,” said Raymond Alikpala in the documentary after the lost election in which he was a nominee.

“As Ladlad’s leadership, we let Filipinos down.”

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Mental health advocacy group hosts benefit ANNA FLANDERS Staff Writer

The UNI chapter of To Write Love on Her Arms (TWLOHA) will host their annual charitable art benefit in the Maucker Union Ballroom on Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 6 p.m.

There will be a silent auction of pieces created by TWLOHA group members, UNI students and community members from the Cedar Valley and out of state. All the proceeds go to the Covenant Clinic Psychiatry youth in-patient unit. Donating to this cause helps TWLOHA in their mission to provide support for people struggling with their mental health.

“I want people to know that there are a lot of people on campus who care about mental health,” said TWLOHA-UNI president Becca McDowell, a senior majoring in social work.

“I know that a lot of people do, but they can’t necessarily find each other and let them know that they’re supported and that there are other people on this

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Exhibit moves through time and space COLBY WEBER Staff Writer

Upon walking into an art gallery, visitors are greeted by various objects of different mediums and styles. Even though they’re contained within the same room, each work offers its own narrative. Two people viewing the same painting may have different interpretations of its meaning.

Each person’s culture and background influence who they are and how they create and perceive art.

The UNI Gallery of Art is displaying an array of such aforementioned cultures in its latest exhibit, “An Art Collection Travelogue,” on display now through Saturday, March 2.

“I would describe it as an exhibition that addresses the local, the national and the international,” said Darrell Taylor, gallery director and curator of the exhibit. “That’s basically what I mean by travelogue; it’s kind of a movement through time and space.

That movement always begins where you are, so we began with the local and we moved through other cultures from there.”

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According to Taylor, the first things viewers will see when entering the gallery are the tapa cloths from the Polynesian island of Tonga, followed by an installation on the back wall, ‘Paper Border’ by Paul Valadez. “[Valadez] actually lives on the border between Texas and Mexico; he has that heritage as well. He spent at least 365 days or more making daily drawings of that landscape and his emotions responding to that landscape […] and we filled the entire back wall with those images, so that’s very powerful as you walk in.”

According to Taylor, this exhibit differs from previous exhibits at UNI due to its unique emphasis on travel. The word “travelogue” was used to imply a journey in which you travel to many places around the world.

Taylor believes every experience in an art museum should have a narrative to it. Even though each viewer will have their own unique interpretation, he believes the journey itself is what counts.

However, bringing these stories to life wasn’t without its challenges.

“The ‘Paper Border’ is 349 individual pages that you have to organize into a grid, and that was difficult to figure out,” Taylor said.

“The Mary Frisbee Johnson drawings are enormous, so, I had to have help. We had to do a lot of measuring to make them fit in the gallery.”

Taylor was faced with another challenge when he found himself filling the empty spaces between the larger pieces in the exhibit so each piece flowed seamlessly into the next.

He said that as he assembled this exhibition, he discovered an unexpected aspect of the works he had chosen. Many of the pieces he picked were extremely colorful, which came as a surprise to him. The colors of the art played a major role in how each piece was positioned in the exhibition.

While Taylor had a big hand in putting together the exhibition, he didn’t put it together alone.

“The gallery staff is composed of students,” he said.

“When I need to install a grand exhibition or a difficult-to-install work of art, I have to call in students to

Chiang echoed the sentiments of Alikpala, saying he thought with the U.S. in mind, they played it too safe.

The film has been well-received and shown to audiences across Southeast Asia, the U.S. and other parts of the world, according to Chiang. His favorite festival where the film has been shown was in Myanmar because it is so close to the Philippines.

“I really enjoyed it,” said Leah Vierkandt, a senior digital media production major.

“It was obviously something different. I’ve never seen something like it before.”

“I want the students to see how similar the struggle is between a community that’s seemingly so far away and so foreign with the struggle that we all know in the U.S.” Chiang said. “And I’m sure there’s similar struggles for the queer community here in Iowa. And also, other underrepresented communities, not just the LGBT communi ties. “[...] we all want to be treated fairly, we all want to be an equal partner in the society that we’re a part of. And we all want to have love, and have the acceptance of our family,” Chiang continued. “I would love folks to see that, that would be a really great message to take away.”

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are the same. Even with the 50 or so pieces on display, there is always more to see.

Taylor said that this diversity of style and cultural infuluence is what inspired him to showcase works from around the world. Artists from all across the globe have a story to tell, and the gallery space is meant to bring them together.

