LII :::: the super bowl of hate :::: philadelphia eagles vs new england patritos

KEY STAT: new england is 1-0 in super bowls vs philadelphia

halftime PHI 24 NE 9
final PHI 27 NE 33 obv

i will predict that if NE scores 33 points they will definitely win

Write-in vote for “fuck this shit”

sorry man. but think, if the vikes had beaten the pats in the super bowl you probably would've died

KEY STAT: tom brady has been in 7 super bowls. he was the worse qb by passer rating in 5 of them. of the 102 super bowl qb performances to date, none of brady's 7 are in the top 20

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write-in vote for snipers

KEY STAT: the eagles opened -5.5 pt dogs. 26 super bowl teams have been underdogs by 5 pts or more. 5 of those went on to win.

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KEY STAT: the team wearing white jerseys has won 12 of the last 13 super bowls. the patriots have chosen to wear white

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KEY STAT: tom brady has been in 7 super bowls. he was the worse qb by passer rating in 5 of them. of the 102 super bowl qb performances to date, none of brady's 7 are in the top 20

this doesn't surprise me. outside of the Steelers/Pats SB which I don't remember much about, all of the Brady/Belichick SBs have been very memorable, often hinging on a single crazy play (or in the case of last year's, a bunch in a row). obviously this is meaningless but they're really only a couple plays away from having a Buffalo Bills-type reputation

Why does everyone hate the Philadelphia Eagles? “fuck this shit”? “snipers”?

I know someone who tries to go to a different away game every year and she said the Eagles game was the worst by far, just nonstop swearing and comments about her body plus the occasional hurling of a foreign object

the Steelers/Pats SB

i don't remember much about that one either

the eagles not having their MVP is so sad.

um i hate both teams equally
perhaps i should have been less delicate

cluster bombs

Why does everyone hate the Philadelphia Eagles? “fuck this shit”? “snipers”?

can't think of another (north american) fanbase that actively prides itself on being assholes. like oh haha someone punched a horse and lol this dude intentionally puked on an 11yo girl, lmao so philly

someone really should break out the semiotics of philadelphia sports fandom. first along the lines of it being a heavily working class city that has been denied postseason success in most of its major sports for many years (eagles have never won a superbowl) and the kind of self-loathing + identification that brings. there are likely racial/ethnic components to this as well (ethnic whites in particular vis-a-vis the italian community here as coded thru South Philly + south NJ aesthetics cf Jersey Shore for more details), and i wonder if New England had as much of a drought if their fans would also have a bad reputation along similar lines. it's also really only poor behavior by the standards of US sports i think - in European sports Philly fans wouldn't even rate. but american sports are so much more genteel. there's also a confirmation effect. i've been to games, bars, have many philly sports fans friends and they're all decent chilled out folks. but every event becomes a confirmation of the narrative. eg there was a holding cell in the old Veterans stadium. otoh "One of the interesting facts that came out of Eagles Court was that 95 percent of the people arrested were not from Philadelphia." of course that could mean they were mostly from Jersey lol.

and the team itself does not embody those aesthetics at all. chris long donated his entire salary this season to charity. long, malcolm jenkins and torrey smith have been doing racial justice advocacy this season. the team is extremely hard working and cohesive (other teams whose fanbases don't have a bad reputation abide far worse troublemakers even in the division see NYG and Cowboys). the ownership seems pretty levelheaded. coaching and front office staff are all respectable. on every measurement i think the team itself is exemplary. and then you have trashy fans but every team has trashy fans.

tldr the team is extremely likable. if you hate them bc some of the fans are jackasses you may be victim to confirmation bias, i doubt the philly fanbase is in any real measurable sense more despicable than most other passionate fans in the US and almost certainly less so than in other countries where hooliganism is prolific.

i wonder if New England had as much of a drought if their fans would also have a bad reputation along similar lines.

― Mordy, Wednesday, January 24, 2018 10:22 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the patriots had never won a superbowl and were mostly pitiful from their founding in 1960 until bradys first sb owl in 2001, boston sports fans can obvs be pretty awful but i dont think they quite compete with philly just cause the culture of the city is relatively more reserved, tho compared to the rest of the country north eastern sports fans bos-ny-phil are more similar than they are different, and i know there is some genuinely bad behavior i dont support punching horses but booing santa is pretty funny, and booing kobe who is from there when he won the allstar game mvp was downright heroic

oh i don't mean to imply that all iggles fans are assholes or even that the asshole ratio is necessarily higher in philly. (i like sports, i like being drunk, and i'm large enough to not really fear for my personal safety, but i have no wish to return to the nfl games i've seen in pittsburgh, dc or the meadowlands. and my eagles-fan aunt and uncle are very chill ppl.) i just don't think that other fanbases revel in that reputation quite so much, which is enough to make me generally root against them

nor do i think the racial/ethnic components are unique to philly (see also pittsburgh, chicago, etc.) although i am pretty interested in how nyc-area people divide themselves up between the jets and football giants

all that said, probably rooting for the eagles this time : /

just fyi that horse was a cop xp

even horses make mistakes

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Why does everyone hate the Philadelphia Eagles?

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lmfao

im rooting for philly now

lol

mordy is otm

as is that fan btw, fuck millie

it's strange because you've got bad fanbases who don't show up to games or know any of the names of the players, and then you've got bad fanbases who are drunk shoe-tossing hooligans, and it's really just a straight line from one to the other.

what I'm trying to say is that there are no "good" fanbases, but if anyone comes close it's the Bills, who trolled the Ravens by donating to Andy Dalton's charity and tailgate by bodyslamming each other though tables

at least you're not the Miami Dolphins fanbase. we hate each other.

I went to the Jets game earlier this year and there was a fight in the upper deck and the dude behind me said "man, must be a Dolphins fan totally wailing on a Jet fan". I said "no, it's probably two Dolphins fans pounding on each other"....they get pulled apart, yep, it's two of our own going at it.

KEY STAT: in the 2017 regular season, tom brady had nearly FIVE TIMES as many rushing yards per game as nick foles

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KEY STAT:

Q: In your past Super Bowls your offense has never scored a point in the first quarter…

BB: Thanks Mike. Yeah, all of the negative stuff in the Super Bowls we need to be aware of, too.

Q: How much do you look at that history this week and try to emphasize it to the team?

