All the salty around here over the Pats Super Bowl/Brady MVP...

[WilliamPitt]

...gives me legitimate joy.

Keep crying. I will water my lawn with your tears.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. When the Seattle cornerback intercepted Brady in the first quarter, what is his name,

I yelled at the TV, lay down, dont risk a fumble or an injury.

His leaving the game was a HUGE difference in the outcome.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

3. Jeremy Lane

is the players name.
Will, I made more or less the same bet with Oberliner which is why his name is mentioned in my sig line. Being a native of Michigan, having Brady win his 4th SB is ok with me on a certain level.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

4. Lane, right. SEattle wins if he doesnt get hurt, IMO

[onenote]

12. Oh, please. Really?

Jeremy Lane played in 7 regular season games this year. He only started one. He made a total of 13 tackles (solo or assists) and had no interceptions.

Yeah, his absence is the reason the Seahawks lost.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

13. And again, I am FAR from the only one talking about what a huge hole his absence left

Like the announcers on NBC who know more about it than I do, assume more than you but maybe not...

[onenote]

29. The announcers are paid to create drama

Of course they'd make a big deal out of someone going out with an injury. But the New England defensive backfield has three pro-bowlers and Lane isn't one of them. His interception in the first quarter was his first interception in his three years in the league. Yeah, Simon was picked on. But there is no reason to think Lane would have been significantly better. The problem for the Seahawks is that they played man-to-man and Brady picked them apart.

[AgingAmerican]

21. Irrelevent

It's a game of matchups. The Seahawks losing came down to the last play.

[Electric Monk]

2. ...

[ChosenUnWisely]

5. +1000000

[steve2470]

9. +10001 nt

[uppityperson]

11. exactly!

[Go Vols]

23. Some have reason to cheer

More people bet on the Super Bowl than any event in American sports. The total amount of money on the line worldwide is counted not in millions, but billions.

http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2015/1/31/7923869/super-bowl-2015-betting-prop-bets-gambling-wager-nfl

[LittleBlue]

6. As a Seahawks fan

I'm not even mad. Hard to get mad when the damage was self-inflicted.

You rightly took advantage of our mentally defective offensive coordinator. You 100% deserved the win for being smarter.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

15. That is what I was thinking, though I have been assured here at DU That I am full of it

but I saw that pass play for the final touchdown to be absolutely awful...

is that what you are referring to?

[LittleBlue]

18. Yes

As Emmitt Smith rightly points out, the "dumbest play in NFL history"

That play is a wound that will never heal. A lot of Seahawks fans have hated Bevell for years because he's incompetent. We see it every week. Came back to bite us in the most crushing way.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

19. Ahh, so I was right...thought so

[zipplewrath]

27. I wonder if he makes it to august

Truth is the play calling in the first half, well at least first quarter and much of the second, was strange at best. Carroll took the blame, but I'd bet Bevell may take the brunt.

[hfojvt]

44. well Seatlle has a history

"we want the ball and we're gonna score"

Then there was NFC championship game Seattle vs. Chicago. Game is tied, Seattle is almost in field goal range. In the penultimate play, Hasselbeck just kind of freezes and takes a sack, the field goal is missed, Seattle loses in overtime. I swear he had a clear running lane. If he had just taken off he could have gained five yards instead of losing a dozen. Gove the kicker another ten yards and he'd likely have made that field goal.

[Marrah_G]

33. I actually didn't see the interception until the replay

I had my hands over my face because I knew Seattle was going to run the ball in....even if the whole team had to shove him over the line.... What on earth was that coach thinking?

The game was so close, so exciting. They played great. Seattle has ZERO to feel bad about (except maybe the guy that tried to punch Gronk).

[pipi_k]

38. But...

If the pass strategy had worked, the whole discussion would be moot.

It would have been a brilliant move otherwise, right?


Any play can turn into a stinker, and any play can be absolute genius.


You just never know...

[LittleBlue]

45. No, it couldn't

You can try any low percentage play and say afterwards "but if it had succeeded".

In fact, it's a great excuse to ignore percentages. If it succeeds, he's a genius. If it fails, if it had succeeded he'd be a genius.

Running a crossing route into a packed defense is a low percentage, high risk play. Like Emmitt said, even if it had succeeded, it was still dumb because it ignored percentages and situations.

[KT2000]

7. nothing worse than a poor winner

bad form....

[adigal]

8. I think that's typical for the OP

And he loves his cheaters.

[NutmegYankee]

28. It's the cheater accusation that makes so many want to rub it in.

Frankly, I'd like to use more salt as the grinding compound with an industrial buffer.

