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Many will debate if it was worth making Super Bowl XLIX into Super Brawl I, but those who trade the market will be familiar with the kind of volatility that everyone just experienced in the final minutes of what otherwise may have been the most nail-biting super bowl in history.

 

 

Swiss National Bank eat your heart out.

 

h/t AY (congrats)

 

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Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:33 | 5733451 LetThemEatRand
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Rorschach test anyone?  I see a stingray taking a dump.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:45 | 5733505 NoDebt
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That was the best damned Super Bowl I've seen in years.  Don't care about the BS with "deflate gate".  Good fucking game.  Well played on both sides.  Nail-biter ending.  I give it a 10.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:50 | 5733524 Bangalore Torpedo
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Yep, ND...it was friggen AWESOME! 

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:56 | 5733558 Bilderberg Member
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If something can go from 98% certainity to 0% certainity in 7 minutes then the "predictionmachine" isn't much better than a coin toss.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:01 | 5733578 Matt
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I don't think you understand how probability works. If it is anything less than 100 percent, when the result is revealed it can be 0 percent or 100 percent. Like the odds of a 13 coming up in roulette is 1 in 37 or 38, but once the ball is sitting in a slot, the odds are either 100 percent or 0 percent. The outcome either happened or it did not happen.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:14 | 5733625 Bilderberg Member
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98% is for a score that is at least 30 points apart!....It should have been more like 65%

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:26 | 5733656 knukles
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One of my buds gave me the Pats and 14, for a tube of ProV1's. 
No brainer.
See, he's a 49er's fan so he hates Seattle, meaning he let his own personal bias dictate reality.
He just wanted to see as in "Hope" Seattle get reamed.
I took it of course and now get free golf balls.
Duh

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:42 | 5733707 Bangalore Torpedo
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Free balls is the true definition of freedom.  Under any construct of the definition of "balls".

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:59 | 5733753 TruxtonSpangler
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This SuperBowl multiplied by deflategate will surely overshadow and distract from the Tsarnaev "trial"

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 01:19 | 5733790 ml8ml8
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It doesn't matter who wins or loses, as long as both teams have fun playing.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 05:58 | 5734052 Supernova Born
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Darrell Bevell was the Black Swan moron that called a pass on the .5 yard line and lost the Super Bowl for Seattle.  

Darrell Bevell is the offensive coordinator for Seattle.

His POS name will live in sports INFAMY forever.

He OWNS the "Worst Play Called EVER" in the history of American football.

Irony incarnate? Look at the copy from the Seahawks official webpage:

"Under Bevell’s direction in 2011, Seattle’s offense found its identity: running the football."

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 06:24 | 5734102 winchester
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as long as fat pig beer drinkers remain on couch and look tv, they are not in street to fight for their ( apparently not that bad)  condition...

 

lost people. seriously, i mean, you deserve what is going on.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 06:53 | 5734115 Supernova Born
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Darrell Bevell either wanted to lose or is a complete idiot.

Odds on complete idiot.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:33 | 5734161 J S Bach
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Didn't watch it.  Could care less.  After the "fix" in the Lions/Cowboys game, it became apparent that the NFL is nothing less than the WWF.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 08:05 | 5734190 chumbawamba
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The irony of being a ZH reader and watching the "Super Bowl" (or even caring about it) is apparently lost on many here.

I am Chumbawamba.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:01 | 5734432 jbvtme
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football=a steroid induced concussion fest. it has all the dynamic and reality of the stock market

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:39 | 5734169 PeaBird
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Agree that the modern professional sporting spectacle is the circus, as in 'bread & circus', and thus a distraction. However, commenting on Bevell: He did not practice (i.e. threw the ball) what he preached (i.e. running the ball). There are many market & life lessons in that ye olde saying.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:17 | 5734485 Raging Debate
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Supernova - I told my gf the moment that happened "theres an offensive coordinator without a job next year."

