Super Bowl 49
My official pick for winner of SB49 is Seattle. I just think they are going to win it. I think they have the right combination of stifling defense and ball control offense to make it work. The Hawks offense isn’t going to play as badly as they did against Green Bay, Russell doesn’t screw up like that with any regularity.
However I don’t see it being the boring blowout of last season. Brady and the Pats are playing with something to prove. They’ve turned this whole season into a chip on their shoulder sort of thing after the Chiefs game, which is kind of ludicrous when you think about it. It’s gotten even bigger with the addition of Deflate Gate. But I haven’t seen the Pats play with a chip on their shoulder like this since the early years with Brady, when they did win Super Bowls. This feels like a stronger team than 2011, mentally and talentwise.
The thing about the Pats is you gotta play pretty damn perfectly to win no matter what. The Patriots almost never have an “off” day (Chiefs game was the rare example) and that means you need your A-game to win. I have no doubt Seattle can bring it, but they cannot let themselves get too cocky. The Patriots are not last year’s Broncos. They aren’t a paper tiger who beat up a cupcake schedule with no defense and got everyone to drink the kool-aid. They don’t have a dumb overly conservative coach like John Fox. If Seattle can’t get their offense going and keeps giving the ball to Brady, the Pats are going to be put in good position.
I don’t like predicting scores, that always seemed dumb to me. I pick Seattle in a close one. I’ve sort of lost any personal rooting interest. The last two weeks have been some of the worst weeks of football media I can remember. We didn’t get anything about the matchup, it was just 1 week of saggy balls followed by 1 week of MARSHAWN LYNCH WONT TALK. It was awful. I now hate everything about both these teams and can’t find any reason to root for either. Lets hope for a good game so it can end on a high note before the dry season.
As they say in the NFL, low man wins. Seahawks win on a 34-31 Wilson-Willson pass late in the 4th.
If only you knew
it is entirely fitting and proper that the 2014 NFL season ends in an obnoxious contest between two excellent but near-universally hated teams totally overshadowed by off-the-field bullshit and bungling from the league office
this is how this season deserves to end
That about sums it all up.
This is the most eloquent and apt way to put it. Thank you.
Go Pats. I want history to say “Tom Brady: Inarguably one of the greatest QB’s of all time. First-ballot HOFer. Four-time Super Bowl Champion. Eli’s bitch.”
Wilson gets smaller every time you draw him…
Also, why are they throwing college balls?
I want the Hawks to win but I predict the Patriots winning 30-24.
Go Pats.
I remember 2 weeks ago when you thought the Patriots were going to win
At least you didn’t jump ship over one of the dumbest “controversies” of the decade
I never said I thought the Patriots were going to win. I always said Seattle. Read the original blog post.
http://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/the-patriots-go-back-to-the-super-bowl/
I said I originally wanted the Patriots to win, but I thought Seattle was going to win. Now I don’t really want to root for either. After a week of deflate gate I kind of wanted Seattle to win, but then after a week of Lynch-sanity I just give up. Screw both of these stupid teams.
But the deflate gate turned into essentially nothing, because it was always nothing
It was just stupid ESPN hype and you bought into it. It should have never changed your idea of the game
Or *who to root for* sorry
o rly?
I’m rooting for the meteor.
I don’t know why this didn’t occur to me, but… Team Meteor totally won.
Marvin Lewis called Manziel a midget once. Wait until he sees Wilson…
I’m rooting for the next Hindenburg disaster to happen in the middle of the stadium…Just waiting for the deposit to clear on the blimp XD
NFC all the way. Not just a Fin being anti-Pats
Riots, anti-cheats, whatever – a Fin being anti-Jeff Ireland.
Have you seen the story about Razorbacks coach Bret Bielema?
RAM IT DOWN IRELAND’S NECK, RUSS!
Here is a fun fact you guys might find interesting: Every NFC Champion who won in OT in the NFC Championship went on to win the Super Bowl.
Atlanta vs Minnesota 1998 NFC Championship game?
