Super Bowl 50

The 49ers' field gave the Panthers a chance to show their slide protection.

 

Yeesh. That looks like a video game glitch.

 

If I were more tech savvy, I'd be inserting a gif of Sub-Zero freezing the ground behind Oher into that clip. My imagination will have to do.

 

I don't recall where I read it, but doesn't the league usually try to hustle players on the losing team off the field rather quickly in order to set up the celebration ceremony?

Not saying it happened here, and like I said, I don't recall where I read it, but it could be an explanation.

 

No.

 

Not the article I read, but Ricky Proehl says they rush losing players off like cattle.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/02/03/sports/football/ap-fbn-super-bowl-failure.html?_r=0

 

That's a hell of a Photoshop effort then.

 

How on earth did the right tackle not get called for a false start?

 

Roller skates.

 

Every SB is a little different. All kinds of factors play into whether Player A has a chance to congratulate Player B on the field before other obligations kick in. Sometimes the mass of humanity on the field fucks with the logistics. Unless you can come up with 49 photos of SB QBs together at the ends of games, I'll assume that's what happened after Saints-Colts.

 

That or shop in a Mario Kart player dropping a banana peel by Oher's feet.

 

So I wrote I blog post on rotten performances by both winning and losing Super Bowl quarterbacks. If you must know, Peyton's only third worst, and Newton isn't in the top 15. But what caught my eye is the following amazing stats. In the Dolphins two wins in Bowls 7 and 8 (can we please lose the Roman numerals?), Hall of Famer Bob Griese threw a total of 18 passes, 11 in the first win, 7 in the second. I disliked it then and dislike it now when the NFL started changing the rules to give offense the unfair advantage in the late '70s. which they'll probably do again now that a defense won another Super Bowl, but I have to admit that if they hadn't changed the rules, scores might look like the Premier League today.

PS: Hall voters must've felt Griese gave great handoff.