BB: Look, we try to score in every game. I know that’s probably hard to understand, but we try to go out and score and keep the other team from scoring. That’s our goal every game.

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what a tactician

lol that was kind of a brilliant response to a pointless question

are you considering scoring in the 1st quarter this time?

idk telling Tom you're down by 3 scores at all times seems like it could be a winning strategy

Maybe the deal they have with the NFL is that if they spot their opponents a couple scores in the first half, they get a big PI call in the second half.

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— 🇭🇹 (@PusssySushi) January 25, 2018

I grew up about 10 blocks away from veterans stadium and can confirm that all philly fans are assholes. thanks

BUT are they worse than boston sports fansno

i was in boston when the red sox won their first title in ~80 years and saw nothing close to the mayhem depicted in that video i just posted of phillys fans reacting to winning the nfc championship FWIW

lol i was at umass amherst and i saw a fucking battle scene out of a revolutionary war textbook

xp there was mayhem when they lost to the yanks the year before but generally we don't tear shit up when we win.

well tbf umass amherst is a hellhole

it probably comes down to which fans' accents are more hideous

they r both beautiful in their own way

lol i was at umass amherst and i saw a fucking battle scene out of a revolutionary war textbook

― sleepingbag, Thursday, January 25, 2018 2:14 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao tell us more

it's educational

xp def at least everything from that philly video, tons of screaming red-faced dudes, ppl jumping off of buildings, setting fires, tipping over cars, girls flashing and getting groped, random punches, voluminous chants of 'YANKEES SUCK' for hours (lol yes, this was the year they won), all being flanked by HUNDREDS of police officers on horses firing bean bag guns into the crowd + getting bottles thrown at them... ahh, good times

gazing back fondly on the college years

sounds kinda like the opening credits of F Troop infused by Spring Breakers

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It's pretty tame by comparison i'd figure but UK hoop fans have a tradition of putting couches out in yard, in front of the frat or road up by the college gates and setting them ablaze after wins.

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great photo

that's Santa's sleigh iirc

burn baby

things officially started getting crunk downtown today

there's some MIGOS/Snoop show where the top tickets were $20k

i'm not watching because i believe football players should stand and show respect for the greatest country of all time during the national anthem

does 'i walk the line' play over the top of the anthem in that scenario?

we have the pro bowl here this weekend.

nobody in town cares.

my too-early super bowl thots:

with philly’s very strong d front and mediocre secondary, the obvious route to victory for the patriots is to throw the ball 60 times and gas the rush so brady can pick the coverage apart in the 4th quarter, a very belichick gameplan. however, one complicating factor is depth, with the eagles having a strong rotation of 7 guys on their line. i can easily imagine schwartz featuring his best guys in the first quarter and the fourth and denying new england the chance to get an early lead or rely on late heroics again. another complicating factor is that the pats won’t have the ball enough if the eagles offense stays on the field. their o line has also been winning its match ups, and ajani/blount plus rpos plus foles making plays when called on is a recipe for long drives. usually the patriots would just absorb those long drives and keep them out of the endzone (regular season: 32nd in yards per drive – 35.27, 6th in pts per drive – 1.65) but letting philadelphia keep their d guys fresh could be game breaking.

if the eagles play their best game and all of the pieces work, it will look pretty bleak for the patriots. in fact, it will probably look just like that first giants super bowl, with brady getting beaten up and new england held in the teens and losing. BUT the elements are so interdependent that if one part breaks up the whole machine might not work. if the running game doesn’t fire then new england gets the ball too much. if foles reverts to regular season form then the eagles will struggle to score. if the pass rush doesn’t make brady uncomfortable the pats will score too much. and there are other factors that make the margin so small for the eagles. new england has a special teams edge that means their drives will likely be shorter overall and the eagles’ longer, and philly’s rookie kicker could become a wildcard. philly’s defense stops big plays on the outside but they are bottom half of the league vs both TEs and wr3s which is p significant vs gronk and dola.

overall, while i do believe if both teams play their best game philadelphia is favoured in the match up, i think there are more scenarios where the patriots win.

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KEY SNAX

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So what are Eagles fans concerned about most? pic.twitter.com/lbh3LB0XnE

— Laces Out (@LacesOutShow) January 29, 2018

cheat me out of a superbowl once shame on you

i gotta say. those are some fucked up looking hoagies

this Eagles team kinda takes me back to the NY Giants Super Bowl win in 1991, when Simms was injured and Hostetler competently took over and they beat the Bills.

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Awful Announcing has put up their drinking game rules for SB LII
http://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/awful-announcings-super-bowl-lii-drinking-game.html

Sip every time you hear:
“12 stitches”
“28-3”
“Underdog”
“Deflategate”
“5 Super Bowl rings”

Drink 1 every time you hear these words associated with the following players:
Tom Brady: “40”
Nick Foles: “Journeyman”
Rob Gronkowski: “Concussion protocol”
LeGarrette Blount: “Longtime Patriot”
Danny Amendola: “Clutch”

Drink 2 every time NBC shows:
The temperature outside
Footage from Super Bowl 39 between the Patriots & Eagles
Carson Wentz or Julian Edelman watching from the sidelines
Gisele Bündchen looking distressed
Robert Kraft getting hammered

Drink 3 every time Al Michaels:
Says “YUGE” like Donald Trump
Ponders a big decision with “Hmmmmmm…”
Says “3rd and a deuce”
Describes a trick play as “Razzle dazzle”
Butchers pronouncing Jay Ajayi’s name

Chug every time Cris Collinsworth says:
“RPO”
“National Football League”
Anything about Peyton or Eli Manning
“We talked about…” or “You talk about…”
“NOW, HERE’S A GUY…”

that sounds like a recipe for alcohol poisoning

yeah you would need your stomach pumped by half time

love to die during our nations favorite game

preferable to having to watch Kraft hoist another trophy

wow, washington trades for alex smith, pushing kirk cousins out the door when a lot of ppl figured they would pay to keep him. cousins says he wants to win now - denver? jax?

i doubt the return is much but lol @ paying any price to downgrade yourself from cousins to smith

hahahaha they're giving back a second-round pick!

v comparable qbs imo
im more certain that smith will never win a big game than i am cousins, tho he probably wont either

i think that's the difference! kirk cousins could in theory win you a game. alex smith is never winning you a game.

