# NFL - PLAYOFFS - SUPER BOWL full of Jelly **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 30, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221 "2020-01-30T15:01:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2020, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221/161 "2020-02-04T23:06:36Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > No Yeah, no team is going to get away with never throwing, ever. If you run every play then it’s too easy to defend you. (Well… Maaaaaybe the Titans could do it… :)) ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221/162 "2020-02-05T05:28:09Z")
Couldn’t comment before now 'cause I had to hash through a bunch of emotional stuff. (Not video game-related, don’t worry. ;)) Not a whole lot to say about the game itself. Chiefs complete their once-in-a-lifetime nobody-can-freaking-finish-the-job-against-them miracle season we’ve seen with the '95 Houston Rockets, the Rally Monkey Anaheim Angels, the first New England Patriots championship, and more recently the Washington Capitals, Washington Nationals, and Toronto Raptors, and…I have absolutely no idea if I should feel good or bad about this. Is this a team that deserves it more than, say, the Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, or Atlanta Falcons? I just don’t know. Yeah, I’ve harped (rightfully! :D) on the Tomahawk Chop, but I don’t see that getting any more insufferable than it’s always been. Andy Reid may have had his detractors, but c’mon, he wasn’t in the same doghouse as, say, Barry Switzer. Times like this I look to the negative to judge (which I don’t _enjoy_ doing, honest!), but there isn’t much there either. This isn’t like when the Patriots choked away the perfect season and now we have to hear about '72 Dolphins for the next 500 years, or when the Bills lost four in a row and we got several thousand horrible jokes on TV (oh, and putting all the blame on Scott Norwood, that was a nice bonus :rolleyes:), or when the Bengals blew what turned out to be their one and only chance, or when the Falcons blew what turned out to be their _two_ and only chances. The 49ers have five Super Bowls; they can deal with a few second places. About the only bad thing I can potentially see is Kyle Shanahan becoming a complete pariah, but every NFL coach understands life ain’t fair and he can go at any time. So…yeah. Go sports. However, I do want to comment on the two things I did kinda-sorta care about, to wit. = THAT PLANTERS PEANUTS CONTROVERSY-ESQUE THINGAMABOB = Huh. So I guess if you make an utterly hackneyed, pointless ad campaign about an utterly bogus “tragedy” centered around a fictional character no one with any sense gives a crap about, and a completely unexpected real-life tragedy derails the stupid payoff you were planning for the Super Bowl that no one with any sense will give a _tenth_ of a crap about, coming up with a slightly different stupid payoff that no with any sense will give a tenth of a crap about _is_ an acceptable response! I’m expecting absolutely zero fallout from this, of course, but in a sense it’s comforting that Planters was able to weather the extremely mild shower without blowing a gasket or completely wimping out. In these trouble times, I appreciate when a major corporation shows some good sense. That said, a bit too salty for me. I’m more of a Sweet Salty Nut guy. 🙂 = THE HALFTIME SHOW = (Only [very mild] gripe: No idea who the backup singers were, and not a word about them. C’mon, even Wyclef Jean got a credit.) One thing kept coming to mind while I was watching Shakira and Jennifer Lopez…_damn_, can these latina performers _multitask_ or what? Singing, and posing, and gyrating, and prop work, and costume changes, and remembering all the words (no mean feat given that most singers aren’t used to singing just a few lines from each song), and avoiding all the other bodies on the stage…and throw in a pole twirl and a _stage dive_ on top of that? This is by far the most impressive stage performance of _any_ kind I’ve seen in recent memory, and that includes Jesus Christ Superstar. Big thumbs-up! Would very gladly buy a DVD of a full concert! I also gotta ask…doing such high-energy routines at their _age?_ I remember being in college when Shakira first hit it huge; I’m pretty sure the first album I ever saw of her was in a Borders Books and Music. On the 6 was released in 1999. A _lot_ of time has passed since their peak, and yet they were able to get through a very active and pretty dang long halftime show without the slightest hiccup. I don’t remember a time when I _ever_ had that kind of physical prowess! And that’s about all I got. Only 18 days until the start of American Ninja Warrior Junior 2! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221/163 "2020-02-05T08:24:07Z")
Great game. BRING ON THE BASEBALL! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221/164 "2020-02-06T05:21:06Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > How about the key penalty that wasn’t called? A K.C. rusher made full helmet to helmet contact when he hit Garoppolo flush on the side of the head on S.F.'s last real drive. No way that isn’t called during the regular season. They routinely call much less in that regard. I’ve seen that kind of hit missed many times during the regular season. It doesn’t make it right but it happens. Sometimes the officials just don’t see it; there are 22 players on the field and they can’t see every angle of every one. (Unlike the cameramen.) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221/165 "2020-02-06T06:04:40Z")