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In Defense: Hands off Venezuela FEBRUARY 7, 2019 |

Editor’s Note: This Letter to the Editor was submitted by Caleb Stekl, opinion columnist, and Cade Olmstead, junior philosophy major.

In weeks prior, Colin Horning’s opinion piece, Socialism Causes Economic Peril, featured the claim that Venezuela’s current hardships are the result of state intervention into the economy, and he is right, but not as one might expect. What his argument fails to see is that it is not the actions of the socialist government which have produced today’s conditions, but rather the intervention of another state, the United States, or in a Marxian sense, the State of global capital. The strategic deployment of misleading information in the media and engendering of supply shortages have been the result of the capitalist class, but first, let us highlight the many humanitarian and social achievements accomplished by the democratic Chavismo movement.

It should first be noted that Hugo Chávez was elected out of the chaos of two economic crises during the 1980s and 1990s, something that even Horning admits in his article.

These crises are cited as the result of a drop in oil prices.

In other words, they are the result of a volatile capitalist market. This should come as no surprise as the formal relations of the capitalist economic system engender crisis (one need only reference the principle of overproduction).

In spite of the effects of those market-induced crises, the Chavismo movement was able to make numerous gains: illiteracy rates dropped from 17 percent to 1 percent,

infant mortality rates declined from 20 deaths per 1000 live births to 13 deaths, extreme poverty declined from 23.4 percent to 8.5 percent, unemployment was almost halved with a drop from 14.5 percent to 7.6 percent, the United Nations has consistently ranked Venezuela’s Human Development Index as having a “high world ranking” and finally, Venezuela now has the second lowest rate homelessness in Latin America as a result of government construction.

The list could go on and would include the transformative democratic mechanisms implemented, such as the development of a grassroots-lead constitutional reform process.

All of this has been accomplished, and is still taking place, despite brutal economic sanctions. Yet if you were to listen to the media, it would sound as if the Bolivarian Revolution was having a catastrophic effect on the Venezuelan people. However, the global catastrophe of capitalism is not only being displaced by the media through its intense focus on ‘totalitarian’ regimes — Venezuela, North Korea, Syria — but this displacement occurs via the structure of capital itself.

These regimes present a direct threat to western hegemony and this hegemonic power is wielded through sanctions, embargos and restrictions on foreign aid. Thus, we should not be surprised to see countries which do not capitulate to the demands of the West constantly being overthrown, cooped and sanctioned.

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global, economic hegemony all that is at stake in Venezuela? A far greater threat to the West than Venezuela holding the world’s largest oil reserves, or China claiming the largest labor force, is the emancipatory potential contained in these Democratic projects.

Just last week, President Nicolas Maduro called on workers in the United States to see the struggle they share with the Venezuelan people and to ignite a fierce, Vietnam-style, anti-war coalition. Workers in the West have nothing to gain from Venezuelan oil, only death and bloodshed from both countries. Maduro is correct: the antagonism creating the present power struggle is not between the peoples of the United States and Venezuela, but with Capital itself. Were workers in the West to see that socialism can and does create a society free of economic anxiety, social oppression and solidarity, the ideological edifice of neo-liberalism would be weakened.

And by no means should we undermine the threat and perils currently facing the country, but it is the threat of losing the social progress made that should concern us. One of the most common claims heard in the media is lack of foodstuffs, but if one takes a closer look at the situation, it is the deliberate restriction of food products locked away in warehouses or smuggled across the border and the price-gouging behaviors of the privately-owned corporations that is causing so much strife. It may come as a surprise, but almost 80 percent of business is owned by private corporations! (This includes one of Venezuela’s major food

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Opinion columnist Caleb Stekl and junior philosophy major Cade Olmstead pen an Letter to the Editor advocating for the U.S. to not go forward with military action in Venezuela.

companies). One critique of the Chavismo movement is that it wasn’t socialist enough.

Venezuelan corporations in tandem with imperialist, oil thirsty powers are deliberately seeking the overthrow of a democratically elected ruler.

Numerous election observers from all around the world, including Western nations such as Canada, certified the election as being fair and free.

Here, it needs reminding that the minority opposition parties in Venezuela refused to participate in the elections, and when one member did run against Maduro, he was ousted from his own party.

