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By adamg on Sun, 02/01/2015 - 10:00pm
What a finish to that game!
Cue the Duck Boats! Maybe that'll get the roads cleared.
Fireworks in Jamaica Plain.
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As someone who hates football
I have to give it to the Pats. The Seahawks acted like thugs at the end. It was classless and it just adds to the notoriety of the game.
Just one guy, actually
Looking at the replay, it was all Bruce Irvin getting way out of control. Guy couldn't even finish high school without getting thrown out, had drug suspensions, too.
Carroll threw him out of the stadium, rumor is that he won't even travel with the team. He's not likely to be on the roster next year.
You'll forgive my ignorance
but all I ever see is a bunch of pituitary cases giving each other brain damage for the profit of a league that doesn't even pay taxes and tries to sweep their wife beating members under the rug.
Just my opinion.
Like I said:
http://thinkprogress.org/sports/2015/02/01/3617925/doctors-told-patriots...
Funny, one would think you'd find this story on BDC or the Herald but I just can't find it. Is Julian Edelman's possible concussion in the Super Bowl not news?
Oh good Lord there's always
Oh good Lord there's always one of them.
Do you call people on their birthday to say they're one year closer to death's sweet embrace?
I'll be sure to pass your concerns
about Mr. Edelman's health to him when I see him. And if he remembers who he is.
The tax status of the league
The tax status of the league is an over-hyped issue. Most of the money and profits is collected not by the league, but by the individual billionaire team-owners, who collectively control the league and are taxed on their income. The league is just an umbrella organization.
It's similar to the way you condominiumize an apartment building. You end up with one parcel for the building itself which is valued at $0 and pays no taxes, and several parcels for all the condos which pay tax that includes the value of the whole building.
the NFL has spent lavishly to
"the NFL has spent lavishly to protect it and keep lawmakers happy. The organization has shelled out $12.7 million on lobbying since 1998—more than any other professional sports league—and given $2 million in campaign donations since 1992, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Those calling for the NFL to be stripped of its tax-exempt status point out that its leadership is making Wall Street money. In 2011, the NFL paid its five highest-ranking executives almost $60 million. Goodell alone pocketed $29 million. This largesse comes largely on the backs of taxpayers in cities that have pro football teams. As Easterbrook notes, "Judith Grant Long, a Harvard University professor of urban planning, calculates that league-wide, 70 percent of the capital cost of NFL stadiums has been provided by taxpayers, not NFL owners. Many cities, counties, and states also pay the stadiums’ ongoing costs, by providing power, sewer services, other infrastructure, and stadium improvements." In other words, the NFL isn't just ducking taxes; it's fleecing working people who do pay their taxes." Mother Jones-12/16/13
Doesn't sound like hype to me.
Answer to a trivia question
Bruce Irvin was the first player to be ejected from the Superbowl.
I'm not sure where you get that Pete Carroll "threw him out of the stadium."
As the kids say, citation needed.
watch hockey much?
Those sort of antics are commonplace in hockey. But maybe you are talking about something else, say the off-the-field thugishness?
Come now...
The NFL just came off of probably their worst year ever publicity wise and at the end of their biggest event of the year the losing team starts a fight? Hockey has nothing to do with it.
Nobody said it had anything
Nobody said it had anything to do with the NHL, you reading-comprehension-impaired nitwit.
You'll forgive me
but
was the line I was responding to. So maybe you'll want to check your own comprehension. Or did you just want to call me an nitwit for insulting your favorite brain crushing sport?
You responded with remarks
You responded with remarks that had nothing to do with the NHL; that's why your comments were ridiculous. And no, I didn't call you a nitwit for insulting something that is not my favorite sport - I've got plenty other things to call you a nitwit for, such as your intellectually dishonest tendencies ("your favorite brain crushing sport" being the latest example). There are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of the NFL, but all you're doing here is tiresome and irrelevant axe-grinding.
My goodness!
