Early newspaper editions could not keep up with that legendary Super Bowl ending

No one could fault confused Boston Globe subscribers who woke up to an odd sight on their doorstep: a photo of a defeated Tom Brady with the headline: "A Bitter End."

Wait, didn't the Patriots win the Super Bowl, in a historic overtime battle, no less?

It appears The Boston Globe, which sends out early editions of its daily newspaper, thought what the rest of the world did — with the Atlanta Falcons leading the Super Bowl by 19 points heading into the fourth quarter, New England had no shot. And then came that misleading photo and dramatic headline.

Below the fold, it's clear the early edition was reporting on the game before it ended, presumably because a print deadline loomed. But what was above the fold had social media abuzz, with several making callbacks to the infamous Dewey-defeats-Truman mistake made by a Chicago newspaper in 1948.

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That photo of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady laying deflated defeated on the ground is indeed the perfect moment to sum up New England's poor first-half showing, but not the game's legendary ending.

The Globe eventually got it right. A later cover of Monday's paper features a very different photo of Brady.

It's hard to blame the Globe, considering pretty much everyone else thought the Patriots' fate was sealed, including the biggest bandwagon Patriots fan of them all, Donald Trump.

Even the Washington Post had early editions praising the Atlanta Falcons' first-half triumph, although the Post's headline is clearer that the game was ongoing. Post Design Director Greg Manifold said on Twitter the version below only went out to a "sliver" of its readership.

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As we learned Sunday evening, the Patriots are a relentless band of champions who can and will conquer even the biggest deficits. And early print deadlines just can't handle that kind of ferocious comeback.