It was a great game to watch and as a Pats fan I am happy.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:00 | 5734636 gafgroocK
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WHO IS Tsarnaev ?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:29 | 5734727 steveharless
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And we all know how "hope" and change worked out...just ask Obama

www.ViewLasVegasRealEstate.com

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 01:32 | 5733809 MayIMommaDogFac...
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98% is for a score that is at least 30 points apart!....It should have been more like 65%

The chart also accounts for time left remaining to play in the game.  You don't start to see odds that high until the game is nearly over.  See?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 03:19 | 5733941 noben
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You can be sure Brady's balls will get deflated tonight by Mrs Brady (super-model Giselle Bundchen), and deservedly so.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 12:11 | 5734929 Crash Overide
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Proud to say I didn't watch one fucking play or one fucking sheep asleep zombie commercial...

Fuck the tax exempt NFL.

Fuck TV.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:48 | 5733511 MsCreant
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Stingray with a tinfoil cap blocking the mind control rays that are trying to control his thoughts. Obama wants him to be a killer drone for the US Navy Seals, but he reads ZH, thus he knows to resist his oppressive overlord.  

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:39 | 5733685 TheReplacement
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Christmas Tree

PS - I knew the Pats won when my dumbass neighbors started shooting off fireworks.  Again.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:18 | 5734146 Romney Wordsworth
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Maybe they were celebrating Katy Perry's last song.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 03:34 | 5733961 Bloppy
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Will griping about Super Bowl ads replace media's Deflategate obsession?

http://tinyurl.com/pd326pc


Mon, 02/02/2015 - 04:35 | 5734012 zhandax
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Well allow me to gripe about all of them.  Not so long ago, the ads were almost better than the game.  This year was completely trashed with fantasy and propaganda.  Case in point the ad you linked.  Could we get a more bare-faced example of a corporate appeal for more nanny state fascism?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 09:12 | 5734296 Fedtacular
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I just love me a zero sum game.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:08 | 5734451 f16hoser
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When the STL Rams stopped the Titans near the goal line when time ran out was just as good... Glad to see the Hawks beat themselves on the 1 yrd line!

Packer Fan

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:32 | 5733457 saints51
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Had a chess tournament with my family. My 2 daughters beat me to hell. I refuse to allow separation of family as long as I am breathing. Kids to bed now for school tomorrow so quiet time for Uncle Saints51. Think most people are so brainwashed where they can not get enough of that good ole CIA regular scheduled programming. Its called programming for a reason folks.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:42 | 5733491 Overfed
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I stayed home and made beer.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:57 | 5733556 NoDebt
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I stayed home and drank beer.  It's like we're twins.

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:08 | 5733605 Mr Pink
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I got snowed in and read ZH

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:17 | 5733632 nmewn
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I thought the Budweiser commercial said it all.

Some things are not meant to be dissected & debated over, especially pumpkin flavored beer ;-)

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 01:45 | 5733824 lasvegaspersona
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learned 5 of 25 guitar licks 'you must know'...so I got held back...I may never be a rock star...

did something else happen?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 09:53 | 5734399 Intoxicologist
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I made approximately 50,000 pounds of mozzarella cheese. No more pouring drinks for a living, now I work at a dairy. Kinda nice, cheese doesn't get drunk and throw shit at ya, or verbally abuse you.

Guess I need a new ZH handle.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:59 | 5733571 OldPhart
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I was busy helping an Aunt that broke her arm.

Recorded the game, wife wanted to see the commercials.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 12:15 | 5734949 Crash Overide
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"Its called programming for a reason folks."

 

Thank you...

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:32 | 5733459 asteroids
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Good game, the best team won.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:34 | 5733463 FOC 1183
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Patriots is SPY, Seahawks is VIX

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:33 | 5733469 Spungo
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What's a patriot? Is that someone who never questions the government?

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:38 | 5733483 Bangalore Torpedo
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Nope, it's the frakkin winner!