third round pick and a player. for a qb kc were desperate to get off their payroll. and a 5y extension already, $70m guarantees. amazing.

i would much rather be paying that money over that period for cousins

i mean, cousins will undoubtedly get paid a lot more somewhere, but even so

that is just fucking crazy

qb pay scale was already going to go thru the roof this off season, starting like this won't help

oh man they sent a good player too, kendall fuller at cb, slotting nicely into a position of need for the chiefs. in one move they picked up a starter, shed $17m cap hit and a qb controversy, and picked up a 3rd round pick.

lol someone is gonna get suckered into giving Case Keenum a huge contact

someone close to home

i learned today looking at the twitter replies to kevin clark's article about the patriots and penalties that many people are absolutely and genuinely convinced that the nfl is influencing its officials to give new england favourable calls

Belichick shuts off the hot water in the locker room every time a player false starts, so this is no shock really

xp

I can confirm this. I get it all the time from people down here in TX.

I had someone tell me last week that they only win because of cheating and refs.

The Jags were definitely hinting at this after the last game because of the big PI call.

i thought this kind of thing was always just banter/shit talk but...

remarkable

have noticed this theory really gaining steam recently

also ppl r generally really bad at understanding penalty calls

also pats are big cheaters in general

in order to know the patriots you must understand that they are small cheaters

but anyway theres no way to cheat the refs, that wld be the refs cheating

I think we can just agree that if the pats win this sunday it will be because they have cheated

no it will be because the eagles didnt cheat enough

it may also be because Tom Brady is a sociopath who has assimilated and subsumed so many playbooks that he's incapable of remembering anything but the most base forms of human interaction and emotion, casting them and his wide eyed proteges aside in his quest for GOAT status.

that seems p likely

i don't think the nfl/refs favor the pats (other than perhaps subconsciously, as they tend to play their playoff games at home)

otoh i totally believe that the league *would* tilt basically any scales if it thought it could get away with it/would somehow make more money, because it is run by dumb greedy people

I mean, I kind of get it. The Pats definitely like to draw big PI calls, which sometime appear questionable. They pick up far fewer penalties than their opponents, which is mostly down to better discipline. But many people think they don't get called enough. Gronk, in particular is a target of these complaints.

OTOH, I don't know how anyone with eyes can't see that the Pats constantly make all kinda of sick plays on both sides of the ball. To me, they are willfully ignoring the fact that the Pats are obviously extremely good.

i think that if you're caught cheating multiple times ppl will think that you're a cheater

i learned today looking at the twitter replies to kevin clark's article about the patriots and penalties that many people are absolutely and genuinely convinced that the nfl is influencing its officials to give new england favourable calls

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, February 1, 2018 11:53 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heres that article, pretty interesting

“He comes in [to team meetings] and says, ‘OK, we have this set of officials this week,’” said Harrison, now an analyst at NBC Sports. “‘They’ve called 18 pass interference penalties, they call a lot of holding, illegal procedures.’ He briefed us. Belichick, when he coaches, everyone is prepared. Probably too much.”

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The Pats are like the Spurs, basically a model franchise w/a preternaturally gifted coach who is able to adapt to virtually any situation and put them in a position to win it all every year. of course one of those teams is in the NFL and its coach is not a cuddly woke dude but instead is Trump's secret penpal so....

I think people have a hard time wrapping tbeir head around the fact that purposefully drawing penalties is a part of the game, even when they've seen a million hard counts, hurry-up snaps, icing the kicker, etc, etc.

imagine how horrible its gonna be if brady retires and the patriots keep appearing in the afc champ game every year

mordy trolling with the hypotheticals i guess but it is worth bringing up how the patriots were punished after being ineptly framed by another team and the league in the context of a discussion about how the league is biased in their favour

lol

The Patriots’ knowledge of the rule book is not just to keep players disciplined and help them avoid penalties, Pereira said. It’s also proved to be a game-planning edge. That showed itself most notably when the Patriots disguised their eligible receivers in a playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens three years ago, a move John Harbaugh labeled “clearly deception.” In response, Tom Brady said the Ravens should “study the rule book.”

“Belichick knows the rules. The Ravens and other teams go crazy because they don’t know the rules, and then people think it’s a conspiracy,” Daopoulos said. “He just does a better job on this. He’s better prepared than anyone.”

I agree, but thats obviously not how the vast majority of NFL fans see it.

xp

mordy trolling with the hypotheticals i guess but it is worth bringing up how the patriots were punished after being ineptly framed by another team and the league in the context of a discussion about how the league is biased in their favour

― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, February 1, 2018 12:34 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i kinda tuned out all the various scandals can u explain to me the framing thank u

only the nfl can make scandal tedious lol smh

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omg dont make me read that plz

i think the explanation is obvious - balls love to be deflated

i am exaggerating for fun and colour but the condensed version is that the ravens, acting on bad information, spite and self-pity, tipped off the nfl to set up a sting at half-time on the afc championship game, as a result of which the roger goodell, acting on bad information and some kind of god complex presumably, ordered a poorly executed inquiry which depending on your pov was either inconclusive or basically cleared the patriots and then he punished them excessively anyway

so were the balls not really deflated are we through the looking glass

Wasn't it the Colts?

xp

the balls were deflated to an extent consistent with physics and not requiring external action

no, the sting was the colts game, but it was the ravens who brought it up after the divisional

what abt the story of brady conspiring with an equipment manager or some shit

do you think belichick is good at settlers of cataan

def he knows everything abt the various sheep and rocks the game requires

He converts sheep into footballs

the ravens and colts, sick and tired of losing only bc Brady conspired to have the balls deflated so his aging hands could get a better grip, finally found a way to put an end to the Pats' illegitimate reign.

After the balls were replaced mid-game for fully inflated ones, the Patriots went on to miraculously decimate the Colts.

i mean, tbrrrrrr, my own personal pet theory which i have expounded previously on this subboard does include the patriots deflating the balls, in an unauthorized way but not with a result that i would describe as cheating for reasons in the circumstances, but it is as much conjecture as anyone else's published account and there is no legitimate definite by which the patriots could be described as having been "caught cheating" and the nfl just made a laughing stock of itself (again) and ne won the super bowl anyway (again)

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thats the guy right there who throws the blessed oblong

theres no doubt in mind that tom brady is the best at the game of olive ball

apparently passion of the christ 2 is going to be about the 4 weeks brady was suspended after deflategate

justice for tom, finally

jim caviezel as brady, mel gibson as jimmy g, danny glover as jacoby brisset

Sal Paolantonio just did a report that Doug Pederson likes ice cream and called his wife to confirm. Make two weeks between games illegal.