Rooting for the Seahawks, as it is a criminal offense here in Seattle not to do so. That, and I hate the Patriots.
To be honest, I’ve been finding Pats fans quite-annoying- they’ve been using “they hate us cause they ain’t us” as their motto, which is just… Ugh.
Yes, the Seahawks trash talk quite a bit. Yes, the fans are pretty obnoxious. And they know it. But they live up to their self-proclaimed dedication. For all their blathering and superiority, well, just look at Seattle right now. The entire city is buzzing and the fans are going all-out. Seahawks gear, food, houses, giant woodcarved statues, lighting up the city in blue and green… They even caused seismic readings to appear at UW at one point. I kid you not. The “12th man” made an earthquake.
I can barely stand them when it comes to their sportsmanship. 49ers fans especially are practically hunted here, and wearing a non-Seahawks jersey is a guaranteed way to lose all of your friends. But rooting for the Seahawks, especially in Seattle? It’s a blast.
“Making an earthquake” is a retarded bit of propaganda that I wish would go away. A train going near a seismic station will make the needle twitch, and the fact of fans causing such things to happen is nothing new– it happens frequently, in fact, at colleges that have seismology equipment. Seattle just has more PR about it.
Seattle’s fans don’t get crap for their enthusiasm– they get crap because it’s so freaking fairweather. I grew up in the Seattle area, I live here now. Remember when Seattle played the Saints, and Lynch had his definitive run? Yeah, I remember it too, because I got tickets to the game for $20.00. I could have gone for $13, but I decided to be on the second deck instead of third. Contrast that to Cleveland, or hell, even the Lions. Seattle fans get crap because they get SO HYPE in the good years, but then are non-existant in the mediocre and bad years.
I know some legitimate fans in the area, folks who really are fanatic, and they get my respect. The Seahawks have, traditionally, been an extremely easy team to be apathetic about, and this down just doesn’t really get fired up for sports for the sake of the sport. They just like feeling like winners, and it’s obnoxious. You know who the real twelfth man is? It’s not the crappy fans, it’s the architect who designed an amazing stadium that lets the averageness of Seattle seem like it’s something to be proud of. That guy is brilliant, and his money should be no good anywhere in this city.
But no one knows his name, because these fans are so caught up in their own self-importance and self-praise, thinking they’re any different from most cities in celebrating success. When Seattle goes 8-8, or Jim-Thorpe-Forbid 6-10, this city’s enthusiasm will get fumbled away like a bad snap at Dave Craig.
My proof? Seattle was irrelevant in the NFL until about 5 years ago. It had occasional good years, but was never consistent. In 1997, the vote that got passed that– functionally– kept the Seahawks in Seattle passed by 51% to 49%. Two. Percent. Paul Allen spent MILLIONS on the campaign (opposition spent under $200k), had multiple, popular former governors from both sides of the aisle on board, and curried every bit of political clout he could muster, and it STILL barely passed, with pretty much every dedicated Seahawks fan pushing out to vote, while the city’s apathetic basically didn’t care if the Seahawks left. This isn’t a city that deserves to pat itself on the back for it’s unquestioned, fanatical love of their team the way the Browns do– it’s a fandom that deserves the derisive scorn it receives from so many.
Man get over yourself. Who cares if lots of the fans now were not into it before? They are having fun and making a great atmosphere in the entire region. Who the fuck are you to tell people not to have fun?
Also the fact that you just spent who knows how long writing and researching that bit just so you can shit on the fans of a certain city just shows that you are a remarkably pathetic, mean spirited little shit troll.
What Averien said.
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DAVE WHEN WILL YOU LEARN NOT TO MAKE PREDICTIONS
He predicted a good game. That’s what we got.
The worst part about that ending is that if Lynch runs that touchdown in, he’s probably MVP, and then balls to you – metaphorically and literally – Goodell, because now the MVP is grabbing his nuts in the end zone.
Pretty much. That may go down as one of the worst play calls in Super Bowl history.
At least it was otherwise a great game to watch.