The Second Apocalypse
Miscellaneous Chatter => General Misc. => Topic started by: BeardFisher-King on January 22, 2018, 01:00:18 pm
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**** SUPER BOWL CONTEST ****
Open to all TSA Forum members.
Here's the deal: Just pick the final score for both teams! Closest guess wins!
GO EAGLES!
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My spoiler tag is two-fold: one at humor ( hope obvious ) and the other as to not influence your pick before you make it for yourself.
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Patriots 27 Eagles 24
Close game. But, your playing the goat man and you give Belichek two weeks to prepare, and Brady's hand gets better, I just don't see them losing. But, the Eagles are an all-around great football team. If they can get up early and force Brady to throw all the time, the could pull it off. They'll need luck at some point to.
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Patriots 27 Eagles 24
Close game. But, your playing the goat man and you give Belichek two weeks to prepare, and Brady's hand gets better, I just don't see them losing. But, the Eagles are an all-around great football team. If they can get up early and force Brady to throw all the time, the could pull it off. They'll need luck at some point to.
I don't know, man. It's unarguable the Patriots are legendary, maybe the best ever - but I think they're the most accomplished team, not the best I've ever seen. They seem to win on other team's mistakes and when a team gets up on them, the opposing team folds under the pressure, letting their exhilaration get the best of them, cease performing and lose from trying too hard to not lose the game ( as someone said, the Jags would've won if they kept throwing on 1st down, started too early in running out the clock ). But we'll see ...
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Eagles 26, Patriots 24.
As H admonishs in the NFL thread, "Play the whole game, Eagles!"
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I don't know, man. It's unarguable the Patriots are legendary, maybe the best ever - but I think they're the most accomplished team, not the best I've ever seen. They seem to win on other team's mistakes and when a team gets up on them, the opposing team folds under the pressure, letting their exhilaration get the best of them, cease performing and lose from trying too hard to not lose the game ( as someone said, the Jags would've won if they kept throwing on 1st down, started too early in running out the clock ). But we'll see ...
Well....I did pick the Pats you know?
Look, they're not unstoppable. They've lost two Super Bowls. Fact. When losing this SB's it tool luck from opposing team, David Tyree. Fact. Pats are not unstoppable.. Fact.
Look it will take getting an early lead on them. It will take the Eagles sticking to na game plan and not changing that game plan when up by 14. They have to play to win, not play to not lose. Eagles just blew out a very good Vikings team by 30. They're a very good team all-around. You could say their one weakness is Nick Foles a back up QB. Yet, if Foles can have a repeat of last week, things look good for the Eagles.
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Philadelphia 24
New England 20
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OMG, what a game that was - one for the ages!
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Congrats, Tao! You picked the Eagles, and you were closest on the score (19 points away!) The rest of us were WAY too conservative on the points scored!
Bolivar: Eagles, but 30 points off....
BFK: Eagles, but 24 points off.....
MSJ: Patriots, and 23 points off....
What a game!
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Oops, forgot to post a prediction...oh well, just glad the Patriots lost...
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Congrats, Tao! You picked the Eagles, and you were closest on the score (19 points away!) The rest of us were WAY too conservative on the points scored!
Bolivar: Eagles, but 30 points off....
BFK: Eagles, but 24 points off.....
MSJ: Patriots, and 23 points off....
What a game!
Thank you, thank you! We all get lucky at times.
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Glad the Pats lost!
Not happy to see such a poor defensive showing but it was awesome with how explosive it was, full throttle offense for sixty minutes. I was at a bar and went out after the win, was such an amazing vibe in Philly.
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Glad the Pats lost!
Not happy to see such a poor defensive showing but it was awesome with how explosive it was, full throttle offense for sixty minutes. I was at a bar and went out after the win, was such an amazing vibe in Philly.