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:39 | 5733488 MsCreant
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Apparently a PatriotTM is someone with deflated balls. A far cry from what I understand it used to mean.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:39 | 5733696 TheReplacement
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I'm married so I'm a patriot?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:00 | 5734639 noben
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And in Seattle they play microsoft football. Ironic.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:09 | 5733853 European American
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"What's a patriot? Is that someone who never questions the government?"

 

“Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.” –Mark Twain

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:37 | 5733480 Freedumb
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This market seems just as dumb as our equity markets, being so overly certain at the end of Q3, damned near 100%.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:39 | 5733482 Bangalore Torpedo
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Chart porn for the game!  Perfect.  Now we can have the loonies chime in:

1) The game was manipulated

2) The CIA rolled it to NE at the last minute as they produce moar tax revenue

3) It's the fuqqqing paper NFL market dammit...and soylent green!

4) Paul Craig Roberts called it next week.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:46 | 5733503 Overfed
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We can all be sure that most NSA/CIA are all NE fans.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:47 | 5733516 Bangalore Torpedo
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No...I'm pretty sure that they are all DC fans.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 01:57 | 5733838 The Blank Stare
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Loonie's?

 

Must be comforting to be so well grounded.....in the matrix.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:34 | 5734749 Grimaldus
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It was a Mossad plot.

Grimaldus

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:41 | 5733490 orangegeek
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Pete Carroll (Seattle coach) calls in a pass on the 1 year line of NE with three downs left with the best running back in the NFL at his disposal.

 

That must have been one big fat fucking "vegas kickback check" coming to Carroll to throw a game like this.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:45 | 5733504 saints51
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Not picking on you at all but why waste your time watching. If it is rigged then why participate. People around here get so mad when others are still participating in the markets yet will participate by following some sporting team or a tv show. Now orangegeek I am not attacking you by any means its for certain individuals around these woods who are some of the biggest hypocrites you will ever meet.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:47 | 5733509 Bangalore Torpedo
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No problemo...I attacked.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 05:03 | 5734043 Wait What
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just remember to make a note of what they do, ignore what they say, and you'll be alright.

if we've learned anything on ZH it's that people will lie, cheat, steal for the sake of experiency, long-held beliefs be damned. most people are hypocrites about 1 thing or another, so long as being so benefits them in some way.

i'd say circuses are social phenomena and even ZHers are social people... no man is an island, and the sheeple's pursuits aren't easily pushed aside even if one believes they are statist tools that perpetuate a particular type of control.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:47 | 5733507 Bangalore Torpedo
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There we go...that took a lot less time for the conspiratorialists to chime in.

"IT WAS RIGGED."

Fucking please...do you know how much money REALLY rides on these games?  Answer: NO

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:59 | 5733755 Rusty Shorts
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The NFL, The Mafia and FIXED Games - Dan Moldea Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv0wgLLzX10

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 06:15 | 5734087 Uber Vandal
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No, not rigged at all.

Just a coincidence that the video game trailer for Madden NFL 15 more or less predicted the exact final score and plays and all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8WXhQVfQTA

Jump to 0:46, 1:00, and 1:41 to see how the scores compared to actual.

 

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:46 | 5733510 NotApplicable
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Better yet, with plenty of time on the clock and a timeout left.

 

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:52 | 5733532 Bangalore Torpedo
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Proving only that stupid can never be fixed.  But it can be fired.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:49 | 5733522 putaipan
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yeah well....there goes all the team work he built into that team, mistake or kickback, either way- lynch'll be pissed. he's gone. it was good while it lasted.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:39 | 5733695 astitchintime
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Pete Carroll is the one that needs to be gone.

He made the call.

Stupidous bone-head call I've ever seen ... in forty years of watching the NFL.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:01 | 5733844 The Blank Stare
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I agree, dumb call. But there's a reason Belichick has won 4 SB's, he read the play as well, so don't be too hard on Pete.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 03:11 | 5733933 malek
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No, I actually found Belichick a bit questionable when Seattle was on the NE 5 yard line with 60 seconds to go.
I'd thought he should let Seattle score because under normal circumstances a SEA touchdown was all but guaranteed, so they'd have almost 60 seconds to go the other way and kick at least field goal to go into overtime.

