Super Bowl LVII disappointment thread

I want a barnburner

Who u got?

Head says Eagles but idk

i say chiefs for no reason other than sheer contrarianism

*chieves

otm sry

Keep Calm and Chieve on

I want Jalen Hurts to win this, the Big One, after being unceremoniously replaced in the middle of the Little One at Bama.

also sometimes love don't feel like it should etc.

Haven’t seen a celebration like that since the World Cup trophy ceremony.

it was v weird!

DOINK

This is great

bad

Jim McMahon has scored the most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in a Super Bowl, with 2 touchdowns in Super Bowl XX against the Patriots on January 26, 1986.

Hurts looking like he might break that one

good!

Well shit

Damar Hamlin has to sit next to Roger Goodell and Travis Kelce’s mom. He’s like - I died twice and this is worse. #SuperBowl

— The Sklar Brothers (@SklarBrothers) February 13, 2023

okay but who would want to erase anything out of this perfect image of philly? pic.twitter.com/6jWftK0vG8

— nick (@nick_pants) February 13, 2023

They should have not overturned that call

Eagles are good

whip out the toradol

only here for rihanna tbh

hell yeah that was awesome

That was a hell of an performance

God I love RiRi

her little micro-expressions & gestures are an artform

I guess I feel less bad for seeing recent pictures of rihanna and figuring that the reason people were so excited about seeing her perform was that she was the first person to do it while pregnant

i love it when ppl comment on a woman’s appearance

oh stop it’s all twitter is taking about even the goodies

to be fair the other half of people can’t believe how many hits she has

all right i hate the internet then

damn, elon musk and the murdochs, incredible

They, this time, made the right call

No catch

never lost control gtfo here

Not sure on that one

Zero consistency in the officiating

these reviews are so asinine

pretty clear helmet catch imo

PHi have domained this game and KC are right there

White blood cells showing up to help the body fight infection and other disease pic.twitter.com/04QMBUFmBA

— B.W. Carlin (@BaileyCarlin) February 13, 2023

I give the commercials a C this year

lol oh well

Wow

Jesus this game has it all

okay what

chiefs have done that before but i didn't quite realize how stupid it looks until now

That was too easy

There's at least three scores left in this one

Wow

Nice

Here we go

Best Super Bowl in a hot minute

Another BS call

atrocious

Oh Jesus that is a terrible way to end it

flashing back to that second pats-giants SB, where they managed to let NYG score hoping to have enough time

bad call

Correct call. Grabbed jersey with one hand, then other. That gets called every time

this is so lame

yes correct and also bad

He could not have caught that ball

You can't grab/hold jersey before the ball is in the air, it wasn't a P.I. call, it was a holding call. Catchability doesn't factor in

people do a lot of things you can't do. I just wanted a real ending.

Correct call. Grabbed jersey with one hand, then other. That gets called every time

― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Sunday, February 12, 2023 10:10 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

please delete your account my friend

what a let down. i wasn't that excited about the rest of the game either tbh. can we run the world cup back instead

#chieves

Lol k3v sorry

divine.

after no catch then bobble catch, it's all good baby.

ending seemed like horseshit, hand on the back should not have been a game-deciding holding call

can't believe U2 did the spy balloons

Unbelievable pic.twitter.com/Nv0B13u9RW

— Bengalorian (@thebengalorian) February 13, 2023

I personally would watch the game before posting

tbf he is holding him at the start of that clip. It starts just then for a reason.

he did not have to do the oralholding

Lol even my college football ref coach was yelling that it should be a flag. I wasn't rooting for either team and honestly yeah it sucks to lose like that but... come on. My team's CBs got called for that all year

Lol Sufjan

by the letter of the law that may have been a hold but it's the kind of hold that occurs on like half the plays. like I'm pretty sure they let that go a lot when you don't really see the jersey move. and even if it's actually a good call still ending the game on a minor penalty when both offenses were playing out of their mind really sucks given how insane the game was up until then. oh well I like KC and Andy Reid, good for them. I think the ending kinda overshadows how insane Mahomes was given his whole leg situation

Obviously very little restriction on this, and the uncalled DPI in the 1Q was a little more restrictive. Arm does come around, and we agree w/Mike Pereira that we don't have the angle the official had for a potential jersey tug. Given what I see, this would be one to pass on pic.twitter.com/VPvCXMrSz7

— Fᴏᴏᴛʙᴀʟʟ Zᴇʙʀᴀs🇺🇦 (@footballzebras) February 13, 2023

has nothing to do with the time of the game or whatever, it’s just simply not a penalty that should be called. no need to go nth dimensional contrarian voodoo whatever

referees are human and not perfect and nothing is black and white. in baseball, I try to think of a ball that’s an inch out of the strike zone not as an obvious ball but something that’s called a strike 20% of the time; a ball right on the outside corner might be a strike 90% of the time. with this play we’re talking about a <5% situation, just an outlier call that doesn’t need defending

but <5% is mostly not outliers in 1.5*IQR

James Bradberry's own take: “I pulled on his jersey. They called it. I was hoping they would let it ride.”

he’s wrong, it was weak as hell

they ignored worse holds earlier in the game, robbed us of an actual finish

referees are human and not perfect and nothing is black and white

Except their outfits, which are literally black and white

Right, as is often said if you break down the film of any given play in an NFL game chances are you'll find a hold somewhere. I notice it all the time on replays. Certainly when I played in high school I got away with a lot of holds, and I got held a lot. Everyone in the game instinctively kinda knows where the line is even if they do get called sometimes. That's what makes reffing the sport so difficult, you have to let some things slide because otherwise you're throwing 40 flags a game. idk maybe they just get galaxy brain going into these end of game situations, where the talk of how the NFL is scripted or whatever really does get to them, so they go out there thinking they're gonna call it as they see it regardless of the game being on the line. maybe its confirmation bias but I feel like we really do get a lot of unusual reffing in the last 2 minutes of a game. if nothing else it would be cool if they could maybe discuss these potentially history-altering calls a bit before committing to them. I mean up until that point it really was one of the greatest Super Bowls I've ever seen.