Super Sunday! Any NFL Fans Out There?

[John Dumbear]

Love football, my second favorite sport after NCAA basketball. Today features the LA Rams vs. Cincinnati Bengals 6:30pm EST. Any other fans here, whether you like the game, halftime show or the commercials.

Haven't missed one of these games since the early '70s. Being a life long Detroit Lion fan, I will never see them in one of these games. :(

[Yoda]

Yup. Our football talk usually gets absorbed by our fantasy football thread, but I think the big game deserves its own thread.

Figure the Rams D is probably just too good. Anything can happen but they're obviously the better team here, even though it's hard not to enjoy the Bengals' run. Really happy for Stafford after toiling away in all that dysfunction in Detroit for so long.

As time goes on it becomes clearer and clearer that an awful lot of very talented QBs are being underused in poorly-run, poorly-coached situations and sometimes just need a decent amount of talent around them to thrive. Football's just such an interconnected game.

[MovieMeditation]

I’m not an NFL fan but me and the boys still have a Super Bowl Sunday every year. So at least once a year I watch some ‘murican football. :p

However, due to corona and such we haven’t been together watching it the last couple of years. And we won’t make it together this time either, unfortunately.

[Chypmunk]

Always watch the Superbowl. Herself stayed up with me one year but apparently that was a one-off so it's usually just me and a few snacks. Backing the Rams with my two fantasy teams, hopefully both Stafford and Kupp have a good game or I'll be out of the money with both.

[John Dumbear]

Personally rooting for Cincy.

Not because of dissing Stafford for wanting out of Detroit (who wouldn't). But because we get a better draft slot the crappier the Rams play. Having trading him for the Rams #1 for the next two years. But alas, Staff makes the big game, so that means pick #31 or #32 this year. Bad luck for us.

Both sides made out in this deal:

Rams: The QB they lacked
Lions: Rams #1 this year
Rams #1 next year
Rams #3 (last year)
QB Goff ( an average QB)

[John W Constantine]

Rumor has it that the QB from Cincy is the kid from Home Alone

[Wyldesyde19]

In Joe Burrow I trust…

We have an animal tradition where we watch the SB at my best friends home every year, with a few gaps here and there, 15 years running now I think?

Stafford is much like Tannehill, where he needed to switch teams to be able shine properly. Actually, it may be closer to Brees, who flourished with The Saints after a rather mediocre run at San Diego. It remains to be seen whether he can have the same success.

Kupp will be a matchup problem for the Bengals. But keep and eye on OBJ as well. He has lots to prove after his acrimonious end in Cleveland.

Cincy has the suspect O Line, but Burrow has proven he can withstand the pressure and deliver when it comes down to it. Dude just doesn’t get rattled. He also has his own trio of WR corpses. Remember, Chase is down there somewhere and Burrow will throw it up for him to make a play.

The running games favors Cincy. Mixon has bounced back from last years injury in a big way.

Defensively, the Rams are favored here, but I think it’s closer than one might think.

And lastly, The Bengals have that swagger about it them and it doesn’t just start with Burrow. When your kicker is practically the second coming of Adam Vinatieri, and Burrow is being compared to both Brady and Montana of old, it’s easy to get caught up in the hype train.

Hoping for a Cincinnati win here. And I’ll representing in my Burrow jersey.

[Allaby]

I’m a big football fan. My favourite team is the Packers. Looking forward to the big game tonight. I’m rooting for the Rams.

[John Dumbear]

I’m a big football fan. My favourite team is the Packers....


I,,,,think we're done here.


;)

[jiraffejustin]

If I was still able to get excited about the NFL, this might be a game I'd be pumped for. It's beyond cliche to look at football games as a match-up between the two QBs, but I can't think of a Super Bowl QB duel that would be more interesting to me than this one. Add in their top WRs to the mix and it's even more interesting. But it's the Super Bowl, so there will be an extra long, extra bad half time show and a bunch of lame ass commercials that people are going to be talking about in the office tomorrow. Plus it's the NFL, so one or both of the defenses will just stifle the other team into a boring defensive game. Defensive games used to be fun, but that was when you could send receivers into the nether realm when they came across the middle. For better or worse, the games are less exciting because of it. Anyway, yeah this should be whatever. I'm just an old man yelling at the clouds.

