NFL Schedule - 2014 Season Super Bowl XLIX [Live Conference Championships Playoff Thread Week 22]

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[Bender2]

Playoffs - Super Bowl

SUN, FEB 1
New England at Seattle 6:30 PM NBC U of Phoenix Stadium

[Bender2]

Gadzooks, that well oiled circus known as the Super Bowl has come full circle again... to roll back into town with it uninflated balls hanging out--

First, some old biz-- There are posters here on FR who claim to read these NFL Thread religiously... yet they do not know my team is the Dallas Cowboys-- First, Last & Always.

I won't say they are at best liars... as I will leave it to those who have been regulars on these NFL Threads for years to make judgement--

Now, as for Infaltifada Uprising known as Ballgate, let us go back a few years to the home of those pointing the longest fingers. The NFC Wild Card playoff round on January 6, 2007, where the Seattle balls handlers picked the newest, slickest, hardest to handle and catch football to give to the refs for my Cowboys to attempt a game winning field goal as time ran out. The rest, as they say is history--

Now, as the years have passed I have not harped on that. Neither has Tony Romo even when that failed attempt is shown each and every year ad nauseam.

Each team works up the footballs for their quarterbacks and kickers. Use Google or youtube to see what is common knowledge among more knowledgeable NFL fans.

Every team in the NFL looks for the best advantage and takes what it can to get the job done. That job is winning. Period. Second place is for the coaches who get pink slips--

As they says, "Sprinkles... are for winners!"

So, was the psi of the footballs at Gillette Stadium the only thing that made a difference in who won the game. Perhaps if the game had been real close or depended on one single play--

For instance let us say... that PAT attempt in Seahagland back in the 2006 season.

The Pats won last Sunday because they routed the Indy Colts in all areas of the game: passing, running and butt-kicking--

But in the long run, facts or common sense do not take away the tinfoil. Unfortunately those shiny-manureheads and their conspiracy forever outlook will be with us like bad weather and certain fans who turn off even their own.

Now I am not a fan of the Patroits... Don't believe me, ask big.

D'oh! Bendy sure ain't no fan... of my Pats.

Back in 2007 the New England Patriots were on the verge of being the only 19-0 team in NFL history. During that season there was one particular poster on the NFL Thread that made nearly everyone sick with his outlandish rants and sharp taunts to anyone. I found myself rooting for the New York Giants to win Super Bowl XLVI--

Gadzooks! Just saying that... caused me to throw up a little in my mouth--

So, here we are with the Seahags playing big's Patty Cakes in the Big One-- The Whole Enchilada-- Super Bowl XLIX

While I need to give the devil their due, the Seahags pulled off a miracle finish last week... but I don't think they will repeat as NFL Champs. Where the Packers didn't have a killed instinct last Sunday. The Pats did, do and will let the hot air out of Seattle's slick, overinflated balls.

If I am wrong, and the Seahags win, I will not shout they cheated or rigged the game. I will just suck it up... and start planing for my Boy being in Super Bowl 50!

Now, get you picks in... before I accuse you all of killing Kennedy!

[Bender2]

Bend, I got no dog in this hunt... but I do hate them Seahags more than I do the Pats.

Holy Air Pump, Batman... Hank is not getting his pick in!

Before you can make your pick, Darling, you have to grab the bull... by the corn--

Al just loves it... when I grab his corn!

Look, get your pick in, folks, before... I use up all the hot water--

BTW big, to ease the Packer getting the nasty end of the stick last Sunday... I made these up for you:

From http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-Jan-1967-AFL-NFL-Championship-Super-Bowl-I-5-of-6-Cachet-Cover-A-/281570479179?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT:

From http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-Jan-1967-AFL-NFL-Championship-Super-Bowl-I-5-of-6-Cachet-Cover-B-/281570479343?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT:

From http://www.ebay.com/itm/15-Jan-1967-AFL-NFL-Championship-Super-Bowl-I-5-of-6-Cachet-Cover-C-/281570479437?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT:

[Third Person]

GO PATS

[nascarnation]

So will Bostick (the GB onside muff guy) follow in the footsteps of Hank Baskett of the Colts (SB XLIV onside muff) and go on to marry a reality tv star?

[Perdogg]

New England should have won Super Bowl XLII but because of poor coaching on New England lost.

[knarf]

Pats by 3

I think the birds will swoop in for the kill ... but they won't be able to manage little more than talons dug deep in Brady's shoulder.

[Ken H]

Why all the focus on a game?

We've got big economic problems to deal with, such as deflation.

[rickomatic]

The Dallas field goal attempt ball is provided by thr Dallas sideline. Just sayin.......

[Perdogg]

Dont roids cause deflated balls?

[Steve_Seattle]

Nobody will believe this, but as a Seahawk fan I can share some of the Packer fans’ sense of strangeness about that game. Despite the momentary ecstasy of an improbable victory, there is a lingering sense of weirdness about the game that prevents me from fully enjoying it. I would have preferred an ordinary win to a win based on such a freakish series of events, all of which had to exactly fall into place.

[MHGinTN]

Four turnovers yet the Packers couldn’t put the Seahags away. Is Boston any better? ... Well, yes they are, and I’m a PAckers fan dyed int he wool. Pats by 18. By the start of the foruth quarter it will be over and Seahag fans will be groveling for an excuse.

[big'ol_freeper]

Well said my friend.

I would add:

Colts’ Dwayne Allen: Patriots Could’ve ‘Played With Soap For Balls And Beat Us’

Deflategate Would be a Non-Issue For Anyone but the Patriots

Former Tampa Bay QB Brad Johnson Says He Paid People to Tamper with Footballs

ELI MANNING LIKES HIS FOOTBALLS DOCTORED

Phil Simms: Aaron Rodgers Prefers Over-Inflated Footballs For Better Grip

I could post more

In the Army we had a saying. If you have a standard and you accept less than that standard then you've established a new lower standard. Sounds to me like there has been a lot of ball manipulation going on and the Pats were just playing to that standard.

Now to the game....

The New England Patriots will roll over the Seattle Seathugs just like they did the crybaby Folds of Indianapolis

Bank on it. It's money

[big'ol_freeper]

Steve, I’m a die hard Packer fan. Enjoy the victory. They earned it.

[nascarnation]

No it isn’t, the “K” balls are kept by the officials. They are separate from game balls.

[Steve_Seattle]

It was actually five turnovers - 4 interceptions and a fumble.

[Gargantua]

Pats by 3...

...touchdowns. Patriots 37, Seahags 14.

Let's revisit in a couple weeks.

(P.S.) I wanted to say "Pats 47..."

[Gargantua]

"Bank on it. It's money"

Patriots 37, Seahags 14

Patty's could drop a "fitty-burger" on 'em. Count on Brady playing real pissed.

[RainMan]

People are picking against my HAWK’s thinking that last week is a precursor to next week ... but look at it this way. The hawks rarely have consecutive bad weeks, and had they not spotted GB 5 turnovers and average field position in their own territory, the game could very well have been a blowout for Seattle. (i.e, GB does what they did w normal down and distance and they would have scored about 9 and the final score would have been 16-9 WITHOUT overtime or the on-side kick.) They basically limited Aaron Rodgers (QBR 55) and the entire GB offense (135 rushing yards) to nuttin honey. So ... Seattle has a “normal” game, which means they win the turnover differential, and their defense is just as stout as it was this last week, and their offense does what their offense does (put up around 250 in the air and 200 on the ground) and ... it will be a long day for the NE de-flators. Seahawks 28, NE 13

[hoagy62]

A storm is brewing...

[dainbramaged]

Seahawks 44, Cheatriots 9.