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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: EyesOfTX
I didn't watch the game - I still care about the 49ers, but I increasingly don't watch anymore. But it sounds like it was a great duel between two old defensive masterminds - Wade Phillips holding Tom Brady and Josh McDaniel to 13 points, and Bill Belichik shutting down the NFL's new offensive genius, Sean McVay.

This sounds like it was a solid defensive football game, though it may not have been entertaining for the types who never see an NFL game besides the Super Bowl.
61 posted on 02/04/2019 6:22:24 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: fuzzylogic

yea i GET it..


62 posted on 02/04/2019 6:23:57 AM PST by mowowie
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To: mowowie

Yep. New Supra is a Z4 with different styling. It’s even built in Graz, Austria.


63 posted on 02/04/2019 6:24:06 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: EyesOfTX

The teams might have been less lackluster if both teams that won the right to be there had been playing. Do the Pats play the Saints early in the season? I hope it’s the first game. That will be the real Super Bowl. And, oh yeah, that half time show. They should’ve let Gladys Knight do that. She was wonderful and classy with the National Anthem.


64 posted on 02/04/2019 6:26:33 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: SmokingJoe

Just my opinion Joe.
Billions would disagree with me though.

I’d rather watch paint dry..
I get why others would disagree it is just my one personal opinion.


65 posted on 02/04/2019 6:27:21 AM PST by mowowie
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To: grania

Pats will not play the Saints in 2019.

They will play the Eagles and Cowboys. And the Chiefs.


66 posted on 02/04/2019 6:34:01 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: EyesOfTX

I grew up in Texas as well. We said that soccer was for the Three F’s. Fags, flakes, and foreigners.


67 posted on 02/04/2019 6:37:07 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: mowowie

Well we can’t all like the same things. Which is fine because we are all different. Even my own brothers are not that keen on soccer and think I am nuts for being crazy about soccer all my life. It’s all good.


68 posted on 02/04/2019 6:37:59 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: EyesOfTX

I prefer the World Series, played by a sport that truly is diverse.


69 posted on 02/04/2019 6:39:22 AM PST by Doche2X2
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To: EyesOfTX

The Ads were more interesting than the game........................


70 posted on 02/04/2019 6:42:46 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: HangnJudge

The commercials were, as a whole, very bad. Many had this weird, creepy undertone, even when effective (i.e. - SimpliSafe) and/or were confusing, with bad choices of spokespeople, or with “famous” people I think I was supposed to know. Disappointed with Budweiser Windmills. 2 most offensive were Google PC Virtue Signal everything salad & WaPo journolists.
The only ones that got a plus from me were the opening Wal-Mart one Iconic cars, Hyundai people in elevator, Bud Light corn syrup keg, the mosh of Bud Light and Game of Thrones, Stella Artois (most interesting man in the world cameo), Verizon 1st responders, the Microsoft adaptive game controller, & the Toyota Supra (prototype?). There were several others that were tolerable to mildly funny and/or well done.


71 posted on 02/04/2019 6:49:18 AM PST by twyn1
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To: mowowie

I had two 1985s (previous body style). Great cars with that super smooth inline six. The teaming with BMW makes sense since BMW is probably the only major car company that still uses the inline six configuration. A Supra wouldn’t be a Supra without an inline six and I’m assuming they stayed with the tradition.


72 posted on 02/04/2019 6:50:10 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: jjotto

BMW parts bin car
https://jalopnik.com/the-2019-toyota-supra-is-a-bmw-parts-bin-car-1829563030

Toyota really blew it with this one considering the fan following the name brand has.
Could have been really something special..


73 posted on 02/04/2019 6:52:04 AM PST by mowowie
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To: Yardstick

Yea the Mark 2’s are iconic....great cars.
Those engines were sooooo smooth i can’t tell you how many times i went to start the car while it was already running.
Thank god i found out about cylinder head torque prob before i blew a gasket.


74 posted on 02/04/2019 6:58:23 AM PST by mowowie
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To: SmokingJoe

Americans, especially conservatives, are different than the rest of the world. If we wanted to be like the rest of the world, we would be democrats.


75 posted on 02/04/2019 7:01:29 AM PST by kosciusko51
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To: mowowie

Me too.


76 posted on 02/04/2019 7:02:55 AM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (WWG1WGA!)
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To: HypatiaTaught
Stopped watching both "news" and "sports" years ago.

And you're correct. My life is more fulfilled now than it was when I wasted my time watching the fake news and fake sports.

Some of my old buddies from school have asked me what in the world I do with all of my time now that I don't spends hours and hours watching news and sports.

I just look at them and shake my head. If they don't understand, then I can't explain it to them.

Life is not listening to some news anchor or taking head every night of the week. Or watching some game or listening to some sports commentator all weekend.

Life is everything outside of those contrived pursuits.

Yesterday was my birthday. I spent it playing with my 21 month old granddaughter and visiting with my daughter. Eating a favorite meal with the family. Not one TV was on the whole day and no one complained.

Life is good when you live it, instead of wasting it on trivial activities.

77 posted on 02/04/2019 7:08:21 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: dforest

I would still want my money back anyway!


78 posted on 02/04/2019 7:10:36 AM PST by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: jjotto
What a shame. The Rams just weren't up to it. It's like the Pats were bored and woke up long enough to score one TD in the 4th quarter.

I still have questions about the ref's call that saved the Rams. If that foul was intentional to stop the Pats from scoring, it seems the result should've been over turned. I don't trust any institution. I'd be shocked but not disbelieving if that game was handed to the Rams to maximize SuperBowl viewership.

79 posted on 02/04/2019 7:14:47 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: mellow velo
"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."

One of the reasons I've always loved Gladys Knight is that despite having an incredible set of pipes, she never relied on just showing them off constantly like many divas do. She used them when the song called for it but she preferred to emphasize the soul, feeling and emotion of a song. A truly gifted vocalist.

80 posted on 02/04/2019 7:15:25 AM PST by circlecity
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