# What were you THINKING?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/3887 "2025-02-10T03:09:15Z")

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PLONK:

> [@Super Bowl LIX - Game Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-lix-game-day/1014098/204):
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> > [@Super Bowl LIX - Game Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/super-bowl-lix-game-day/1014098/198):
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> > They won like 14 games by one score or less-that absolutely cannot BE disputed. They wouldn’t be the first lucky team to make it here and get destroyed. Stupid, huh? 😡
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> Yes. Profoundly, ridiculously, incredibly stupid. They’re 40-11 in the last 3 years. They had the 4th best scoring defense in the league, and they WON.

@Hamlet

This was a mediocre team who LUCKED into the big game and got their ass handed to them decisively. They were NOT in any way shape or form any sort of good team, even if they were for the previous 2 seasons (which I will not dispute).

Outgained overall 5.3 yards per play to 5.1. Only had a 97 point differential (and that after I deducted the Broncos game). Won like a dozen+ one score games. Yet _I_ am somehow the idiot. Yeah sure whatever you say.

Oh, and PLONK.

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