I’m amazed Kyle Williams started chasing him too. I’m guessing the coaching staff had some unpleasant things to say to him afterwards.
Maye’s left tackle deserves significant blame.
Meanwhile, Darnold is now the first quarterback from USC to win a superbowl. Shocking!
i also thought the vegetation would dance. getting married at the super bowl… wow! family legend there.
Had it been 29-14 I’d have won $600. Damn.
Anyway, that was not the best Super Bowl ever played.
It was in the top 60.
My guess is just to give the fans a B-1 with the burners lit. Not something you’d want to do in a formation flight, and if you’ve never seen the B-1 in person, it’s already a loud aircraft. With the burners lit, it is something to behold.
Plus, to ensure the show goes on in the event of a mechanical problem (the B-1 is not exactly the most highly reliable aircraft) they send a couple so the have backup. So if they both are up and ready day of show, why not make extra noise?
This list has it as the 8th-worst. I always suspect some recency bias in these lists (even if they call back to a 70s Super Bowl, it’s not necessarily because they actually watched it live), but in the bottom 10 is reasonable.
Ranking worst Super Bowls: Where Seahawks-Patriots rematch falls among bottom 10 - CBS Sports
Ridiculous that V was nowhere to be found. Just because it was close and decided on a last-second FG doesn’t make it “good”…
I just learned that there was a third B-1 up and orbiting to fill in if need be.
Across the various lyrics, transition spoken lines and stadium-screen messages (for the latter two English was also used) were a number of lines like “The only thing more powerful than hate is love”, “Together we are America”. Y’know, inclusion/diversity/tolerance messaging, that this culture is part of the overall culture. A couple of items like the bit about the power lines and Ricky Martin’s cameo with “Lo que le pasó a Hawaii” (What Happened to Hawaii) were callouts to us back home about our issues.
It really has been the “cultural opinion making” Chattering Classes on both Right and Left who have been too damn breathless about how majorly controversial (Right, pre- and during) or historically trascendent (Left, during and post-) it all was.
Setting aside three whole strategic bombers for a pregame show? America, f&$@ yeah! 
That is where I gave up watching the game and switched over to the Olympics. Little did I know that I would miss the majority of the points scored. :doh:
the game finally got interesting in the 4th quarter.
It almost had to happen - down 12-0 to start the 4th quarter (and down 19-0 not long into the 4th quarter), at our watch party, the consensus was there was probably going to be more scoring on both sides soon just because the Patriots were going to be forced into taking more risks.
You could tell Tirico and Collinsworth were really digging to find anything semi-interesting to say for most of that game. They weren’t given a lot to work with. The game was notable for playing out largely as expected. The only shot people were giving New England was Darnold having a mistake filled game, which he did not provide.
I DO speak Spanish (currently at about 80% fluency), and I actually agree with you – because I have trouble with the Caribbean Spanish accent (e.g., they drop an “s” unless it starts a word). Subtitles would have been great.
But other than that, I LOVED the halftime show. Joyous celebration of Puerto Rican – and ultimately, Pan-American – culture.
Closed caption worked fine for this.
You mean your TV translated Bad Bunny’s lyrics in English? Really? Shucks – maybe mine would have, too, if I’d known.
Or did you mean Spanish lyrics, which would have helped me in particular (as a halfway-decent Spanish speaker)?
There was little not to like about that. It was more interesting than the game, that’s for sure. Even when the game got “interesting” in the 4th quarter, the word “interesting” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
I’m happy to just put it down to personal taste. His music is just not something I would seek out for enjoyment. And given my lack of awareness of PR culture, seeing this without subtitles did not inform me about it. Many of the vignettes struck me as simply what I might imagine to be stereotypes about just about any latin culture. And, given my ignorance, an appearance by Ricky Martin - another singer who is just not my personal taste, did not really mean anything to me. Someone said, “Is that Ricky Martin?” But other than knowing he sag some hugely popular song a while back, his appearance meant nothing to me. I tend not to be a big fan of spectacle - so even a halftime by someone I REALLY like - like Prince, did not thrill me. I think Lady Gaga is hugely talented and impressive in many respects, but her music is just not my taste.
I thought it sort of odd to see the big message in English about love being stronger than hate. If that message was in English, I thought English subtitles would be appropriate as well. One of the people I was watching it with - a niece, teaches crossfit. She said she was intending to use some of BB’s songs in her classes, but after looking up the lyrics, she chose not to.
My ignorance of “pop culture” also carried over to the commercials. As usual, I would be thinking, “I assume I’m supposed to know who that celebrity is.” And too often, even after the ad ended, I didn’t even really know what they were trying to sell. Claude? Yeah, I could look it up, but that kind of advertising isn’t really effective on me. Unless I later see the name and think, “Oh yeah! That was on the Superbowl!” But I don’t choose my advertising - or entertainment - to be research projects.
Kinda curious - my wife and I just came back from an indoor golf driving range. As we were finishing up, 4 older guys started using the bay next to ours. 2 of them had “veteran’s” caps and sweatshirts. They were talking about the halftime, and seemed to have many of the same criticisms as I, yet they expressed them in terms I thought sounded ignorant and unpleasant. Perhaps I took a negative reaction as soon as I saw the veteran’s regalia. But it made me very aware of the importance of the tone used if one is anything other than fully supportive of certain “diversity” issues.
I’m not a football - or sports-watching - fan. I found the hiring of BB curious, given the current incumbent, and how recently Colin Kaepernick caught grief for kneeling. And the juxtaposition with the (IMO undesirable) militarization of the pre-game. Never really thought of NFL or its fans as tremendously liberal or enlightened. I understand the NFL desiring to expand its viewership to younger and Latin audiences.