BBQ vs. Cheesesteaks: Super Bowl LIX thread

[BurnsWhenIPee]

The '91 Blues still ache in my heart.

Glad I'm not the only one who is still haunted by that season. Absolutely ridiculous that they lost to freaking Minnesota.

 

[outofplace]

Donovan McNabb's vomit and the legend of Tom Brady make us forget that the 2004 Steelers and Eagles both deserve a mention.
The Steelers were 15-1. They lost to the Ravens in Week 2 and then didn't lose again until the AFC championship game. They beat the Patriots in the regular season.
The Eagles were 13-1 before parking the bus for the last two weeks and finishing 13-3, with the one loss to the Steelers. Then they had every chance in the world to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl but let it get away.

Those Steelers just couldn't beat the Patriots when it mattered. They beat the two Super Bowl teams in consecutive weeks, but they Pats raced out to a 24-3 halftime lead when they met again in the playoffs.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

I'm still Pished that the 1998 Vikings cheated us out of what should have been a good Super Bowl against the Broncos.

 

[ChrisLong]

And as to the champion not being the best team, hockey offers several candidates if we want to extend it to teams that didn't even reach the finals - '71 Bruins, '86 Oilers, '93 Penguins, and '96 Red Wings foremost among them.

The '93 Penguins were 10 points better than the next-best team (119 to Boston's 109). The Final was between L.A. and Montreal. Both finished third in their divisions. The Kings had only 88 points (31 behind Pittsburgh, but they were in different conferences). The Kings "benefited" from Wayne Gretzky's back injury and surgery that was revealed just before opening night. He missed half the season -- and a half season of wear and tear. He came back at midseason was in good shape all the way to the end and through the playoffs.

 

[dixiehack]

I'm still Pished that the 1998 Vikings cheated us out of what should have been a good Super Bowl against the Broncos.

Every once in a while, my ex liked to reashure herself that seducing me could pull my interest away from football. For the 1999 NFC Championship she was right.

 

[swingline]

I work in the corporate offices for a major national retailer, and whenever we have non-white male models in any of our major catalogs, we brace for the ashholes to come out. Typically get a couple dozen nasty emails and voicemails about how "That isn't your target audience! If that's who you want to be your customers, fine, my family is out! Didn't you learn from Bud Light?!?!?! Get woke, go broke, ashholes!"

All because we had the nerve to put a black man (or God forbid, a black or Asian female) in a sweater that we sell.

I think (or at least pray) that that is the horrible, vocal minority (no pun) of society, but seeing those reactions really makes me weep for where we are right now.

Does that online anger (?) result in lower sales revenue?

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

The '93 Penguins were 10 points better than the next-best team (119 to Boston's 109). The Final was between L.A. and Montreal. Both finished third in their divisions. The Kings had only 88 points (31 behind Pittsburgh, but they were in different conferences). The Kings "benefited" from Wayne Gretzky's back injury and surgery that was revealed just before opening night. He missed half the season -- and a half season of wear and tear. He came back at midseason was in good shape all the way to the end and through the playoffs.

Beat by Glenn Healy and Dave Volek.

To Montreal's defense though, Patrick Roy was playing at a near unstoppable level as the playoffs progressed. That's the funny thing about hockey. Once the playoffs begin you're as good as the guy in net and the guy in net you're facing.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Does that online anger (?) result in lower sales revenue?

Not in the least, as far as we've been told.

And it hasn't led us to change our approach to catalog models.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Here's another:

1994 Seattle Supersonics

 

[ChrisLong]

Beat by Glenn Healy and Dave Volek.

To Montreal's defense though, Patrick Roy was playing at a near unstoppable level as the playoffs progressed. That's the funny thing about hockey. Once the playoffs begin you're as good as the guy in net and the guy in net you're facing.

So true about Roy.
The Kings rode Kelly Hrudey. I remember one coach, I think it was Pat Burns of the Maple Leafs, shaking his head and saying, "I had no idea Kelly Hrudey was that good."

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Beat by Glenn Healy and Dave Volek.

To Montreal's defense though, Patrick Roy was playing at a near unstoppable level as the playoffs progressed. That's the funny thing about hockey. Once the playoffs begin you're as good as the guy in net and the guy in net you're facing.

And now of course Patrick is coaching the Islanders (who might have had a better chance if that dirty forking Capital Dale Hunter hadn't hurt Pierre Turgeon, what a shock, a dirty forking Capital hurting an Islanders player during the playoffs @Cosmo!!!!)

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Here's another:

1994 Seattle Supersonics

2002 Sacramento Kings #TheFixWasIn