Shouldn't the more important question be where the DNC decided to headquarter. After all, Nixon didn't decide to bug a random hotel.
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I'm not going to predict a score, but I want to see the Hawks win. All day today, I saw people in jerseys and just smiling. It's a wonderful thing to see the Seattle area so happy and unified. I don't want this feeling to end! It's wonderful!
Ugh. I don't want to root for either team, so Go Eventual Winner!
At least the halftime show will be mildly entertaining and there will be a few amusing commercials.
At least the halftime show will be mildly entertaining and there will be a few amusing commercials.
I know! I went to Alderwood Mall today for lunch SO many people wearing jerseys and such a feeling of...hope in the air in a way. Saw the cutest little girl dressed as a Sea Gal.
I don't really want to speculate on the score either, I'm guessing it will be close. I think my favorite thing to come out this week is Conan's clueless gamer video with Marshawn and Gronk. Nice to see the 'real' Beast Mode.
Anyway...looking forward to Sunday. To quote the great Russell Wilson: "Go Hawks!"
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Actually, I saw a pretty decent mix of 24, 25, 3 and I saw an older lady in a feather boa and a Doug Baldwin 88.Of all those jerseys you two saw people in, how many of them had the number 12?
Well, its official. Cheaters do prosper. Congrats.
Too bad for the NFL
Too bad for the NFL
Well, looks like the Patriots took the air out of everyone's night.
Congrats to the Patriots. Though I wish the Hawks would have done it and that a different play had been selected, I can still admire a close game. 
That was one of the dumbest play calls I've ever seen in football.
2nd and goal from the one yard line...and you throw it? And you have Marshawn Lynch as your RB?
My brain is not processing this...
2nd and goal from the one yard line...and you throw it? And you have Marshawn Lynch as your RB?
My brain is not processing this...
I have it on good authority that the Patriot's locker room attendant kidnapped the Seahawk's offensive coordinator and deflated his brain, causing him to make that terrible call.
#CallGhazi
Congratulations to the Patriots. Regardless of what anyone may think of their conduct in the past, they played a great game and won fair and square against a well balanced opponent with good officiating.
That last quarter was one hell of a roller coaster, and made for a great and nail-biting ending.
I'd say Marshawn Lynch must be speechless after that call, but that's pretty standard for him. I just don't get why you don't hand the ball to the best running back in the league on 2nd-and-goal on the one-yard-line with twenty seconds and a time out left. I thought they had it for sure. That's some Abrose Burnside "snatch victory from the jaws of defeat" shit.
What an amazing play for Malcolm Butler, though. Possibly the defining play of his career and he's only a rookie.
#CallGhazi
Congratulations to the Patriots. Regardless of what anyone may think of their conduct in the past, they played a great game and won fair and square against a well balanced opponent with good officiating.
That last quarter was one hell of a roller coaster, and made for a great and nail-biting ending.
I'd say Marshawn Lynch must be speechless after that call, but that's pretty standard for him. I just don't get why you don't hand the ball to the best running back in the league on 2nd-and-goal on the one-yard-line with twenty seconds and a time out left. I thought they had it for sure. That's some Abrose Burnside "snatch victory from the jaws of defeat" shit.
What an amazing play for Malcolm Butler, though. Possibly the defining play of his career and he's only a rookie.
Could not be happier right now. After enduring two weeks of overexaggerated bullcrap that turned out to not nearly be what it was initially reported to be (seriously, check out Ian Rapoport's most recent Deflategate story) the Patriots came out, played a great game and pulled off a well-deserved win. 
It's just a shame the Seahawks had to take the loss so poorly and start throwing punches at the end of the game.
It's just a shame the Seahawks had to take the loss so poorly and start throwing punches at the end of the game.
Yeah, that was my thought. It was one great football game that was decided on the field.
I want to know what led up to Bruce Irvin throwing that punch. I don't think he should've done it, certainly, but I want to know if he was provoked. I like knowing what started fights, myself.
ETA: He said someone hit Michael Bennett first, but I want to see if that was so.
Further ETA: http://nypost.com/2015/02/02/seahawks-explain-punch-trading-brawl-that-ended-super-bowl/ The video clip here seems to corroborate his story. Gronkowski did throw the first hit. Doesn't make how Irvin reacted right, but he was telling the truth.
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Geez Pete, if you are going to throw it at least go fade to the corners or a quick hitter to the outside. Throwing a timing route on the inside into heavy traffic with the risk of INT or a tipped ball was crazy. Carroll can try to defend his position all he wants that he didn't like the match up but fuck man, the match up is the Patriots having to stop Lynch from getting a yard. Doesn't get much better than that.
Thought the Patriots defense was better as well. The Seahawks got carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey in the fourth quarter. Brady stayed away from Sherman for most of the night. Pressure forced Tom into a couple of picks but they weren't crippling.
Thought the Patriots defense was better as well. The Seahawks got carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey in the fourth quarter. Brady stayed away from Sherman for most of the night. Pressure forced Tom into a couple of picks but they weren't crippling.
He admitted he made a bad decision. Which I think takes guts.
Feels good to get this one on the books. Can help put the 'haven't won since Spygate' nonsense to bed, or at least just limit it to the true haters that weren't going to be reasoned with anyway. (for anyone that wanted to use that logic, this is the 3rd SuperBowl they had been to since. And went 18-1, with winning that 19th game until the last minute, the first year after. So it's weird that you can be very good without whatever the camera was providing, and then suddenly suck, I guess?)
Anyway, nice to get that one in, and puts Brady/Belichick even higher up in the ranks.