How am I supposed to learn which of my tendencies are intellectually dishonest unless you tell me which tendencies I'm being intellectually dishonest about?
So, please, unless you can prove that NFL really, really cares about the amount of brain damage inflicted on the poor saps who play the sport, I'll just continue to wallow in my intellectual dishonesty.
I'll let sportswriter Jeb Lund speak for my intellectual dishonesty.From a piece first published on, then mysteriously dropped from Rolling Stone. com:
"I have to give it to the Pats."
Must've been what Pete Carroll was thinking.
THE DUMBEST PLAY CALL IN SUPERBOWL HISTORY
Let me repeat that for the West Coast audience...
THE DUMBEST PLAY CALL IN SUPERBOWL HISTORY
Suldog
http://jimuldog.blogspot.com
One of the best Superbowls in
One of the best Superbowls in recent memory. And I'm a Giants fan.
Congrats Pats.
I was yelling at my tv the last 15 mins
I thought we were going to lose, it was a similar win when we played the Phil. eagles!!!
I heard you
I was not watching the game but like most championships in which Boston wins I knew the end result from the cheers that I could hear from people in other buildings -- and you need to scream real loud for your voice to make it though two exterior walls.
The Butler did it!
Wow - I figured that this game was going to be a barn burner - two fairly evenly matched teams with reputations for massive second half acceleration capacity. I didn't think that it was going to get down to a rookie with a good eye walking in front of the ball.
Interesting fun fact
Brandon Browner said that all through the season, in practice Butler was #1 on picks...yet none in a game until last night.
What an ending!
I'm not big into football, but with the Seahawks so close to the endzone, I was holding my breath. And then Malcolm Butler made that intercept!!! Way to go Malcolm!
And pffft to the Seahawls for their poor sportsmanship.
Pats Nation!
I will never forget this Sunday night, what with
Lord Grantham murdering his entire family. So, did I miss anything good with the game?
Wait just a minute
I thought Swirly said the Butler did it?
I did not see that wild finish coming.
The episode was in doubt till the last minute, just a shocking outcome.
Sorry for the lack of a spoiler alert. The good news is that the show now segues into a Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock Holmes throwback series in which he spends each week covering up the sins of British nobility.
...Lord Grantham
ha ha! +1
Oh, hello there, Haters! Remember us?
We're your old friends from NEW ENGLAND! You know, where BOSTON is! We didn't notice you there.
Once again, our little outpost on the North Atlantic punches above its weight - whilst everyone else punches sand.
HOW DO YOU LIKE US NOW (AGAIN)?!!!
Make Way For Duckboats!
No, seriously. Move the damn snow so we can have another awesome parade!
Duckboats with Plows
That would be worthwhile.
Make way for the common folk
Forget the duck boats. Move the frigging snow so the regular folks can get to work.
The parade...
should be with the Pats atop snowplows instead of duckboats. Kill 2 birds with one stone!
Rob Gronkowski driving a snowplow?
That I'd love to see. And I bet he'd love doing it too.
Already done
Nice to know what the priorities are... *eye roll*
Really?
All the snow from the sidewalks on both sides of the street along the entire parade route has been cleared? Even while there's a new foot of snow falling?
is the parade route even announced yet?
I assume they won't actually be going in the water like they did for the 2013 Red Sox parade.
He must've done something
He must've done something impressive to actually get thrown out of the game. Or was it something near-automatic like bumping an official?
Really, though, I wonder if there was some of that bizarre "We're an NFL team with a tiny lead and time running out - how dare our opponent try to swarm us and knock the ball out and actually try to win the game!" on the part of the Patriots
...or it could've been "I need to get my negative energy out now or I might assault my head coach and/or offensive coordinator on the flight home, and the front office would void my contract" on the part of the Seahawks.
Did you watch?
