BBQ vs. Sourdough: Super Bowl LVIII thread

Don't you just have people fill in random squares and then you pull the numbers from a deck of cards after shuffling? You get what you get.

 

IIRC you've used this sort of talisman prediction basis before. Any idea of the success record of it? (A question which no doubt makes Quant's eyes roll)

 

I reckon had I pulled the trigger and tied money to past talisman predictions ... I'd would have won many bets and much cash.

One of the funnier instances was a few years ago with the Duke/Fullerton State game in the Big Dance.

 

This feels like a rerun of last year. SF was this years team that looked a cut above everyone else for most of the season, showed some cracks down the stretch, recovered enough to hold on to the 1 seed, seems better than a KC team that continues to lose important pieces and this time really seems to no longer be themselves. That's going to be true one year, I'm not sure this is it. Are the Chiefs the 2000 Yankees or 2001? They're certainly not 1998.

 

Weren't the Eagles the team that seemed a cut above last year? They blew out their two playoff opponents, while KC was life and death to beat the Bengals in the conference title game.

 

For all of the talk of the Chiefs' demise, it's important to remember that five of their six losses were by one score. Three of those clearly hinged on a single play or two — the drops against the Lions and Eagles, and the Kadarius Toney play against the Bills — against teams that reached the playoffs.
The only games where they were flat-out beat were the Broncos in October and the Raiders on Christmas Day. So they finished 11-6, but could just as easily have been 14-3 with the No. 1 seed again if they catch a couple of passes and one guy lines up correctly. It's not like they stunk.

 

An NFL coach once told his team before a Super Bowl, and then the media afterwards, that it was a much tougher accomplishment for a team to win back-to-back road playoff games than to beat any team at the neutral site Super Bowl. The coach in question was Mike Shanahan, father of Kyle, before and after Super Bowl 32 when the Broncos upset the Packers.

 

This. I won $750 in the office squares last time I played. My boxes hit on a quarter, the half and the final score. The guy who ran it was pissed.

 

I'm so excited for this SB vs 2019 because there are several factors in SF's favor this time:

Purdy >> Jimmy G;
McCaffery >> Mostert (even though he had just run for 200);
Aiyuk and Deebo >>> Sanders (and young not yet All-Pro Deebo);
no Tyreek; and
Mahomes now is at most equal to Mahomes in 2019 (he can't get any better right??)
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Isn't it funny how pre-KC Reid was ripped as some terrible game manager and now he's one of the greatest ever? (And I like and appreciate him.)

Oh yeah, I like SF in Vegas more than Miami too (although likely irrelevant).

 

Pat's flying high in the Tom Brady stratosphere.

This is a special thing the Chiefs have, 4 Super Bowls in 5 years with 2 titles.

Didn't think we'd have another Brady/Patriots so soon.

 

I will say, the Chiefs have been on a run making Tua, Allen and Jackson look very ordinary these last few weeks. Hard to imagine they would have much trouble with Purdy.