Too bad that this deflate-gate nonsense isn't wrapped up yet, and took a bite out of the fun the last two weeks, but can't see how this doesn't end with a retraction and apology now. Pretty much every single piece of leaked info has been debunked at this point:
-LB intercepted it and instantly knew it was deflated. He's come out and said BS, he didn't see any difference and didn't say anything anyway.
-Colts' coach was involved, reported it. Has come out and said he didn't.
-Balls were 2 PSI under legal limit. Well, it turns out that ONE ball was low, the rest were in the 12+PSI range, and mostly in the 12.3 or 12.4 range. Dunno what the story with the one low ball is, was this the one that the Colts ran around with for a while (chain of custody?), was it one that was used in the game, just a ball with a leak, what? Either way, turns out the balls were legal, slightly (very slightly in all but 1) deflated because it was cold and rainy, and end of story there.
-Ball attendant stole the balls and doctored them. Well, since it turns out they were at pretty much exactly the right PSI anyway (all but one), kinda kills that. But worst case, he was an older gentleman, and was in the bathroom with both teams' balls for 98 seconds per the video. Only leak he could really perform in that timeframe was into the urinal, but hey, conspiracy I guess. And of course ESPN points out we don't have any video of what he was doing in there. You know, because it's a bathroom. But if you wanted to play the common sense card, you'd assume it was his job to watch/guard the balls, so if he had to stop in the bathroom, you'd have to take them with you.
-NFL conspiracy/sting. Seems there's something here, and rumors are that the ravens were the driver for it. But either way, have the balls EVER been re-checked during halftime of a game? Can't seem to find anyone that has ever heard of this happening. And since the balls have now pretty much checked out, kinda hard to imagine what else was driving the spontaneous re-check. Something felt off about the ball that came in at 12.4 PSI? But not so off that any of the refs who handle the ball every play noticed DURING the game? Also odd that the NFL would let the Pats go into AFC Championship game with deflated balls to try and catch them 'red handed' later, but Goodell IS that incompetent, so who knows?
End of the day, seems like pretty much every part of this story is falling apart, and can't imagine what they come up with that brings it back to the Pats "cheating". Not sure where this goes, but anyone that hated the Pats before is going to latch on and keep saying things even after all the facts counter the argument. Kinda like Spygate, in that respect. Kinda hope Kraft goes after some of the reporters and networks that pumped up this "scandal" for ratings and click-bait, as not hard to argue that they hurt his brand and reputation. NFL will come out and say they found no evidence, but people will take that to mean conspiracy or that Pats got away with it, not that they didn't do anything, which is frustrating. But the superbowl ring will help ease the sting a little, I suppose.
In the interim, they can suck our fully-inflated balls
Anyway, nice to get that one in, and puts Brady/Belichick even higher up in the ranks.
Too bad that this deflate-gate nonsense isn't wrapped up yet, and took a bite out of the fun the last two weeks, but can't see how this doesn't end with a retraction and apology now. Pretty much every single piece of leaked info has been debunked at this point:
-LB intercepted it and instantly knew it was deflated. He's come out and said BS, he didn't see any difference and didn't say anything anyway.
-Colts' coach was involved, reported it. Has come out and said he didn't.
-Balls were 2 PSI under legal limit. Well, it turns out that ONE ball was low, the rest were in the 12+PSI range, and mostly in the 12.3 or 12.4 range. Dunno what the story with the one low ball is, was this the one that the Colts ran around with for a while (chain of custody?), was it one that was used in the game, just a ball with a leak, what? Either way, turns out the balls were legal, slightly (very slightly in all but 1) deflated because it was cold and rainy, and end of story there.
-Ball attendant stole the balls and doctored them. Well, since it turns out they were at pretty much exactly the right PSI anyway (all but one), kinda kills that. But worst case, he was an older gentleman, and was in the bathroom with both teams' balls for 98 seconds per the video. Only leak he could really perform in that timeframe was into the urinal, but hey, conspiracy I guess. And of course ESPN points out we don't have any video of what he was doing in there. You know, because it's a bathroom. But if you wanted to play the common sense card, you'd assume it was his job to watch/guard the balls, so if he had to stop in the bathroom, you'd have to take them with you.
-NFL conspiracy/sting. Seems there's something here, and rumors are that the ravens were the driver for it. But either way, have the balls EVER been re-checked during halftime of a game? Can't seem to find anyone that has ever heard of this happening. And since the balls have now pretty much checked out, kinda hard to imagine what else was driving the spontaneous re-check. Something felt off about the ball that came in at 12.4 PSI? But not so off that any of the refs who handle the ball every play noticed DURING the game? Also odd that the NFL would let the Pats go into AFC Championship game with deflated balls to try and catch them 'red handed' later, but Goodell IS that incompetent, so who knows?
End of the day, seems like pretty much every part of this story is falling apart, and can't imagine what they come up with that brings it back to the Pats "cheating". Not sure where this goes, but anyone that hated the Pats before is going to latch on and keep saying things even after all the facts counter the argument. Kinda like Spygate, in that respect. Kinda hope Kraft goes after some of the reporters and networks that pumped up this "scandal" for ratings and click-bait, as not hard to argue that they hurt his brand and reputation. NFL will come out and say they found no evidence, but people will take that to mean conspiracy or that Pats got away with it, not that they didn't do anything, which is frustrating. But the superbowl ring will help ease the sting a little, I suppose.
In the interim, they can suck our fully-inflated balls
I find it funny that some Pats fans are still mad about #deflategate.
Let it go, and enjoy your fourth Super Bowl victory.
If anyone gives you a hard time post this:
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Let it go, and enjoy your fourth Super Bowl victory.
If anyone gives you a hard time post this:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjy_7haflaM[/yt]
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