Maybe Belichick really thought NE had a bigger chance stopping them than going down the field the other way in 60 seconds with 2 timeouts (I didn't),
or maybe he just put all on one Roulette number (21?) and won.

Only if Belichick had discovered that SEA regularly becomes predictable in close finishes, was that a smart move by him.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 08:13 | 5734203 Rikky
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>>But there's a reason Belichick has won 4 SB's

 

you forgot the most glaring reason.  he's a cheater proven more than one time.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:52 | 5734176 Refuse-Resist
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You mean to say that you think that the non-profit, anti-gun, feminist football league games are not fixed like pro wrestling?

 

Hmm..

 

I'll never watch it again.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:23 | 5733622 astitchintime
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I wholeheartly agree with your assessment!

What FREAKING moron calls a pass play from the half-yardline from 2nd down ????

Big FAT paycheck indeed.

EDIT:  I am done with football as well.  I've been a life-long Dallas Cowboys fan, until this year with their induction of the 'first ever openly gay player'.  I've adopted the Seattle Seahawks since they became a team as I hail from the pacific northwest (central Oregon).

I've also opted to stop following NASCAR since Jeff Gordon announced 2015 will be his last season.  I came into NASCAR during Jeff's rookie season and I will leave with him in his retirement.

I reckon I will have to rely on cake from the PTB ;)

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:41 | 5733699 Bangalore Torpedo
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Conspiracy...full...retard.

 

I gotta coin a new name for that other than "jackass"

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:11 | 5733862 The Blank Stare
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It's official!!!

 

From now on your Omega Theta Pi name is  "Matrix boy"

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdFLPn30dvQ

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:20 | 5734148 Romney Wordsworth
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All you people are dumbasses, Pete Carroll doesn't call the plays.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:25 | 5733655 Frank N. Beans
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absolutely right, and the Patriot who intercepted it did his job for Carroll too so he will get some of the action.  Oh, and the guy who should have caught the ball did his part too.   /s

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:06 | 5734370 artless
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Okay, I'll chime in here.

It's a football game people. Yes, there's a ton of cash bet on it. Yes it's possible it was/could be manipulated. Just look at the shitty calls here and there. I do not trust NFL HQ (corrupt, stupid organization that has ruined the game for many reasons) but then I don't really care.

What little I saw while at work looked more like a gay man's wet dream/Broadway musical/WWF/monster truck type production all for just FIFTEEN MINUTES of actual play over the course of THREE HOURS. Hey if you nejoy it great for you but the NFL is pretty stale, boring, uninspired play. There is no creativity, no spontaneity. Pretty predictable. Boring.

There hasn't been a truly great Super Bowl since 1978 when Dallas lost to Pittsburgh. But even in that one there was a terrible interference call against Dallas that changed the game AND the DAllas tight end dropped a sure TD pass later on that would have reversed the score. The ref years later stated he made a mistake on the interference call. The Dallas player just retired and lives with his minor Bill Buckner moment. Rigged? Sometimes shit happens. How many times has a team been in the same situation as Seattle and run it three straight times to failure and then people laud the great goal line stand? See Alabama vs Penn St way back for the NCAA championship (sometime back in the late 70's if I remember). So the seatle folks called a pass. Yeah, right NO ONE has ever made that call...and had it go bad. Nope. It's never happened before.

Football is a game so overloaded with arcane rules and structure that to me it is rather tedious to watch. At least for any level that amkes it to TV. More time is spent viewing commercials for crap like shitty GM cars, lousy beer, and poisoness food-like products than one ssees actual action. Half the players are marginal "atheletes" at best who spend the vast majority of the game standing around doing nothing. Every decade or so there is some unique event such as the California kick off return vs Stanford when the band comes on the field as the cal player runs into the endzone. But now that too is gone as teams just squib kick late in the game. Rare is it that the game is played to win. It is at higher levels played not to lose. And then some over paid "genius" like Pete Carrol makes the "wrong" call and all the armchair pundits have red meat to gorge on.

