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Thread: Superb Owl LII (Eagles-Patriots)

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    Quote Originally Posted by wullie View Post
    Took a while for the first turnover.
    First Patriots one.

    Foles threw a pick in the first half.

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    That's a pretty lol way to lose it.

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    Oh yeah, the juggling one.

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    What a stupid decision.

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    Thought that was going to find it's way to Gronk's hands there.

    Going to be awesome having the SB champions at Wembley.

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    Anyone in Philly get the fuck inside now if you don't want to die in a celebration riot.

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    What a game.

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    That's probably the best Super Bowl I've seen.

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    Remember when Alshon said he'd win the SuperBowl in the offseason?

    Admittedly he was with the Bears then, but he never said Chicago...

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    Brady ran off straight away

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    WOOOOOO

    That was a great game.

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    Foles to get traded to the Browns, get paid and benched for Kizer halfway through the season.

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    Most yards combined in any NFL game.

    Impressive.

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    Checking in from a bar miles away from home.
    That was tense as fuck but GET THE FUCK IN!

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    I sat up and watched most of this with a mate. I really enjoyed it but my NFL loving friend assures me it's the best Owl in years so I'm conflicted on whether I should start paying real attention to this or not.

    It's genuinely impressive how they spool out a game that starts with one hour on the clock into a four hour spectacle, two of which is adverts.

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    Absolutely superb. So many good moments.

    The Blount TD (fuck you pay me), the Foles TD, that hit on Cooks, so many broken tackles, the ruling on the field stands, the result.

    Not enough to go around.

    Has Brady retired yet?

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    Made about £150 profit.

    I couldn't really sleep after though so I'm knackered.

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    Just watched the highlights. Man, Brady had some serious pressure on him. Philly were fantastic. Superb Owl.

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    Really good game even if I did fall asleep for a good chunk of the third quarter.

    And fuck the Pats, obviously.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    I sat up and watched most of this with a mate. I really enjoyed it but my NFL loving friend assures me it's the best Owl in years so I'm conflicted on whether I should start paying real attention to this or not.

    It's genuinely impressive how they spool out a game that starts with one hour on the clock into a four hour spectacle, two of which is adverts.
    Like all American sports it takes three times longer than necessary so you'd be mad to watch any of it live.

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    Baseball is having a PACE OF PLAY soul-searching festival at the moment ('no one wants to watch for three hours!', presumably except the millions who do), whereas NFL seems to want to take even longer if anything.

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    They are indisputably better as social activities if you're watching them live.

    GamePass's condensed highlights are wonderful on any other occasion.

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    I had a dream that some of us were watching this in a pub, and I turned up half-way through with the Eagles leading 70-31. I said 'Have the Patriots bottled this, or are the Eagles...', which made everyone burst out lolling, so I knocked The Bruce out and then shoved James over when he started screeching that some drink had landed on his 'work phone'. I need to start reading before bed really.

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    The superbowl is always extra long, but yeah condensed games are the way forward.

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    It looks like Philly was essentially the worst place in the world last night after the win.

    Lovely.

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    That was a fucking great game.

    Foles

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    It looks like Philly was essentially the worst place in the world last night after the win.

    Lovely.
    Isn't that just Philly fans in general? It would have been worse if they lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    The superbowl is always extra long, but yeah condensed games are the way forward.
    I thought the game itself fairly rattled along, but the breaks seemed longer than usual. Not sure if that was just watching the BBC coverage, as opposed to Sky where you get some normal adverts to pad it out, or if the Superbowl breaks in play are just longer. Halftime is obviously interminable but I busied myself loading the dishwasher to stave off the inevitability of sleep that comes with trying to watch it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    I thought the game itself fairly rattled along, but the breaks seemed longer than usual. Not sure if that was just watching the BBC coverage, as opposed to Sky where you get some normal adverts to pad it out, or if the Superbowl breaks in play are just longer. Halftime is obviously interminable but I busied myself loading the dishwasher to stave off the inevitability of sleep that comes with trying to watch it.
    I believe ad breaks are a touch longer to maximise on the monies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Baseball is having a PACE OF PLAY soul-searching festival at the moment ('no one wants to watch for three hours!', presumably except the millions who do), whereas NFL seems to want to take even longer if anything.
    The college game is going through a bit of an awakening at the moment. The interference of video reviews and millions of camera angles slowing things down. A whole raft of the commentators were complaining about it last season because it slows the game down something rotten.

