Super Shocker: With seconds on the clock, three downs to play, and only one yard to the goal line, Seattle threw away the Super Bowl with an intercepted pass rather than running it into the end zone. The New England Patriots, to their own amazement, walked away with a fourth Super Bowl win in 14 years.

In the 28-24 win, New England quarterback Tom Brady threw 37 completed passes, a Super Bowl record, and was named the Most Valuable Player of the game.

Trailing 10 points in the 4^th quarter, New England went four points ahead with just over two minutes left. Seattle took the ball and drove 79 yards to within feet and seconds of a second consecutive Super Bowl win. And then came the disastrous play that will be debated forever among football fans.

With New England back in possession, frustrated Seattle linebacker Bruce Irvin started a brawl that spilled into the end zone as players shoved and punched each other with 18 hopeless seconds left on the clock. It was a Super Brawl.

When it was over, millions of people wanted to know, “who called that play?” Seattle Coach Pete Carroll said, “Nobody to blame but me. Very hard lesson to learn.”

Weather: Heavy snow is falling again in Boston today as a winter storm stretches from Buffalo to Bangor. Light snow in New York last night has changed to freezing rain this morning. Nearly 2,800 flights are cancelled today and 1,300 are delayed. The storm had already left 19 inches of snow in Chicago and 17 in Detroit.

Nation: President Obama is proposing a $478 billion public works initiative that would be paid for with a one-time tax on the foreign profits of US corporations. It’s part of a $4 trillion budget he’s sending Congress today.

The foreign profit tax would pay for improvements to roads, bridges, and public transit. American companies have socked away fortunes made overseas and left there to avoid US taxes. Obama would tax them one time at 14 percent, far less than the corporate rate of 35 percent.

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan who chairs the tax-writing House Ways and Means committee, said, “What I think the president is trying to do here is to, again, exploit envy economics.” In other words, no.

The Obit Page: Edward Saylor, one of the last survivors of the Doolittle air raid over Tokyo in 1942, has died at age 94. Only three of the original 80 Doolittle raiders are still alive. The 16 B-25 bombers took off with the crews knowing they did not have enough fuel to get back to the aircraft carrier Hornet from which they took off. After releasing its bombs, Saylor’s plane crashed into the water near China and he spent weeks eluding Japanese soldiers.

>Sandy Socolow, who was Walter Cronkite’s producer in the days when CBS dominated network news, has died at age 86. Socolow worked with Cronkite during the 60s, covering the Civil Rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and the Vietnam War. Socolow was a gentle man in the hard world of the news business, and a friend of The Rooney Report.

Changes: People Magazine reports that it has confirmed that one-time Olympic decathlon champion Bruce Jenner is transitioning to become a woman. With longer hair, earrings and sometimes makeup, Jenner’s changing appearance has been the subject of tabloid speculation for a couple of years. The magazine reports that Jenner is shooting a documentary about his transition.

Jenner was a Wheaties box hero after winning gold at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. A picture of Jenner waving a small American flag became an iconic image of the American man.

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