IT'S SUPER BOWL XLVII: HARBAUGHWL (aka harbl?)

Baltimore vs. San Francisco

Brothers coaching against each other.
Ray Lewis's final game.
Randy Moss's final game?
Ravens second appearance.
Niners sixth.
Neither team has ever lost a Super Bowl they've appeared in.
Should be grrrrreat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07G23zMGa4g

randy moss 4eva

Actually forget these teams. Beyoncé will win the Super Bowl.

probably they will just stop the superbowl after halftime

In case you were wondering, Ed Reed was not on the 2000 Ravens Super Bowl squad. Lewis the only repeater.

Well, I guess Brandon Stokley is still in the league ...

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/21610571/john-harbaugh-pranks-his-parents-2013-super-bowl-media-call

what-time-is-the-super-bowl_n_1253239.html

schefterbowl: http://deadspin.com/5980028/espn-reporter-will-watch-the-super-bowl-with-you-for-about-3000

http://www.thuzio.com/all/football/lawrence-taylor.html

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Randy Moss on Manti Te'o: "I’ve been a fan of his since he came on the scene playing football and being catfished I guess."

Chris Culliver, a second-year cornerback for the 49ers, made disparaging remarks about homosexuality in football during a radio interview Tuesday at the Super Bowl’s media day.

Culliver said neither he nor his teammates would welcome a gay player in their locker room.

“I don’t do the gay guys, man. I don’t do that,” Culliver said during a taped, one-minute podcast with Artie Lange.

Asked if the 49ers have any homosexual players, Culliver responded: “No. Ain’t got no gay people on the team. They gotta get up outta here if they do. Can’t be with that sweet stuff.”

Culliver reiterated that was a true statement, and when asked if a good player might be welcomed anyhow, he said: “Nah. Can’t be … in the locker room, man. Nah.”

he only does straight guys then?

Culliver said during a taped, one-minute podcast with Artie Lange.

This is the least surprising element of this story. For this topic to even come up, that dickhole would have to be the questioner.

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/How-are-the-Super-Bowl-teams-spending-their-money.html

this is interesting, kind of. i wish they had dome more with it. interesting looking at the data from last year and seeing how much new england are low-balling on D

funny how much of the nyg $ goes/went to DE/QB

succinctly tells you p much everything you need to know about the coughlin giants

well I guess I'm rooting for the Ravens then

i got ravens 7/niners 0 in a box pool
give me all the $$ imo

i guess i didn't know tom brady was getting paid less than much of the league

btw randy moss remains fucking awesome

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/randy-moss-san-francisco-49ers-says-we-need-to-accept-gay-players-chris-culliver-comments-controversy-013113

can we hug him? I want to hug him

he's p rad

word up randy

lol simms interviewed kaepernick & someone mentioned phil was a sb mvp & kaep was like, really????, didnt know who he wuz

that makes me wish I still had Showtime to see him getting shit on Inside the NFL

lol so much im watching matt hasselbeck taking abt when he was in the sb

whats the one thing you remember abt the sb?

"the fact hat it was in detroit...finally get to the sb & its in detroit....we ate at a fudruckers in a mall for lunch and dinner just abt every day & 1 night we got dressed up and went to chris chelios' sports bar"

lol, I saw Hasselbeck and a bunch of Seahawks at a Fuddruckers years after that Super Bowl (not in Detroit tho)

"we ate at a fudruckers in a mall for lunch and dinner just abt every day"

Man they probably were getting pretty sick of hamburgers and frys...isn't that about all that place serves?

Is this the thread for this then? Seems pretty bare, but I couldn't spot another. Gonna have a bath and then fall asleep on the sofa with this on, could anyone precis the ongoing narrative here for a young Britisher that knows nothing about NFL? Who are the favs?

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18de4abp5zw4ijpg/original.jpg

it is literally impossible to care about this game.

wake me up when the niners lose

best possible outcome is the ravens win and then a comet strikes ray lewis before post-game interviews can commence.

http://www.synchtube.com/r/dendycrew

vonta leach

https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/289161424268308480

51 drugged the niners, you head it here first.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MeyersLeonard11/status/298233011147767808

Beyonce sounds terrible, the vocals are muffled as shit.

I wish Prince did all the SB halftime shows.

