American Sports Thread

[heganboy]

Horrible game to watch.

Got to hand it to the Pats, 6 wins with the same QB and coach in this era is absolutely phenomenal, with the draft system in place they have a pretty good shout for best professional team of any sport at any time.

And that's coming from an "anyone but the pats" guy.

[sid waddell]

As an spectacle, that was utter shit.

American football needs a load of new rules to make it watchable.

I suggest the quarterback be forced to kick pass the ball.

[David McKeown]

I have to say I really enjoyed it. I thought it was great to see two good defences go at and in a pass happy league it was refreshing to see an old school Smash mouth low scoring game. That said I thought Pats v Chiefs in the regular season was the best game I ever watched (didn't see Rams v Chiefs) so I probably would have enjoyed it no matter what.

[thewobbler]

A proper anticlimax.1 red zone in one hour. Absolute credit to the Pats who seem happy to play against whatever strategy they meet. But if that form of game was a regular occurrence none of us would watch.

[screenexile]

PEDelman!!

[LooseCannon]

I'll be the first to admit that I know feck all about NFL, but I reckon that the Rams will win 32-28.

Can I be the first to agree? 

I was closest to the score last year!😉

I fell asleep anyway at the start of the third quarter. Oh well.

[Taylor]

A game for the purist not for the casual observer.

Bill got it right yet again.

Goff didnt seem 100% with regards to how sharp his throws were. He should certainly have had a TD.

Brady & Bill should ride of into the sunset on a high.

[magpie seanie]

PEDelman!!

Apt that a cheater gets MVP. Again though that selection underlines how little most people who get to make these decisions know about the game. Surely a defensive player deserved MVP in this game?

And Goff is not a good quarterback. The scheme has made him look good. When Belichick/Flores short circuited the scheme you saw he's very ordinary.

The Gurley things makes no sense. When he did get some run he looked himself....broke Chungs arm with a violent run.

[Main Street]

That was my 5th superbowl  I watched it on BBC all the way to the end - advert free.  I thought it was a superb sporting spectacle, a nail-biter.

That half time show is an absolute pile of manure. Where do they find those idiots who are all primed up to dance as if tarantula possessed?   It's so corny it makes that Mirinda ad look classy and authentic.

[Bord na Mona man]

The Gurley things makes no sense. When he did get some run he looked himself....broke Chungs arm with a violent run.

Yes, he was rampant and borderline unstoppable for most of the season.

A bad night for millennials with McVay and Goff being owned by their elder equivalents!

[Wildweasel74]

Been watching since 85.  That by far been the worse superbowl i seen. Horrible stuff. Exceeds the Bronco wash out if a few yrs bck.

[Maiden1]

PEDelman!!

Apt that a cheater gets MVP. Again though that selection underlines how little most people who get to make these decisions know about the game. Surely a defensive player deserved MVP in this game?

And Goff is not a good quarterback. The scheme has made him look good. When Belichick/Flores short circuited the scheme you saw he's very ordinary.

The Gurley things makes no sense. When he did get some run he looked himself....broke Chungs arm with a violent run.

Edelman was very good though, 10 catches for 141 yards.  If any gaa forward wants to work on losing a marker they should watch the way he runs a route.

[magpie seanie]

PEDelman!!

Apt that a cheater gets MVP. Again though that selection underlines how little most people who get to make these decisions know about the game. Surely a defensive player deserved MVP in this game?

And Goff is not a good quarterback. The scheme has made him look good. When Belichick/Flores short circuited the scheme you saw he's very ordinary.

The Gurley things makes no sense. When he did get some run he looked himself....broke Chungs arm with a violent run.

Edelman was very good though, 10 catches for 141 yards.  If any gaa forward wants to work on losing a marker they should watch the way he runs a route.

I wouldn't be putting him up as a role model for anyone.

[Maiden1]

PEDelman!!

Apt that a cheater gets MVP. Again though that selection underlines how little most people who get to make these decisions know about the game. Surely a defensive player deserved MVP in this game?

And Goff is not a good quarterback. The scheme has made him look good. When Belichick/Flores short circuited the scheme you saw he's very ordinary.

The Gurley things makes no sense. When he did get some run he looked himself....broke Chungs arm with a violent run.

Edelman was very good though, 10 catches for 141 yards.  If any gaa forward wants to work on losing a marker they should watch the way he runs a route.

I wouldn't be putting him up as a role model for anyone.

Old white man runs fast, how many wouldn't be on PED?  4 game suspension isn't really much of a deterrent.

[Keyser soze]

That was extremely boring, I imagine there will be a rash of changes to the playing rules for next season.