That time Mohamed Sanu blamed Lady Gaga for Super Bowl loss to Patriots

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28-3.

Ask any New England sports fan what that score means, and they won't take long to answer. It's even been immortalized on t-shirts.

But while New England's historic Super Bowl LI comeback against Atlanta will be a treasured memory for most players in the Patriots locker room, it's quite a different story for Mohamed Sanu.

Sanu had two catches for 25 yards in that game and saw his team fritter away a 25-point second-half lead while Tom Brady and the Patriots engineered the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history. And one thing he blamed for what went down in the second half? Lady Gaga's halftime show.

“Usually, halftime is only like 15 minutes, and when you’re not on the field for like an hour, it’s just like going to work out, like a great workout, and you go sit on the couch for an hour and then try to start working out again,” Sanu told NFL Network's "Good Morning Football" several weeks after Super Bowl LI. "It's really the energy [you can't duplicate]. I don't know if you can simulate something like that. That was my first time experiencing something like that."

Even though Dan Quinn might not have simulated that, Bill Belichick has plenty of experience with Super Bowl halftime shows — and he did build long breaks into pre-Super Bowl practices to help the Patriots prepare.

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Maybe this time around, Sanu can experience a very different kind of Super Bowl memory playing for — instead of against — the Patriots.

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