Beyonce looks great as ever, but musically this is a disaster

if they were going to bring out the rest of Destiny's Child, I was hoping for "Soldier"

I miss the awesome tightrope dude from last year. Shoulda brought him back.

never forget

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tightrope.gif

wish there was more DC, but visually this was spectacular. love the arrangements of baby boy they use when she plays live.

what just happened with the lights

most interesting thing to happen so far, I hope the power stays out for like 20 minutes

beyonce blew out all the circuits with her awesomeness.

@bowiesongs

the JG Ballard Superbowl

i've been observing the ravens players and they are also confused

this is weird i'm not sure what else to say

did i mention power is out?

thisis the best possible thing that could happen

rip New Orleans

ppl slept in this superdome

lol 20 more minutes. cbs got so fucked

the power outage generating much more interest than the game itself

they should just do the halftime show again.

superdome doing its best approximation of mbv's servers last night amirite fellas??? *hifive*

oh man if 49ers somehow win this

hooooly shit

every time they say akers i feel sad

yup :(

everyone else lols

WOW

idg the mbv jokes
KAEPERNICK

before reading this thread i didn't even know mbv released a new album.

this has turned into a pretty thrilling game

wow

only the Steelers get that call in the Superbowl

baltimore has rings + 49ers have a qb. both are pretty fortunate imo.

http://i.imgur.com/LdoNB1I.gif

@ least there were no concussions

omg superbowl fairy granted my wish

Congrats to Ray Lewis. One ring for each murder!

so juan castillo gets a ring?

I like Flacco now, u guys.

He's being funny on NFLN.

yeah he was great. He seems like a pretty chill dude

#eaglesnation is trending. prob bc we won bizarro sb this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u32UaDpr9Pg

nobody liveblogged this huh?
pretty crazy game all the way around, definitely memorable.

I'll probably like it more when the NFL Films recap is aired.

I do like Joe Flacco. I read an article off one of the St. Louis papers earlier this week and I guess even Flacco's dad called him "boring". I guess the dude just chills with his wife and watches reality TV and doesn't have really any hobbies except playing football.

I got to say, the dude has a cannon of an arm. He's not as pretty as some, but man he can fling that thing deep pretty well.

That said, running a fake fg with a run with the kicker on 4th and 9 when you are up 14 is still freakin' DUMB as hell. Take the 3 points. Dude got freakin' lucky it didn't come back on his azz.

coworker just posted this on fb: "TIVO'd the entire post-season, time to watch the Falcons tear some shit up! Don't spoil it! #FalconsSuperBowl2013"

lol

Wasn't the answer of how Atlanta's season turns out answered here?

http://www.pbase.com/powdersprings/image/95434439.jpg

2 men enter, no men leave

seriously: have either magill or canks posted since this lil debacle

MAGILLASS 2013

no liveblogging, at a party with v excellent food, though I would like to ask 2/3 of the crowd how they could go to the trouble of buying a jersey & yet still leave the game during the third quarter when your team is in the SUPER BOWL

dc/dc suburbs are so disconnected from baltimore - the vibe after the game was ... nonexistent. lots of washington (racist name) gear on the metro, more than usual

fake field goal was way stupid!

kind of stunned that #29 on the ravens didn't get ejected for shoving the ref

DC is disconnected from everything. Lamest, most identity-free major city in the country. Everyone there is not from there and they'll only be there for a few years.

thanks for that! you have a nice day now

how have you enjoyed yr few years in DC daria. you must be sad to be leaving

Haha. Sorry, had a legit argument about DC v. Baltimore this weekend, and I don't that city has much to stand on beyond gnarly monuments and museums.

you need to go to more identity-free places. dc is not one of those

Dweeb City, let's be real.

I've only been to DC once, but I had a really great time there. Transit seems easy. Layout is weird, but learnable. Every meal I ate was spectacular. And maybe it was just because I was there the week before the 2008 inauguration, but as far as identity goes, the city was ALL ABOUT ITSELF those few days. Would visit again.

(And, fwiw, the people I knew there were lifers. Grew up in the VA burbs, moved to DC proper.)

er, 2009 I guess.

Yeah, true, it's pretty cool if yr of the yuppie persuasion. Haha, sorry, half-trolling here. I am totally envious of the public transport, for sure.