    What a game though. Well worth the day of annual leave.

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    Watching that in a bar, full of overconfident Pats fans and a couple of Eagles dotted about the place was glorious.

    They keep counting us out.


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    I'm not sure that game was better than the Patriots/Hawks one a couple of years ago. It was very entertaining but only because both defenses were absolutely shite. It's certainly up there, but the Hawks one edges it for me.

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    Seahawks.

    The Hawks are a basketball team from Atlanta.

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    I thought the game itself fairly rattled along, but the breaks seemed longer than usual. Not sure if that was just watching the BBC coverage, as opposed to Sky where you get some normal adverts to pad it out, or if the Superbowl breaks in play are just longer. Halftime is obviously interminable but I busied myself loading the dishwasher to stave off the inevitability of sleep that comes with trying to watch it.
    I know there was at least one injury time-out but it felt like the game was going at a hell of a pace in the first half but then ended up being four hours anyway. Presumably for the reason 'How said.

    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Isn't that just Philly fans in general? It would have been worse if they lost.
    Probably. They tend to be self-interested dickheads as a wrasslin' crowd too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Seahawks.

    The Hawks are a basketball team from Atlanta.
    You're in an NFL thread. No one gives a shit about an NBA team from Atlanta here.

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    Just here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Just here?
    Normally I'd agree but then they beat the Knicks yesterday which is always funny.

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    Don't all basketball teams lose around 150 games a season anyway? Like baseball.

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    If a baseball team only loses 50 games in a year that means they have been utterly dominant.

    Losing 70 qualifies as a very good season in most cases.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Don't all basketball teams lose around 150 games a season anyway? Like baseball.
    Not at home. Even the worst teams will have a 50-60% win rate there. And the Hawks are garbage. They have a 30% winrate total.

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    Why is there a big home advantage in basketball? All the shit squeaky floors are surely the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Why is there a big home advantage in basketball? All the shit squeaky floors are surely the same.
    Indoor arenas are all completely different, heat, noise, atmosphere etc.. The size of the court doesn't change but loads of other stuff does. They even had to put a rule in that the annoying music they put on while the game is in play can't be above a certain decibel because teams were cranking the sound systems when the away team was in possession to put them off. Oh and then there's stuff like 'away fans' not existing so the calling of fouls used to be massively biased. When you consider most games are within 10 points of each other, a few errant fouls can really swing a games momentum.

    It's been shrinking over time (the largest drop in home win-rate came when teams stopped flying commercial and chartered instead) but it's still pretty high.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    I know there was at least one injury time-out but it felt like the game was going at a hell of a pace in the first half but then ended up being four hours anyway. Presumably for the reason 'How said.
    I am guessing that if someone already paid $5 million for a thirty second ad, you cannot just tell them 'sorry mate, game lasted less than expected,' so they will always drag it up to the four hour mark no matter what.

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    Yeah. There are probably technically clauses in there for the event that the game doesn't run to four hours where all the people signing it are going "And if we don't get enough time for all the ads-" *snort* "-we'll just give you your money back."

    And then everybody has a good laugh and they go for some golf.

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    That was bloody great. Me and my pal watched it at the pool hall that used to be a Riley's (now under some other management because Riley's went bankrupt or something). They didn't advertise it on their social media ( i actually messaged them on fb check they were showing it) or inside/outside the actual building, and it's a niche hipster sport in a crap provincial town, so it was just me, my mate and 4 other random blokes. We got nicely trashed without being obnoxious and had some deliciously rank burgers and played some pool during half time. A lovely evening, basically.

    Oh, and before we went pool place we went to my favourite greb pub and some bloke was incomprehensibly doing some DJ set despite it being 9pm on a Sunday. The people in there were this weirdo I went to school with, the homeless bloke I helped to open a bank account drinking wine on his own, a white guy with dreadlocks and four middle aged people who looked liked speed causalities, it was fucking quality.

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