The Super Bowl gave Marcus Paige and Ryan Arcidiacono national championship flashbacks
The Patriots pulled off the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time Sunday night, capping arguably the greatest 12 months of major sports championship games ever. Those 12 months began, of course, with The Shot.
Coincidentally, The Shot and The Comeback, the bookends of the wild year in sports, occurred in the same building, NRG Stadium in Houston. Former North Carolina point guard Marcus Paige didn’t find that coincidence funny at all:
NRG stadium is ????
— Marcus Paige (@marcuspaige5) February 6, 2017
Paige, of course, was the one who hit the shot before The Shot, the acrobatic 3-pointer that would have sent last year’s NCAA final to overtime before Kris Jenkins’ game-winner.
Paige’s tweet gave former Villanova point guard Ryan Arcidiacono flashbacks of his own, so he couldn’t resist a short and sweet response:
@marcuspaige5 ????
— Ryan Arcidiacono (@RyArch15) February 6, 2017
Paige was having none of it:
@RyArch15 for real tho there's somethin wrong w that place man
— Marcus Paige (@marcuspaige5) February 6, 2017
Arcidiacono agreed that there was something about the stadium, though he’d probably dispute Paige’s choice of the word “wrong”:
Actual GOAT. Nrg stadium championship games are always wild!!
— Ryan Arcidiacono (@RyArch15) February 6, 2017
The exchange was all in good fun, of course, but the déjà vu for Paige must have been very real as he saw the Patriots stun the Falcons in overtime.