I'm not a huge football fan, but I usually end up watching about half the Ravens season just by virtue of being near a TV when the game is on. So, I'm really glad we won. The first half was monstrous fun. So many occasions to give everybody in the room a high-five. And it felt like we were playing a worthy opponent too. It's just that we were stomping the shit out of them. The last time we played the super bowl, it felt like a kinda weak game to me, like the Giants were phoning it in or whatever. As an extremely casual sports fan though,I head a lot of trouble understanding the last 5-10 minutes of the game, like when the announcers were talking about arcane nfl rules that hadn't been invoked in 40 years. What the hell was that?

Also, DC is way more interesting than circa gives it credit for, but come on guys, your buildings are so short and squat. It's not a city, it's a Burg. Get 1 skyline.

P.s. See yall in 20 minutes.

Just sent this email off to Bill Simmons:

The narrative for this game seems to be that the power outage was the only thing that saved the 49ers from a beatdown the likes that only us folks who lived through the Super Blowout era remember. And while this does make a good story, I think that, like Bigfoot sightings and Joe Buck actually showing some charisma, it's based in wishful thinking more than facts.

The 49ers were moving the ball at will in the first half but only had two turnovers and two stalled-settled field goals to show for it. Meanwhile, every big play by the Ravens on offense seemed to involve a minor Manning-esque Miracle: Flacco avoiding the rush and throwing a ball to a guy who made a catch a split second before being blasted.

Right before LaMichael James fumbled with the 49ers down 7-3 but driving and about to have a fresh set of downs around the Baltimore 20, I actually was thinking "here we go," expecting the more dangerous team to take control of the game. I mean, there is a reason that the Ravens felt the need to do that fake field goal while WINNING by 11 points, right?

Sure, the 49ers could have shot themselves in the foot for the whole game, beating themselves so the Ravens didn't really have to. But it didn't seem likely and it seems even less unlikely that the fire drill recess was the catalyst, only a coincidence.

So please, Bill. Use your influence to dispel the narrative and get CBS and/or Roger Goodell off the hook for axing the power.

didn't really care who won but I was a little disappointed that the 49ers blew those timeouts - would have really loved to see Kaep with 1:30 trying to go 70 yards for a Super Bowl ring. oh well. also I felt that down by 22, you should be going for 2 upon scoring that first TD. anyway - regardless of narrative I thought the 49ers played a good game with some key mistakes; it was the Ravens who had to play out of their heads to win. Hopefully this dispels the whole "it's all about momentum heading into the playoffs" narrative - the Ravens were ice cold for the last 5-6 weeks of the season. Can't help but feel good for them though, not just getting the title but going through the Pats to do it

wanna thank the ravens for the last minute safety so that my square could win me a couple hundred bucks at the office.

hope they drop a dumptruck of money on flacco.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/sports/football/super-bowl-joe-flaccos-precision-typical-of-elite-quarterbacks.html?hp

Is he the best quarterback in the league? Some will surely continue to say no. But it is impossible to deny what Flacco accomplished this season. And even though history may remember Sunday as Lewis’s last ride or the Harbaugh brothers’ reunion, it may also have been the true beginning of Flacco’s legacy.

Some everyone will should surely continue to say no.

"I for one welcome our new leader"

he's great to watch but best QB in the league?

simmer the hell down

'some, such as joe flacco and his mom, continue to believe that joe flacco is the best quarterback in the league. others disagree. it will remain a subject of great debate.'

loooooooool

"minor Manning-esque Miracle"
swear i said this exact phrase out loud at some point last night

there were definitely a whole bunch of plays that Flacco somehow managed to connect on that defied all logic and reason

I'd call it dumb luck if hadn't seen him pull off the same kind of nonsense in previous games

if I hadn't...

First, Flacco beat Manning on a bitterly cold day in Denver. Then he knocked off New England’s Tom Brady on the road two weeks ago in the A.F.C. championship game. Finally, after taking down two icons, Flacco beat the wunderkind Colin Kaepernick, whose read-option versatility may well be the wave of the future but was not the style of the moment here Sunday night.