— DL (@davelozo) February 1, 2018

deflategate was 100% a makeup call for other shit Goddell wanted to punish the Pats for. of course it wound up blowing up in their faces

the problem is the NFL has no creativity with junk like this. instead of suspending him just make him play with overinflated balls for 4 games. if he suddenly turns into Blake Bortles, well, then you've got your answer

deflategate was def iffy. notice everyone is evading spygate.

well it is inarguable that the patriots failed to comply with a league-wide memo about from where precisely in the stadium sidelines could be filmed and were punished for their temerity. truly a scandal to resonate thru the ages.

In a report for ESPN, Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham contend that commissioner Roger Goodell's handling of Deflategate was influenced by his hasty and incomplete handling of the Spygate incident.[71] Van Natta Jr. and Wickersham argue that the true extent of the Spygate scandal was covered up by Goodell and the National Football League in order to protect the image of the NFL and as a favor to New England Patriots' owner Robert Kraft, who was in part responsible for Goodell's promotion to commissioner.[71] The report alleges a highly complex system in which opposing teams' signals were recorded, decoded, and relayed to Patriots coaches and players on the field during games spanning at least 40 games between 2000 and 2007.[71]. This system also included a personal assistant to Bellichick who had a photographic memory and had the official title "Football Research Director", the only person with such a title in the NFL, he told congress stories about sneaking behind opponents benches and filming their huddles. According to the article a scout team would go out to future Patriot opponents and film signs and plays. They would then make a spreadsheet of all the signs and corresponding plays, Patriot staffers would then hand off the spreadsheets to the "football Research Director" who would match signals to the plays. The Patriots would also sometimes bring in former players of the team they were playing ask them if they accurately had recorded the signals, they would later cut the player.[72]

The article goes on to quote a former Patriots assistant as saying "things got out of control," in reference to the entire system of covert taping and signal decoding.

if true that would include the 2004 superbowl

good example of the specious and unsubstantiated guff that blew that story out of all proportion. thanks mordy. also

Seth Wickersham

patriots still reeling from his massive expose this season

lol theres no such thing as a photographic memory and even if there were why mention it

well, it's amazing what ppl can convince themselves of with sufficient desperation. which really brings us full circle

some great KEY STATS courtesy of warren sharp:

in the 11 games NE has lost since 2014, they averaged 22.4 ppg on offense, which is the exact average for all teams in all games in that period. the 11 teams they lost to averaged over 31 points in those games.

The last season that the Patriots lost a playoff game, they kicked off that postseason with a game in which Tom Brady tied for the lead in rushing attempts (6) and Steven Jackson led the team in rushing yards, with 16 (2.67 YPC).

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pre and postgame football parking lots are basically laid back riots
so much vomit everywhere

i saw a headline that eli thinks the eagles can beat the patriots. would've been so much more fun if he'd say they couldn't. "i've looked at this match up and there's just no way. you have to be really special to beat belichick and brady in a super bowl"

lol

Earlier today @DonnieWahlberg & @JennyMcCarthy stopped by the #NotDone Network: pic.twitter.com/clGJ549TUT

— New England Patriots (@Patriots) February 2, 2018

pats having the best celebrity fans by far is a big part of their popularity with fans of other teams

ribbed tneck under the hoodie classic boston look

what a lovely couple, they're aging in such a completely understandably horrible way. I will be looking forward to watching entropy have its way with them.

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tie x2

wow lol

so, a 12-12 tie then? 4 fgs each in regular time and then multiple scoreless overtime periods until everyone just gives up and goes home

truly the super bowl

mvp: drunk philly fan who dies falling from the upper deck in the 7th overtime

actually according to the rulebook if the super bowl is tied after overtime they enter a final sudden death period where each team starts with 11 players but has to field two fewer each change of possession until someone scores or it is one on one football, mano a mano, the purest football of all

i had no idea jenny mcc and donnie were married

who are the iggles' celebrity fans?

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sylvester stallone and mike fuckin trout man

i can already tell that walhberg clip is going to haunt me

Jesus Donnie

driving Lyft was harrowing tonight

i want to die after watching that clip

randy, t.o. and flying dawkins in the HOF, a banner day for ilnfl

cool

hell yeah

what time is the superb owl

6.30 et

cool thx

Go Iggles

The two best receivers to ever wear a 49ers uniform in the same Hall of Fame class. Wow pic.twitter.com/BRPJGTQ1mr

— Justis Mosqueda (@JuMosq) February 3, 2018

lol i have zero memory of randy university playing for the 9rs

he was on the team that made the super bowl!

rip jerry rice

lol

he was on the team that made the super bowl!

― fgti spinner (Spottie), Saturday, February 3, 2018 10:38 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i for some reason do not remember this lol, and i am a 9ers and randy fan

rip jerry rice

― mookieproof, Saturday, February 3, 2018 8:38 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol thought it was obv i was talking about recent 49ers

he was def subtweeting rice

oh thought he was addressing me not that tweet which is obv a troll

This whole narrative about whether Foles is nervous, if the Eagles are going to play scared, is absurd. They're in the super bowl, of course they are going to be aggressive and confident.

Eagles threw lots of sick blocks on that drive

Ok, that was just silly, Cooks.

No flag? That hit was brutal.

A pass to Brady? Give me a fuckin' break. Let's have some real plays.

absurd last 10 mins. that hit was scary

Foles came to play

Dont agree w/ going for 2 there

SMASH MOUTH FOOTBALL they're calling it on the beeb

lollinsworth

How was that not P.I.

Dumb hold Philly. Cmoon

Ok

WOW

WOW

That was such a golden middle finger.

JT, jack of all trades master of none

At least the Prince hologram wasn't too bad compared to what i feared

JT was great

Eh -- no. He would've killed it if he wasn't forced to medley 167 songs. Four songs from each phase of his solo career, boom, done.

otoh John Podhoretz sassed me on Twitter, so my night is compmlete.

