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Patriots and Rams Deliver a Super Bowl Deserving of its Halftime Show
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 02/04/2019 4:47:48 AM PST by EyesOfTX

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)

Can somebody tell me why I still watch these things? – The NFL almost pulled off what I had always assumed was the utterly impossible last night, staging a Super Bowl game that was very nearly as boring and tedious as a damn soccer match. Yes, yes, yes, I know – it was a “great defensive battle,” right? Spare me, please.

It was a game in which LA Rams quarterback Jared Goff played worse than any Super Bowl QB since at least Billy Kilmer and really since Joe Kapp in Super Bowl IV. The vaunted Rams offense punted on its first 8 possessions, racking up a princely 3 first downs in the process, before finally breaking through with an actual drive that resulted in an actual score – a field goal – with a few minutes remaining in the 3rd quarter.

You read that right: Rams fans (I’m not one) had already had to sit through that atrocity of a halftime show before their team even scratched the scoreboard. At least Patriots fans (I’m not one of those, either) got to see their guy kick a field goal before the NFL rolled Adam Levine, Maroon 5 and a bunch of hip-hop artists who CBS had to keep bleeping out onto the field to deliver what has to have been the most dreadful halftime show since Up With People performed back in the mid-70s.

Somewhere, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is no doubt preparing to have a press conference in which he says something like, “look, I have worn full-length mink coats and heavy chain jewelry while in black face many times in my life, but I swear I was not that fat rapper who performed with Maroon 5 last night, and I want to use facial recognition software to prove it.”

The show’s sole redeeming value was that the media-hyped promise that Levine would give some sort of tribute to all the wealthy NFL slobs who kneel during the national anthem failed to materialize. Guess either the NFL or CBS warned him off.

For their own part, Tom Brady and the Patriots offense played possum through the first 53 minutes of the contest before Brady finally started targeting all-time great tight end Rob Gronkowski on a fantastic drive that ended in a TD run by RB Sony Michel. The Rams got the ball back and, with the Patriots in a soft “prevent” defense, promptly moved the ball to the New England 27 yard line before Goff very predictably threw an interception that effectively ended the contest. That INT occurred with 2:43 remaining on the game clock, ending the lone 4-minute and 17-second flurry of actual action in this three-hour long contest.

When you think about it, that’s actually not as tedious and boring as the average soccer match, which will have about 45 seconds of actual action spread over about two and a half hours.

So, at the end of the night, in spite of everything – including Adam Levine taking his shirt off, I guess in a tribute to Janet Jackson – American football is still better than soccer. Faint praise, but it’s all I got.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: football; larams; losangelesrams; maroon5; newenglandpatriots; nfl; patriots; rams; spongebob; spongebobsquarepants; superbowl; superbowlliii
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To: eeriegeno

...Worst commercials in a long time.

Most of the commercials were lame, or worse
I liked the BudLight?GOT conflation
The Supra commercial was outstanding


41 posted on 02/04/2019 5:49:08 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: silent_jonny
The coin toss Congress critter was John Lewis, who represents the Atlanta area.

Gladys Knight was a highlight of the evening. She certainly did a classy rendition of the Anthem, and didn't drag it out like some of the wanna-be divas who've performed in the past.

The WaPo commercial was a joke. Weren't they one of the lamestream media outlets that identified Gov Northam as a Republican?!

And is the fact that the piss water otherwise known as Bud Light is brewed without corn syrup enough to make it a recurring theme on almost all of their ads?

42 posted on 02/04/2019 5:49:13 AM PST by mellow velo
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To: EyesOfTX

I did not watch it and never will again. Leftists like levine have long since destroyed the nfl.

JoMa


43 posted on 02/04/2019 5:49:22 AM PST by joma89
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To: EyesOfTX

This was NOT a “defensive battle!” This was two offenses spitting and sputtering like-waterlogged engines. They looked lethargic throughout the entire first half because they were both trying to hit the “deep strike” instead of playing their normal games - and it showed!

Brady had MINUTES to pass back there and he still under threw, over threw and looked like crap - some “goat!”

Goff was the only one pressured, but most of that was in his head - because he kept trying to wait for the long ball to open up...when he had several WIDE OPEN RECEIVERS underneath!

We actually turned off the game after the half-time show (which equally sucked) - we didn’t even see LA kick their lone score! We watched “Shane” instead!