'qb x beat qb y' is my single least favorite football cliche.

dying

Correction: February 4, 2013

An earlier version of a summary for this article misidentified the team for which Colin Kaepernick is the quarterback. It is the 49ers, not the Giants.

morning sports talk show dudes were trying to color flacco as this 'calm mind in the hour of chaos' type bro using adjectives that were basically code for 'well he's basically an idiot who benefits from not thinking too hard'

there were definitely a whole bunch of plays that Flacco somehow managed to connect on that defied all logic and reason

i dont remember who caught this one (Smith I think??) but that play early on where he's scrambling way out to his right and just launches it out of bounds...or so you would think...was some Eli vs. Pats shit

So much for being hot at the end of the year, B-more went 1-4 in their final 5 regular season games...

Baltimore still leads the AFC North, but its lead has shrunk to one game with two to play.

''We're a 9-5 football team and we feel like we're 0-14 right now,'' Flacco said.

Caldwell's debut was a resounding flop. Flacco went 20 for 40 for 254 yards, lost a fumble and threw an interception. Ray Rice ran for 38 yards on 12 carries and the Ravens produced a meager 56 yards rushing.

Aw this is really sad
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/guests-49ers-delanie-walker-killed-louisiana-car-wreck-185205441--nfl.html

omg you guys

can we do this next year?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBVuw5Dlbo

second half of superbowl was pretty boss this year

i remember phil simms before the season going on about flacco being an elite quarterback, whatever that means, but it's true now anyway

unless elite means 'as good as rodgers/brady/etc', but i don't think it does

nonono you have to watch the vid

IT'S VERY IMPORTANT

im watching tv when it is finished i will watch it

well no football talk til you watch it

i didn't bump this thread to talk about football

i remember phil simms before the season going on about flacco being an elite quarterback, whatever that means, but it's true now anyway

unless elite means 'as good as rodgers/brady/etc', but i don't think it does

so 'unless elite quarterback means 'as good as elite quarterbacks' , flacco is an elite quarterback'

its somewhat more elastic than just 'the best'

its the_best + a few others who have done at least one or two discernably great things

>:(

We should devise a definitive ILNFL elite QB list to refer back to for any discussion involving this topic. And maybe do a poll for good measure.

i'll start

jake plummer

http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/nina-y-roba/calvin%20N%20hobbes/LOL-Calvin_and_Hobbes.jpg

2. Jay Cutler

lock thread

NEW GAME: guess the elite qb

Debuted in 1994 for the Minnesota Vikings
Last played in 2008 for the Dallas Cowboys

2× Pro Bowl selection (1999, 2002)
Super Bowl champion

TD-INT 166-122
Passing yards 29,054
QB Rating 82.5

Brad whatshisface?

yea brad johnson. wouldnt have thought he made 2 pro bowls but eh i guess

RICH GANNON

Categories: Fast-food chains of the United States | Fast-food franchises | Living People | Elite Quarterbacks

Aaron Brooks

NFL Draft: 1993 / Round: 8 / Pick: 222
Debuted in 1994 for the BC Lions
Last played in 2008 for the St. Louis Rams

2× Pro Bowl (2003, 2005)
Super Bowl champion

TD-INT 162-114
Passing yards 28,475
Passer rating 86.0

DOUG FLUTIE

^warner

flutie is featured on an mlb network show where they try and teach the knuckleball to former qb's that premieres tonight iirc

oh not warner i guess he wasnt drafted right?

didnt finish his career in stl

i thought it was maybe a 1 day contract or w/e

this is really bothering me

it's trent green right?

omg it's Trent Green

College: San Jose State
Undrafted in 1994
Debuted in 1994 for the Calgary Stampeders
Last played in 2010 for the Omaha Nighthawks

4× Pro Bowl (2000, 2001, 2002, 2007)

TD-INT 161-83
Passing yards 25,537
Passer rating 87.5

Garcia?

Yep.

hahahaha omg. that is a great one. 4 pro bowls???

fair play to jeff tho, those are decent #s for a dude who had to learn a new offense every year for a decade

I always did like Jeff. I thought he had a good shot at playing for all 32 teams at one point.

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/001/999/337/51574734_display_image.jpg?1331086250

trent green! dammit. didn't realize he was a cfl guy.

all those stats and the thing that rang a bell for me was the Omaha Nighthawks lol