It's the Gronk show now

Grooooonnnnlkkk

Bleh.

I like this new strategy

Need to make those tackles

Frogbs how much money will u win if this holds

Foles wow

Cris Collinsworth is my least favorite sports announcer

Eli-OBJ commercial a+

Xpost otm
Xxpost otm

I uh...bet the under. Oops

Fuck the New England Patriots

This game is nits

Nits

Kgdkgzlhxlgzlh

Nits I tell ya

All the nits, all the time

If they call that back

Collingsworth is dumb

This seems so much more clear cut than the last one

Agree, other was some BS though

Brady magic incoming

Needs to be pretty damn magical

love that Brady magic.

Yikes, that's not it

Yessss

magic!!!

Holy shit!!!

Oh god this is a big field goal

i hope we've all learned an important lesson about premature two-point conversion attempts

Oof, bad call

Wow, disappointed, but the Eagles played a helluva game.

Wow just wow I honestly never believed this moment would come

I fee great for Nick Foles

Will there be a congressional inquiry over this

feel great (but perhaps "fee great" for him after this postseason!!)

Congrats Mordy and Philly crew

Great game!!!

Congrats Philly...Foles was great

fuck tom brady fuck donald trump fuckc bob krapft lmoaoooakldfmaldkfmakldfoijm hahahahaha yesssss

very fun and entertaining super bowl congrats to the Eagles don't burn my city down tonight

let’s gooo!!!

every time I don’t watch it at all the SB turns out good

General dislike for football but I'm glad Tom Brady lost.

congrats to the philly eagles if the patriots had to lose at least it was to a very depraved fanbase

When everyone backslaps and cheers Eagles fans, you’ve been coronated as whatever the opposite of “America’s Team” is.

also philly just went for it great aggressive play calling they knew they had to do some stuff to win that game polar opposite of jacksonvilles turtling last game

yeah the coaching was perfect

I will be bummed if Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia doesn't do a sequel episode called "The Super Bowl Defense".

foles played out of control good

had u told me brady would throw for 460 yards without a pick and get sacked just once, i would have anticipated a different outcome

wow, def wldnt be mad if he hung it up after all the injuries hes been through, made some big plays tonight but also didnt look quite right

Gronkowski won't commit to playing next season. Says he needs to sit down and reevaluate things.

— Ryan Hannable (@RyanHannable) February 5, 2018

the patriots didnt punt once! xp

(the eagles only punted once)

Yeah those couple deep balls especially that one to Jeffry were laser shots.

one of the best coaching jobs ive ever seen. incredible game. ONE PUNT!? minimal penalties.

just fun all around, perfect for the non-invested.

i liked the part where after the patriots did the trick play and brady didnt catch it then the eagles made fun of him by calling the same play and getting a td on fourth & goal, that was good stuff

great game def with a lot of wacky exciting shit

btw we started the game a lil late and i got hold of the remote and fast forwarded through most of the first half ads and everyone was mad and yelling at me, a dream come true really

it was in the bag when foles caught the td

zero memorable ads imo.

wouldn't be surprised if the Pats set a ton of NFL records for a losing team tonight+

think they mentioned no team has ever gained 600 years and lost, kind of crazy to have that happen in a Super Bowl. against a top 5 defense no less.

foles catch has to go down as a top ten super bowl play.

zero memorable ads imo.

― fgti spinner (Spottie), Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:15 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there was one i thought was funny but i cant remember now lol the superbowl is such a shitshow

lol hell yeah

Philadelphia is literally The Purge right now. #SuperBowl

pic.twitter.com/jQzSEAgKYw

— YourSports (@YourSports) February 5, 2018

pic.twitter.com/rfludnRmoG

— Isaac Alexander (@Whysaac) February 5, 2018

god bless

Four officers enroute to Frankfurt and Teasedale being held up by shirtless drunk fratboys. Radio drowned out with “WOOOOOS”

— horny ron rides again (@ronaldravegan) February 5, 2018

lol i love this

People piling onto the highway. No one knows how they’re getting on

— horny ron rides again (@ronaldravegan) February 5, 2018

Officers pleading with a naked man to get out of a tree. Units being called to 13th street to confirm and calm the situation down. Officer at 16th just patched in sounding stressed

— horny ron rides again (@ronaldravegan) February 5, 2018

This is Philly right now #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/zkdaEdMozi

— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) February 5, 2018

Congrats to philly ur first championship is great I only wish you have blown them out of the water so you could have started celebrating earlier

Most Total Yards in Any Game in NFL History

1. 2/4/2018 (Philadelphia Eagles v. New England Patriots) -- 1151 yards
2. 11/19/1950 (New York Yanks vs. Los Angeles Rams) -- 1133 yards
3. 1/1/2012 (Green Bay Packers vs. Detroit Lions) -- 1125 yards

— Scott Barrett (@ScottBarrettDFB) February 5, 2018

holy shit!

Philly starting to heat up pic.twitter.com/1c2aSndvof

— Busted Coverage (@bustedcoverage) February 5, 2018

i will predict that if NE scores 33 points they will definitely win
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 02:16 (one week ago) Permalink

wah wah

ha before the game i predicted philly needed 32 points to win

Couple hundred people up on one traffic light pole.

— horny ron rides again (@ronaldravegan) February 5, 2018

rip to all the people dying in philly tonight at least it was a for a good cause

philly might just burn itself down and start over

https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/4603 its lit

sounds like there are 40 people on top of a septa bus right now lol

i dont understand how they didnt call in the national guard yesterday

last couple of dispatches have been about crowds chanting free meek mill and throwing bottles

wld be sick if they did actually free him

It's like the end of its a wonderful life crossed with dawn of the dead.

joel out here

Embiid crashed live local TV station.
🤣 pic.twitter.com/tm1td1vVyQ

— Warriors Talk (@JaeAzizi) February 5, 2018

Giant fight has broken out again at the TD Bank

— horny ron rides again (@ronaldravegan) February 5, 2018

love Joel, i hope he wins a nba championship.

🦅

joel my beautiful son be safe out there

Marine units moving into position to keep people out of the water.

