History not Quinn concern

The Patriots own more Super Bowl appearances since 2011 than the Falcons have in their entire history.

But if you think Atlanta coach Dan Quinn is intimidated by that, think again.

A day after his team swamped the Packers in the NFC Championship game to advance to Super Bowl LI, Quinn shrugged at the lopsided comparison in championship pedigrees between the two franchises.

“It’s not like we’re going to make it up in two weeks,” said Quinn, who won a Super Bowl as a defensive coordinator for the Seahawks in 2014.

While the Falcons are on just their second Super Bowl trip overall (their first was a 34-19 loss to the Broncos in 1999), New England’s coach-quarterback duo of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady will be making an NFL-record seventh Super Bowl appearance.

The Patriots franchise as a whole will be making its ninth Super Bowl appearance, winning four. Tom Brady continued to avoid questions about his friend- ship with President Trump on Monday, telling a Boston radio station he doesn’t understand why people are interested.

“I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do,” Brady told the station. “You have a lot of friends in your life. I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.”

Quinn got the “Eugene Robinson Question” on Monday, responding he isn’t worried about any of the Falcons getting into off-field trouble in Houston during Super Bowl week.

Robinson, of course, was famously arrested for soliciting an undercover officer for sex in Miami the night before the Falcons lost to the Broncos in the Super Bowl in 1999 and just hours after he had been honored by the NFL as its Man of the Year for high moral character.