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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Well, hopefully the second half will not be as boring as halftime and almost all the ads so far.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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Faith  Suspended Member (Idle past 1444 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I'm not normally a football fan but I've been known to watch a big game if something special is supposed to be happening. In this case I'm just curious because of deflate-gate and because some family are huddled around the TV*, elsewhere, and I'm missing it, don't have TV, can't find out anything over the internet for some reason, computer can't handle the videos or something.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any kind of recap anyone feels like offering. I suppose by now the thing is about over anyway though. ABE: * should have said this is unusual for my family too, to watch a Superbowl. In this case it's not because of anything particularly special about the game, just the fact that some other family members are around who ARE into football. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given. Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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Coyote Member (Idle past 2106 days) Posts: 6117 Joined:
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Seattle had the ball on the 1/2 line, with time and downs to play and one of the best running backs around.
So they threw an interception and lost the game. Bah!
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nwr Member Posts: 6408 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.1
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Well, hopefully the second half will not be as boring as halftime and almost all the ads so far.
Nothing boring here. I just left the TV and radio turned off, and got on with my life. But it will probably get boring soon, when the news comes on and it is all football nonsense instead of real news.Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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AZPaul3 Member Posts: 8513 From: Phoenix Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Bah! Bah? Bah nothing! Both defenses were superb and both quarterbacks struggled to overcome. I know everyone loves to see points but, if you're into the tactics and the chess match of play selection, to watch both defenses shut down the best productive offenses in the league for no score in the entire first quarter was a true thing of beauty. As far as Lynch v Wilson on that last play, I can understand Pete Carroll's thinking. Everybody knew where the ball was going to go. Every Patriot knew where Lynch was. 20 seconds, 2 timeouts left, 1/2 yard line, it's a no-brainer, right? There was really no other choice was there. It didn't work out so now everyone gets to second guess but it took balls (non-deflated ones) and I respect Carroll for the try. If one is into football this was a most excellent, and fun, game. Halftime sucked. So did the commercials. Bah!
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Percy Member Posts: 22392 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Only smiles here in New England.
--Percy
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
can understand Pete Carroll's thinking. Everybody knew where the ball was going to go. There is a really good reason why every 'knew' Lynch was going to get the ball. Because the play was highly likely to result in a score regardless of what the Patriots knew or did. And because even trying and failing would likely leave Seattle in no worse spot. What I thought was a bit classless were the attempt by the announcer to bait the Pats coach into commenting on the call.
quote: It didn't work out Nicely understated. Almost in the best British tradition. It worked about as poorly as anything could have worked! Je Suis Charlie Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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JonF Member (Idle past 168 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Smiles indeed. I did not believe that ending.
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Larni Member (Idle past 164 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
American fottball seems very complicated.
The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer. -Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53 The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286 Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134
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Percy Member Posts: 22392 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Larni writes: American football seems very complicated. And a wandering offsides line is simple? --Percy
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Larni Member (Idle past 164 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
And a wandering offsides line is simple? That's only in there to stop Hail Mary's from dominating the innings.The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer. -Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53 The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286 Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134
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Percy Member Posts: 22392 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Larni writes: That's only in there to stop Hail Mary's from dominating the innings. Innings? Sounds like cricket. I understand there's an excellent reason for the mobile offside rule in soccer, and in the same way there are just as excellent reasons for every one of the 9,362 rules of American football. After all, we can't have the Mike crashing into slot receivers all willy-nilly. --Percy
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ringo Member (Idle past 412 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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Larni writes:
If you look at the Wikipedia article, you'll notice that the American football field is flat whereas the Canadian field is balanced on one corner so the snow will slide off.
American fottball seems very complicated.
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subbie Member (Idle past 1255 days) Posts: 3509 Joined:
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It was second down, ball on the 1 yard line, 20 seconds to go, Seattle had 1 time out. There was time for 3 plays, as long as at least one of the plays on second or third down was a pass. They probably didn't have time to run the ball three more times. If they had run it on second down, they would have had to call their last time out and would have had to pass on third down to save time for another play on fourth down if they didn't get in. By passing on second down, they left the option of either a run or a pass play on their down, making the defense guess.
In my mind, it's a no brainer than you pass on second down. It was a poor pass choice.Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. -- Thomas Jefferson We see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat It has always struck me as odd that fundies devote so much time and effort into trying to find a naturalistic explanation for their mythical flood, while looking for magical explanations for things that actually happened. -- Dr. Adequate Howling about evidence is a conversation stopper, and it never stops to think if the claim could possibly be true -- foreveryoung
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Larni Member (Idle past 164 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
Lol, my eyes actually lost focus half way through that.
Reminds me of school...The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer. -Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53 The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286 Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134
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