— horny ron rides again (@ronaldravegan) February 5, 2018

Now: Gate climbers on City Hall @NBCPhiladelphia pic.twitter.com/W4dN2UI0Lv

— Matt DeLucia (@MattDeLucia) February 5, 2018

deadspin has an awning timeline with highlights

https://deadspin.com/the-saga-of-the-awning-1822717617

this one’s for Mordy

🎶🎶Do you hear the people sing?
Singing the songs of angry men 🎶🎶 pic.twitter.com/PCYUbiWcCH

— Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta) February 5, 2018

foles played out of control good

― J0rdan S., Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah will be interesting if they trade him or what

they have to right? Wentz is still the future of the franchise and Foles seems likely to get paid elsewhere, now. Foles is such a strange story - dude had a 7 TD game, one of the all-time best passer ratings in a single season, and now a Super Bowl victory in which he torched the #1 defense and outdueled a nearly perfect Tom Brady. and yet he's been a backup the last 3 years.

"#1 defense"

but yeah

& he's only 29

o you meant the vikes I guess

congrats to philly ilxors. incredible, nutty game. hats off to doug pederson, what a baller

yep

as much as people love to hate on the Patriots, they really do play in the most entertaining Super Bowls. I wonder if anyone wishes we had Philly-Jax now?

Philly is certainly the most deserving team, were the best in the NFL all year and showed up the Vikings and Patriots

yeah will be interesting if they trade him or what

― johnny crunch, Monday, February 5, 2018 7:36 AM (fifty-one minutes ago) Bookmark

start two quartersback

pic.twitter.com/GPTvMWr8MR

— Kevin Clark (@bykevinclark) January 22, 2018

btw maybe not the right thread for this but it's getting to the point where Super Bowl ads are starting to feel oppressive, they're all shot like 30-second Avengers movies that would rather shoehorn in 15 terrible jokes instead of one good one

the Tide thing was kind of amusing I guess. also great that Dodge was so willing to shoot themselves in the foot, the people I was watching with visibly grimaced when that came on

xpost it was a bit cinematic, the timing of the first Patriots turnover.

Collingsworth getting frustrated at realizing he has no idea what a catch is was annoying.

xp felt like lots too were just tryna play v noncontroversial like hey conserving water is great right or way to go athletes of the special olympics

I honestly kinda stopped paying attention after the Dundee one

when the game is great, I don't need side entertainment. plus my best friend's two year old was trying to get the adults to chase him around the room for a solid half hour and he was much more entertaining than commercials.

xxp even that stuff feels kind of exploitative to me - the Hyundai commercial where they inconvienence people to tell them that they contributed to 0.01% of someone's cancer treatment (Ford would've just let them DIE!!!) made me feel a bit queasy

though Budweiser rebranding their cans as "Water" was kind of a remarkable self-own

definitely seemed to be an uptick in "We support the rights of EVERY American to buy our product" this year. thanks Trump

Overlaid with MLK’s actual sentiments about advertising and Americans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_v1h6Zoi-Q

http://i63.tinypic.com/2sbmjo8.jpg

Collingsworth getting frustrated at realizing he has no idea what a catch is was annoying.

at some pt i remember him saying something insanely dumb like, "this superbowl has been *as good as* the justin timberlake half time!"

haha that elicited a reaction at my party too.

Honorable mention goes to Al Michaels referring to the City of Brotherly Love as "Pittsburgh" at one point.

Don't make me miss Joe Buck, Al. That's not a situation either one of us wants.

I believe he also mentioned that Matt Patricia was leaving NE to coach the Pistons.

i wasn't paying enough attention, and can't always tell myself, but folks who know better online are saying that despite collinsworth saying rpo 100 times he missed a bunch of actual rpos and half the time was calling regular play action passes rpos. really a bravura performance all round from him last night.

Collinsworth was in the middle of his catch/no catch meltdown and said something like “he catches the ball runs for three steps — but is he a runner or a receiver...” and I wanted to throw the TV about the window

"what if the defender wasn't there?"

Yeah I went galaxy brain on that one

to be fair I feel like very similar TDs were overturned during the regular season so I can't quite blame him there

on the second one he clearly established the catch and ran, wasn't going to the ground in the process of making a catch.

they really gotta simplify the definition prior to next year. IE, "eye test" catches. still maintain the same rules regarding ground but get rid of the "control" clutter

feel like 5% of catches in the 70s wouldn't pass today's muster

I've said it before on the site, but luck and timing is a huge part to becoming a star in the NFL.

You think when he was a backup that anyone would have thought Kurt Warner was going to do what he did when Trent Green got hurt on the Rams?

Green was good, if that injury doesn't happen, I think the greatest story on turf still could have happened.

Same thing with Tom Brady, a lot of people thought Bill B. Was crazy to not go back to Bledsoe in prime of his career. They could have won it all with him too and needed Drew to bail them out in Pittsburgh.

Kind of hard to deny that Foles has the talent to succeed, but if you stick him in a total mess like whatever was going on with the Rams under Fisher - it might not.

Not to derail the thread but luck and timing is the key ingredient in becoming a star at anything “tbrr” as the kids say

still wondering what happens if Rodgers goes p1p1 to the 49ers and Alex Smith sits 3 years under Favre

p sure AS would be institutionalized after 3 years of Favre sitting on his face

lol yep, Philly fans just acting like any others

the #notalleaglefans whiny defenses on FB have been kind of funny.

Collinsworth was in the middle of his catch/no catch meltdown and said something like “he catches the ball runs for three steps — but is he a runner or a receiver...” and I wanted to throw the TV about the window

― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, February 5, 2018 9:58 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that was so bizarre i was like is he having a stroke, and then the officials took forever to do finish the review and i was like am i having a stroke maybe no one knows what a catch is maybe its unknowable

catch is a feeling

i dont hate collingsworth at all but he had a rough game last night.

he was incorrectly thinking it might be the same as the overturned Steelers TD and lacked understanding of why that receiver was not a runner while this one was.

I like Collinsworth in general but yea, he was pretty bad last night

pretty amusing how he went from "By the rule, that is NOT a catch" to "isn't it incredible how Gronk sells the holding call better than anyone" in the span of like, two minutes

the #notalleaglefans whiny defenses on FB have been kind of funny.

― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, February 5, 2018 12:09 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck millie and f u

the ertz one was clearly a catch and I couldn’t believe collinsworth was saying that and people actually thought it wasn’t. first could have gone either way prob but it did look like a catch to me, and the call on the field was a TD

even after the Eagles WON and were CELEBRATING Collinsworth was writing love sonnets for the final Pats TD that never was

god he is the worst

cbs next year, nantz/romo

the romo hype is real i love hearing him call a game

they shoulda brought chucky in for one last hoorah

feel like the thing romo has going for him is hes a departure from nfl culture as embodied by typical gruff ill tell you what tv guys

ertz call was much closer than ppl are making it out to be itt, i think because the slow motion view distorts it to make it look more like deliberate steps than momentum. i'd call it probably a catch, not definitely. but it was better for the patriots that it was ruled a TD or else philly could've sat on it with a fresh set of downs and run the clock down from the 1y.

not that this in anyway excuses collinsworth's weird meltdown

he took three steps dove and reached out the ball the damn nfl has lost its mind lol

shd mention he also turned

its perfect how the sport thats the most rulesy has descended into this weird post modernism

given the modern NFL they could've ruled that a touchback lmao

btw has any decent explanation came out about why Malcolm Butler was benched? dunno if he would've been a difference maker but god damn, it's not like the Pats defense could've done any worse. they just needed one play.

xxxxxpost if it wasn't ruled a touchdown, it would have been an incomplete pass, and it would have then been 4th and 7 from the 11 yard line.

the catch thing is v difficult, i have a lot of sympathy for whoever is tasked with trying to sort that shit out. imo it just needs to be clearer, even if it becomes less "accurate". just say if it might be a catch then it's a catch and have done with it.

oh yeah, you're right, i have lost the plot

i hate it. if you cross the plain with possession whatever happens after shouldnt matter imo

let's just be happy the strip sack wasn't ruled an incomplete pass

yeah they really need to find a way to get closer to a looks like a catch definition f all this super slowmo replay where theyre trying to figure out if the ball is slightly moving around in a guys hands

I feel like the rule change after 1999 allowing part of the ball to touch the ground and still be a catch accelerated the expansion of the scope of "control" in the league. maybe they should revert to not letting the ball hit the ground, just say a catch is a catch if it looked like he caught it and it didn't hit the turf.

idk

f all this super slowmo replay where theyre trying to figure out if the ball is slightly moving around in a guys hands

otm

they should do live action voting. text 'yes' to 45344 if you think its a catch text 'no to 63404 if you dont think its a catch

if a catch is sick they shd allow it imo

"Dax Prescott has not thrown an incomplete pass all night due to voting-bloc collusion and robo-dialing by Cowboys fans"

play is under review - was the catch sick or nah

when will the nfl wise up and play with a felt ball while wearing velcro onesies?

he took three steps dove and reached out the ball the damn nfl has lost its mind lol

― lag∞n, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:00 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol he also changed direction has everyone gone completely insane

like for the love of god

i'm still hyped off that Clement stiff arm is where I'm at today.

might be cool to switch to a way more permissive definition of a catch just like does he have the ball no football move no surviving the ground no becoming a runner etc, wld result in a ton more catches and a ton of fumbles

let's just be happy the strip sack wasn't ruled an incomplete pass
― mookieproof, Monday, February 5, 2018

the clement td was more questionable than the ertz td imo the ertz was for sure an obvious catch you can't make that break the plane extension if you don't have full control. btw putting aside that the clement td *was* questionable - how amazing is it that this undrafted rookie RB scored a TD in the Superbowl??? i cannot get over it. i cannot get over this team. so much character on it.

the nfl in revamping their product shd go for encouraging wacky unpredictable shit eliminate the PAT do 2pt conversions only eliminate punting or have a limited number of punts per team radically more permissive reception rules as mentioned and so forth

Issue is control. Looks like he has it initially and gets both feet down in bounds. There is some movement of the ball, but don’t think enough to say loss of control. Call should stand.

— Dean Blandino (@DeanBlandino) February 5, 2018

they should bring in retired refs to give their analysis like tnt does with steve javie

someone - i want to say warren sharp - predicted a breakout game for corey clement because the patriots have been so bad covering rbs specifically on downfield routes and clement is a much better target for those than ajayi or blount. he was involved in a number of big plays, a huge wheel play in the first half i remember. i don't know if i had even heard of him before that mention.

I’m assuming this has been done in depth, so what do the techs who design social media algorithms say the nfl rules should “incorporate”?

after further analysis of the zapruder film it's been determined that when Jackie took three steps, dove, and reached out to grab JFK's brain she didn't have possession when she crossed the plane back into her seat so gonna have to rule that one incomplete.

xp violent collision, beer, institutional racism iirc

the nfl in revamping their product shd go for encouraging wacky unpredictable shit eliminate the PAT do 2pt conversions only eliminate punting or have a limited number of punts per team radically more permissive reception rules as mentioned and so forth

― lag∞n, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree, things of that nature

wonder if going for it on 4th is going to become more common now that dougie p has so enthusiastically embraced it and found success. meanwhile pats were conservative on 4th + 1.

it's pretty cool when it's 3rd and 1 and you know that the team actually has two downs to work w/

I agree, things of that nature

― k3vin k., Monday, February 5, 2018 1:33 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

a more skilled version of college footballs wild ride if you will

they wont do it tho cause the owners/goodell are bloated ridiculous fools

btw mordy we did it!!

pfft did either of u even light anything on fire cmon

xp i still can't believe it! the entire office is kinda half dazed half ecstatic. u gonna be at the parade??? xp

eliminate the PAT do 2pt conversions only

my only qualm is that football taught me how to multiply by seven and going six/eight only would retroactively ruin my childhood

from now on, touchdowns worth 0 points, but merely get you the opportunity to kick the XP, which is now worth 7 points. so if you score a TD and miss the kick, 0 points.

still think Cooks trying and failing to hurdle McLeod was my favorite play, that was some real WWE shit

this got kinda lost but Eagles missing that XP early on kind of had a big ripple effect the rest of the game

Yep - attempting to jump over the head of someone six feet tall, who was more or less fully standing, while not using your arms for leverage was wonderfully ambitious.

he mighta gotten the first down if he hadn't left his feet too

so what's the real story re: malcolm butler

no one knows! but here's my nutty theory - belichick liked that rowe used to be on the eagles and thought that might give him an edge covering their receivers? (tho he never played w/ jeffrey who burned him for that early td). maybe combined w/ butler going to the hospital twice the week before w/ flu symptoms? (tho he was apparently totally healthy on wed so who really knows.)

