BBQ vs. Sourdough: Super Bowl LVIII thread

My wife will go to her grave knowing only one NFL player --- Peyton Manning --- and that's fine with me.

 

Yeah my wife also has no interest in sports and that’s fine bc she respects my enthusiasm, except when I swear and scream at the TV, though she lets it go more often nowadays and even wanted to buy a Steelers t-shirt that reads, “Married into this.”

 

It's becoming increasingly clear Patrick Mahomes is the only normal member of his family and has probably been shouldering that burden for as long as he can remember.

https://pagesix.com/2024/02/04/ente...=pagesix&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

As was noted a couple weeks ago, Pat Sr. has lived HARD. I remember him smelling like booze the morning of a Mets game back in the day. Doesn't seem he's letting up. Hopefully he gets some help b/c as noted on Twitter, it's a damn near miracle he hasn't hurt or killed someone with THREE DUI busts.

 

I say this without a hint of respect. Please don't wast science's time with yours.

 

That's what he gets for not wanting to sit with Taylor.

 

waste

 

Murdoch still breathing? Huh.

 

Three?

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrit...homes-sr-arrested-for-6th-time-on-dwi-charge/

 

Maybe it shouldn't, but it continues to surprise me how many sports journalists (or in most of our cases, former sports journalists) are diehard fans of one (or more) particular team.

When I was a kid, I rooted for the Yankees, the Jets, the New York Rangers and Georgia Tech (because my Scout troop served as ushers for Tech's games so we got in free). But it didn't take long once I started covering sports for a living for that to go away.

There are indivduals I find myself pulling for because they entertain me or because of the way they play or they seem like good people (based on either personal experience or just how they come across in the media). There are also those I would rather not succeed, for the same reasons -- Deion Sanders being one example.

But as far as teams, I subscribe to the Jerry Seinfeld philosophy -- it's rooting for laundry. Granted, there are a few teams that I dislike because I find their fan bases predominantly nasty and obnoxious, but it doesn't bother me if they win. I just find it humorous when they lose.

What I find myself rooting for -- and this goes back to when I was writing about sports -- is a good story. It's why I loved the Lions this season, and the Chiefs when they began this run, among others.

 

Congratulations. You caught a typo. I know such small victories must be very meaningful for someone like you.

 

Maybe State Farm and Jake can do commercials with dad about why they won’t insure him.

 

Every time I’ve seen Pat Mahomes since his son found NFL stardom, he has carried that look of “I might be drunk, I might be high”. Just a level of not entirely “with” it — I know this from the journey of my first wife.

It is a burden that Patrick also has to overcome, between that and his brother.

I felt that for many years, having to provide for people who couldn’t/wouldn’t carry their own weight, making excuses or covering for them. Add in a father convicted of molesting 8 family members and, yeah…

It’s exhausting.

I was going to run to the window with 49ers -2.5, considering what happened three years ago when Andy’s son was hammered and plowed into that 5-year-old girl’s car. Bucs throttled the Chiefs days later.

But the only thing Patrick can really do for his dad is start doing Uber ads and getting pops a lifetime gift card in trade.