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How about that I used roman numerals for a SB. I'm tired of seeing the NEP in the SB almost every year. But let me tell you something about deflated a gate, spying on other teams, practices, etc.....

Back when I was growing up in the 70's there was the Steelers and the steel curtain, there were the Cowboys and their America's team nonsense. Both teams won 6 SB's between them. But the other dynasty was the team that is best remembered today and thats the Oakland Raiders. I'm sure there are a few other oldtimers like me and oldmasastro who remember the Raiders dynasty. They were the exact opposite of the Steelers and especially the Cowboys. You could hate them all you want but you couldn't help but to get a chuckle out of the way they did things. During SB week there are plenty of videos about the Raider way of doing things. And let me tell you something else. There have been more books written about the Raiders than the rest of the NFL combined. They had the most famous owner in the history of professional sports. I didn't mean to digress. But I saw a video about one of the Raiders SB champion teams. Matt Millen who was a lb on their SB teams said when he was a rookie he saw a sign that said:

Oakland Raiders rule number 1
cheating is encouraged

Oakland Raiders rule number 2
see Raider rule number 1

What Millen said was that you didn't have to cheat to be on the Raider but whatever it took to get the job done do it. Straight, honest, cheat it didn't matter as long as you got it done.

And that's where Tom Brady and Bill Bellichek come in. The greatest football writer of all time is a guy named Dan Jenkins. He said it best about TB and BB.

"He took a deflated fb in the SB so he could win."
I don't see how this makes him any different than any other qb I've seen.

"Bill Bellichek has been caught more than once spying on other teams practices."
I still don't see how this makes him any different than any other coach I've seen.

Hey guys it's the NFL. You really think the Cowboys didn't find a was to get around the rules? You're fooling yourself cause you didn't know how unscrupulous Tex Schramm and especially Gil Brandt were.

So what I'm trying to say is this is how I try to keep things in perspective. I haven't had a vested interest in the NFL for more than 25 years now. Back in the Warren Moon era the Oilers broke my heart so many times I couldn't take it anymore. But I do watch the playoffs. So make a big deal all you want about Tom Brady but thats the real world when it comes to pro sports. And damned if I don't respect the hell out of him. Two weeks ago his Patriots went to Kansas City against one of the new lions, Patrick Mahomes and his team won in overtime. Tomorrow its against another new lion, Jared Goff. And just like two weeks ago the old man is going to win

NE 38
LA 28

and Tom Brady is going to set a record that no other NFL player will ever match and that's 6 SB rings.
 
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I truly don’t care who wins. One thing for sure is we’ll all feel like losers for having to endure a crappy halftime show and I’m not even sure who all us performing, just speculating.
 
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After the Oilers left, I lost most of my interest in the NFL. I used to root for whichever NFL team had Longhorns on it, or the most Longhorns, or the Longhorns I respected the most.

But the refs in the Rams-Saints game ruined that for me. Now I just don't care. It's a mockery of true sportsmanship. It's like many political contests these days. The whole process is invalidated.

Get off my yard!!!
 
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Oldmanastro said:
Kenny Stabler was a badass!
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Back in the late 70's I worked across the street from the Record Factory in Alameda, CA. where more than a few of the Raiders lived. On my breaks I would often walk across the street to the Record Factory to check out albums or play video games. It was not uncommon to see Kenny Stabler in there, usually accompanied by big John Matuszak. Stabler was driving a silver and black Porsche 911 Carrera in those days. It was amusing to watch Matuszak try and fold his 6'9" into Stabler's little uber-car....
 
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How does that work? Say the score is 7/3 do you win anything if you hit one of the numbers or does it half to be both? How much do you win?
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So you need to hit both numbers so if the score ends 7-7 at the end of the quarter then I win the pot. In one pot I will win 500 quarter and in another pot I will win 125 a quarter.
 
I will be honest, women’s curling on NBCsports is giving the Super bowl a good run for my viewership
 
I want a tire pressure check on that coin used on coin toss, looked a little suspect!!
 
Pretty good defensive game. Goff seems like he’s full of the suck. That sack he took looked like a college dumbassery
 
This may come down to a Billy Cannon heismanesque finale. 3-3 until THE punt returned for a td
 
This was the lamest Super Bowl of all time. Neither team deserved to be there and that was obvious. The halftime sucked. The commercials sucked. It was like watching two 85 year olds run a 100 yard dash. It was like watching the first preseason game for two teams right out of training camp. Both teams should have been sent home after the first quarter and replaced by the Chiefs and Saints, who got screwed out of being there. Lame is an understatement.
 
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I can understand why some people thought it was boring. In today's fb high scoring games are considered the norm for exciting, even quality fb last years TX/OK game in Dallas was a great example.

But not so long ago good defensive games were good games to watch. I couldn't help but be impressed by the Pats defense. They took the rams play action game away completely. And in just 4 years in the NFL our Malcolm Brown already has 2 SB rings. He's one of only 2 Longhorns with 2 SB rings Casey Hampton being the other. So at least there's that for me to be happy about. I want to start seeing more Longhorns winning SB rings again. And you know it was a little bit of karma about what happened to the rams today. I mean the way they beat NO 2 weeks ago and today the only points they scored came on a 53 yard fg. And as I mentioned above with the way the NE defense did to them there's only one word. Karma.
 
