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Started by CountDeMoney, January 02, 2012, 06:36:34 AM

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katmai

I think this is first super bowl i completely missed since started following football.
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DontSayBanana

Quote from: katmai on February 06, 2012, 12:44:54 AM
I think this is first super bowl i completely missed since started following football.

Objectively speaking, you didn't miss that much- there was plenty of sloppy playing going on on both sides; Manning and Brady both threw to open air quite a few times, Giants kept having to recover their own fumbles, and Branch kept missing balls that Brady threw straight to him.

Also, as Raz mentioned, the winning touchdown was scored by an ass.  Literally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJxfc1sA_rc
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Quote from: katmai on February 06, 2012, 12:44:54 AM
I think this is first super bowl i completely missed since started following football.
I watched remarkably little as well.  I've been kind of burned out on football since.... November?  The terrible play of the Browns and Raiders, together with either no long term plan or a garbage one at that point has driven me into just not caring.  I'm definitely looking forward to baseball, especially because the Sabres continue to fail.  I feel like it's been a very. very long time since I've been truly excited to watch or listen to a game.
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Quote from: katmai on February 06, 2012, 12:44:54 AM
I think this is first super bowl i completely missed since started following football.
Yeah, me too.
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Barrister

Quote from: DontSayBanana on February 06, 2012, 01:14:14 AM
Quote from: katmai on February 06, 2012, 12:44:54 AM
I think this is first super bowl i completely missed since started following football.

Objectively speaking, you didn't miss that much- there was plenty of sloppy playing going on on both sides; Manning and Brady both threw to open air quite a few times, Giants kept having to recover their own fumbles, and Branch kept missing balls that Brady threw straight to him.

Also, as Raz mentioned, the winning touchdown was scored by an ass.  Literally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJxfc1sA_rc

I dunno - it wasn't a great game, but it was an entertaining game.  Score was tight all the way through, game came down to the final play and could have gone either way.

But then again I haven't watched a football game since November.

What was also nice is that the NHL conveniently scheduled a Jets-Habs game in the afternoon.  It was a cornucopia of sports. :)
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derspiess

Quote from: Barrister on February 06, 2012, 09:40:59 AM
I dunno - it wasn't a great game, but it was an entertaining game.  Score was tight all the way through, game came down to the final play and could have gone either way.

Can't really ask for a whole lot more.  Good defensive play on both sides (aside from the last TD, and btw I hate the "let them score" strategy) and a damned sight better than the string of mostly non-competitive games we had in the 90s & early 00s.  We've been really spoiled the past 4 years.
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Quote from: derspiess on February 06, 2012, 09:47:19 AM
Can't really ask for a whole lot more.  Good defensive play on both sides (aside from the last TD, and btw I hate the "let them score" strategy) and a damned sight better than the string of mostly non-competitive games we had in the 90s & early 00s.  We've been really spoiled the past 4 years.

I agree about the competitiveness but I thought the game was lacking in big dramatic plays.

I also thought the Patriots had no choice but let them score.  Better odds than hoping they miss a 2 yard field goal.

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2012, 09:51:13 AM
Quote from: derspiess on February 06, 2012, 09:47:19 AM
Can't really ask for a whole lot more.  Good defensive play on both sides (aside from the last TD, and btw I hate the "let them score" strategy) and a damned sight better than the string of mostly non-competitive games we had in the 90s & early 00s.  We've been really spoiled the past 4 years.

I agree about the competitiveness but I thought the game was lacking in big dramatic plays.

I also thought the Patriots had no choice but let them score.  Better odds than hoping they miss a 2 yard field goal.

I suppose football purists can enjoy "good defensive plays", but for me great football means high scoring and big dramatic plays.
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Barrister on February 06, 2012, 09:54:30 AM
I suppose football purists can enjoy "good defensive plays", but for me great football means high scoring and big dramatic plays.

Defense can make dramatic plays as well: monster sacks, penetrate and blow up a screen or a sweep, stick a run play in the hole, lay out for a batted down pass.  I would have been happy with more of those.  Instead what I saw a lot of was good coverage downfield and dink and dunk passes to outlet guys. 

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The let "let them score" strategy didn't seem to avail them.  Though in that last minute the Pats were moving down the field pretty good.  I thought for a moment that Brady might pull it off.
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Quote from: Barrister on February 06, 2012, 09:54:30 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2012, 09:51:13 AM
Quote from: derspiess on February 06, 2012, 09:47:19 AM
Can't really ask for a whole lot more.  Good defensive play on both sides (aside from the last TD, and btw I hate the "let them score" strategy) and a damned sight better than the string of mostly non-competitive games we had in the 90s & early 00s.  We've been really spoiled the past 4 years.

I agree about the competitiveness but I thought the game was lacking in big dramatic plays.

I also thought the Patriots had no choice but let them score.  Better odds than hoping they miss a 2 yard field goal.

I suppose football purists can enjoy "good defensive plays", but for me great football means high scoring and big dramatic plays.

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Barrister

Quote from: Ed Anger on February 06, 2012, 10:04:48 AM
Quote from: Barrister on February 06, 2012, 09:54:30 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2012, 09:51:13 AM
Quote from: derspiess on February 06, 2012, 09:47:19 AM
Can't really ask for a whole lot more.  Good defensive play on both sides (aside from the last TD, and btw I hate the "let them score" strategy) and a damned sight better than the string of mostly non-competitive games we had in the 90s & early 00s.  We've been really spoiled the past 4 years.

I agree about the competitiveness but I thought the game was lacking in big dramatic plays.

I also thought the Patriots had no choice but let them score.  Better odds than hoping they miss a 2 yard field goal.

I suppose football purists can enjoy "good defensive plays", but for me great football means high scoring and big dramatic plays.

I hope the ghost of Woody Hayes punches you in the balls.

Woody Hayes is dead man.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Ed Anger

Quote from: Barrister on February 06, 2012, 10:08:49 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 06, 2012, 10:04:48 AM
Quote from: Barrister on February 06, 2012, 09:54:30 AM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2012, 09:51:13 AM
Quote from: derspiess on February 06, 2012, 09:47:19 AM
Can't really ask for a whole lot more.  Good defensive play on both sides (aside from the last TD, and btw I hate the "let them score" strategy) and a damned sight better than the string of mostly non-competitive games we had in the 90s & early 00s.  We've been really spoiled the past 4 years.

I agree about the competitiveness but I thought the game was lacking in big dramatic plays.

I also thought the Patriots had no choice but let them score.  Better odds than hoping they miss a 2 yard field goal.

I suppose football purists can enjoy "good defensive plays", but for me great football means high scoring and big dramatic plays.

I hope the ghost of Woody Hayes punches you in the balls.

Woody Hayes is dead man.

Which is why he is a ghost. Sheesh.
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Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 06, 2012, 09:57:53 AM
Defense can make dramatic plays as well: monster sacks, penetrate and blow up a screen or a sweep, stick a run play in the hole, lay out for a batted down pass.  I would have been happy with more of those.  Instead what I saw a lot of was good coverage downfield and dink and dunk passes to outlet guys.

There were several sacks, and there was an interception caught inside the 10 (course it was like a 40-50 yard pass or so).
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