the Super Bowl XLIV thread

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:3

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lol

Miss Indiana and Peyton Manning share an awfully similar profile.

better than miss minnesota imo

http://www.givechildresstheboot.com/my_images/childress%20drag.jpg

just saw a report on this on rachel maddow's show!
speaking of nfl and drag..

Buddy Diliberto, longtime New Orleans sportscaster, said that if and when the Saints made the Super Bowl he would walk down Bourbon Street in a dress. This would be a really substantial bet if Dilberto hadn't said this from New Orleans, where people are generally two drinks and a gust of wind away from doing outlandish things anyway, and no one might've noticed if Diliberto had gone out and done it.

Diliberto died in 2005, but the bet lived on, and on Sunday Bobby Hebert and his five livers led thousands of Who Dat men in drag down Bourbon Street.

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When's the last Superbowl that looked this good on paper?

good question--what was nat'l impression of eagles/pats?

packers/broncos

yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORr4VKaiOEU

this oughta be a good super bowl

Scott Fujita, adding more evidence to my pet "Cal Bears make for awesome football players" theory: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/sports/football/03fujita.html?hpw

man, amir lucked out getting in on that bandwagon

also, that's some hot fujitas

football players good for more than just football

that chris nowinski guy is one of the biggest engines behind the whole trumped up concussion controversy; he's a douche btw

head trauma owns i've had some concussions and can't remember stuff sometimes, who cares

scott fajitas owns

also head trauma

jesus mecury morris was "rapping" on sportscenter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utcxpuHF7jg

Former college and professional football player Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner respond to the Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad, featuring Tim Tebow and his mother.

^^^tite

lol super bowl xxx on nfln right now. first play i see is neil o'donnell throwing a pick

sigh, memories

and god DAMN was paul maguire a useless blowhard

haha i was watchin that too cad. also the 88 bengals-niners sb.

"I've told this story this week," Manning said. "The worst year was 1980, and that was the year we thought we'd be pretty good. We'd done pretty well the year before (8-8), and it just fell apart. I won't get into that. It just did. We'd lost about the first 11 or 12 and Cooper and Peyton were going to the games. They were 6 and 4 and they're old enough to go and they're enjoying it.

"Olivia (Manning's wife) is pregnant with Eli. I'm having one of those games and about the fourth quarter, Cooper asked Olivia if he and Peyton could boo also. She was looking for a reason to quit going 'cause she was getting pretty big with Eli. And she said, 'That's it. I'm going to check out for 1980.' That year was tough. You never get used to losing."

wow, Archie had a decent year that year but damn when your leading rusher gains 366 yards for the whole year...

any predictions? I'm going with the colts giving 6

i really have no feel for this game. colts offense so solid, but saints d. looked fearsome v. vikings.

i think the colts are going to win tbh. like i said a bit ago, i don't think the saints defensive strategy is right for this game, and i kind of envision peyton picking them apart. the best thing the saints can do is get up like 14-3 or 21-7 or something and really put the pressure on the colts to become even more one-dimensional than they are now. obv you want to do that to any team, but it's crazy that no one has been able to exploit the fact that the colts are so one sided.

yeah. colts' offense is all passing.

why do you think the saints defensive scheme matches up poorly?

Asked whether he felt Manning would need a last-minute game-winning drive in the Super Bowl to secure his legacy, Dungy said: “I believe that if they’re in the game Sunday and they need to drive to win the game, he’s going to do it. I don’t think the game’s going to come down to that. I think they’re going to be so far ahead that people are going to say, ‘Oh, ho-hum, he played a good game, they won by two scores, the Colts won their second championship.’ He’s going to have those rings Sunday night. I don’t think it’s going to be close.”

i favor the colts, but it should be a close game and i'd give the saints a good shot at winning

not surprising that dungy is so partisan.

but it's crazy that no one has been able to exploit the fact that the colts are so one sided.

― ratface killah (J0rdan S.), Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:58 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah, the league's best pass defense (jets) couldnt do anything, its crazy

why do you think the saints defensive scheme matches up poorly?

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:01 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark

because they've been relying heavily on the blitz and i think peyton thrives on making snap-quick decisions

Dungy should suggest manning is overrated constantly to better his legacy

it's funny, i guess aaron schatz thinks that it's more like 50/50 but i'm just not seeing it, in large part because it's difficult to imagine the colts offense getting slowed down. it hasn't happened yet after all.

to me the only way the saints get in this game is some fluky luck in the second and third quarters--think interception or return td. they need to keep it close and swing it their way on a possession or two.

