With many in America going to watch the game (or at least attending a party) on Sunday, no discussion about the game? Or its commercials?
My wife and I like to stay home alone. We don’t want to socialize at a party, we want to watch the game. We want to enjoy the commercials.
As a life-long Eagles fan, this is my 3rd Super Bowl, and I am more accustomed to enjoying the game without really caring who wins. If I learned anything watching this team, the Vikings game was an outlier, and it is going to be a gut-wrenching game until the last play.
I predict the Patriots will be the beneficiaries of a picayune pass interference penalty late in the game to set up the winning TD as time expires.
The commercials, you say? I’m already sick to death of “Dilly dilly!” and the pregame show has barely even started.
Bring on the puppies!
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I don’t see that anywhere. The closest thing is a intercepted pass late in the third but no TD.
I’m really hoping for an interesting game. I think it will come down to whether the Eagles defense can play all four quarters (I’m looking at you Jacksonville and Atlanta) and hopefully get at least one turnover.
The Eagles are a strong defensive team (#2 scoring defense in the league this year) so there is hope. And although the Eagles sacks numbers (a middling 38 sacks this year) aren’t great, they’re actually one of the best at creating pressure (sacks/hits/hurries) this year, and doing so without having to blitz (which Brady is very, very, very good at beating). So if the front line of the Eagles are able to rotate their guys and keep pressure up all game, they’ll have a chance to contain the Patriots.
I’m thinking that Doug Pederson might be some kind of play calling guru for getting the Eagles to the SuperBowl without their starting QB. They have a nice stable of backs, and a very impressive TE, but I don’t see them having the kind of game in the Super Bowl as they did against the Vikings. Although I’d love to see Nick Foles have another career game, get signed to a ridiculous contract, and become the next example of a NFL qb having a nice run of games before resorting back to being a slightly above average to average NFL QB for the rest of his career ala Joe Flacco/Eli Manning.
On paper, it seems like it could be a fun game to watch. And that’s what I’m rooting for.
I thought the latest conspiracy theory was supposed to be that Gronk would be cleared from the concussion protocol *just *in time.
And the game? If the Iggles think the way to stop Brady is with blitzing, they must not have watched any of the last 16 years of game tape.
The Eagles blitzed this year at the 10th lowest rate in the NFL and had the highest rate of pressure when only rushing four. I’m guessing they know already blitzing all the time isn’t the way to win.
I’m happy that (most?) companies aren’t previewing their commercials (unless they are and I’m just missing them).
I never understood why someone would pay $1 billion for a premier, high-impact advertising slot and then premier their ad on Youtube the week before.
They’re all a bunch of damn yankees and I hope they both lose. Really. The Cheating Patriots against the Team That Hired Michael Vick after Prison. Maybe a giant asteroid will hit the stadium at halftime. That would be pretty cool. ('cept for the people there, but hey…nobody I know can afford Super Bowl tickets anyway.)
Yankees?
75% of the players on all teams are from the South.
Damn! Here I am agreeing with Oakminster! 
We got this! E A G L E S - EAGLES!
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2 weeks until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training!
The Eagles are on my Official List of Teams I Root For, due to my college years in the suburbs of Philadelphia, but I never expected that they’d actually get to the Superb Owl. I’ll probably be the only one rooting for them at my party, since my sister’s family (the hosts) are all Patriots fans.
That’s good news.
Alas, spring training will be put on hold, in the aftermath of an asteroid strike in eastern Minnesota. 
I’ll be going to Spring Training this year. It’ll be my third time going. Cactus League, here I come!
As for the Super Bowl, I’m hoping it’s a good game. There are good reasons (to me) for either team winning:
if the Eagles, they’d finally get their first Super Bowl victory and we’d drop another team from the “been there but never won it” group (8 other teams: Vikings and Bills (both 0-4), Bengals, Falcons, and Panthers (0-2; as are the Eagles), and Cardinals, Chargers, and Titans (0-1));
and if the Patriots it’d be yet another great championship win near the end of one of the greatest runs in pro football, right up there with Otto Graham and the Cleveland Browns of the 1940s and 1950s in the AAFC and NFL — Graham reached the championship game every year he played, 10x, and won 7 of them.
If the Pats won, Brady and Belichick would get their 6th championship, only 1 short of Otto Graham and coach Paul Brown’s 7 (AAFC and NFL).
Is there a doubt in your mind that he will be? That’s not a conspiracy theory, just an honest assessment of the NFL and its scummy, anti-human priorities. Any star Eagles player would be cleared too.