Superbowl Thread

flyingcheesehead said:
One way or another, it should be a good game.
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Yeah, even if I have a team on the field, the first thing I want to see is a good game. Even if my guys lose.

I'm a pretty big Mahomes fan. So if we get a good game and he wins, I'll be super happy.
 
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Two predictions:

1.) Eagles so much as blow a kiss at Mahomes and it will be roughing the passer.
2.) Meanwhile Hurts will be pile driven with nary a flag
 
Bill said:
Two predictions:

1.) Eagles so much as blow a kiss at Mahomes and it will be roughing the passer.
2.) Meanwhile Hurts will be pile driven with nary a flag
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truth
 
@midwestpa24 and the group . . . a subterranean helicopter. Awesome!
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midwestpa24 said:
Is there some kind of event this weekend? Hadn't heard.
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From what I understand it is some sort of sporting contest where grown men squabble over their wrinkly leather ball.

It isn't being advertised much...
 
Bob Noel said:
Let me know when an NFL team wins 6 championships in a row (cough Boston Celtics cough )
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It'll never happen, and for good reason. The NFL is *by far* the best of the major sports leagues at keeping their game exciting and competitive. Salary cap and revenue sharing put all the teams on equal footing so you can't have one team that just buys championships a la the Yankees. And the competition committee looks at the rules all the time and massages them to keep the game exciting and competitive. While there are bad owners who still manage to consistently lose (I'm lookin' at you, McCaskeys), there's only a handful of perennial losers, and in any given season you probably start with 20-25 of the 32 teams having a legitimate shot to win the big game. Even KC, who has a great coach and has been lucky/good enough to get players like Mahomes and Kelce in the draft and has won their division every year for the past decade, they've "only" made it to the Super Bowl half of those years. Finally, it's not all that common for a team to even make it to the Super Bowl two years in a row, much less win, which is probably why we're almost 60 years in and nobody has had a three-peat yet.

If anyone's going to do it soon, though, it is the Chiefs. Since Mahomes became the starter, they've at least made it to the AFC Championship game every single year. If they do that again next year, they'll tie the 2011-2018 Patriots as the only teams to have made it to 8 straight conference championships.
asicer said:
He's also a flopper.
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That's fer dang sure. Looks like he's playing soccer out there sometimes.
Bill said:
Two predictions:

1.) Eagles so much as blow a kiss at Mahomes and it will be roughing the passer.
2.) Meanwhile Hurts will be pile driven with nary a flag
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You know, as a fan of a team that gets accused of being helped by the refs (except when they're being hurt by the refs), I ignored all of that... But then when I finally watched the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game, I kinda saw what everyone was talking about. There did seem to be a bit of a slant.
 
So as a lifelong Chiefs fan I will be thrilled if they win. We dealt with awful teams and players for so long, it’s nice to be on top for a bit. I know that this kind of league dominance doesn’t come along often, and I was a big time hater of the patriots during their dynasty, so I don’t begrudge anybody who dislikes the fact that the chiefs are winning a lot. (Albeit without the whole Spygate, deflated footballs, etc.) I remember feeling like Brady got calls other QBs wouldn’t, but the longer and harder I looked, I’m not sure that it wasn’t just a confirmation bias.

Regarding OP’s actual question, I think that if it is a close game, the chiefs probably pull it out. If it’s a runaway, it will be by the Eagles. (Oh yeah, did I mention that I live in Eagles country, so I’m never hearing the end of this either way…)

Jalen Hurts has proven that he is a top tier QB and Saquon Barkley is literally having a season for the ages. I will not at all be surprised if they win. They are a championship caliber team. If the Chiefs win, it will be a matter of experience and clutch moment plays on both sides of the ball. Chris Jones is going to do everything humanly possible to go straight through Philly’s O-line to bury Hurts and the Chiefs secondary should be able to limit the damage, but has shown some vulnerability to the deep ball.

I actually expected this game to be Josh Allen vs Hurts, and while I’m not at all complaining about being in this position, I think Buffalo was the best team out there.

Soooo, I guess we’ll all find out in a few days. I’ll be watching it at 7:30am in the Philippines.
 
Brad Pitt video was decent.
 
I still think The Weekend was the worst evarrrr but this was pretty close.
 
Safe to say that not only did the check not clear, but it never even got delivered in the first place!
 
The only thing worse than the Chief's offense is Brady's color commentary.

I imagine the producer running Fox's broadcast is thinking "Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up...Shut up."
 
The flying mustaches commercial was pretty good.
 
I didn't even know who was playing until GF turned the game on to watch the halftime show. Then, I had no idea who the guy was dancing and talking, but did wonder if that was maybe a late 80's Buick Regal or Monte Carlo that all the dancers were climbing out of. Next, I found out that Terry Bradshaw is apparently still alive, maybe. Those were my highlights.
 
I started watching Vice Grip Garage on YouTube during halftime time. Then fell asleep as soon as the second half started
 
flyingpreacher said:
Regarding OP’s actual question, I think that if it is a close game, the chiefs probably pull it out. If it’s a runaway, it will be by the Eagles.
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Nice call!