44 posted on 02/04/2019 5:51:26 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: Drew68

Besides the last sonG the rest were actually hits?
they all sounded like lower B-sides from some obscure lousy bad nobody ever heard from.
Told my GF that if one of those so-called songs came on the car radio i would subconsciously just change the station without a second thought.
And those lame ass tunes were chosen for a Superbowl Halftime show?.....Unbelievable.
Then the shirt came off..

And here i thought the 100 homo’s prancing around in spandex butterfly outfits a few years ago was bad..


45 posted on 02/04/2019 5:55:26 AM PST by mowowie
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To: mellow velo

D’oh—John Lewis. I had the TV muted so I didn’t hear the names.


46 posted on 02/04/2019 5:56:38 AM PST by silent_jonny ("forward to what lies ahead" -- Phil. 3:13)
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To: EyesOfTX

Why did he watch??? Hey, EVEN BEFORE the kneel down on the National Anthem fiascos of these whining players, I QUIT watching. I saw the very first play of the very first Super Bowl way back in the 1960s with my Dad. We always watched games together. But, four years ago, I said the hell with the NFL, the NBA, and even MLB. I barely watch MLB any more. I watch some EURO Winnie soccer. That is about it. I don’t watch college sports anymore either. I finally, in my late 60s, grew up and decided I did not need to yell at the TV screen anymore, that I had no outcome on the games, the Ref’s couldn’t hear me, the coaches couldn’t hear me, so why do it??? I finally decided there was more to life. I discovered my wife was still hear on weekends, so we do things on weekends and Monday nights. No more does all these 80 hours per week of sports rule my life. I finally gave it all up. I got a life. I decided it was time to enjoy life. The NFL was the VERY first sport I sent packing. The kneeling crap was already taken care of, I wasn’t watching anyway.


47 posted on 02/04/2019 5:57:15 AM PST by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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To: fwdude

This is my question too. I took it that the boycott was over when all the fine FReepers here weighed in at great length on the “missed call”. Obviously they watched the game...


48 posted on 02/04/2019 6:03:43 AM PST by BDParrish (One representative for every 30,000 persons!)
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To: Deplorable American1776

What site is that i am interested.


49 posted on 02/04/2019 6:06:19 AM PST by mowowie
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To: SmokingJoe

soccer sucks


50 posted on 02/04/2019 6:08:22 AM PST by mowowie
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To: EyesOfTX
Saw a funny tweet on Fox and Friends this morning from the Onion.

Super Bowl Halftime Show Marred By Functioning Sound System https://trib.al/fYuc2DN


51 posted on 02/04/2019 6:12:36 AM PST by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SmokingJoe

Soccer has a lot of white players.

American football is 80% black these days. 100% on most defenses. Need some affirmative action to make the nfl and nba “look more like America.”


52 posted on 02/04/2019 6:13:18 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: HangnJudge

I used to own a Beautiful maroon ‘87 Supra turbo my favorite car.
10 years, 320,000 miles engine still purred like the day i bought it.
Up until last night i had never seen a Toyota Supra commercial before...it was a good one.
On that note it is really not a Toyota but a two seater BMW Z4.
Verry disappointed...


53 posted on 02/04/2019 6:14:14 AM PST by mowowie
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To: silent_jonny

CBS pimping themselves as “real news” was a chuckle for me. They showed worldwide events as though they’re on top of everything. Somewhat different than the day-to-day PDJT bashing.


54 posted on 02/04/2019 6:14:43 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: EyesOfTX

Boring Game, unless you enjoy watching punts. But for m, punting equates with failure.


55 posted on 02/04/2019 6:16:25 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: fuzzylogic
CBS pimping themselves as “real news” was a chuckle for me.

Yep, insert fake for real and then you have honesty

56 posted on 02/04/2019 6:17:49 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: mowowie; SmokingJoe

Thank you for your detailed and insightful analysis. Why cr*p on something others enjoy? ...just because YOU don’t get it.


57 posted on 02/04/2019 6:17:52 AM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: mowowie

Why, thank you most kindly, sir. :)


58 posted on 02/04/2019 6:20:27 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: EyesOfTX

I learned that fur-coat-wearing pimps driving up in Cadillacs is just a stereotype.

Adam Levine was sorely missing his auto-tune. My kids, who know his songs, were cringing at the high notes, and he was flat throughout.

SpongeBob SquarePants?


59 posted on 02/04/2019 6:21:46 AM PST by Rinnwald
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To: EyesOfTX

Didn’t watch the Superblow...watched the Puppy Bowl.


60 posted on 02/04/2019 6:22:20 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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