Go Eagles

[Pugger]

They sure didn’t break the budget with these commercials

But they paid thru the nose to air them!

 

[Pugger]

another crap halftime show

That wasn't music.

 

[Pugger]

I was happy to see that toward the end of the game, they finally admitted that the Packers were the only team to three-peat, and gave a nice tribute to Lombardi and the Packers of the 1960s.

They keep forgetting we did it twice.

 

[Pugger]

Time to break open the champagne lads, we remain the only team to threepeat.

I can't believe they actually gave the Packers credit for Lombardi's threepeat. Usually the media loves to ignore our storied history, but they actually mentioned it. I hate the Eagles, but I'm glad they beat the Chiefs.

For me it is their fans that are insufferable more than the team itself.

 

[BrokenArrow]

Don't think I've watched a halftime show since n1pplegate.

Last one I watched was The Who.

 

[Pugger]

I believe it's actually 24 points total, not including the playoffs.

The Eagles have big, effective lines on both offense and defense that can push any team around. They sort of remind me of recent 49er teams, except Jalen Hurts is more effective. We don't have that, yet.

Their great lines is what won it for them. IMO their DL was the MVP more than Hurts.

Let's hope our change at DL coach will bring out the best of our guys. We have a lot of draft capital invested there. We need a center and more depth on our OL. Don't be surprised if a lot of other teams emulate this approach and beef up their lines going forward.

 

[BrokenArrow]

This ***-whooping was the result when a mediocre team is assisted all the way to the Super Bowl and then plays a real Super Bowl team. I was worried when I saw who the officiating crew was but they called a pretty good game aside from the first OPI.

 

[BrokenArrow]

For me it is their fans that are insufferable more than the team itself.

Mahomes is a whiny birtch and Kelce is an arrogant buffoon. Oh, and Hunt is still a woman-beater. Screw 'em.

 

[Pugger]

That's what I was thinking, too - that they didn't dare throw the game as blatantly as they have all season long, it's too important not to destroy the image of their sacred Super Bowl.

I just wonder what to expect for next year, now that there's no chance for a threepeat anymore. Will they go back to calling Chiefs games without such obvious bias, or will they keep up with the crooked officiating to get the next threepeat effort off to an early start?

The biased officiating of Chiefs games may have contributed to such a blowout win for Philly. IMO KC was not the best team in the AFC this year. The Bills or Ravens could have fared better. The game also showed the NFC was stronger. The 2 top teams this year were the Eagles and the Lions. I suspect Detroit would have won were they not decimated by injuries on D.

 

[Pugger]

It used to be a few hours of pre-game crap. Now it's all day long. I was at the gym at 11am yesterday and it was all over the TVs, 6 and 1/2 hours before the game. How does somebody stomach all of that repetitive coverage? Not me, that's for sure. I had enough trouble with the Tom Cruise intro.

No kidding. I can't stomach talking heads sawing sawdust all day about a football game, even the SB. We watched the Bucks game and then turned it off until supper time.

 

[mradtke66]

Aren't they all? Remember when they wheeled out The Who who looked like they were lip synching.

I believe the NFL requires that all performances be lip-synced and has for a long time. You can thank Garth Brooks. https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/02/08/garth-brooks-walks-out-super-bowl-1993/

 

[pacmaniac]

Maybe MLF can follow Sirianni's lead of giving up play calling duties so he can focus on being a better head coach.

 

[tynimiller]

Maybe MLF can follow Sirianni's lead of giving up play calling duties so he can focus on being a better head coach.

I go back and forth on this, I do believe he at minimum needs an assistant head coach or assign a coach to have control of end game management to make calls on clock decisions - I think he is trying to do way too much and its almost like we spaz in those situations.

His offense can still be implemented and he can help play design and plans for the week for sure, but day of the game after the script or maybe a time or two a game removing that from his plate I wonder how it might benefit the team.

 

[Thirteen Below]

I believe it's actually 24 points total, not including the playoffs.

Actually, I was wrong about the number of losses too; there was some adware interfering with my browser, and the page I was using to add the totals up wasn't displaying properly. But even so, there's n excuse for not remembering at least how many losses we had. I was more tired last night than I realized, I guess.

The Eagles have big, effective lines on both offense and defense that can push any team around. They sort of remind me of recent 49er teams, except Jalen Hurts is more effective. We don't have that, yet.

I'd be quite surprised if we ever even come close to having lines that big and tough. They seem to have an organizational philosophy for drafting linemen that's different than ours; we develop very good O-lines, but they don't seem to be the big, mean brawlers that Philly has been consistently putting out there for 30 year or more.