We decided to do Tequila shots every time they zoomed in on Taylor Swift. Sadly, we were disgustingly sober at game’s end.
 
Matthew said:
Me, watching the halftime show:

(same as me watching the first half)

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Never heard of the guy. Couldn’t understand the guy. Had no idea what Sammy Jackson’s role was. Heard “forty acres and a mule” in one of his “songs” and deduced that he was tearing down the entire theme of the commercials which seemed to be that we should put aside our racial differences and just be kind to one another. Then he flipped off the camera at the end.

I didn’t get it.
 
I'm usually up on my rappers but I never heard of the guy either. I thought maybe I might recognize a song or two.

Nope.

The game itself became somewhat less interesting once it was apparent it would be a blowout.
 
Timbeck2 said:
Never heard of the guy. Couldn’t understand the guy. Had no idea what Sammy Jackson’s role was. Heard “forty acres and a mule” in one of his “songs” and deduced that he was tearing down the entire theme of the commercials which seemed to be that we should put aside our racial differences and just be kind to one another. Then he flipped off the camera at the end.

I didn’t get it.
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I don't understand why the NFL continues to hire controversial entertainers with all these hidden "messages" for the Super Bowl halftime. Whatever happened to good family fun?
 
FastEddieB said:
Nice call!

We decided to do Tequila shots every time they zoomed in on Taylor Swift. Sadly, we were disgustingly sober at game’s end.
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I took OVER 9.5 Tay-Tay look-ins before halftime -- lost that bet. We surmised Taylor was busy writing her next ex-boyfriend song, which is what it will take to keep the league from dragging the Chiefs to the Superbowl in perpetuity.
 
172andyou said:
Here's the crib notes

(unrelated: I just realized I haven't heard someone use the phrase 'crib notes' in decades. Did I just date myself?)
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I guess it’s like looking at a painting in a museum and being asked what it means to me. Which is probably why I found the commercial with the banana duct taped to the wall so funny
 
flyingcheesehead said:
Not really the matchup any of us wanted to see.

At the beginning of the playoffs, I was hoping (of course) for my Packers to go, but not really expecting it by any means. My backup team to cheer for was the Lions; even though they're a division rival it's not much of a rivalry like it is with Chicago or Minnesota, and I just kinda want long-suffering Lions fans to get one.

As soon as they were eliminated, I was rooting for a Vikings-Bills Super Bowl. If that had happened, one team would be winning their first ever Super Bowl, while the other team would have a dubious and unprecedented 0-5 record. (Of course, I wanted the Bills to win this scenario).

Well, then both MN and Detroit were eliminated, so I was kinda rooting for Washington 'cuz why not have the story of a rookie QB going to the Super Bowl.

And, we ended up with the Eagles, who my team lost to twice this year. Grr.

I was still pulling for the Bills on the AFC side. They've been really good the last few years, a cousin of mine is a big fan, and I wouldn't have to listen to people whining about the Chiefs. Alas, we got the Chiefs.

I don't dislike the Chiefs the way some people do, they play exciting football and that Mahomes kid is pretty good. I do like Andy Reid, he's an old Green Bay assistant and they really should have hired him instead of Ray Rhodes.

One way or another, it should be a good game. I must admit that I'm kinda pulling for the Eagles because I don't want to hear the arguments between Packers and Chiefs fans over whether the Packers' two previous three-peats are legitimate because ThEy WeReN't AlL sUpEr BoWlS! (1929-31 and 1965-67, including the first two Super Bowls.)
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Kind of in a similar vein. The NFL screwed up by giving KC the superbowl run 3 years in a row. Tons of american's would have tuned in to a Bills-Commanders game. Both underdogs, both teams that most other fans don't have a grudge on, both teams that have really played hard the last few years, both teams never to the big dance.

They could have gotten so much positive media coverage of stories/etc and made it a fairy tale for us all to have some light fun news to watch, but instead they did what they did, and most people, I think, barely watched the game.

I just looked at 20M+ less people watched this year vs last year. about a 10% drop.

I think they could have had those viewers with a more interesting matchup.
 
MIFlyer said:
I think they could have had those viewers with a more interesting matchup.
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Possibly.

It's also possible that the new format for the college championship pulled away some borderline NFL viewers this season, like me. I saw all the football I wanted by watching college games and spent no time watching NFL this year. (Did anything in the NFL this year come close to the drama of the UGA-GT game going into eight overtimes?) I watched the Superbowl but I was only marginally interested.

Also, all the peripheral and messaging ca-ca wrapped around pro football is really obnoxious to me. I just want to watch a decent game without the BS.
 
college overtime format is an abomination.
 
Half Fast said:
Possibly.

It's also possible that the new format for the college championship pulled away some borderline NFL viewers this season, like me. I saw all the football I wanted by watching college games and spent no time watching NFL this year. (Did anything in the NFL this year come close to the drama of the UGA-GT game going into eight overtimes?) I watched the Superbowl but I was only marginally interested.

Also, all the peripheral and messaging ca-ca wrapped around pro football is really obnoxious to me. I just want to watch a decent game without the BS.
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That's a real challenge for the NFL, given that tens of millions of people tune in to this one game each years for exactly that.
 
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