A deliberate campaign has been waged to de-legitimize a democratically elected government all the while being enframed and espoused for the sake of democracy. A closer look reveals that these are empty and misleading rhetoric by the West. We should worry when elected US officials are calling upon the military to take matters into their own hands. We need not another US-sponsored military dic-

tatorship in Latin America.

US foreign policy has waged enough violence in the region.

Our message is simple: No coup, No war, Hands off Venezuela!

The urgency of this call to action is not simply ideological but inherently humanitarian.

The same tactics and rhetoric being employed against the Maduro regime are the same ones used to justify interventions in Iraq, Vietnam and Cuba. The United States has intervened 56 times in 17 out of the 33 Latin and South American countries. One of these interventions was the 2002 coup attempting to overthrow Chavez. Vice President Mike Pence and National Security Advisor John Bolton have both openly admitted that a friendly Venezuelan regime would mean massive profits for oil companies and that a military option is currently being pursued. The call to respect Venezuela’s sovereignty is necessary, no matter your political affiliation. The history of US intervention is profit stained with the blood of millions.

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CAMPUS LIFE

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‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ is a Panther PORTRAIT: joyously absurd slasher Marcus jackson HUNTER FRIESEN Flim Critic

The art world can be a cutthroat business, or in the case of the film “Velvet Buzzsaw,” the art world is a business that can literally cut your throat.

After a reclusive old man suddenly dies in her apartment building, art assistant Josephina unethically stumbles onto the man’s life work: hundreds of eerie paintings depicting acts of unsettling violence. Seeing this as a golden opportunity to rise up the social ladder, Josephina strikes a deal with her boss, Rhodora, to sell the paintings for vast sums

of money.

Unbeknownst to the buyers and sellers, the old man intended for all his paintings to be destroyed upon his death. With his final wish unfulfilled, the cursed paintings take a shape of their own and begin to exact revenge on those who wrongfully profit from them.

Directing: 3/5 Directed by Dan Gilroy, “Velvet Buzzsaw” works across multiple genres as it pokes fun at the art world through a mix of satirical comedy and grotesque horror. Even though this has been done before in many

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other films, Gilroy does it differently as he entertainingly contradicts the expectations that come with each genre. Instead of being a laugh out loud comedy, the observational comedy more amusingly bewilders. The scares are delivered through a bright color palette as opposed to the conventional dark low lighting.

Blending genres does make for some great fun throughout, but the film suffers from it from time to time. Gilroy overplays his hand at a few points, leading to some head-scratching moments where the film can’t decide if a scene is supposed to be funny or scary.

Shot by veteran cinematographer Robert Elswit, the film also employs some neat camera tricks that keep the story on its toes.

Information is steadily given frame by frame as it builds up to a big reveal that flips everything on its head.

Writing: 2/5 Both equally ambitious and narrow-minded, Gilroy’s script is quite lackluster when compared to his competent directing.

Jake Gyllenhall and Rene Russo star in “Velvet Buzzsaw,” a Netflix satirical thriller written and directed by Dan Gilroy.

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On Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 12:15 p.m., those visiting Maucker Union were treated to a musical performance from singer-songwriter Marcus Jackson, a junior majoring in

vocal music education.

Jackson’s performance included a mix of piano and vocals. For his set, he selected love songs and R&B soul in honor of upcoming Valentine’s Day. Jackson also played an original song titled “Forever in Love.”

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Panther PORTRAIT: Step Up and step out SOFIA LEGASPI

Campus Life Editor

As one of several Black History Month events, UNI’s Black Student Union (BSU) hosted a “Step Up and Step Out” dance event in the Maucker Union Ballroom on Tuesday evening, Feb. 6.

Those in attendance learned choreography from the MOVEment, African dances from the African

Union and moves from BSU Vice President NeiAira Burt. Attendees also learned the history behind African American dance and music, as well as the importance of being active and healthy within the black community.

BSU’s next event is the “Night at the Apollo Talent Show” on Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m. in Lang Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.

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Through an ensemble of caricatures, the script satirizes the art industry and tries to prove that money and art don’t actually go hand in hand.

This vision is respectable, but the clunkiness of the story and Gilroy’s inability to go outside the box holds it down.

The clichéd anthem of “art is for everyone and greed is holding it back” quickly becomes an overused gimmick by the time the characters start to get their comeuppance.

The sheer size of the cast also spreads the message too thinly across the main narrative and several subplots, many of which are needless fillers. While this is a sin on a

storytelling level, it is admittingly satisfying to watch each character receive a “Final Destination”-like death.

