BBQ vs. Sourdough: Super Bowl LVIII thread

LOL

 

Silly us questioning decisions made by powerful institutions. What were we thinking?

 

If you really gave a shit, you'd stop watching. Of course fans don't care. You're one of them, dipshit.

We all sound like heroin addicts between injections talking about how terrible drugs are.

Which, again, shows just how unstoppable the NFL is.

 

It's possible, even probable, to watch games but still think the way the NFL runs its business sucks.

 

Yes, AND AGAIN, that is the perfect illustration of how dominant the NFL is in society.

I agree with the criticisms, but to hear people who are massive NFL fans complain about how fans don't really care is hilarious. If we really cared, we wouldn't watch.

 

Many baseball fans care deeply but still don't watch the World Series.

 

I'm not sure you know what the word "fans" means.

 

Anyway, I am always amazed when I run into the occasional adult who is completely oblivious about sports. The kind of person who looks at you confused if you bring up Tom Brady or Michael Jordan. But I'm also a little jealous. Those folks don't have to spend A SINGLE SECOND of their lives on the self-inflicted emotional roller-coaster that is sports fandom.

 

I will bet you, Q, that those persons have some other topic, politics, movies, opera, gardening, whatever, that sends them on just as much emotional turmoil as sports does to its fans. Well, maybe not as much as sports inflicts on Bears fans, but close.

 

NFL Network has begun its marathon of Super Bowl highlight films. Just closing out Bowl V. One thing that stands out. Just about every play I have seen in Bowls III and IV ends with a tackle that'd get you 15 yards and maybe an ejection today. More than a few now highly illegal comeback and cut blocks, too. Game wasn't as fast back then, but man was it dirtier.

 

Watched Super Bowl XLIII today as it was the last Steelers title and what a game it was — voted No. 1 by USA Today’s Thomas Neumann a few years ago — as the Cardinals trailed almost the whole game until Larry Fitz caught a seam route and split the safeties for a go-head TD with under 2:50 left in the game. Just a tremendous, swing-heavy game replete with a late safety that brought Cards to within four, 20-16, before the Fitz TD and the iconic rope from Big Ben to Santonio Holmes to give Pitt the lead with under a minute left. Game ended on a strip sack of Kurt Warner by LaMarr Woodley that was recovered by Brett “the Diesel” Kiesel.

James Harrison’s 100-yard pick six to end the first half still boggles the mind in terms of how Cards couldn’t bring him down.

Love re-watching old games and seeing players I haven’t thought of in years.

 

There was another huge play on the Steelers' winning drive that's been all but forgotten.
The Steelers got backed up by a holding call and had first-and-20 at their own 12. Roethlisberger avoided a sack inside the 5, completed a pass to Holmes for a good chunk of the 20, then they converted on third down to keep the drive alive and got rolling from there. If Roethlisberger was sacked there it's second-and-30 at the two minute warning and they're in a heap of trouble.