NFL Year 2022. Superbowl Winner: Kansas City Chiefs!

[MichDeac25]

The biggest talking point from the Super Bowl should be that Elon Musk (Twitter master and recent right wing goon) was sitting with Rupert Murdoch. Everything else is just to distract you from that and sell you some crap.

 

[BarcaDeac]

The biggest talking point from the Super Bowl should be that Elon Musk (Twitter master and recent right wing goon) was sitting with Rupert Murdoch. Everything else is just to distract you from that and sell you some crap.

just like he was sitting with Kushner and the Saudis at the World Cup. but he's a political maverick that doesn't choose sides !

 

[EatLeadCommie]

Shouldn't you have some of your own people in the area for a hail mary?

I think Hurts slipped on that final throw. Appropriate.

The field in Arizona has been garbage for years. It's a common theme in the bowl games and now the SB that you will be slipping and sliding. I don't know if this was a new field for this game or if it's the same grass for all those games, but the folks at Oklahoma State were tweeting and bragging that the grass was developed by their university. They weren't doing that so much as the game went on, though. I've seen it mentioned in a few spots on the Twitterwebs that the folks in AZ supplemented the turf with too much rye to make the field greener, and that was causing the issues, but who knows...

 

[PhDeac]

The biggest talking point from the Super Bowl should be that Elon Musk (Twitter master and recent right wing goon) was sitting with Rupert Murdoch. Everything else is just to distract you from that and sell you some crap.

“There’s a lot of intelligence in that photo. That’s my boss, his wife, and Elon Musk.”

 

[MichDeac25]

just like he was sitting with Kushner and the Saudis at the World Cup. but he's a political maverick that doesn't choose sides !

I missed that because I'm a full-blooded American and thus didn't watch the World Cup. But yes, great point.

 

[JuiceCrewAllStar]

I don’t think it’s holding even by the letter of the law, much less the spirit of the game

 

[KidA23]

The biggest talking point from the Super Bowl should be that Elon Musk (Twitter master and recent right wing goon) was sitting with Rupert Murdoch. Everything else is just to distract you from that and sell you some crap.

The “Destruction of Democracy” suite, now available for pre-order.

 

[KidA23]

Yea my issue with the call is it just didn’t seem they were calling that the whole game, and it was obvious the stadium crowd and the announcing crew deflated afterwards.

Think it was just a bad luck situation where Bradberry probably did technically hold the guy and did it right in front of the umpire/ref such that the dude sort of had to call it, even if he didn’t want to.

 

[Shooshmoo]

i mean it was the right call but literally had not been called once all game. there is that much contact on most plays and if they hadnt called it all game, they cannot make that call at that point in the game

I guarantee the Chiefs (and Eagles) did the same thing at least 10-15 other times during the game and it wasn't called. Ruined a great game (along with the shitty field).

 

[deacondamo]

I guarantee the Chiefs (and Eagles) did the same thing at least 10-15 other times during the game and it wasn't called. Ruined a great game (along with the shitty field).

"Ruined" seems a little harsh. That was a great game, and I was hoping the Eagles would lose so that helps I guess. One of the best Super Bowls I can remember.

 

[KidA23]

Yea it just felt kind of deflating. Would be interested to see the Chiefs’ expected winning percentage immediately before and immediately after that call.

 

[DeacWatcher]

I think Hurts slipped on that final throw. Appropriate.

The field in Arizona has been garbage for years. It's a common theme in the bowl games and now the SB that you will be slipping and sliding. I don't know if this was a new field for this game or if it's the same grass for all those games, but the folks at Oklahoma State were tweeting and bragging that the grass was developed by their university. They weren't doing that so much as the game went on, though. I've seen it mentioned in a few spots on the Twitterwebs that the folks in AZ supplemented the turf with too much rye to make the field greener, and that was causing the issues, but who knows...

The field was new and put in 2 weeks ago at a cost of 800K. Doesn't seem like a long enough time to mature and hold in place but who knows.

 

[Shooshmoo]

Yep, completely sucked the air out of it. I'll remember this one as shitty field and refs intervening to dictate the outcome, not as a great game.

 

[Complacent Deac]

That was kind of a low, line drive punt by Siposs that Toney ran back. I don't think he was fully healthy.

To Siposs' credit he did eventually make the tackle at the 5 yard line, while the other Eagles were getting pancaked or getting off the ground.

 

[Complacent Deac]

The biggest talking point from the Super Bowl should be that Elon Musk (Twitter master and recent right wing goon) was sitting with Rupert Murdoch. Everything else is just to distract you from that and sell you some crap.

I would have approved more shots of the Chiefs booth. Interesting.

Eagles booth, with whacked out Bradley Cooper, not so much. Lots of my other Philly heroes I'd rather have seen than that dude.

 

[DeacMan]

That call determined the outcome of the game. If that call is not made the Chiefs still may win, even likely would have won. But that call sealed the outcome. Just awful.

 

[Pilchard]

 

[DeacMan]

I don’t think it’s holding even by the letter of the law, much less the spirit of the game

I think the larger point is that was a close call. And with the game on the line you don't make that call. You simply don't.

 

[TownieDeac]

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[DownEastDeac]

I thought the holding was the right call

then again, I hate the Eagles so clearly my bias is probably doing some heavy lifting for how I saw the play, but Bradberry tugged JuJu twice. You can say the ball was overthrown, sure, but Juju might be able to get under it if he wasn't impeded twice going into his route.
Tough call but I compare it to a shirt grab in the box in soccer -- don't give the ref a reason to make such a big call. Bradberry fucked up and he admitted as much. Fair play to him for doing that, btw, shows some solid character holding his hands up and not hiding behind social media outrage.


If that's a penalty in the first quarter then it's a penalty in the last 2 minutes of the game. I never understood the argument that refs should "swallow their whistle" towards the end of the game. Wouldn't not calling a penalty also be them deciding the outcome only in a more egregious way considering they saw a penalty being committed?

Pretty much agree with what you (and most others not from Philly)are saying that a call should be made the same regardless of when it occurs and how it might impact the final outcome. I will however say that sometimes the refs will make calls that may be marginal earlier in the game to set the tone for later on. For example if an O-lineman is getting particularly handsy but not blatantly so with a D-lineman's jersey on several occasions in the 1st half, you throw the flag so he'll play cleaner the rest of the way. But maybe if he hasn't done it until the last series of the game you don't throw the flag in that situation.