The linermen we draft play well (better than most teams) but they don't seem to play mean. I think other teams respect our lines (especially the O line), but I don't think anyone actually fears them, or dreads playing against them.

 

[weeds]

I was happy to see that toward the end of the game, they finally admitted that the Packers were the only team to three-peat, and gave a nice tribute to Lombardi and the Packers of the 1960s.

I'd like to hear the rationale for when the supposed modern era was 1966 versus 1965 just because someone in a marketing department changed a name of a game.

That's great for all of the expansion franchises but tell the Yankees that their Championships are 3rd rate before ... say... 1970 and see how that works.

Not the Packers are at fault because half of the league didn't exist before the NFL expanded to include a bunch of teams that were inferior in '66 and '67 but NOT in '65?

 

[Thirteen Below]

How does somebody stomach all of that repetitive coverage?

That's why over 20,000,000 Americans don't show up for work the Monday after the game - they start drinking at noon, and when they wake up on Monday they have the worst hangover of their entire year.

That wasn't music.

I saw a couple of clips of that show later, and just sat and stared. Like the way you can't help staring at a bad accident as you drive past it, or some drunk throwing a tantrum in a bar.

Perfect example of why I haven't watched a SB halftime show in at least 10 years, probably longer. I have more enjoyable things to do, like chewing on tinfoil or shaving my head with a cheese grater.

This ***-whooping was the result when a mediocre team is assisted all the way to the Super Bowl and then plays a real Super Bowl team. I was worried when I saw who the officiating crew was but they called a pretty good game aside from the first OPI.

The biased officiating of Chiefs games may have contributed to such a blowout win for Philly.

You guys are dead on the money. In retrospect, this maybe shouldn't have been as big a surprise as it was to so many people.

I'm sure you all remember how many times this season we talked about who the best team in the league might be, and all season long the consensus was that it was probably between the Chiefs and the Lions, with most people giving the edge to Kansas City. Because after all, they only lost one game in the first 17 weeks of the season.

But whenever we talked about it, most of us agreed that despite the W-L, they really didn't look that good. They really didn't play like a truly dominant team; it was just that they always seemed to come out on top.

Their average margin of victory was only 2.7 points, as opposed to 11.6 for Detroit, 10.9 for the Eagles, 9 for the Bills, 8.9 for Baltimore, and 6 for the Packers. KC may have had the best record, but they were #11 in margin of victory. They were clearly not a dominant team.

By the last few weeks of the season, it was becoming pretty clear why they were piling up all these narrow wins - the league desperately wanted that threepeat, they wanted a new dynasty to excite the fans. The new Dallas, the next New England.

A really smart guy might have looked at this and realized that as important as the image of the Super Bowl is to the league, they wouldn't dare embarrass themselves in the most widely watched telecast of the year. This smart guy might have figured out that as good as KC was, they really were not an elite, dominant team - which the Eagles clearly were.

This smart guy might have decided that in the first game of the entire season where they had to win without help from the officials, they were very likely to lose. I'm going to bet there were some pretty smart gamblers out there who made a lot of money last night.

 

[Heyjoe4]

Last one I watched was The Who.

I loved the Stones and Prince. I don't remember The Who doing the half time show. Gotta look that up. Thanks.

 

[tynimiller]

I had never heard of them/him but The Weekend or weekends or whatever it was a few years back wasn't bad. It's been awhile since I truly thought the halftime show was special or good.

 

[Heyjoe4]

That's why over 20,000,000 Americans don't show up for work the Monday after the game - they start drinking at noon, and when they wake up on Monday they have the worst hangover of their entire year.



I saw a couple of clips of that show later, and just sat and stared. Like the way you can't help staring at a bad accident as you drive past it, or some drunk throwing a tantrum in a bar.

Perfect example of why I haven't watched a SB halftime show in at least 10 years, probably longer. I have more enjoyable things to do, like chewing on tinfoil or shaving my head with a cheese grater.




You guys are dead on the money. In retrospect, this maybe shouldn't have been as big a surprise as it was to so many people.

I'm sure you all remember how many times this season we talked about who the best team in the league might be, and all season long the consensus was that it was probably between the Chiefs and the Lions, with most people giving the edge to Kansas City. Because after all, they only lost one game in the first 17 weeks of the season.

But whever we talked about, most of us agreed that despite the W-L, they really didn't look that good. They really didn't play like a truly dominant team; it was just that they always seemed to come out on top.

Their average margin of victory was only 2.7 points, as opposed to 11.6 for Detroit, 10.9 for the Eagles, 9 for the Bills, 8.9 for Baltimore, and 6 for the Packers. KC may have had the best record, but they were #11 in margin of victory. They were clearly not a dominant team.

