The Best Super Bowl Ever?

[Reub]

So was this the best game ever? Did Brady put his critics to shame? How bad was Seattle's call at the end that cost them the championship? How about that crazy  catch and that life saving interception?  Will Vladimir Putin somehow get owner  Bob Kraft's new ring?

[dualstow]

Larry David recently said that he could coach football and concoct plays. Maybe he should take over for the Hawks.

[Kbg]

I'm not a hard core fan of either team, but I did play a lot of football back "in the day."

I thought it was a great game. Not sure if the best ever but it was great fun to watch (except for the very weird Katy Perry half time show) and well worth the time spent.

I think the way the news sources are billing the Seattle call as the worst Super Bowl call of all time may for once be fair. It was truly epic in how bad it was.

Just my .02

[madbean]

I think the way the news sources are billing the Seattle call as the worst Super Bowl call of all time may for once be fair. It was truly epic in how bad it was.

Everyone seems to be assuming that Marshawn Lynch running it in from the one yard line would have been easy but they were talking about it last night on ESPN and showed all the previous attempts to run Marshawn Lynch from the one yard line earlier in the season. He only made it one out of five times and the other times he was stuffed for a loss.  So, for one thing, I don't think the Seattle coaches thought it was as automatic that he would make it as everyone else does.

But also, I think there was a bit of gamesmanship on the Patriots side in terms of clock management.  I think Seattle expected the Patriots to call time out and preserve as much time on the clock as they could and possibly even let them score quickly so they would have enough time to match it with a field goal (I think the announcers even suggested this). Obviously, the Patriots decided to put it all on the line with a goal line stand instead and when they let 40 seconds run off the clock it took Seattle by surprise. I think when they finally realized what the Patriot strategy was, with the clock ticking down, that's when they decided to take a shot at a pass and surprise the Patriots. Funny thing is, if it would have worked they'd probably be calling it the best call in Super Bowl history right now instead of the worse.

(Oh, and I thought it was the second best Super Bowl ever. The best was the year the Buccaneers beat the Raiders).

[moda0306]

The call really wasn't that bad.


http://www.vox.com/2015/2/2/7961789/pet ... ll-defense


The game really was great, except that part at the end where cheaters won the Super Bowl. 

[flyingpylon]

"Best" is so subjective.  It was definitely entertaining (which is also subjective but in a different way).

The thing I find interesting is how a single instant, a good play by an undrafted rookie defender, launches Brady and Belichick into "greatest ever" status among many.  If that one play goes the other way, they are still great but something considerably less.  Of course despite growing up in New England I despise the Patriots with every fiber of my being so I may be a bit biased.

I don't know about the call itself.  At the time I thought it was the dumbest call ever, but after thinking about it and listening to different opinions it might not have been quite so dumb (which is still a long way from saying it was smart).  If Wilson had thrown the ball sooner, or lower, or not lead the receiver as much... or if the receiver had hit the spot a little sooner or harder, it might have been a completion or incompletion, but not an interception.  Had it been a completion I don't think the receiver would have made it into the endzone based on the play the defender made.

I am most disappointed that the Seahawks didn't seem to fully understand their responsibility to the millions of "Anybody But The Patriots" fans out there.  They'll need to try a little harder in the future.

[Kbg]

I'm going to channel the inner Greco-Roman in me and say the game was a play thing of the Gods of Football.

Proof.

Fact 1: A miraculous late game catch after what was looking like the certain defeat of the Seahawks

Fact 2: yet, the last moment victory is cruelly snatched away by an unknown who claimed on national TV he had a vision of making this big play

Father Zeus must have been proud of these underling Football Gods; all divine intervention I think. 

[madbean]

Father Zeus must have been proud of these underling Football Gods; all divine intervention I think. 

Something I've been thinking is that after the miraculous finish in the Green Bay game which left him in tears and then the miraculous catch at the end of the Super Bowl, Russell Wilson might have become so convinced that God was on his side that he thought he couldn't lose. If so, I guess he learned the hard way that the football god giveth and the football god also taketh away.

[Kbg]

If so, I guess he learned the hard way that the football god giveth and the football god also taketh away.

Too funny I used this exact quote in a Facebook post.

[Reub]

Evidentally the Super Bowl was the best ever for Julian Edelman:

"Girl Made Sure Everyone On Tinder Knew She Banged Julian Edelman"

http://elitedaily.com/sports/girl-takes ... er/925452/

[Libertarian666]

Evidentally the Super Bowl was the best ever for Julian Edelman:

"Girl Made Sure Everyone On Tinder Knew She Banged Julian Edelman"

http://elitedaily.com/sports/girl-takes ... er/925452/

What an amazing achievement! To accomplish that, you need... a vagina.

[MachineGhost]

What an amazing achievement! To accomplish that, you need... a vagina.

Except she didn't use it.  He passed out and she was bored.  To accomplish that, you need... a smartphone.

[Libertarian666]

What an amazing achievement! To accomplish that, you need... a vagina.

Except she didn't use it.  He passed out and she was bored.  To accomplish that, you need... a smartphone.

Without her having a vagina, he wouldn't have been there in the first place. So that was still her "magic power".

[madbean]

What an amazing achievement! To accomplish that, you need... a vagina.

Except she didn't use it.  He passed out and she was bored.  To accomplish that, you need... a smartphone.

Without her having a vagina, he wouldn't have been there in the first place. So that was still her "magic power".

This is the first I ever heard of the Tinder App. From what I've read about it, it sounds like Julian Edelman probably had a lot of vaginas to choose from so I guess that lady gets the bragging rights for being the one selected.

Mr. Edelman will have to weigh in on whether it was the "best ever" or not. You can't really tell from the look on his face.

[Reub]

He does look exhausted!

[MachineGhost]

Without her having a vagina, he wouldn't have been there in the first place. So that was still her "magic power".

I can't assail that logic!  Nossir. 

Tinder is basically an enabler in general for Millenial women to increase the proportion of sluttiness vs historically where a small relative portion of women were the sluts to almost all men.  There's already a lot of negative consequences with this new access, but I highly doubt anyone is going to pay attention while they're obsessed with the "breeding motivation"...  only long after the fact.  With superficial narcissistic crap like woman's magazines, TMZ, Hollywood celebrity worship/gossip, social networking and smartphones, its a losing battle.  So long as we don't have another spike in unwanted children to unwedded mothers, all should be well!

[Libertarian666]

Without her having a vagina, he wouldn't have been there in the first place. So that was still her "magic power".

I can't assail that logic!  Nossir. 

Tinder is basically an enabler in general for Millenial women to increase the proportion of sluttiness vs historically where a small relative portion of women were the sluts to almost all men.  There's already a lot of negative consequences with this new access, but I highly doubt anyone is going to pay attention while they're obsessed with the "breeding motivation"...  only long after the fact.  With superficial narcissistic crap like woman's magazines, TMZ, Hollywood celebrity worship/gossip, social networking and smartphones, its a losing battle.  So long as we don't have another spike in unwanted children to unwedded mothers, all should be well!

Unless the culture changes drastically, we are headed downhill at a high rate of speed. Sluttiness seems to be increasing rather than decreasing, and until and unless women realize that they are going to end up childless and alone in their later years, why should they change? They're having FUN!

For a LOT more on this topic, analyzed mercilessly, see dalrock.wordpress.com. It is from a Christian perspective, which is not my perspective, but the analysis of what it is doing to our society is dead on in my opinion.