Once again, Patriots QB Tom Brady had his night…
Winning his fourth Super Bowl, Brady joined Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw as the only quarterbacks to accomplish that feat. More important, Tom did it over his entire career, winning early in 2003 and late in 2015.
A 12 year ride as Super Bowl Tom – he played in six Super Bowls – nobody else has that number. It will be a hard one to ever top. Remember you have to be great your entire career and a bit lucky. Will Tom try for one more? Yes!
I don’t want to just put stats up.
However Tom had the most completions ever in a Super Bowl, he has more wins in regular seasons than Joe Montana. To be honest he played well enough in his two Super Bowl losses to the Giants to have won and been MVP of those games.
This was one of the all time best Super Bowls.
There was a time years ago when most of the Super Bowls were let downs.
Not anymore.
There were enough freak plays in this one to fill up several years of OMG moments.
Two unkowns showed up, receiver Chris Mathews for Seattle with the first big catches of his entire career, including a dramatic TD catch to end the first half that looked like a game changer on a 29 second drive by Seattle and QB Russell Wilson.
And then there was he amazing interception at the one yard line by rookie Malcolm Butler who had just given up a “that can’t happen” bomb to Seattle’s Jermaine Kearse, That play looked to be the set up play for a game winning Seattle TD.
The Pats did a decent job slowing down Marshawn Lynch.
L. Blount for New England was held in check. However Lynch would have (and should have) won the game in the end had Seattle head coach Pete Carroll not panicked and run down the clock at the one yard line, fearing he’d give Brady too much time to come back and score.
Pete decided to throw over the middle at the goal line on second down. He said it was to burn a play and the clock. WTF. An incomplete pass would have burned almost nothing and it was too risky.
It cost Seattle the game.
Lynch had just been running right through the Pats. They had time to run him 3 times from the one year line if they needed to. He would have been unstoppable. Or Wilson could have faked to him and walked in.
It was the worst call in Super Bowl history.
And no argument, Tom Brady is the all-time best quarterback in the NFL.
Those balls were not deflated and he ripped the Seattle defense to shreds.
Remember, the Pats running game did almost nothing.
And PS, Patriots wide receiver Julian Edelman easily could have been named MVP.
He was outstanding and more effective than the Pats tight end Gronk. I’m wondering, Is Julian Jewish? (He is.)
Great game.
Hey, after a tough year of picks I got the big one right.
See ya next season for my next round of football pix.
Who’s Julian Adelman?
EDLEMAN sorry
Who’s EDLEMAN?
My scoring for the Super Bowl:
Pre-game (the 1-hour before kick-off): C+. This was the Super Bowl, right? “Any given Sunday…” could be used to describe Costas and crew.
Star Spangled Banner: B-. Gal was on key, knew all the words, didn’t flub. But tempo sucked – too slow.
The Game: A+. One of the best and with a dramatic comeback and bonehead play calling at the end.
Halftime Show: B+. Great presentation, super cool technology. Music, eh… Might crack the Top 10 best ever but only because of the showmanship.
Commercials: B-. As a group, pretty disappointing. Even Snickers’ very successful “you’re not you…” campaign seemed derivative and a stretch. Budweiser, enough with the freakin’ Clydesdales and cute puppies already. Nationwide… jesus, really? Just brilliant…a dead kid.
Nice wrap, Mike T
First, Kerouac’s thoughts on the game/game recap
Live by the fluke, die by the fluke… the Seahawks gave this game away, no credit to the Patri-cheats – just as Green Bay gave their game away vs SEATT. Poetic justice perhaps, would that both teams could have lost as neither is memorable in any way.
Of note, the MVP was actually deserved by the New England CB Butler, who just happened to be in the right place to receive the Seahawks miracle gift given him. SEATT’s Lynch deserved it more so via 100 + yards & what would’ave been his second td of the game, the game winner.
As well, the guy who was mysteriously gifted with the MVP was exposed this game, throwing two bad interceptions (he doesn’t do so well when the football is regulation pressure.) He ought to be memorizing the late Lou Gehrig’s – “I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth” speech.
So, the Asterisk* Bowl now fini, let the NFL go about its business of dispensing justice upon the caught red-handed deceitful ones from New England.
Upshot: two thoroughly unlikable teams, one convicted cheaters & the other the original fluke-aided thugs… the 1960’s Green Bay Packers would have demolished both these modern day frauds.
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As for your thoughts, CG… counterpoints, responses mine.
“And no argument, Tom Brady is the all-time best quarterback in the NFL.”
– a very subjective take, yours… understanding that in reality there is no such thing as a ‘greatest ever’ whatever, I rank him top 10, maybe even the end of top 5, but not #1. Criteria will always be open for discussion, as well differences nature the game one era to another.
Brady is but 4-2 in final Championship games – not as impressive as Bart Starr’s 5-1, Starr’s NFL record 9-1 post season mark overall, or, NFL record 104.80 post season rating. Too, Starr’s Packers won 3 straght Championships – never equaled, and won 5 in 8 seasons, missing a 6th by a mere 3 points their first try, 1960. That no Superbowl existed during Starr’s first 10 years is also notable; can’t hold that against a QB from a former era. Based such criteria, Brady can’t carry Starr’s cleats.
What of Joe Montana & Terry Bradshaw, both 4-0? Beyond mere numbers, I believe that the QBs yesteryear had a more difficult job than the ones modern day for various reasons which would take too long to elaborate on herein.