Acting: 4/5 The greatest asset the film boasts is the actors who give life to the crazy characters they inhabit.

Reteaming with Gilroy after their fruitful work in “Nightcrawler,” Jake Gyllenhaal goes all in and is at his campy best as Morf Vanderwalt, a renowned critic whose reviews can instantly make or break a career.

Also from “Nightcrawler,” Rene Russo does a great job as Rhodora. She controls each character — and scene — with an iron fist and isn’t afraid to get dirty to make a living.

Toni Collette and Zawe Ashton are pretty good as Gretchen and Josephina, respectively. They each give credible performances to their extravagantly unlikable characters.

Even though they really don’t serve a purpose to the story, both John Malkovich and Daveed Diggs do good

work as two contradicting artists who get caught up in the bloody mess.

Overall: 3/5 It probably wasn’t his intention, but Dan Gilroy has created a semi-unoriginal film that tries to make fun of the equally semi-unoriginal world of high art. However, the unoriginality

of the story doesn’t diminish from the amusement that it produces. Now available to stream on Netflix, this comedic slasher could be a good way to kill a couple hours, especially at the low cost of free for subscribers.

Legacy of light By: Karen Zacarias

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UNI defeats Salukis, goes 1-1 COLIN HORNING

Sports Writer

The UNI women were victorious last Friday against the Southern Illinois Salukis in the McLeod Center, 65-53.

The Panthers lead 31-23 at halftime in part because of their 47 percent shooting at the break.

Ellie Howell shot 6-11 from the field and led all Panther players with 18 points along with four steals for the game.

Mikaela Morgan added 12 points and four assists and Karli Rucker had 11 points and six rebounds for UNI, who went to 13-7 and 5-2 in conference play.

Makenzie Silvey of Southern Illinois lead all scorers in the game with 20 points.

Following their matchup with the Salukis, UNI took to the court Sunday after-

noon for a back-and-forth affair with another Missouri Valley Conference rival, but the Panthers ultimately were bested by Missouri State University, 63-58.

The Lady Bears remain a perfect 9-0 in MVC play (13-7 overall), while UNI fell to 6-3 (13-8 overall). Karli Rucker led the Panthers in scoring with 11 points, followed by Bre Gunnels with 9. Howell and Cynthia Wolf both had 7 points each.

The Panthers maintained a slight lead throughout the first quarter, topped off by a Wolf layup with seconds remaining in the period, giving UNI a 19-16 lead after one.

The first half was rather fast-paced on both sides, with each team quickly moving the ball up the floor.

Offensively, UNI focused more on the three-point shot while Missouri State made an

effort to work the ball inside and get looks at the rim. UNI took 11 three pointers in the first half (7-29 for the game) to Missouri State’s five (0-10 for the game).

Rucker went coast-to-coast for a layup with around 30 seconds left in the half to put the Panthers up 33-29 at the intermission, getting a rise out of the McLeod Center crowd.

UNI shot a blistering 50 percent from the field in the first half, while Missouri State shot an ice-cold 29 percent.

The Panthers opened up a six point lead following a Heidi Hillyard three pointer with 3:15 to go in the third, prompting a timeout from Missouri State.

MSU was able to make some defensive adjustments and were able to walk away with a one point at the end of the quarter, 48-47.

The Lady Bears lead by as

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much as eight points in the fourth quarter and were able to close out the game with some timely free-throw shooting.

UNI’s miscues were ultimately a factor in the loss to the conference opponent, with 13 offensive rebounds leading to 17 second-chance points.

The Panthers also commit-

ted 24 turnovers in the game, which led to 14 Missouri State points.

Up next, the Panthers will play three consecutive road games vs. Loyola-Chicago, Valparaiso and Drake before returning home to the McLeod Center on Friday, Feb. 22 against Indiana State.

Panther tennis starts regular season strong TENNIS

PATRICK HANSEN

Sports Writer

Coming off three consecutive losing seasons, the Panther tennis team has started out strong with a quick 2-1 record to open up the 2019 season.

On Sunday, Feb. 3, the purple and gold hosted the Cougars of Southern Illinois

University Edwardsville in a match that the Panthers took 4-3, extending their win streak to two games early on in the season.

The doubles team of Reghan Lynch and Claudia Toledo notched their second straight victory winning 6-2.

