The Deadspin staff pick their favorite sports moments from 2017, and explain what made them so special. Here they are. When The Pats Won The Super Bowl And Everyone At Deadspin Besides Billy Wept There is a lot of baggage tied to the Patriots that would take way too long to get through in the blurb of a year-end list, so I’ll keep it short and just say that it felt wonderful when the two hours of taunting notifications on my phone stopped because my coworkers were processing that the evil team ripped out the throat of a horse they knew they should’ve never backed. – Samer Kalaf Michigan Basketball’s Big 10 Tournament Just before the Big 10 tournament, a fairly average 20-11 Michigan team was forced to evacuate a plane after it slid off a runway before takeoff. Less than 24 hours…