Oh, the drama. I think I'll just go back to sleep. For those who enjoy watching this stuff have at it. As I got older the NFL and the game lost its luster. Earlier yeaterday morning I watched the Cyclo-cross World Championships that ran in Tabor, Czech since I had friends racing there. One hour plus straight, no commercials in the snow, mud, and cold (unlike the sterile astro turf environment of the Super Bowl). Quite possbily the hardest hour in all of sport. There is not a single NFL player that could complete a single lap of the race even if they knew how to ride a bike or not. They simply do not have the anearobic capacity.

If you are looking for purity it's out there just not in the giant arenas of professional sport. Either accept it for what it is or quit the bitching. It's just a fucking game. I agree with the comment above that there is a bit of irony in so much obsession about such an establishment "bread and circus" event like the Super Bowl being such an important topic on ZH.

Full disclosure:  I am an elite amateur cyclist so I'm biased. I played football as a kid so I know the game. I was a professional football (oops, sorry for the slip) soccer player until my mid twenties.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:00 | 5734421 Barry McBear
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Actually Vegas' exposure was on New England.  About 2/3 of the money was bet on them.  The biggest offshore book seemed to take a position on Seattle as well, so they likely got smoked.  Also the final outcome made EVERY teaser combination a winner.  Doesn't matter if you teased NE or Sea, or the over or the under, every teaser was a winner.  So Vegas got hit hard there too.  They likely made money on props, but the key players the public likely bet "over" on did just that, Lynch and Brady both exceeded their expected yardage totals.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:00 | 5734632 noben
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"That must have been one big fat fucking "vegas kickback check" coming to Carroll to throw a game like this."

Disagree. You're forgetting that Brady got picked off at the Seattle goal-line at the beginning of the game. One good turn (of luck) deserves another.

Besides, how often does a simple 10 yard play get intercepted? Shit happens. Deal with it Seattle, and go back to your foo-foo coffee and microsoft football.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:45 | 5733499 Seasmoke
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I don't see the Seahawks at 99.99 chance with :31 seconds left on that chart. Run the FUCKING ball .....fake it to Marshawn if you want, but let Russell Run in it ......why throw that ball inside that mess !!!!

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:59 | 5733567 Bangalore Torpedo
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Are you serious?  The pass was like 10 yards.  The fuqqed up, and it's as simple as that.  They risked it with a trick play...which is 100% American...but they lost...oh well.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:47 | 5734172 Romney Wordsworth
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It wasn't a trick play. A quick slant at the goal line is one of the more common NFL scoring plays.

 

I agree that since they had a timeout, they should have prolly tried running with Marshawn Lynch at least once, but the risk you run is that it actually does getr stopped for a loss of a yard or two, or they get a holding penalty or something then they're odds go way down.

 

Still ~ They probably should have run, but [again ~ to all the idiots out there]

 

1. PETE CARROLL DOES NOT CALL THE FUCKING PLAYS [his OC, Bevell, does]

2. These teams play 'situational' football all week long [and it is most likely that they scripted to run that exact play in that exact scenario during the week]. You can argue about it all you want, but the 'play call' was something they likely practiced all week on a 2nd & goal at the 1. For better or worse, you don't 'ad lib' with the game on the line.

3. Back to Pete Carroll ~ He doesn't call the offensive or defensive plays. Instead ~ What he does is manage the game. For example ~ it was the decision of Pete Carroll to try a play at the end of the half to score a TD with 6 seconds left. He didn't call the play, but it was his decision to go for the TD [which was a VERY RISKY move, as a million things could have happened which would have resulted in them coming away with zero points]. The play worked & he looked like a genius, but the point here is that all you idiots are arguing about shit you don't even know about.

