# NFL Week 21 (Super Bowl XLIX game time thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 31, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426 "2015-01-31T14:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/21 "2015-02-01T23:32:51Z")
Well, a better start than last year, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/22 "2015-02-01T23:37:27Z")
I’d have refused that penalty too. Seahawks on the 15; good enough. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/23 "2015-02-01T23:38:31Z")
I’m nominally pulling for the Patriots here. I also think they are going to win. Brady \>\> Wilson and Belichick \> Carroll. I do think the Seahawk’s DBs injuries are going to be a significant factor. Thomas more than Sherman who I think is largely hamming it up. I was supposed to be at a Super Bowl party today in a killer private venue with 30 foot HD projectors and studio quality sound but that fell through. Pretty much all of Chicago is snowed in and the all the side streets are mostly inaccessible. I now have a gallon of chili cheese dip in a crock pot to myself, this should be fun. The SO is stranded in Disney World because of flight cancellations so it’s me and the cat on the couch alone with the Dope. First bogus call of the game…Collinsworth is right, that’s definitely a roughing the kicker call and should be a Pat’s 1st down. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/24 "2015-02-01T23:38:50Z")
You’re supposed to be able to tack that on to the end of the play. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/25 "2015-02-01T23:40:25Z")
First flag of the day, obvious clear-cut call and they got it wrong. Good start refs. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/26 "2015-02-01T23:43:30Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > First flag of the day, obvious clear-cut call and they got it wrong. Good start refs. And the head referee flubbed the announcement, too. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/27 "2015-02-01T23:45:24Z")
As an Arizonan I can make the nitpick that the Commentators told us that the Grand Canyon is just a couple of driving hours away… that is if you drive at 100 miles per hour. Usually with some normal breaks and at 75 miles per hour one can make it in 3 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/28 "2015-02-01T23:52:11Z")
This is like three yards and a cloud of dust, only it’s through the air. Whatever works, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/29 "2015-02-01T23:53:29Z")
And Brady’s first pass for more than five yards in the air is picked off. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/30 "2015-02-01T23:53:35Z")
interception! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/31 "2015-02-01T23:55:26Z")
Well, I was about to post on how well-executed that NE drive was, right up to the interception. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2015, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/32 "2015-02-01T23:57:40Z")
that was a classic drive, pound them out, eat the clock. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/33 "2015-02-02T00:01:08Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > that was a classic drive, pound them out, eat the clock. Classic drives generally end in a touchdown. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/34 "2015-02-02T00:03:28Z")
teams that have no losses usually win the super bowl. could be a new england thing. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/35 "2015-02-02T00:03:42Z")
With the injury and subsequent punt, that INT might be a net positive. Funny that Derrell Revis has basically been a forgotten man in the run up to this game. With him a McCourty there’s no surprise that the Seahawks have negative passing yards thus far. How will they score? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/36 "2015-02-02T00:09:25Z")
Wow, Gronk should have had that one. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/37 "2015-02-02T00:09:39Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > teams that have no losses usually win the super bowl. 50% of teams with no losses have won the Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/38 "2015-02-02T00:09:57Z")
OMG! A pass that went longer than 4 yards!!! _snore_ ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/39 "2015-02-02T00:10:44Z")
Poor decision by Brady notwithstanding, the New England gameplan seems to be pretty solid. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426/40 "2015-02-02T00:12:06Z")
touchdown! first blood goes to new england. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-21-super-bowl-xlix-game-time-thread/711426.md?page=3)