[John Dumbear]

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[Hey Fredrick]

For the first time in a long time I don't really care who wins the game. It would be nice to see Stafford win after toiling away in football Hell for over a decade but to do it in L.A.? Bummer. It'd be nice for a city that actually likes football to win the grand prize so I guess I'll be pulling for the Bengals.

[doubledenim]

The dominant narrative in the NFL for years has been the quarterback. Rule of thumb, the best one wins. Even though he is only in his 2nd year Burrow is the better quarterback, when it comes to the intangibles. Think Tom Brady, Burrow has it.

Regardless of the defense, Burrow survived being demolished by the Titans. Staffird and McVay both made mistakes that should have cost them the 49ers game.

Watch me be wrong, you never know. Can’t see the Rams winning.

[John W Constantine]

Same ol bungles

[Wyldesyde19]

Bengals have the momentum here. They’re fortunate to be down by 3, and now OBJ is gone. Burrow has shown he can play from behind, and Stafford has already made his typical “Stafford Play” with that interception.


I feel confident that Cincy can win this still.

If only we could figure out how to cover Kupp. 😒

[Yoda]

That missed call on Ramsey is so huge.

[doubledenim]

I was wrong. Given that. Let’s not act like no flags were thrown until the end of the game.

[Yoda]

They sure came out late, but even the ticky tack one didn’t outweigh the face mask: https://twitter.com/AcCOUNTableRefs/status/1493037044507021315
Really glad it didn’t turn on that. And that Hekker doesn’t become the next Buckner.

[jiraffejustin]

I found the best way to watch the Super Bowl, turn it on at the two minute warning. Was exciting at least from that point.

[Yoda]

Figure the Rams D is probably just too good.
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[Yoda]

Oh forgot about the OBJ injury, that was obviously huge.

[jiraffejustin]

Did something happen to Joe Mixon earlier in the game or did the Bengals just decide to trot Perine out there on the biggest plays of the game?

[jiraffejustin]

Cooper Kupp is a real ass dude

[Yoda]

Oh man Cooper wins MVP and says he doesn’t feel he deserves it. Cool dude.

Rename the SB MVP award the Cooper Cup.

[Wyldesyde19]

Kupp deserved that MVP.

I don’t get why you pull Mixon in favor of Perine on 3rd and 1 when Mixon had been practically unstoppable.

[Chypmunk]

Close game, just missed out on the money with both fantasy teams but did ok with my bet builder (makes a nice change as I've backed the wrong 'horse' each time for the last 5 years :D).

85333

Congratulations LA, commiserations Cincinnati.

[doubledenim]

It still feels that in the light of the defense that is so dominant, LA won because they got 10 tries from inside the 10. Not because that defense shutdown Burrow.

We don’t get replays of all the penalties that could be called during the game, so of course when they show replays of the ones at the end, it looks like they are making the right call.

[Wyldesyde19]

Granted Cincy got away with an egregious non call that resulted in a TD, but they barely threw the flag all game, missing holds, a few PI besides the aforementioned non call TD, and then decided to call everything at the end.

[John Dumbear]

Good game, but floors me on the non-Ramsey call. Can't blame it on the Rams being the home team, they were the visitors. So, the refs blew it...big time!

[doubledenim]

I think the Ramsey call sums up the discrepancies in officiating perfectly. One on one, in the open, no obstructed views, blatant. No call.

Then compare it to the winning LA drive, where the calls are not so obvious.

Side note. Russell Wilson sitting next to Goodell, not a good look my dude. He already came across as the most saccharine player the league without that.

[Yoda]

Re: Rams D and Burrow. If you take away the free 75 yard TD, Burrow was 21 for 32 for 188 yards and zero TDs. That seems pretty well contained to me. Not horrible (thanks to no INTs), but not good either. And I say this as someone who really likes Burrow! They were mostly able to do it because they sacked him seven times, and very little of that is his fault. But it is absolutely to the defense's credit.

[Yoda]

Re: Perine and Mixon. Perine averages a bit over a half-yard more, on average, after contact than Mixon, and their backs weren't getting past the line without getting hit much, so I see the logic there, at least.

[John Dumbear]

LOL!

Completely forgot a futures bet I put on the Rams last August! Sports gambling is legal here in Michigan. So I placed $10 bet at +2500 for the Rams to win the Super Bowl. A nice $250 surprise. I figured it was the most Lionzy thing ever to trade away the SB MVP.

I like money...

[Yoda]

I've always wondered why fans didn't bet against their rooting interests more. Seems like a win-win!

[Yoda]

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