I can see a scenario like the colt/jets game where the colts go down in the first half but after watching the Saints refuse to nail the Vikings after they committed one million turnovers I dunno I think the Colts are a three and out team rather than turnover prone and that's going to help them against an oddly sloppy Saints team.

because they've been relying heavily on the blitz and i think peyton thrives on making snap-quick decisions

true. but hasn't the criticism of manning been that he gets too jumpy if he gets hit hard? if the saints blitz can get to him early, maybe manning will get rattled.

eh, personally, i think the way to get to peyton is to frustrate him by making him force throws. i don't think pressure, unless you can get it with the front four, makes him inaccurate. and i don't think he's easily rattled, at least not anymore. i don't think you want to be covering dallas clark/reggie wayne/austin collie/pierre garcon one-on-one, esp because the saints do not have a revis.

really, the best thing you can do against unstoppable passing offenses like this is get pressure with the front four. that's the sole reason why the giants beat the patriots, and if the saints are able to drop 6/7 and still get pressure on peyton then they will be in business. but, i don't see any evidence of that being possible, and if the jets -- the best blitzing team in the nfl -- couldn't blitz peyton into mistakes, i don't see how the saints can

you want to turn peyton on himself -- you want want him thinking too much, trying to be too precise, having to fit balls into tight spaces. you want him to lose faith in his young wrs. i don't think you want him making split-second decisions with dallas clark being covered by roman harper.

idk if i'm making sense

yeah, you're making sense

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this is amazing too:

http://video.adultswim.com/carl/super-bowl-09-odds.html

I've been chanting "Who Dat" since I was a little kid but I gotta admit, that t-shirt is pretty great.

Pardon my intrusion -- is the ref to SBXLIV as "THE BIG GAME" everywhere in commercial shilling the result of a specific NFL legal crackdown? Hilarious, compared to MLB begging any and all to mention the World Series.

like, what do you think of the make a wish foundation?

"THE KID STILL HAS CANCER! HE'S STILL GONNA DIE! THIS CHANGES NOTHING!"

it's true that if the saints had lost the super bowl that they would have cut some players who maybe wouldn't have been able to find work aside from construction, so again, there may be a point there

like, what do you think of the make a wish foundation?

"THE KID STILL HAS CANCER! HE'S STILL GONNA DIE! THIS CHANGES NOTHING!"

― iatee, Sunday, February 7, 2010 11:55 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark

hahaha this is a very good point

plus think of all the strippers

i've said nothing about houses

quite right. sorry 'bout that. meant k3vin. i'm addled from 14+ consecutive workdays.

yup guess that analogy works if i view the people still living in trailers, houses untouched for ~5 years except a mark on the front denoting how many people were found dead inside, as 'terminally ill' - hopeless and not worth actual help

anyway im bout to go rewatch footage of college students and tourists partying it up on bourbon street and cry myself to sleep from tears of joy. catch yas

/morbs

yeah cause poor people / native new oreleans ppl don't care about football - just tourists and rich college students

ha look i was (originally) rooting against the saints for the same reason we all root against favre, or that i root against tebow, or that i root for barry bonds or mcgwire - pure sports media schadefreude. i regret bringing it up tho and raining on everyone's parade, that was dumb

anyway can i be tempbanned from ilnfl for a little bit? i feel like i haven't brought much to the table lately and have been sucking the fun out of the threads i've been on. have too much respect for u's and this borad for that, sorry

k3vin have you spent much time in NOLA? before and after?

my point is not that the city doesn't need help, but most of the problems go much deeper than rebuilding houses in the 9th ward. most of the families who lived there have left the city for good by now. a lot of those untouched homes are untouched because nobody's there to claim or rebuild them.

if you don't believe this means something to the people who live there in a way it couldn't to Indianapolis, or any other American city besides maybe Detroit, I'm not going to try to convince you, but the folks I know there are feeling real happiness tonight and I can't see any reason to piss on it.

omg stop kev

it was one stupid post, you don't need to be banned

i know we're all happy and stuff but new orleans doesn't need a super bowl, it needs its houses rebuilt. that's the main reason i wanted the colts to win at first - i knew the media would be all "this is so great for the city" and it doesn't change shit

― joe ic?y (k3vin k.), Monday, February 8, 2010 12:37 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

what it needs is to be demolished by a bigger hurricane

btw can we just cut it out with the katrina stuff already its been 5 years man, u dont hear atlantans still whining about being burnt to the ground (NB. yes u do)

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/sports/2010/02/04/carter.charlie.saints.marching.club.cnn?hpt=C2