The second doubles team for UNI fell to the Cougars 7-5, but the third doubles

team of two true freshmen, Daisy Phillips and Olivia Fain, gained redemption in doubles competition by taking down SIUE in a close match, 7-6.

UNI and SIUE split the singles competition as both sides grabbed three wins and three losses.

For the Panthers, freshman Daisy Phillips shut

out her competition in the first set, notching her third straight victory this year at the number four spot, winning 6-0 and 6-2.

Other winners for the Panthers were junior Reghan Lynch taking down her opponent 6-3 in both sets, capturing her second victory in singles at the number one spot, and freshman Caro Valentina

rounding out the Panther’s singles wins by eliminating her opponent 6-2 and 6-4 for her second win on the season.

The Panthers will travel to Minneapolis, Minn. this Friday, Feb. 8, to take on the Minnesota Golden Gophers before returning home on Sunday to host Gustavus Adolphus.

OPINION

Patriots subdue Rams, give credit to defense JACOB POTTER Sports Wrtier

Doubt and grind defined the 2018 season for the New England Patriots, culminating in a grind-it-out, defensive Super Bowl victory over the Los Angeles Rams, 13-3.

“It’s satisfying, man,” said tight end Rob Gronkowski. “I mean just the way we grinded all year. I mean it wasn’t beautiful. Our season was up, our season was down. Our season was up, then it was down. Then we were eliminated. No one believed in us. No one thought we were ever going to do it.”

Doubters thought that 41-year-old quarterback Tom Brady lost a step, but Brady wasn’t having any of it.

“I guess I take compliments worse than I take [criticism]. I wish [they] would say you’re

trash, you’re too old, you’re too slow, you can’t get it done no more and I would say, ‘Thank you very much I’m gonna go prove you wrong,’” Brady said.

The Pats continue to cement their status in history with a sixth Super Bowl victory, tying the Steelers for the most Super Bowl wins in NFL history.

Additionally, Brady broke the record for most Super Bowl wins by a player with six, as well as Bill Belichick putting his name alongside coaching legends George Halas and Curly Lambeau with six championships.

New England keeps finding ways to win Super Bowls, whether coming back from a 25-point deficit against the Falcons in 2017, or winning with suffocating defense like this year.

“We’ve got one of these teams that they find a way to win,” said Belichick.

The saying “defense wins

championships” remained true as the Pats’ blanketing defense held the NFL’s second-highest scoring offense (32.9 points per game) to a minuscule total of three points.

Brady also pulled through in the clutch, delivering a 29-yard dime to Gronkowski, setting up the only touchdown of the game.

“It’s a team game, man. We needed everyone out there. The defense played so well. We finally helped them out by getting a touchdown there,” Brady said.

Gronkowski shared the same sentiment. “We stuck together. I mean that was the biggest team win that I’ve ever been a part of.”

The Super Bowl MVP went to Julian Edelman, who has essentially perfected the slot receiver role for the Patriots.

Edelman racked up 141 yards on 10 receptions similar to Super Bowl XXXIX MVP Deion Branch, who also had over 100

yards in the big game. Branch contributed to a Patriots win in 2004 over the Philadelphia Eagles.

“He played the best game he has all year and [I’m] so proud of him [and] what he’s accomplished coming back from his ACL,” Brady said.

Edelman was even congratulated by former Patriot and Hall of Fame wide receiver, Randy Moss, who said, “Congratulations, boy. Way to ball out, MVP.” Moss also acknowledged that Edelman accomplished a feat that he never did in winning a Super Bowl MVP, “I’ll tell you what, I’ve never been an MVP let alone a Super Bowl MVP, man. I am proud of you, bro, way to persevere.”

Edelman remained humble, deflecting the glory, “You’ve got to tip your hat to our defense.

They’re the real MVP to me.

They held that offense to three

points. I mean that’s remarkable.”

Jason McCourty, Patriots defensive back, provided insight on how the defense allowed only three points. “Our coaching staff did a great job putting a game plan together. Mixing a lot more zone [coverage] than we have done. We zoned ‘em, we manned ‘em, we mixed up the looks on [Jared] Goff and [Sean] McVay, and tried to make it tough on them to call the plays.”

“They did a great job. It was a great game plan and you know, [there’s] no other way to say it, but I got out-coached tonight,” the young, talented coach McVay added.

The celebration is just starting for the Patriots, including an unsuspecting participant.

“Bill [Belichick] said he’s partying tonight and I ain’t gonna let him out party me,” Gronkowski said.

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