Super Bowl XLIII Running Thread

Probably fair. The 2005 team's differentials in the postseason, though, were significant enough to give them the slight edge in this one man's formula.

I paid no heed to whether points scored or allowed were in garbage time. So, late scores by the Chargers would hurt.

 

i assume it helped the steelers 'beat' a better team in xl than xliii, as well.

 

It doesn't matter in this workup. I can't get my hands around a point value for that. Besides, my belief is that you are always playing a pretty damned hot team in the SB.... Even the Rams, who looked awful in the 1979 season and a 'meh' playoffs, had a hell of a game in XIV.

 

oh. my bad.

 

If I feel I could have properly accounted for that, I would have.

 

Here's another list.

Backs up my point that the Jets' win over the Colts gets WAY too much credit.

The next year, the Chiefs pulled off every bit of the upset, miraculously scoring 23 points against a Vikings defense that had allowed less than 10 a game.

The most number of points scored per point allowed among Super Bowl teams:

1969 Vikings, 3.29-1

1968 Colts, 2.79-1

1985 Bears, 2.3030-1

1975 Steelers, 2.3025-1

1973 Dolphins, 2.29-1

1972 Dolphins, 2.25-1

1999 Rams, 2.1736-1

1996 Packers, 2.1714-1

1991 Redskins, 2.1652-1

2007 Patriots, 2.15-1

 

It's Stillers, not Steelas.

 

A guy makes a an illegal play in a football game and you decide you can discern what sort of person he is from that?
That's worse than talk-show caller thinking. That's grade-school level thinking.
I'm not saying Harrison is Mother Theresa. I'm saying, and let's make this clear: I DON'T KNOW. I've never met the man. I've watched him play football on TV. I do not sit here and extrapolate that this makes him a wonderful or terrible human being. I kinda think that a mature adult would want to make such judgments based on personal interaction, or not at all. You must be one of those people who sits there and reads US Weekly and gets offended because Brad walked out on Jennifer.
And you call my post dumb.

 

Agreed. I also thought it was kind of funny that two Dolphins teams that lost in the Super Bowl ended up directly ahead of this year's Steelers.

Looking at the criteria, I can't say I agree with putting extra weight on regular-season point differential, which hurts teams that played a tougher schedule. That is a big reason this year's Steelers rank so low.

 

Not perfect, to be sure.

But, the Steelers played the Browns and Bengals four fucking times.

Give me a break.

 

I found a missed call that I did forget about.

The Cards called for a facemask when, clearly, both players were facemasking.

One of my friends got a bunch of hellacious photos from the game, including the Holmes shot from the opposite end of the field.

http://www.uspresswire.com/search/photographer/220829/page1

Image 32 is the clear double facemask.

 

oop, I will try a strength of schedule factor, and re-order the list