Yeah, I bet. Tampa was full of glee when the Bucs won back in 2002. It's a fun day for a city when their team wins the big one. It's in the books, can't be taken away, Eagles are SB champions. Pretty cool how many new teams are winning the SB since 2000. Only a handful left who haven't done it.
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Glad the Pats lost!
Not happy to see such a poor defensive showing but it was awesome with how explosive it was, full throttle offense for sixty minutes. I was at a bar and went out after the win, was such an amazing vibe in Philly.
Yeah, I bet. Tampa was full of glee when the Bucs won back in 2002. It's a fun day for a city when their team wins the big one. It's in the books, can't be taken away, Eagles are SB champions. Pretty cool how many new teams are winning the SB since 2000. Only a handful left who haven't done it.
There are actually 12 teams with no Super Bowl championships, believe it or not. Most notably, you have the Vikings and the Falcons, who probably have the best chances to get off the list. Also, now that the Eagles have won, all four NFC East teams have SB wins (the only division to accomplish that feat).
The list:
NFC North
Minnesota Vikings
Detroit Lions
NFC South
Atlanta Falcons
Carolina Panthers
NFC West
Arizona Cardinals
AFC East
Buffalo Bills
AFC North
Cleveland Browns
Cincinnati Bengals
AFC South
Tennessee Titans
Jacksonville Jaguars
Houston Texans
AFC West
San Diego Chargers
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Ah, the Chargers - that team broke my heart years back when they had the best offence and best defensive player in the league. They threw away the AFC championship to the Patriots with like 3 straight 4th down conversions with personal foul penalties, it was painful ( I loved LaDanian Tomlinson ). I became a defacto Chargers and Chiefs fan over the years, happened to me organically - one day I was like, wow, I'm a fan of those teams. It resulted from me "hating" the Broncos due to John Elway throwing his weight around not going with the top team drafting that year - seems like a joke now with free agency. I'm over it, have incredible respect for that guy nowadays, he knows football ( even rooted for the Broncos during their recent SB appearances - I'm big on running backs ).
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Great SB.Thats the tyoe of game i love to watch. Up and down, plenty of scoring (hmmmm, who said defenses win chamionships?), an if Brady never played another game he can walk away with his head held high. 505 yds passing, is nothing to sneeze at for a 40 year old on the biggest stage.
Eagles, deserved the SB and played one hell of a game. Pederson has balls...huge balls and out Belichecked Belicheck. With that defense, a young QB, (i wouldnt let Foles go with Wentz injury, but they could get a haul for him) and great coaching and upper management, we mighg be seeing a new dynasty in the making. As a skins fan, im extremely hapoy for Eagles nation.
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Agreed, Brady left it all on the field, there was nothing he could've done more to win that game. The Eagles were just too much and kept scoring, hitting hard. One of the best SB's ever - and I was saying that while I thought was seeing a Patriots comeback to win it.
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of the best SB's ever - and I was saying that while I thought was seeing a Patriots comeback to win it.
Me too, even after the fumble! I still thought they'd find a way to score and force OT. That juat shows you how great a QB Brady is. No one, and i mean no one, thought he didnt have a chance til the clock hit zero.
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It resulted from me "hating" the Broncos due to John Elway throwing his weight around not going with the top team drafting that year - seems like a joke now with free agency. I'm over it, have incredible respect for that guy nowadays, he knows football ( even rooted for the Broncos during their recent SB appearances - I'm big on running backs ).
He did a great job bringing in Peyton and giving him the tools to consistently compete deep in the playoffs every year. It's cool seeing Tom Coughlin move into a similar role with the Jaguars and helping them become a top caliber team in the AFC this year.
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He did a great job bringing in Peyton and giving him the tools to consistently compete deep in the playoffs every year. It's cool seeing Tom Coughlin move into a similar role with the Jaguars and helping them become a top caliber team in the AFC this year.
Agreed. I also always thought it would be a role Peyton Manning would one day play. He was a virtioso on the field, knew both sides of the ball inside and out. You'd think he would be a natural talent evaluator.