i almost never listen to bill simmons but it's quite fun listening to his sadsack post-game podcast

seems to me it's probably that Bill is lying about it not being punitive. if it were to use different packages like he clumsily explained, he probably would have reinserted Butler in after he saw his alternate plan wasn't working. If it were due to illness, as some have suggested, Butler himself might not be so angry, but it seems pretty clear he felt fine enough to play even if he was violently sick in the lead-up.

unless Bill had a serious fear of him blowing coverage due to passing out on the field, I can't imagine that there wasn't some other reason, maybe something Butler did to infuriate Bill shortly before gametime. But Bill is used to players hating him by now so idk what that thing would be.

i kinda do believe that belichick is telling the truth and it was a football decision. maybe not a well thought out football decision but i gotta think he saw something he liked w/ rowe and something he didn't like w/ butler and got too clever by half

this should be taken with a huge grain of salt, but one theory...

https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/a-writer-at-pff-is-saying-malcolm-butler-missed-curfew-got-caught-with-weed-then-had-a-meltdown-on-the-coaches/?_branch_match_id=456984123554125233

i can buy thinking that rowe on jeffrey and gilmore on smith was how they wanted to play the top 2 guys - altho it backfired horribly as jeffrey beat rowe multiple times on the first couple drives inc both the 3rd and 13 and the td - but with the eagles playing nearly the whole game with 3 wrs butler doesn't even get a snap? jonathan jones and jordan richards are trailing after agholor instead? whatever the reason it was v costly.

butler crying during the anthem biases me towards thinking he fucked up somehow. his head hasn't quite been there all season, altho i have sympathy with him given the contract stuff/gilmore.

i thought i read butler was on the field for a special teams play or two?

he was

one st snap recorded. that's like rubbing it in

i think i saw no st snaps all regular season, 1 vs jax, 1 vs phl

meanwhile on the field for 98% of reg season def snaps

anyway, i hear folks here are keeping their cool and the 2nd call to weei this morning was someone demaning belichick be replaced with mcdaniels

its gets missed in all the glory but belichick has lost a bunch of playoff games via being stubborn

Punishment also makes more sense as to why he never saw any snaps - have to think if it was purely strategic, BB would realize his experiment was going bad at halftime and he'd have gone back to Butler or at least began using him on 3 WR sets. BB isn't going to go back on a full-game punitive benching decision simply because the game isn't going well. Though that would imply others knew of the real reason.

going to guess he thought they had enough to win without him. and they almost did!

i think the gashing runs that the pats didn't have the linebackers to stop were the biggest single reason that philly kept being able to keep drives going, in the first half especially, but agholor became a really important 1st down target as those runs went away later so that plus rowe on jeffrey early which probably doesn't happen if butler plays add up to a significant factor

simmons' butler theory: belichick's gameplan is to start rowe on jeffrey. butler reacts poorly to the decision so belichick punishes him by sitting him the entire game.

that would line up with what we know but must've been a real ott meltdown from butler if so

he said "maaan fuck Donald Trump"

so, congratulations to the detroit lions for the official hire of their new head coach, the def coordinator whose team lost the super bowl despite the qb putting up 500y and 3tds/0ints

auspicious

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/UMass-Amherst-Students-Riot-After-Patriots-Loss-472680563.html

good work kids

belichick's losing his entire brain trust this offseason right?

he wouldn't have it any other way

he's losing his coordinators but the shadow cabal will remain intact otherwise

brady is being traded to cleveland i heard

https://i.imgur.com/fphJioN.png

the pats will keep winning as long as ernie is still around

Why haven’t I seen this video lmfaooo REALEST MF ALIVE now I know why we won pic.twitter.com/qnQITcmYtr

— EAGLES ARE WORLD CHAMPS (@DPWEarl) February 5, 2018

lol were playing indoors

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVTTFL4XcAAZmf-.jpg

https://deadspin.com/jeff-fisher-must-be-arrested-and-tried-for-his-crimes-a-1822733338

so is hiring ex-Fisher guys gonna be the new Moneyball

normally questions of how coaches impact individual player positions seem pretty speculative but this particular one is undeniable

wonder if anyone will hire dick lebeau. he's only 80

mordy I won't be at the parade, I'm already going to have missed a couple of days this week, but enjoy! hopefully it'll be less than 58 years til we win our next one

Ertz takes 17 steps and Collinsworth says he thinks they have to overturn it 😂😂😂😂

— Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) February 6, 2018

He also thought it’s my job to run with Tom Brady w QB wheel route on a reverse pass. Lmao.

— Chris Long (@JOEL9ONE) February 6, 2018

when will the nfl wise up and play with a felt ball while wearing velcro onesies?

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

President Nixon continues to monitor the situation in Philadelphia. - RZ pic.twitter.com/FajWFVmQFo

— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) February 6, 2018

lol who did this

You Have Been Yellow Carded By a Moderator: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVPcMZkXcAEDcqI.jpg

brutal. who knew ilnfl even had a mod?

lmao

lol

Malcolm Butler: "During Super Bowl week, I never attended any concert, missed curfew, or participated any of the ridiculous activities being reported. They are not only false, but hurtful, to me and my family." https://t.co/XBTwXp6g2B

— Mike Reiss (@MikeReiss) February 6, 2018

http://www.wdel.com/news/more-people-hurt-arrested-in-new-england-than-philly/article_511d3192-0a8e-11e8-8f8f-73b3913769b0.html

another strong article

mordy are you parading

sadly no, just watching the stream from work. i got too sick to march w/ a few million fans in the cold :/ my brother is there tho.

Jason Kelce with the greatest parade speech ever. 🔥 #EaglesParade pic.twitter.com/qAqrGafcXs

— SPORTSRADIO 94WIP (@SportsRadioWIP) February 8, 2018

weird!

Trade, pending physical: Patriots are trading TE Rob Gronkowski and a seventh-round pick to the Buccaneers for a fourth-round pick, source tells ESPN.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) April 21, 2020

Huh

I thought he retired 2 years ago

We all did

lol

Maybe they should give a draft pick to Minnesota so they can get Favre as a backup