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AFC Championship Final Score: Patriots blowout Colts 45-7, advance to Super Bowl XLIX

By Josh Hill

Jan 18, 2015; Foxborough, MA, USA; New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) after winning the AFC Championship Game over the Indianapolis Colts at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Stew Milne-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 18, 2015; Foxborough, MA, USA; New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) after winning the AFC Championship Game over the Indianapolis Colts at Gillette Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Stew Milne-USA TODAY Sports /
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The AFC Championship Game is in the books and the New England Patriots are off to play the  Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX. 

After a season in which some counted them out before the halfway point in the year, the New England Patriots are on their way to Super Bowl XLIX as the champions of the AFC. Not only did they win the AFC crown, but they did so by blowing out the Indianapolis Colts in very convincing fashion.

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This upcoming two week period before the Super Bowl won’t be spent talking about the lashing that the Patriots gave the Colts, instead it’s going to be spent tapping into the storylines we will be looking at heading into the big game in Arizona. Not only is this a chance for Tom Brady to win one last Super Bowl, but it’s going to be just as important a game to the legacy of the Seattle Seahawks.

Brady and the Patriots went off in the AFC Championship game, scoring 45-points and putting together a totally complete game in every way on offense and defense. That’s something that will be put under a microscope over these next two weeks, as the Seahawks Legion of Boom is not the Colts defense, as it’s a far more powerful unit.

Richard Sherman and the Seahawks bested the Patriots the last time they played back a few years ago in a game that is being seen as ground zero for the Legion of Boom as it stands now. How fitting that it can all come full circle for the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, as winning a title this year would mean going through Manning in 2014 and Brady in ’15 — arguably the two greatest quarterbacks of the last 20 years.

Brady and the Patriots aren’t gong to squander this opportunity in the Super Bowl though, as they have twice been defeated in there last two trips with the taste of those losses still as bitter as ever. The New York Giants were the team that bested them both of those times, but it’s going to be a battle of legacy and ego in Arizona this year for Super Bowl XLIX.

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