Sunday night's Super Bowl will mark ten years since the New England Patriots won their first, in 2002, with a last minute, 48-yard field goal by kicker Adam Vinatieri. Vinatieri is the great-great-grandson of General George Armstrong Custer's bandmaster, Felix Vinatieri.
The Regimental band was ordered to stay behind at the 7th Cavalry's Powder River camp and missed the Battle of the Little Bighorn (AKA, Custer's Last Stand).
In an award-winning 15-minute film entitled "Bighorn", a supernatural historical fantasy, Director Alfred Thomas Catalfo explores a tragic (unless you're a Rams' fan) 1876 alternative reality in which the band is annihilated with General Custer, kicker Vinatieri is never born, and the Pats lose the 2002 Super Bowl!
See the film here.
OK - I didn't think the film was that good, but I love the historical "what if." Enjoy the game.
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