4. There was so much other shit that was going on that nobody is talking about. Chris Matthews, who was the unexpected star of the game for Seattle until that point, wasn't hardly even in the last series of plays of the drive that took them down field. WHY? 'Like I said above. SITUATIONAL FOOTBALL'. They hadn't practiced with him in that scenario. They actually tried to insert him a little 'ad hoc' after the drive got started, but it was ancillary. Seahawks were lucky to be down that deep anyway because the Jermaine Kearse catch was a fluke.

5. Patriots had their own situational football. If you watched the coaches press conference 2 days earlier. Belichick told the world EXACTLY some of the things they were practicing. One of them was running plays from deep in their own territory [2 yard line & such]. Thus ~ the Patriots, who had to try 2 kneel downs to run out the clock and were in danger of a safety, had Brady run a 'hard count' & draw an offsides penalty because they know that the Seattle defense is the most penalized team in the League on neutral zone infractions. It worked, I they got 5 yds breathing room [followed by 15 more yards because of a unsportsman like conduct call after the play when a fight broke out].

Bottom Line? Patriots kept their cool. Seahawks lost their heads. Anyone can junk me all they want but these are the facts.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:12 | 5733618 Mr Pink
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I agree. That chart should have had the Seathugs at 99% when they were at the 1. Game was over

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 08:01 | 5734185 Romney Wordsworth
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More fortune cookie analysis.

 

Marshawn Lynch scored 15 TD's in 19 games in 2014.

http://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/player/marshawn-lynch

He had already scored a TD in this game, so what makes you think the odds of him scoring a TD again were STATISTICALLY relevant? I'm not going to bother with going over from where on the field Lynch scored all of his TD's, but I can assure you that very few of them were from the 1 yard line. Lynch actually usually has better success from, say, 9 yards out, because defenses can't stack the box & have to worry about receivers, tight ends, & Russell Wilson running the ball. On the 1 yard line, a defense can committ all it's safeties & LB's to the box.

Besides that. The RED ZONE TD% of ALL of the plays in 2014 against the NE defense was 51.72%.

Whatever. I'm not arguing about what play should have been called here. Instead ~ I'm saying that calling it a STATISTICAL 99% in that situation is misinformed.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:46 | 5733500 XRAYD
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Best subliminal sex ads in XLIX:

The McDonald Commercial ... purple background, the M of the golden arches in mirror image ... morphing into diagrams of sexual organs drawing in your high school biology class - with a heart in the middle of it!

And the Viagra in the tank of a Fiat!

But a great game anyway. 

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:58 | 5733566 NoDebt
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"And the Viagra in the tank of a Fiat!"

When it's the whole point being made by the ad, it's not subliminal.

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:03 | 5733579 Bangalore Torpedo
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*Snicker*

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:27 | 5733878 The Blank Stare
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Watching the Stuper Bowl while on LSD is....OK...I guess

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:56 | 5733742 astitchintime
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Yeah, the ads.  That's a whole different argument.

I was particularly disturbed by the ad about the young boy that died because apparently his parents 'caretakers' didn't practice common sense regarding what was under the sink.

My first thought was 'and they petitioned to get the puppy ad by Fed-Ex taken down'

MORONS.

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:47 | 5733513 Whoa Dammit
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Super Bowl commercial- at about 11 seconds in, a dog is walking someone who looks a lot like Lloyd Blankfein on a leash. Heh!

http://superbowl.nbcsports.com/post/109834669164/mophie-stay-powerful

 

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:52 | 5733538 Sambo
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I thought the Sea Hawks had the advantage going into Q4.... but then......football (as well as the stock market)

is an unrigged game of glorious uncertainties!

 

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:56 | 5733550 Bangalore Torpedo
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OMG!  Now that will garner you a barrage of downvotes!

 

All markets are manipulated.  Rigged or controlled...not so much!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 01:26 | 5733800 astitchintime
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It's all polictical now (read propaganda)

It's everwhere, even in things we used to hold sacred (sporting events ... sacred LOL)

But still, you get my gist .... where does it end?