By the last few weeks of the season, it was becoming pretty clear why they were piling up all these narrow wins - the league desperately wanted that threepeat, they wanted a new dynasty to excite the fans. The new Dallas, the next New England.

A really smart guy might have looked at this and realized that as important as the image of the Super Bowl is to the league, they wouldn't dare embarrass themselves in the most widely watched telecast of the year. This smart guy might have figured out that as good as KC was, they really were not an elite, dominant team - which the Eagles clearly were.

This smart guy might have decided that in the first game of the entire season where they had to win without help from the officials, they were very likely to lose. I'm going to bet there were some pretty smart gamblers out there who made a lot of money last night.

Yeah I think it was the Buffalo AFCCG where the officials called two roughing the passer penalties on the Bills. On one of them, Mahomes fell to the ground and two Buffalo defenders crashed into each other over him. It was an atrocious call.

I'm not a conspiracy theory guy, but c'mon. The MOV tells the story. The best teams were Detroit, Philly, Baltimore and Buffalo. Any matchup out of those four would have provided a much better game.

And credit the Commanders for catching the Lions looking past them. Campbell won't let that happen again.

On a more local topic, the Packers have a lot of work to do to catch up to any of these four teams. I believe it can happen, but Gluten will need a draft and similar FA decisions as last year.

 

[SudsMcBucky]

And credit the Commanders for catching the Lions looking past them. Campbell won't let that happen again.

I'll be curious to see how Campbell does losing both his coordinators.

 

[Sanguine camper]

I'd like to hear the rationale for when the supposed modern era was 1966 versus 1965 just because someone in a marketing department changed a name of a game.

That's great for all of the expansion franchises but tell the Yankees that their Championships are 3rd rate before ... say... 1970 and see how that works.

Not the Packers are at fault because half of the league didn't exist before the NFL expanded to include a bunch of teams that were inferior in '66 and '67 but NOT in '65?

The championships from earlier eras certainly should count. But in one important facet, the modern SB does mean more because there are many more teams. Before the merger, a team only needed to be the best out of 14 or 16 teams. Win your division and you're already in the championship game. Odds back them were one in 14 or one in 16 that you'd be the champ. Today, those odds are all the way down to one in 32. Much harder to do.

 

[Sanguine camper]

I believe the NFL requires that all performances be lip-synced and has for a long time. You can thank Garth Brooks. https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2025/02/08/garth-brooks-walks-out-super-bowl-1993/

I kind of felt sorry for the Who in that half time. They looked so ancient to me and were a mere shell of what they once were when they embodied energy and rowdiness

 

[Thirteen Below]

I'll be curious to see how Campbell does losing both his coordinators.

Yeah, that is going to be interesting to see. That's a lot of disruption for one offseason.

On a more local topic, the Packers have a lot of work to do to catch up to any of these four teams. I believe it can happen, but Gluten will need a draft and similar FA decisions as last year.

I know. This is shaping up to be one of the best Packer teams in decades, and it comes at the moment that the league has 4 truly elite, dominant teams that are as good as any NFL team in many years - and they are all still improving, with good young quarterbacks who are just now entering the prime years of their careers.

Green Bay has their work cut out fo them. They're going to need to play a lot more disciplined and consistent football next year than they did last year (a hell of a lot more), and a lot more focused.

Some of the young veterans need to step up and take strong leadership roles, and they need to do it now. That's something that was badly lacking last season, and we can't afford for it to happen next season.

It's going to be a dogfight every week, no matter who we play, because every "off" game we let slip away (against any team) will hurt us in the postseason seedings - especially since 2 of those 4 powerhouses are in our conference, and one of them in our division.

 

[gopkrs]

This ***-whooping was the result when a mediocre team is assisted all the way to the Super Bowl and then plays a real Super Bowl team. I was worried when I saw who the officiating crew was but they called a pretty good game aside from the first OPI.

I thought it was pass interference. He extended his arm and even pushed him in the face mask.

 

[rmontro]

It used to be a few hours of pre-game crap. Now it's all day long. I was at the gym at 11am yesterday and it was all over the TVs, 6 and 1/2 hours before the game. How does somebody stomach all of that repetitive coverage?

Alcohol?

As for the Tom Cruise intro, the main thing I got out of it is that he's finally starting to show some age.

Now THAT is a great picture that any and all Packer fans across the globe would love. Nicely done weeds! Some pictures just need no words. This is one.

Couldn't help but notice there were more bottles of alcohol than championship hats