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LonghornMM said:
This was the lamest Super Bowl of all time. Neither team deserved to be there and that was obvious. The halftime sucked. The commercials sucked. It was like watching two 85 year olds run a 100 yard dash. It was like watching the first preseason game for two teams right out of training camp. Both teams should have been sent home after the first quarter and replaced by the Chiefs and Saints, who got screwed out of being there. Lame is an understatement.
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MM the pats secondary was a thing of BEAUTY to watch. I'm not pats fan but that was arguably the most dominant and impressive game I have seen a secondary play since maybe the Ravens back in 2000-01. Every time the rams looked to make a big gain, someone from the pats secondary made a play. The entire game could have hinged on one single play from start to finish. Yes«, the fireworks were few and far between but the underlying chess match was epic.

On a side note, when the NFL commercial played, the moment Beast mode knocked that gold football off the cake and Mike Singletary pulled his glasses off I stood up in a bar full of people and yelled "FUMBLE!" at the top of my lungs in perfect unison with Mike.
That commercial alone was worth the price of admission. Montana telling Irvin "no way cowboy" as he slings it to Jerry Rice. Todd Gurley lateraling to Barry Sanders as Sanders jukes Erlacher and Emmitt smith smiling and saying "you know I've got more yards than both of them". Aaron Donald tossing tables to get to Bradshaw--- Franco Harris grabbing the rock off his shoelaces. Baker calling Tom an old man and Brady handing him his rings. Even when Manning throws one over the middle and starahan saying "you still got it" only to have Manning adjust his shoulder and say "ya that hurt".

This commercial is going to be iconic.
 
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I thought the game was the best defensive performance ever in a Super Bowl. That Rams team was averaging 33 points a game and the Pats held them to a whooping 3 points and no plays ran in the red zone. This day and age where everybody thinks offense is king and all but, Belichick proved defense still wins championships. He knew McVay liked to signal his play in at the line of scrimmage when he seen how the defense was lined up. Well the Patriots had 2 defensive calls on every play and showed the first one pre snap then shifted into the 2nd call post snap. You could tell Goff had that deer in a headlights look at him the whole game. As much as I hate Brady and Belichick I can’t help but respect them for what they have accomplished. All of that being said I really enjoyed the game. Everybody now thinks just because there isn’t many points scored well it’s automatically a boring game. Well that was 2 of the best defensive minds in the game ever in Wade Phillip’s and Bill Belicheck.
 
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I thought the game was the best defensive performance ever in a Super Bowl. That Rams team was averaging 33 points a game and the Pats held them to a whooping 3 points and no plays ran in the red zone. This day and age where everybody thinks offense is king and all but, Belichick proved defense still wins championships. He knew McVay liked to signal his play in at the line of scrimmage when he seen how the defense was lined up. Well the Patriots had 2 defensive calls on every play and showed the first one pre snap then shifted into the 2nd call post snap. You could tell Goff had that deer in a headlights look at him the whole game. As much as I hate Brady and Belichick I can’t help but respect them for what they have accomplished. All of that being said I really enjoyed the game. Everybody now thinks just because there isn’t many points scored well it’s automatically a boring game. Well that was 2 of the best defensive minds in the game ever in Wade Phillip’s and Bill Belicheck.
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The man is a fvcking defensive genius--- there's just nothing left to say.


And btw--- he says Lawrence Taylor is the greatest player he's ever coached.
 
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The man is a fvcking defensive genius--- there's just nothing left to say.


And btw--- he says Lawrence Taylor is the greatest player he's ever coached.
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And Belichick will have nothing to do with any comparisons to Taylor. Before the Patriots played the Bears this season, Belichick spent a lot of a press conference answering questions on Khalil Mack and praising his game. Then a reporter asked where Mack ranks compared to Lawrence Taylor.

"Now, wait a minute. We're talking about Lawrence Taylor, now. Yeah, I'm not putting anybody in Lawrence Taylor's class. So.....you can put everybody down below that. With a lot of respect to a lot of good players now, but we're talking about Lawrence Taylor."
 
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MM the pats secondary was a thing of BEAUTY to watch. I'm not pats fan but that was arguably the most dominant and impressive game I have seen a secondary play since maybe the Ravens back in 2000-01. Every time the rams looked to make a big gain, someone from the pats secondary made a play. The entire game could have hinged on one single play from start to finish. Yes«, the fireworks were few and far between but the underlying chess match was epic.

On a side note, when the NFL commercial played, the moment Beast mode knocked that gold football off the cake and Mike Singletary pulled his glasses off I stood up in a bar full of people and yelled "FUMBLE!" at the top of my lungs in perfect unison with Mike.
That commercial alone was worth the price of admission. Montana telling Irvin "no way cowboy" as he slings it to Jerry Rice. Todd Gurley lateraling to Barry Sanders as Sanders jukes Erlacher and Emmitt smith smiling and saying "you know I've got more yards than both of them". Aaron Donald tossing tables to get to Bradshaw--- Franco Harris grabbing the rock off his shoelaces. Baker calling Tom an old man and Brady handing him his rings. Even when Manning throws one over the middle and starahan saying "you still got it" only to have Manning adjust his shoulder and say "ya that hurt".

This commercial is going to be iconic.
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I liked the old timers like Jim Brown and Mean Joe Greene laughing. Nice touch to put them in there.
 
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