BTW:

New details have surfaced in the NFL’s investigation into whether or not the New England Patriots cheated in the AFC Championship game by using deflated footballs. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rappoport, previous reports of 11 of 12 footballs being under-inflated by two pounds are incorrect — a detail first reported by ESPN’s Chris Mortensen.

Rappoport reports that 11 of 12 footballs were deflated; however, many of those footballs were under-inflated by a “few ticks” under the minimum 12.5 PSI mark. One of the footballs was two pounds under the 12.5 PSI mark. He also says that an elderly man in charge of bringing the footballs to the field went into a bathroom for 98 seconds. There is video of the man entering and exiting the bathroom.

Rappoport also says that both Bill Belichick and Tom Brady were truthful when they said they have no knowledge of what happens with the footballs on gameday. According to the report, Belichick doesn’t know what happens with the pregame preparation for footballs and Brady doesn’t know what happens to them on gameday.

Read more at http://fanbuzz.com/story/report-new-england-may-not-have-deliberately-deflated-footballs-in-afc-championship-game/#UWHIEjVaQ1GGuCpe.99

[lovemydog]

41. I think it's more related to Spygate.

That was substantial and won't be forgotten. Same owner and coach as they have now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots_videotaping_controversy

Or, perhaps related to the puritanical influence in New England, guilt about just enjoying something. So you have to get pissed off at others even after you've won.

Just celebrate the win, congratulate your opponents for bringing out the best in your team, and be done with it.

I've never seen so many fans still whining after their team won. It's hilarious.

[pipi_k]

42. I bet

this story doesn't even get half the publicity the "deflategate" story did.

Nothing pisses off the haters more than finding out that the target of their hatred is innocent of wrongdoing.

In fact, I can imagine some of them persisting in their hatred even if a perpetrator came forward to confess and it turned out to be someone from another team who wanted revenge.


The whole cheating accusation is ridiculously stupid anyway. Cheating is supposed to help the cheater(s). It's hard to figure out the mental processes of people who say, "They didn't need to cheat" but they still believe the team cheated even though there is ZERO evidence of cheating, and there is ZERO evidence that "cheating" even helped them.

I'm just glad that the whole thing happened before the Superbowl and that the game balls were kept under strict supervision by an independent party.

If the integrity of the game balls is that damned important, they should have been kept under guard anyway in every single game. Hopefully this will be a new rule in future games.

[pintobean]

49. Say good night to the bad guy

&feature=youtu.be

[Marrah_G]

34. Want a tissue?

[Submariner]

10. Seattle fans are going through their "Bill Buckner Moment"

We can relate to that awful feeling, so we should lighten up a bit.

I think the coolest story is that Butler, the un-drafted rookie, was making Popeye's Fried Chicken up to last April, and I don't suspect he will be going back there anytime soon.

[napkinz]

14. ...

[Submariner]

16. Heartbreak

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

20. I like the watch named after you, but when that play happened I just stared, i could NOT believe

[mountain grammy]

40. Love that shirt!

[Marrah_G]

35. I was thrilled for Butler...and what a nice kid!

I was really impressed by his whole demeanor. He will never have to pay for a drink in New England again.

[mountain grammy]

43. I feel for them, I really do..

but that Butler kid! I'm so happy for him.

[uppityperson]

17. other people's disgust with a bad play in a sports event gives you joy?

what a good sport you are

[Marrah_G]

36. After the last two weeks, I have to be honest and say...yup, it does!

It will take a couple days to get it out of our systems.

Love ya <3

Marrah

[Takket]

22. +1!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. As I've come to better understand these past years how repub voters think of politics, I've...

...gotten to feel less comfortable about being too 'rah-rah' about my favorite sports teams.

[gopiscrap]

25. CHEATERS!!!!

[Marrah_G]

37. U mad bro?

~grins~

[gopiscrap]

46. Yes

the Patriots should have been kicked out of the Super Bowl for cheating

[Marrah_G]

47. Here is a tissue

Better luck trying to make nothing into something next time.

[olddots]

26. someone mentioned Cheetos ?

damn we forgot Cheetos .

[roamer65]

30. Butler showed some amazing hustle and determination.

That's how you win football games. You don't chase the ball, you play where the ball is going to be.

Gretzky was like that in hockey. He played where the puck would be, not where it was.

[Marrah_G]

31. All the bitching in the world cannot take away the joy of that interception!

In fact, the more they bitch, the more I know we are doing something right.

Let them wail, gnash their teeth and rend their clothing....I'll just hold up 4 fingers and smile.

[lovemydog]

32. I don't mind sore losers. It's understandable.

They lost.

Sore winners suck.

[melman]

39. WGAF

It's just football.

[HappyMe]

48. I guess they had to give it to

the fucking used car salesman.