2021 SuperBowl: Was it What You Hoped For?

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  1. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

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    I wasn't sure if I was going to watch the Superbowl this year. It's the ONLY sports even I watch (mostly for the commercials), I have never been much of a bleacher kinda guy who spectates others.

    The Superbowl this year fell on my birthday weekend and my family has a friend who lives in Oakhurst California who turned 88 on Superbowl Sunday. He drove down and we had a duo birthday party at my Moms. They made a feast for like 40 people and 8 were in attendance.

    The Bowl had to meet some minimum pre-requirements for me to even spectate it and it did meet the minimum.

    Cathy and I have had a tradition of two things on Superbowl Sunday. Root for the underdog and watch the commercials.

    I guess this year the underdog was hard to determine. Cathy went for the KC Chiefs, I went for the Buccaneer's. Traditionally I have found the underdogs to win the Superbowl. If the Buccaneers were the underdogs than tradition rang true again.

    Good game?
    Do you think the cardboard cutouts enjoyed the Halftime show?
    I think the halftime show was totally weak sauce, to include whoever ran the soundboard because the sound quality was horrific!
     
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  2. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

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    What’s the Super Bowl?

    I was out riding my bike all day.
     
  3. SnakeCharmer

    SnakeCharmer iMTB Hooligan

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    Not a good game. One sided the whole way through. The Chiefs were not playing at their best. The Bucs were. The better team won.
     
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  4. doublewide

    doublewide iMTB Rockstah

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    That's the place I go dookie.
     
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  5. blixet

    blixet Well-Known Member

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    I wondered what was up with the spastic burn victims writhing around on the field at half-time?
     
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  6. Mikie

    Mikie Admin/iMTB Hooligan

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    Yeah, like I said. I watch one sports event a year.
     
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  7. Danimal

    Danimal iMTB Addict

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    It was on in the background and occasionally checked it out. I'm with Mikie here, not a sports fan, and this is the only game I've had on in 2020/21. That includes all the other sports too.

    Best part was my wife made homemade hummus....yum! IMO she got player of the year :)

    Go Sports...Yay....
     
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  8. Mikie

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    Ummm, I'm not sure what to say about halftime. Does ANYONE know what to say about halftime, ha ha! o_Oo_Oo_O
     
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  9. blixet

    blixet Well-Known Member

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    Thank goodness for the inventor of the mute button? :thumbsup:
     
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  10. Voodoo Tom

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    Apparently I spent more time grazing and drinking beer than watching the game...
    IMG_2242.jpg
     
  11. blixet

    blixet Well-Known Member

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    And as long as I am grooming my pet peeve this morning,,,, What is up with the former athlete color commentators that haven't learned to purge the sentence starter "I mean" and the all too frequent, have no other descriptive words in my vocabulary than "just" and must punctuate the end with an upspoken "right?"? I mean it is just annoying, right? :facepalm:
     
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  12. Mikie

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    Yeah, It was pretty bad both the visual and sound production. :(
     
  13. fos'l

    fos'l Well-Known Member

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    Appeared in advance to be a classic match-up, but didn't materialize. I had never heard of "the weekend", and now it painfully evident why. Controversial, but IMO fantastic rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Commercials were pretty good. The wine, Blue Moon, chips, dip and Round Table pizza made it worthwhile icing on a spectacular AM at CHSP.
     
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  14. Mikie

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    The performer does not know how to spell... It's spelled Weeknd. o_O

    Hey how about this?

    210207-F-LC363-1101.jpg

    So I'm a bit partial to this particular moment...
    Since the middle one is the product of who I work for..
    Pretty epic to see a B1, B2, and a B52 in a flyby.
     
  15. tick

    tick Well-Known Member

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    Only if you live to tell the story.

    middle of the second quarter, we were talking about how it wasn’t the typical super bowl blowout. Then the refs started calling kc on everything. Several of the big penalties wouldn’t be fouls in soccer or the nba. Refs need to back off and let them play.

    the kc o-line must have partied too much the night before.
     
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  16. Faust29

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    I have only watched a handful of football games since watching the Bills blow 4 in a row... Wide right! o_O But... My Facebook feed has been filled with hope that this was the year for the Bills. So, against my better judgment, I watched the last game against Kansas City. It looked just like the choking Bills I remember so well.