> [@DKW](#): > > Couldn’t comment before now 'cause I had to hash through a bunch of emotional stuff. (Not video game-related, don’t worry. ;)) Not a whole lot to say about the game itself. Chiefs complete their once-in-a-lifetime nobody-can-freaking-finish-the-job-against-them miracle season we’ve seen with the '95 Houston Rockets, the Rally Monkey Anaheim Angels, the first New England Patriots championship, and more recently the Washington Capitals, Washington Nationals, and Toronto Raptors, and…I have absolutely no idea if I should feel good or bad about this. Is this a team that deserves it more than, say, the Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, or Atlanta Falcons? I just don’t know. Yeah, I’ve harped (rightfully! :D) on the Tomahawk Chop, but I don’t see that getting any more insufferable than it’s always been. Andy Reid may have had his detractors, but c’mon, he wasn’t in the same doghouse as, say, Barry Switzer. Times like this I look to the negative to judge (which I don’t _enjoy_ doing, honest!), but there isn’t much there either. This isn’t like when the Patriots choked away the perfect season and now we have to hear about '72 Dolphins for the next 500 years, or when the Bills lost four in a row and we got several thousand horrible jokes on TV (oh, and putting all the blame on Scott Norwood, that was a nice bonus :rolleyes:), or when the Bengals blew what turned out to be their one and only chance, or when the Falcons blew what turned out to be their _two_ and only chances. The 49ers have five Super Bowls; they can deal with a few second places. About the only bad thing I can potentially see is Kyle Shanahan becoming a complete pariah, but every NFL coach understands life ain’t fair and he can go at any time. > > So…yeah. Go sports. > > However, I do want to comment on the two things I did kinda-sorta care about, to wit. > > = THAT PLANTERS PEANUTS CONTROVERSY-ESQUE THINGAMABOB = > Huh. So I guess if you make an utterly hackneyed, pointless ad campaign about an utterly bogus “tragedy” centered around a fictional character no one with any sense gives a crap about, and a completely unexpected real-life tragedy derails the stupid payoff you were planning for the Super Bowl that no one with any sense will give a _tenth_ of a crap about, coming up with a slightly different stupid payoff that no with any sense will give a tenth of a crap about _is_ an acceptable response! I’m expecting absolutely zero fallout from this, of course, but in a sense it’s comforting that Planters was able to weather the extremely mild shower without blowing a gasket or completely wimping out. In these trouble times, I appreciate when a major corporation shows some good sense. > > That said, a bit too salty for me. I’m more of a Sweet Salty Nut guy. 🙂 > > = THE HALFTIME SHOW = > (Only [very mild] gripe: No idea who the backup singers were, and not a word about them. C’mon, even Wyclef Jean got a credit.) > > One thing kept coming to mind while I was watching Shakira and Jennifer Lopez…_damn_, can these latina performers _multitask_ or what? Singing, and posing, and gyrating, and prop work, and costume changes, and remembering all the words (no mean feat given that most singers aren’t used to singing just a few lines from each song), and avoiding all the other bodies on the stage…and throw in a pole twirl and a _stage dive_ on top of that? This is by far the most impressive stage performance of _any_ kind I’ve seen in recent memory, and that includes Jesus Christ Superstar. Big thumbs-up! Would very gladly buy a DVD of a full concert! > > I also gotta ask…doing such high-energy routines at their _age?_ I remember being in college when Shakira first hit it huge; I’m pretty sure the first album I ever saw of her was in a Borders Books and Music. On the 6 was released in 1999. A _lot_ of time has passed since their peak, and yet they were able to get through a very active and pretty dang long halftime show without the slightest hiccup. I don’t remember a time when I _ever_ had that kind of physical prowess! > > And that’s about all I got. Only 18 days until the start of American Ninja Warrior Junior 2! 🙂 **golf clap** -1 for mouthing off about my Bengals. Joe Burrow. JOE FUCKING BURROW!!! ---
**Author:** ![fjs1fs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@fjs1fs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fjs1fs)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221/166 "2020-02-07T18:55:57Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > It was back and forth handsies…until just before the ball arrived and Kittle extended his arm, which held off the defender and gave Kittle a small boost to get to the ball. > > However, it probably shouldn’t have been called. I’ve seen worse that haven’t been called. And I’m speaking as a Chiefs fan. I agree. But I’ve seen “less” that HAVE been called. I think the non-timeout was more important. Even though I was rooting for the Chiefs, I was yelling at my tv “Why aren’t you calling TO here…?” It boggles my mind how coaches screw up such easy decisions. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-super-bowl-full-of-jelly/847221.md?page=8)