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Freethinker65

(11,144 posts)
1. Would be nice if people just boycotted the entire superbowl
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 07:16 PM
Jan 2019

Then again, I never really gave a fuck about any professional sports unless a team from where I was currently living was having a good year.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. So you're saying that you are a fair weather sports fan.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:40 PM
Jan 2019


One of the images from last year as the Browns were going 0-16, a Mom at one of the games covered the eyes of her young son while she looked onto the field in obvious distress. Cleveland fans that buy season tickets and show up season after season are the ultimate fans, IMO.

ArizonaLib

(1,265 posts)
2. The NFL rules enforcement is so bad it looks fixed. Still glad the Rams are in.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 07:20 PM
Jan 2019

Wade Phillips knows to how to beat Tom Bill. He did it with dead legs Manning and the great Aqib Talib. Prediction - Brady gets sacked 3+ times. Loses 2 Super Bowls in a row? Montana was perfect in bowls. Go Rams. They are home in LA!

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
6. Yeah-Manning in those few he attended..... N/T
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 08:00 AM
Jan 2019

Manning won two Super Bowls (Super Bowl XLI and Super Bowl 50) and played in two others (Super Bowl XLIV and Super Bowl XLVIII), being named MVP of XLI, while losing XLIV in an upset, and managing just one successful touchdown drive in each of XLVIII and 50.

So Manning is at 50% and Brady will have a better percentage even if he loses!

ArizonaLib

(1,265 posts)
7. Montana was perfect - Deadlegs Manning couldn't beat Brady without Wade Phillips/Aqib Talib
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 08:18 AM
Jan 2019

was what I had posted - go back and read it. Phillips/Aqib will make it a game. It's unlikely Brady/Belichek lose 2 supers in a row, but if he does, some shine will come off Brady for not being able to win in his last years. He got beat by a back up QB last year, and a defense that didn't allow Brady to move the ball in the final possession of that game. Good luck to TB12 - he is going to need all the help he can get.

ArizonaLib

(1,265 posts)
8. Also, don't let yourself get bated
Wed Jan 23, 2019, 08:31 AM
Jan 2019

by mentions of the Patriots/Brady/Belichek as one of those Boston fans who cry every time someone doesn't swoon and gush over them. The players and staff are all grown ups who do very well at using bulletin board material to advantage. They win more than anyone else. Can't win them all, though.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
11. Brady can't lose three Super Bowls in a row unless he loses this year and next.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 12:52 PM
Jan 2019

Before being beaten by the Eagles, Brady had won the Super Bowl the year before. He did lose two in a row to the Giants (07 and 11). This will be Brady's ninth Super Bowl, Montana had something like four or five. Brady won his first three Super Bowls.

I am not a Pats fan, but respect what they have done. Brady has played in something like 12 Conference Championship games over an 18 year period, winning 9 of them. No one but Michael Jordan has enjoyed that type of sports success. In my mind, it is settled, regardless of what happens in the Super Bowl, Brady is the greatest QB to ever play the game, if he wins this Super Bowl, then he goes beyond legend.

Scruffy1

(3,418 posts)
5. I just wish we could get the voters as excited about important stuff.
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 08:40 PM
Jan 2019

I remember in high school we lost a very important game because a ref made a mistake and blew the play dead because he thought a tire mark from the homecoming half time was the out of bounds.It ended a thirty something game winning streak, All of us just went on and it was an important life lesson.The head coach remained in control and didn't blow up. Under the rules the play is dead once the whistle blows.Period. Life isn't always fair and sometimes strange things happen. I'm sure the ref felt bad, too. Another thing I realized was any number of plays could have changed the results, anyway. A pass that was 6 inches off, the ball boucing differently, a missed tackle, and on and on. Things happen. Life goes on.

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