Does it end, IS there an end to the seemingly endless propaganda??

Enquiring minds would like to know ;)

Sun, 02/01/2015 - 23:58 | 5733565 Ghostdog
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Two pretty pedestrian teams. Yawn...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:02 | 5733570 Automatic Choke
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That probability chart clearly needs to be recalculated.  It was done by some geek with no feel for black swans, and who is too young to remember the "Heidi Bowl".

     <and no, i didn't bother watching....was out hiking for most of it, working for the rest.   i hear it was a real bunghole clencher at the end, though....>

 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:02 | 5733577 wakablahh
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What are the black dots on the chart?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:04 | 5733585 Automatic Choke
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ink.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:05 | 5733591 Bangalore Torpedo
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There's no ink online dammit.  And gawd can you PLEEEEEEZE make your friggen dog stop doing that?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:57 | 5733750 Automatic Choke
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(he doesn't mind me anymore....and a spoonful of peanut butter will make a dog do that for WEEKS.)

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:04 | 5733587 Bangalore Torpedo
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Mouse droppings?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:02 | 5733849 Salsipuedes
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I want you for my auditor...

Minimum wage, 15 minutes vacation.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:37 | 5733677 prefan4200
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The sharks were the best.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 00:37 | 5733689 Bangalore Torpedo
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My only regret...no wardrobe malfunctions.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 01:10 | 5733775 Hubbs
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This was Superbowl 49, right?

I thought that Roman Numerals would be simply "IL" where the I (one)  before the L (fifty) would be 49. So why the extra two X's?   Sex?

I am embarrssed to say that I was not drinking, actually watched the game while working out at the gym.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:07 | 5733852 Otrader
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I am embarrssed to say that I was not drinking, actually watched the game while working out at the gym.

 

Hubbs, why do you hate America?  \s

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 01:51 | 5733833 q99x2
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What cities were the teams from?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:03 | 5733846 Otrader
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49ers!  I heard they're always in the super bowl.  Not sure about the other one. 

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:18 | 5733866 Manipuflation
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Well, I watched it with my brother untill he fell asleep after what looks like four beers.(he was note feelling well.)  We did eat a lot of food good food though.  Both of hate the Seahawks and the Patriots.  We didn't really care who won.  Geee, let's throw the ball after New Enlglands defense coul not stop Lynch the whole game.  That is brilliant coaching for retards.  I had no skin in the game but that was full retard at the end.  

My brother went to sleep before the end of the game but we did note that there were no American car or truck commercials.  We saw tow Lexus comerrcials and one fiat comercials. I had to state that I wa sno buying any of them.  That Fiat commerrcial took the cake though.  Can you possibly make an uglier car?  I piped up and said that I will make sure to never buy that car because it looks like a used tampon.  My bro jumped in and mentioned, "Who the hell would want to buy something named "Fiat"?.

 

That is when we noted that there were no American made car or truck adds.  Aren't we supposed to get some truck ad, which of course is rated the best in America by the same company who built the truck?  My bro asked where all of those heavy loads of of about eight tons of concrete blocks being dropped in the truck bed from some crane or helicoptor.  That is a damned good question.  That cracked my up.  I remember those axle shattering commericials.

My bro went off to bed before the end of the game and my son was passed out too so I ended up watching the end of the game with with my wife and sister-in-law.  What the fuck is that?  I like women but it is a different situation.  My wife does not care for football but Collinsworth had to bring up that the Seattle cornerback Sherman's "girlfriend" and how he was going to be there for her even if he had to go in his Seahawks uniform.  I don't bet on sports books and they were just sitting there talking to each other.  My wife is 33 and my sister-in-law is 57.  Who wants to take a guess which of them heard that comment?  I heard it and I asked rhetorically, "Why is it his grilfriend?"  But women chimed in in unison and expressed derision.  So if you said BOTH women heard it you are correct.  I could not stop laughing and they went on about it for some time.  I was glad to be of assistance.

