BBQ vs. Sourdough: Super Bowl LVIII thread

Well, he's gotten to the Super Bowl with three quarterbacks and reached the playoffs with four quarterbacks, so he's much more of a legitimate coach than your precious fraud Belichick. But it will be undeniably hilarious and grounds for fraudulence charges if/when he figures out another way to piss away a multi-TD lead in the fourth quarter tonight

 

I don’t even remember seeing anything from media day.

 

Afterward, the denizens of the SJ politics thread would miss the entire second half because they couldn't stop orgasming. So it's not exactly Mai Tais and Yahtzee out there.

 

Availability was 8 p.m. ET (Chiefs) and 10 p.m. ET (49ers). Because God forbid anybody do anything in the daytime.

 

We're 58 years into this, what else is there to do? It's baked into American culture, for better and for worse. The bye week has mostly been in place for the duration, so we're all used to the wait. It's three decades and change since people started doing outrageous shit at media day and since the halftime show became A Thing. We've pretty much seen it all. Short of Ray-Ray Lewis showing up with the bloody knife or Janet and Justin getting nekked at a presser, there's not much anyone can do to change the routine nature of Super Bowl week.

 

This retrospective of NFL Today on CBS is pretty good.

 

It's always been weird to me how, pre-2000 (or 1999) the Super Bowl was usually a blowout and it completely flipped on its head starting with that Rams-Titans game at the turn of the century.
Counting it up, 10 of the first 33 Super Bowls were competitive in the fourth quarter and four were decided in the last two minutes. Of the 24 Super Bowls since then, 16 have been one-score games in the fourth quarter and 12 have been decided (either a score, a defensive stop in plus-territory, or both) in the last 2 1/2 minutes or overtime.
This generation is spoiled, man. Our Super Bowls sucked and we liked it! <shakes fist at cloud>

 

Hey I’m just glad no reports of Ward, Bosa or Purdy caught with a hooker last night!!

 

Goddamn that was great. Musberger at the end...unexpectedly poignant.

 

I really hope that doc they just aired about The NFL Today is streaming, as I only caught the last 15 minutes. Growing up a Packers fan (and so getting the NFC package) was absolutely formative for me as a sports fan, not just an NFL fan. I was too late for Jimmy the Greek, but "YOU ARE LOOKING LIVE!" is a thing that was so burned into me that I find myself subconsciously using it in several contexts on and off the clock. I think CBS could cure a lot of what ails their NFL coverage by trending back toward that, and the Pots and Pans theme and stuff. So much of what they were doing back then just captured the moment. For example, this clip from 2:58 on.

The score, the writing, they're just perfect. I know for a face that this game was absolutely terrible, but the chord change at 4:42 puts a tear in my eye.

On this one, I'm not sure if the Rocky IV music holds up in this context, but the writing is just beautiful. It makes me empathize with George Fucking Halas.

 

Three of the first four Super Bowls I covered had a combined score of 143-30 (the other one was 23, which was a damn good game. Also the week was the pinnacle of '80s excess).

 

Just looked at today's Immaculate Grid and it of course has a 49ers-Chiefs theme. Which means it has a 49ers/Chiefs box that is the easiest ever -- just pick any Chiefs quarterback from about 1990 to 2015.