Apparently not. Maybe before concocting such far-fetched stories about what's going on inside other people's heads, you should get some facts. Fact: all the Patriots were trying to do was take a knee. Fact: Irvin got in Gronkowski's face, then proceeded to mix it up with Ryan Wendell and Michael Hoomanawanui. Irvin claims he saw somebody hit Mike Bennet. Nobody "hit" Mike Bennet. Look at the video and you'll see perfectly ordinary blocking by the o-line to let Brady take the knee. That was IT. Your whole "how dare our opponent try to swarm us" projection is just plain nutty - it was all standard football until Irvin decided to take a swing at somebody.
Actually, I did watch it live
Actually, I did watch it live.
They had their little scrum - well, actually one big scrum or several little scrums with several people from each side participating quite enthusiastically - flags were thrown, his ejection was announced without much detail (other than it being clear that he was the only one the officials saw any need to penalize), and they moved on to finishing the game. The TV announcers didn't have time to go into any special analysis of it before it was time for the confetti, trophy, etc...
I'll check the NFL rulebook later, but I'm pretty sure "getting in Gronk's face" isn't usually an ejection-level offense.
Official Call
The ref said he was thrown out for instigating.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Safety avoided?
It looked to me like that fight and penalty saved the Patriots from the strong possibility of being sacked for a safety. After the interception, they were backed up right against the goal line. The two points wouldn't have hurt by themselves, but the resulting kickoff and return could have.
Second Penalty
The previous encroachment penalty would already bring the Pats out to the six yard line, Ron, so probably not so much on the personal foul. It didn't hurt, though, that's for sure!
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Why no touchback?
Did he intercept it just short of the goal line, or did he try to return it out of the end zone and get immediately tackled a few inches later?
Tried to return
He caught it at the goal line - kind of bounced a step back into the endzone and then lunged to the 2-3 yard line - ensuing penalty for celebrating brought it back halfway to the 1 yard line but then Seattle jumped offsides so we got it back to the 6 and then another penalty for "getting in Gronk's face" brought it out around the 20 yard line. Take a knee, game over, bring home the trophy and bring on the Duck Plows - after the streets are cleared and it rises above Arctic winter temps. Cue catchers and pitchers.
Your predictions...
What's the likelihood that despite having had three snow days last week and another already called for tomorrow, (a) somebody in the mysterious and disconnected powers-that-be decides that a rolling rally really needs to be held on a weekday because the players can't be expected to wait until Saturday or come back on Saturday, and (b) people will still take their kids out of school for it?
Facts. What days of the week
Facts. What days of the week have the "rolling rallies" been held on? Weekdays, that's when.
Parade days
If I'm reading various archived articles and blogs correctly:
2004 Red Sox - Saturday (3 days after World Series ended)
2007 Red Sox - Tuesday (2 days after World Series ended)
2008 Celtics - Thursday (2 days after NBA final ended)
2011 Bruins - Saturday (3 days after Stanley Cup Final ended)
2013 Red Sox - Saturday (3 days after World Series ended)
the Patriots parades have all been on Tuesdays, 2 days after the Super Bowl
Exactly
The players aren't going to sit around all week waiting for a parade on a Saturday. Either do it in the next couple days, or it's not going to happen.
God forbid....
....that the players should inconvenience themselves by enduring the adoration and gratitude of their fans. You know, the ones who loyally stood by them for the past 2 weeks. Without whom they wouldn't have jobs.Attending a celebration in your honor is such a burden.
...
I'm sure you won't understand why, but this makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.
Two whole weeks. Imagine that. Now that's loyalty, and no mistake.
Yeah, fair enough
I was just thinking about the shit that Pats fans have taken for defending their team during this period. 2007 was probably no picnic, either, on that front. But I'm sure many here were around for the Truly Dark Years of losing teams, and I was not, so I accept being laughed at.
I do think the Pats should really appreciate their fans right now. And they probably do. But the idea that waiting around for a few days was UNTHINKABLE was just funny to me.
Aww no Gisele
I thought we'd get see the Brady bunch all together on stage in the post-game. No such luck.