Super Bowl Sunday is almost upon us. It’s a busy time during these two weeks following the championship games, you know, Papa Vegas and all his cohorts getting together to make this last act perfect; to make sure the big game goes down without a hitch… to make sure it’s Papa Vegas who fattens his pockets.
Let’s review. The NFC Championship game was glorious for me personally as I’ve documented. For betting purposes, it was not. I lost my pick against the spread. The initial perception coming from that game may be that Seattle didn’t deserve to win; that they don’t belong in the Super Bowl. In the AFC Championship game, again I lost my pick, as the Pats rolled the Colts. These big, bad Patriots coming off a blowout, vs the “lucky” Seahawks had to be the early favorite in the Super Bowl, right?
Wrong! The line opened at a pick em. This was surprising. Initially I thought easy pick… Patriots, but… that’s just what Papa Vegas wants you to do. Take the perceived easy pick, and that’s usually not the way to go, especially not for the biggest fixed game of the year. That being said, I started to work this game in my mind…. looking at everything that has happened these past 2 weeks to shape our perception… all while trying to figure out who I’ll be rooting for.
DeflateGate came upon us. Another cheating scandal with the Patriots front and center. I really haven’t been following it that closely, but have a few quick thoughts. First off, did New England cheat? Well, yeah, I’m sure they did. Second question: How much does deflating the balls have to play with their success in the AFC Championship game, this entire year, the entire Brady-Belicheck era? I’m guessing not much, although there are many other areas where I’m sure they have “cheated” or found subtle advantages to put it in Patriot speak. Does all this tarnish the Pats? Does the latest scandal DeflateGate get enough people to dislike them to put money on Seatlle in the big game?
Seattle has its own reasons to dislike them. Personally, I can’t stand their coach, and would actually rank Belicheck a little higher on the likability scale. Scary… Then you have outspoken Richard Sherman. It worked to perfection last year… Sherman, with his rant after the NFC Championship game, got enough people to hate him, to back up the truck on Denver in the Super Bowl. I mean, who was the general public rooting for: All american boy Peyton Manning or thuggish, ruggish Richard Sherman? Vegas absolutely cleaned up last year. Finally, you have Marshawn Lynch, who I personally think is a POS. Is this guy seriously acting like that? It’s a joke. I guess his performance on the field is all that counts for Seattle in this one, but he certainly isn’t gaining a lot of fans, and on the contrary, is getting people to dislike him more and more by the minute.
So you have the cheaters who everyone will root against? Or do you have some brash personalities that people will root against? At QB, you have Brady vs Wilson. I’m sure more people dislike Brady, although I’ve never really hated him. There’s not much to dislike about Wilson. He’s one of the only Seahawks that I like. Again, like last year, the battle seems to be offense vs defense: Brady and crew vs the Legion of Boom, but… what about that Patriot defense? They do have Reavis island, but they’re not too strong up front. And then the Seattle offense… you have Russell Wilson who finds ways to win, one of which is to hand the ball off to Mute Boy. I also wanted to mention LaGarrette Blount from that New England offense. He may play a big role in the outcome; it’s funny how things work out.
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It’s really a tough Super Bowl to handicap. You look at last year’s Seattle demolition of Denver, and think, is this going to happen again? Then I think who do I want to win? I thought it would be a no brainer… root for the Pats, but… the Seahawks have earned a small place in my heart with that victory over the Cheese… enough to root for them? Since it’s basically a moneyline play, I’ve determined that I will be rooting for whoever I pick to win, and that is….
New England Patriots -1 over Seattle Seahawks
Again, not an easy game to call. I’ve been back and forth. I do feel it will be low scoring. I do think Brady will be able to do enough against the Seattle D. I do think that Papa Vegas is trying to direct all public money to Seattle with Deflate Gate, and I’ll be interested to see what role the refs play in the outcome. A huge replay call overturned or upheld??? I’m rolling with New England, but personally, really don’t care about the outcome. I’d like to see a good game though, and I think we’ll definitely have that.
As far as the “ATS pick contest”, I’m sitting at 7-3 in the playoffs, while Wizzo is 6-4. Will Wizzo take the Seahawks to try to win it all?
Good luck to all those with money riding on the game, and enjoy the last day of football for a long time.
Mo
Pats 27 Seahawks 20
BYE BYE Football
Wizzo
Hate the chawks but will bet them to win…33-31. Cannot tell which way vegas is going in this one…too close to call. GO PATS!
nostradummass
Excuse me for this rant.
