BBQ vs. Sourdough: Super Bowl LVIII thread

It's crazy that Reid's win for Coach of the Year was 2002!!!! Guy has won 12 games four times and 14 twice in the last eight years and everyone just shrugs

 

Where’s the lol?

 

I'd throw that Jaguars team in there, if only b/c they and the 2007 Patriots are almost surely the only Super Bowl-era teams to lose to one team all season and not win the Super Bowl.

 

Those 1968 Colts scored 402 points and gave up 144.

Only team in the Super Bowl era with a better average point differential is the 2007 Patriots.

 

The '68 Colts were a load. It is difficult, however, to win any game when you throw four interceptions and lose a fumble. Namath's pregame prediction obscures the truth that the Colts choked away Super Bowl 3 from start to finish (Jets played perfect '60s football to take advantage of this, but without it, they got no shot).

 

I'd also mention the 1998 Vikings, who went 15-1 & outscored the opposition 556-296 and then routed the Cardinals 41-21 before a team-wide gack job in the NFC Championship Game.

 

Covered that game. Falcons offense had an excellent game, and as has happened before and since in NFL history, including in this year's playoffs, the Vikings managed the end of the game to set it up for their infallible placekicker, who promptly failed.

 

We're 19 pages in ... has it been pointed out yet that the Roman numerals in the thread title are for 48 and not 58?

 

I don't think so (unless it was corrected in the past 45 minutes )

48 is XLVIII
smaller number (X) before larger one (L) reduces it by the smaller number (50-10+5+3).

58 is LVIII
50+5+3

 

I don't know. Randall Cunningham was on another planet that season and none of us were sure if Randy Moss was of this planet. Surely would have been a rare pre-2000 classic.