I'm not gonna lie, I'm crying intense tears of joy. I can't express enough how amazing this thing feels. And this has WAY more to do with the pride of following a team of historical losers with the pride than it does have to do with Katrina. Saints???? SUPERBOWL Champions???!!?!?!?!?!!!!!!! WHO DAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

k3vin k. between this and the palin thread, yes plz take a fuckin break from the keyboard. jeezus.

p.s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLpCdWYcdg4

Greatest onside kick ever.

how is archie manning feeling right now

probably mad that no houses are being built

my dad made an etoufee last night in honor of the saints--i think in a very real way my family eating cajun food was what tipped them into the win column

ne way i think we should all collectively agree to forget that jeremy shockey is on the saints, forever

jeremy shockey has two super bowl rings tbh

Gotta admit I'm pretty impressed how he managed to keep a lid on his "oversized personality" or whatever the hell it is for the good of the team this year.

Since the underdog and the cuter QB won, I couldn't be happier if I'd watched any of it.

ur talking bout the puppy bowl rite

also, the who was pretty decent to whatever but daaang that circular lighting stage thing was radd as hell! (and the lasers were cool too)

My neighborhood in North Oakland was noticeably pro-Saints, and there was someone across the street from me playing "When the Saints Go Marching In" sporadically throughout the game.

Oatmeal cranberry weed cookies made this the greatest superbowl ever

http://imgs.sfgate.com/AP/p/2010/02/07/1ec78c57-3fa7-47c6-8853-6259d155b59d.jpg

a. Morstead never attempted an onside kick in a game before Sunday night in his life.
b. Morstead never practiced onside-kicking until 12 days ago.

weird... 5th pic down on this thread... shirtless young dude on the left is my neighbor.... known that dude 4ever. small internet world huh?

oh yeah, geaux saints!

jeremy shockey has two super bowl rings tbh

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, February 8, 2010 9:47 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

this is kind of a misnomer cuz i bet he feels pretty divorced from that giants one -- i bet he sells it w/in ten years

oh no doubt. just sayin'.

masculinity in peril

― ♖♕♖ (am0n), Sunday, February 7, 2010 7:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

i was a little sad for peyty for a few seconds, but happy for the saints overall

That was the first game where I regretted the Chargers getting rid of Brees.

i said this upthread, but dolphins fans have been saying this kinda stuff too, and i think it rings pretty hollow (esp if you would up with rivers!). i mean, it would be like the fans of all other 31 teams going "i can't believe we passed up brady in the 6th round!" -- brees isn't brees without payton -- obv he would still be a great qb, but their combined power would not have been able to be replicated with norv turner. same for brady & belichick. it's not like the browns really missed out on the tom brady train, or what have you

i think brees would've been pretty sick in norv turner's offense. say what you will about him as a head coach, he knows how to design a passing game.

He kinda already was Brees before the Chargers got rid of him though:

Brees 2004: 65.5%, 3150 yards, 27 TD, 7 INT
Brees 2005: 64.6%, 3500+ yards, 24 TD, 15 INT

Not otherworldly yet, but still very good.

SD wasn't really built to throw for 4500 yards when Brees was there, as that is pretty much the peak of LT's career, but DB went to a probowl in 04.
Thing is that the Chargers receiving corps outside of Gates improved quite a bit over the past few years, when Brees was there, their wideouts were not that hot. I'm sure Brees would be putting up the same numbers or better as Rivers if he would have stayed.

say what you will about (N. Turner) as a head coach, he knows how to design a passing game.

agreed. the chargers passing game is fine as-is, tho (rivers is v. good quarterback).

BTW, SAINTS!

soctt fujita seems like a cool dude and wrote a running diary of super bowl week for the times-pic

patriots nation still gloating, boston globe updates their gallery of peyton pouting

bah to the "patriots nation." don't make me regret rooting for the saints.

saints super bowl parade will feature 9 or 10 marching bands, iconic mardi gras floats donated by their owners, and the ying yang twins. i.e. every other city is doing it wrong.

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HAHA!!!!
Black and Gold Super Bowl footage:
http://tribeca.vidavee.com/advance/doc/42357044FD9D744BB286A7D5C14C324A?AF_deliveryChannel=play

a nola.com article about the parade:

There was no official estimate of how many people attended, but one WWL radio reporter estimated the number at 800,000.

a wikipedia stat:

Population (2008[1])
- City and Parish 336,644
- Metro 1,167,294

would you like to be in a crowd chant led by drew brees?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlpSG1ImNFg

wow, terrible cheer
<3 Drew tho