The NFL is like the Bizarro World from Superman—totally F’d up. King Goodell (maybe it should be Bad-Ell) makes stupid decisions about all kinds of things that have nothing to do with the game itself (how can ANYONE justify: murderer Ray Lewis get 0 games of probation, Ray Rice gets 8 games for punching a woman in the face, Adrian Peterson gets banned for a year or more for disciplining his son [admittedly harshly, but NOT maliciously], and Aldon Smith gets eight games of probation for using PEDs on his own body???) Meanwhile, the refs during games make all kinds of STUPID decisions about totally arcane nonsense but often ignore the obvious (e.g. why wasn’t Dez Bryant kicked out of the game for running on the field without his helmet to argue a call against his team’s defense).
Marshawn Lynch comes along and makes a TOTAL MOCKERY of the STUPIDITY of ALL the NFL RULES GOBBLEDYGOOK with this silliness that a player MUST TALK to the press (what if a deaf player ever makes it to the NFL who can not speak well-has Roger Badell ever thought of that or how will he weasel out of another of his stupid rules by increasing the complexity of the rules themselves?). Marshawn Lynch’s “media talk” is as good, as rich, as ironic, as funny as Jim McMahon wearing a “Rozelle” headband under his helmet in the 1985 playoffs–and Jim McMahon probably pulled that off about as deftly as any mockery in the NFL in the past 60 or so years. It seems that year by year, day by day, the NFL draws nearer and nearer to becoming a disgusting hot mess that doesn’t deserve either your or my attention any more. Marshawn Lynch seems to be one of the few people who can put his finger up his nose and flick a booger at the GROSS STUPIDITY of the NFL. I, for one, applaud Marshawn Lynch. I also note that if the NFL puts on this stupid media circus to draw attention, Marshawn Lynch seems to be the only person who has succeeded (unless you count the “deflate-gate crap–I discount that as STUPID media; the first thing I do when I ride a bike in the spring is to reinflate the tires–I learned in high school physics that pressure moves with temperature, that is the laws of physics will tell you that as temperature drops, so does pressure–I don’t know if that is pertinent in this case, but Bill Nye the Science Guy must not have passed his high school physics course.) So, what exactly is wrong with Marshawn Lynch??
JEFFK
Good points, but I look at it as these guys, all professional athletes as being blessed; Lynch, and any player who is playing in the Super Bowl, even more so. If one of the requirements that comes from this honor in playing in the worlds biggest game is to talk to the media, and you can’t bring yourself to do so, I think that’s pretty sad. That being said, yeah Goodell and the NFL are f’d up… But so is lynch here.
nostradummass
Jeff,
When, but more importantly, why, did this absurd requirement that you have to talk become part of playing the game?
I don’t recall requirements like this back in the 50s or 60s or 70s when Superbowl Sunday (well, before the NFL/AFL merger it was the NFL Championship and it actually wasn’t even the “Superbowl” until about the fourth one) was about the game, not about what someone said. TV and the media in general have hyped this to the moon and it looks like bullshit to me any more. The halftime show, the commercials, the pregame, the postgame, the awards ceremony, even the hyping of the network show that comes after the Superbowl postgame-wrapup show etc has become “the show”; this press crap forcibly extends it from Super Sunday to SuperMonth. Maybe I am just getting too old, but with age comes wisdom, and this whole thing has become NONSENSE, literally. None of this makes any sense anymore except to enhance the profits of the non-profit NFL–find any sense in that if you can.
JEFFK
It’s for the fans. The crazy, lunatic fans like us. I don’t buy into it all, but media day is more about the fans than anything. If it was my team in the Super Bowl, I would be watching it all. Now, I’ll just tune in for the game, which like you’re saying, is what it’s all about.
Lynch not talking is a jerk move. Get over the “evil empire” NFL bs… That same company paying you millions of dollars, and act like you give a shit about anybody but yourself… And your statement. Without the fans, you’re nothing… Although I’m sure his “true” fans probably still support him anyways. I’m not a fan of his, so to me, he’s a jag.
RaiderAl
Seachickens 31 NE Cheats 17 Beast Mode in full effect 150 yards rushing 3 TDS.
Marshawn you Just won the Super Bowl MVP what are you going to do next? I’m going back home to Oakland baby! See you next year in that Silver and Black!
JEFFK
Another re-tread RB? How about drafting one…