    I tuned in this year, rooting half-heartedly for Tampa Bay. It's a tenuous connection, but the wife was at the Wide World of Sports when it first opened at Disney World and the Bucs were the first pro team to make use of the training facilities.

    The game itself was pretty one-sided... :thumbsdown:
     
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    The Bs have it!
     
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  18. Mikie

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    If only I could share in-house B2 vid's...

    The 3 calls that come to mind.
    2) Unsportsmanlike conduct... One against each side...
    1) The interception that was called dead when the replay clearly show it was good. Sarah Thomas called it incomplete.... Who was going to question her as she broke ground as the first Female Ref? Kudos for her achievement!
     
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    @DangerDirtyD or @mike can probably provide an example.
     
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  20. tick

    tick Well-Known Member

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    One of the few perks of working away from home at Plant 42 was the daily air show.

    For the drive in to work: Pre-dawn B-2 flights seeming to disappear after takeoff.

    For lunch: F-117 engine-out testing while eating a Malibu chicken sandwich from the roach coach.

    Still, it didn’t totally make up for having to spend weeks on end at the Inn of Lancaster.
     
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    How did the BUFF manage to keep up?
     
  22. mtbMike

    mtbMike iMTB Rockstah

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    I did not watch the game. The last SB I watched was SB XXX when the Cowboys beat the Steelers.

    I read earlier today that 4 out of 5 of KC's starting O-Line was out....not sure if it was COVID, injuries or what....
     
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  23. BonsaiNut

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    Just going to say... George Halas played football for my great uncle before he left to form the Chicago Bears.

    Yes... my great uncle owned one of the founding teams of the NFL. Sadly, Hammond, IN didn't make the cut as the league expanded :)
     
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  24. da big hills

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    I was at the Rock heading out to my test chamber when a B1 flew by very low, wings forward. It disappeared into a valley that I did not know was deep enough to be a valley. It appeared wings swept back and climbed vertical until out of sight. Leaving the Rock I saw a B52, black with a cruise missile painted white on the side. Then as the twilight kicked in I saw a B2 gear doors open and gear bay lights on, I could see writing all over the walls. Superbowl was not that nice but the flyby was the highlight of the game to me.
     
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  25. tick

    tick Well-Known Member

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    Edit: how bout those cheerleaders!
     
  26. herzalot

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    I was rooting for the old guy to blow away the record books. I know it's fashionable to hate on Brady, but I loved the idea that he went to a new team, he and the team struggled early, and then they collectively kicked everybody's ass when it counted.

    The halftime show took a great singer, mixed the sound so that you couldn't hear him and then threw in a bunch of really distracting visual images that made me say - wait, what?

    Field goals don't beat touchdowns. Not much of a game. And yes, the O-Line of KC should be charged with aiding and abetting an assault. Poor Mahomes!
     
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  27. bvader

    bvader iMTB Rockstah

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    Tampa and TB12 deserved to win for sure.

    I was laughing thinking those Tampa DLine got their mileage in chasing Mahomes around the backfield.

    Funny you mentioned halftime, I actually got up and check my audio rig I thought my Sub Failed...
     
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  28. Mikie

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    It is. Some people can just not contain themselves... :gotnothing:
    I’m sorry.
     
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  29. jimbowho

    jimbowho Well-Known Member

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    Watched only because Brady/Mahomes. If Brady makes it next year I will watch one last game. Not a B fan, just liked an old underdog sticking it to Bellichech. Can't watch anymore due to "it's stupid". I will miss football.

    EDIT: I did feel bad for Pat. We've all been on the ground squirming, that was ugly.
     
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  30. scan

    scan iMTB Rockstah

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    I'm a big Brady fan and love how he continues to frustrate the haters by his pursuit of excellence, work ethic, leadership. The "first time ever" accomplishments keep coming, year after year......unbelievable!!
    I really think the TB defense should have been the MVPs. They kept the modern day greatest show on turf out of the end zone!?

    Nobody mentioned the first song sung by the artist HER. What a voice and talent! Her brief guitar solo.....amazing and she plays other instruments too!!
     
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