BBQ vs. Cheesesteaks: Super Bowl LVII running thread

About a decade ago, there was a blog written by an American who got interested in rugby. He would write about all the different rules of football. He posted about Australian Rules, Gaelic Football. It was a great history of how and why the game developed in such different fashions.

Is that guy the first?

I played rugby in college and Jonah Lomu was the greatest player. He was supposedly offered a contract with the Cowboys. The debate was whether he would be a star in the NFL

 

David Dixon was a rugby player who had a decent career with the Vikings on the O line. He may have played some college football.

The Lomu contract was never true. He would have been great as a TE who lined up off the line.

 

A tight end? He was more like a running back for his size and speed.

 

Jerry is 94

 

It's crazy how "dead" this SB interim has been - very little drama, no controversy regarding the two teams. Most of these 20 pages have been about other NFL items, not much about the game. Not even some third-teamer popping off.

 

Yeah, it's been all football. I think that the vast expansion of knowledgeable x and o reporting and analysis in all media has been a very good thing, but when all of it is focused on one game for two weeks, it gets repetitious to say the least.

 

Third-teamers can pop off 24/7 on Twitter. It’s not a case where they’re only getting attention because they’re sitting alone at a table on the edge of the room and some desperate writer interviews them in search of something good for the eighth sidebar.

 

True. Still crazy how many media types are in Phoenix and how little news has come out this week.

 

Most Super Bowls produce very little news. There's just not much new information by the time the two teams get on site. The coverage is the school figures of sportswriting. It goes over information devout fans and most fans of both teams know, but that the much vaster audience for the Super Bowl may not. BTW, for the opening day of legal sports betting in Massachusetts last week, one local TV station here ran a how-to piece, telling viewers how a point spread works and the money line and such. That ought to work out just swell.

 

Did they do a stand-up on campus at BC?

 

I miss the days of Magic Johnson’s bodyguard beating up Daryl Talleyin a nightclub. That’s a Super Bowl.