 

I was glad when the fight broke out.  Somtimes it does not pay to say anything but I had a lot of laughs.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 02:37 | 5733893 The Blank Stare
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Looking forward to the Super Bowl L story!!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 06:34 | 5734113 Inthemix96
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Morning mani my friend,

Fiat means, Fix It Again Tomorrow, trust me on this, I've owned a one from new and the engine went pop at 55,000 miles.  Ten grand down the shitter mate.

;-(

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:00 | 5734136 Sambo
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Italian beauty. The first car my dad owned.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 03:13 | 5733934 Consuelo
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The Pete Carroll call wasn't necessarily a 'bad call' as it was an Over-confident one.   Look at the night Russell Wilson was having up to that point - nearly flawless.   What was there to indicate that the streak shouldn't continue to 00:00 on the clock...?   The short pass follows - an otherwise in-the-bag play.   It just didnt' work out as planned...   A run could have just as easily produced a punch fumble all the same.   Great game.   Especially that 'catch'...

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 06:35 | 5734112 Supernova Born
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Give me a break. That was the "worst motherfucking call in the history of American football" TM.

If that sack of shit Darrell Bevell (offensive/retarded coodinator) doesn't get fired,  "The Beast" should leave town forever and never look back.

If "Paul Allen" billonaire...doesn't fire that NEVER DRAFTED retard, Darrell Bevell by the time the Seahawks get back to Seattle the team should emigrate en masse to teams that do want to win.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:25 | 5734154 Comte d'herblay
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Even the GF who watched one game a year knows that the call to pass instead of giving it to Lynch to run, was THE worst ever call in a professional playoff game, with all the marbles on the table.

It wasn't a Bad Call, no. It was galactically stupid.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 05:19 | 5734060 lakecity55
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Who won? The Sea Patriots or the Hawk team?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 07:32 | 5734160 nodhannum
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So why is a bunch of folks who derived from the Neander Valley in Germany and who have extreme glandular problems (which causes them to run up and down grass fields and butt heads) of importance to our lives.  If your doctor says you have breast or prostate cancer, you have a problem.  If your "team" made up of the sub species "Ameripithicus Retardus" loses...you do not have a problem.  Get a life mei guo ren!

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 08:07 | 5734193 Rikky
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why bother watching the stupid bowl.  they should rename it because the league has zero integrity after the patriots were caught cheating in the second most importance game (afc championship) and the spineless turds did nothing and let these cheats still play.  this is only when they got caught who knows how many times they've done it.  then again this is par for the course all over the place as corruption, lying, cheating and other unethical practices are ok as long as you don't get caught.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 08:35 | 5734238 IndianaJohn
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Negro worship.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 08:38 | 5734247 didthatreallyhappen
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I just luuuuuuuuuuuved all the effeminate ads, so much emotion that I almost had to cry.  

 

liberals dream of the day when they can feminze all the boys

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 09:03 | 5734283 _SILENCER
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Was there any overt Illuminatti wannabe symbolism in the half time show? Which dinosaur act no one cares about held that honor this year?

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 09:39 | 5734361 Moustache Rides
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Katy Perry riding out on a giant robot lion with red eyes.  Reminded me of the montauk horse at the Denver airport (I don't know why).  Then she danced a little on a grand chessboard thing atop a step pyramid.  Didn't see anything else that overt but I left before the halftime show was over.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 09:25 | 5734313 spanish inquisition
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Amazing battle between the food conglomerate empire and the giant technology company that sold all your secrets to the NSA. The key takeaway in predicting the markets based off this game is food will be performing better than tech (coming off a solid third quarter of the year) in the 4th quarter due to a collapse of government sponsored tech due to a coming collapse. For further information you can buy my newsletter for $59.95/yr at [insert Rickroll video here}.

Mon, 02/02/2015 - 10:03 | 5734431 artless
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That gets a +1

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