**SB 51** - the matchup so good it ought to be banned

paraphrasing what was correctly said about the cubs' world series clincher this past year: joe buck is woefully underqualified to announce games like this.

hooo-ly fuck!!!!! this is what I wake up to after bailing on the game after the 3rd quarter hahahahaha

So, who won? I've just watched two long news reports on the Superbowl, one on BBC, one on Sky, and neither showed so much as a second of the match or told you the result. LOL Britishes.

https://twitter.com/bostonpolice/status/828450698417278976

So we got our revenge by making them another shitload of cash

silver lining to all this is that James White, an ex-Badger, wound up pretty much being the non-Brady MVP, which as a Wisconsin sports fan gives me at least some reason to not hate all this

Shanahan takes 49ers job with Falcons' run over

just saw this headline on ESPN and initially missed the key apostrophe

i just watched the full game and what struck me was definitely how patient new england was.. there wasn't some epic meltdown by atlanta.. just chipped away at it and so many things had to go right for NE, and somehow they did. man. how do you have a 1st down at the 22 and go backwards out of FG range

by not running lol

lol Atlanta completely melted down tho

where the players play

Literally could have just taken a knee twice and won the game

i don't think anyone has any complaints about the fairness of this result, but current playoff overtime rules don't seem ideal

i feel like they are in a good place right now. you think both teams should be guaranteed a possession?

yeah, i think so. obviously there's the argument 'play some defense' but i'd like to see both sides forced to do so.

i was honestly kinda shocked by the sudden death rules, i thought both were going to get at least one possession

One possession each would be fair. It was clear that the coin toss basically meant game over. As much as I like the result, it's hard to argue that it's the fairest system.

good job

https://mic.com/articles/167843/one-by-one-black-new-england-patriots-players-are-refusing-to-visit-donald-trumps-white-house

yeah the if a field goal get a second chance but not a td ot rule is kinda odd, they cld just even play a whole quarter wld that be so bad

no idea why they just don't do the college way. its absolutely perfect.

why not just do college rules it is 100x more exciting

lol didnt even read spottie's post, spottie otm

it really is perfect idgi

hate the college rules, eliminates special teams.

and hate playing a full quarter, teams are already too tired at the end of 4.

but they still have field goals with college rules?

guaranteed possession and full quarter options make ties more likely, which the league (and americans in general ime) are deathly afraid of

otherwise they are fairest in a vacuum for sure

i'm guessing the nfl doesn't like the way records would be broken with college-style OT, dudes throwing an extra three touchdowns because they started on the 20, etc. but they could also just declare 'these stats don't count' and give the winning team one extra point

College OT makes stats wacky and for fantasy football, that would be kind of a thing.

The Pro OT as it is now seems reasonable, losing sudden death on a 50 yard FG seemed kinda cheap and this evens it out.

Atlanta could have gotten the ball, but it would not have mattered, that team was half dead tired and the other half had the deer in the head light look. I haven't found the replay yet of that sack Ryan took, but when he got up I swear his eyes looked as googly as that old Reche Caldwell shot for the Pats years back. Ryan KNEW he had seriously f-ed up on that sack. They could have just stopped then...the Falcons were done.

college ot is too gimmicky imo, its like u decided to play some other sport at the end of the game, like penalty shots in soccer

tbf college overtime football is kind of a cooler sport than regular football

So is pro league of legends

So is pro league of legends

lol

love when both tru morbs and el morbsbot show up in the football threads

i'm rewatching the second half and one guy who no one will remember having an unbelievable game is atl punter chris bosher

6 punts, 47 yd avg, 4 inside 20!

i'm sorry his name is actually matt

lol!

i rewatched the second half last night and it confirmed my memory that there were two alltime great catches and the best football game ever

not as good as the SEA super bowl for me but the 4th qtr is legit insane

where are you watching it? tried to find it to rewatch Q4 and couldn't

i torrented it

is this the most gutwrenching playoff loss of all time? serious shades of the NFCCG between Seattle and GB two years ago but...even worse

oh yeah gotta be

i recorded a replay from nfl network last night but when i checked i thought they had several scheduled replays.

ok thx. i'm bad at tvs

https://twitter.com/StephenEspinoza/status/829142250831626240

lol

julian is someone i worry about a little bit

yeah i've been thinking that for a while. can't precisely put my finger on why. but thought so again watching last week inside the nfl where julian was in some of the mic'd up segments.