Summation, I thought Brady was exposed by SEATT yesterday – he threw two bad interceptions, badly missed a wide open receiver near the end zone on another pass – all told, not the stuff the ‘greatest ever’ would do, and his stats otherwise are moreso the result the modern day game’s emphasis on passing the ball compared yesteryear.
Interesting how different people have different takes on a game, not unlike the eye-witness accounts given the police.
“This was one of the all time best Super Bowls.”
– I actually thought it was pretty lackluster, until the final inexplicable SEATT move… to each their own, purview.
K you saw a much different game than most of us…lackluster? WTF…edge of your seat fourth quarter. I agree Bart Starr was a fantastic qb…as was Joe and others…Tom just has the numbers and that 12 year span of Super Bowls with different players and he is jut ‘the man’ you are right other than Ali nobody is the best ever..its all in ‘their’ time frame, in modern football its Brady, before him Joe, before him Bart…so I agree with that one…but the game was outstanding and Tom is the KING.
We agree to disagree, civilly so…
“Lackluster” in that SEATT goes forever before even getting a first down – a supposedly Superbowl caliber team (that wasn’t the 85′ Bears out there on D for NE) was impotent on offense.
And your “best ever” Brady, a seasoned vet, was no better or slightly – he looked like a rookie throwing up that early int for grabs. No, my opine, neither team was impressive but today’s NFL such must suffice as ‘greatness’, apparently.
Conclusion, how one can give Brady (2 ints) the MVP award is beyond me. I suspect even had SEAT won, Brady would have received it same, as SEAT’s Marshawn Lynch (who I despise) loses out his 100+ yards rushing & big catches, as well game-winning td run that would have been his second not enough to overcome the stacked deck NFL politics today’s farcical league.
To me, Brady winning the MVP was a bit more puzzling than 1967’s Superbowl I, when Starr won it instead Max McGee (several others players and scribes agree with Kerouac that McGee should’ve won it (2 td catches/off the bench to boot.) That day Starr, threw an int vs KC (he only threw 3 all year 1966) and too McGee’s once in a lifetime miracle one-handed behind his back catch was as much Starr’s fault due it being a poor throw. Point being that QB’s more often than not get the advantage voting, emotion too playing a part the very human nature voting.
“other than Ali nobody is the best ever”
– we also agree to disagree here….. oh to be able put a man up against another, both their primes. If so, Kerouac would take Marciano – undefeated his career – over Clay or Ali, by either name. “Yeah but, yeah but ” a bias in everyone’s quiver, the argument will have to remain the prerogative every opinion.
Considering Max went on a bender the night before the game as he didn’t expect to play makes his performance even better.
While the stars of the past might not have what it takes today, todays stars would be worse off if they went back.
Would Ali be able to go 49-rounds with Jack Johnson?
As I told CG, it is all speculation: ‘this guy is the greatest’ (in whatever sport), that woman is the prettiest, that car, that band, that ad nauseam.
As for McGee, yes, if the story is true… I’m not convinced that it is however; stories that grow ‘larger’ with time are not new/around forever, so, #85’s may have been a bit embellished too.
Re: Clay/Ali, who can say… though his career was greater than Mike Tyson’s, I would have liked to have seen him go against Tyson, both their primes (also Tyson vs Frazier, Foreman others.)
Alas, as I get older, mine interest see men bash each other’s heads in venues boxing & football, is waning.
Shuffleboard, anyone?
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Notice Harley will be quiet now, since I was correct and broke the game down before it happened the way it went…Harley like it or not I do know the game…I made some picks this year that went south, lots of experts did no better it was an odd season. No excuses I sucked this year but got this one right and will continue to do picks…I often do bet these games as many others do as well so I do care..no not every pick I make is a bet..thank God this year…I had a below average betting football season for myself…happens…
sorry glaze…this was not your finest hour. We can go back one year
to the royals….faceplant…..the chiefs…faceplant….the playoff and
world series…faceplant….the nfl pics you made over the last three
years uswing voodoo mathto make people think your were seth Rothstein..
faceplant…..the playoffs in nfc…faceplant….the super bowl youpicked
nothing…go back and read your article…because no one said it would be
anythingbut close…and you as awalsy shadowed what 120 million
people watching thegame knew…and what pundits including my self
said…it comes down to one or two plays.
Just like the presidential election comes down to 12 counties in the
nation who wins the presidency.
This wasnothing great under any circumstances.. You slighted my
tigers andthey win their division. You tore into the royals and they
go to the world series.
all you’ve got going are some old footage interviews of some old
fighters and you think that makes you and expert.
One right? that makes you an expert. My newphew wore his
partiots tv shirt all week so I guess he’s an expert too.
listening to sports talk and hundreds of people about the game…
few were for the patriots. But it does not surprise me that you
went with them…they’re cheaters..liars….con men…..and that
long before deflategate was proven and punished.’
You don’t know the game…….you don’t know strategy…yousay the
same things everyone says…yeah they’re good…nothey’re bad.
YOUR RECORD…UNDER 30%!!!!!!UNDER 30%….TERRRIBLE…
IN FACT ABLIND WOMAN COULD BEATYOUR PICKS…
You take yourself too seriously. You never played..never coached..
you mayhave talked withsome old timer players but that does
not make you know anything about football.
In the off season do some research…not just someb.s. you get from
your pimp in vegas who feedsyou these lines…but a realpro
who knows how to bet.
YOU ARE A SUCKER ….VEGAS LOVES YOU. IN FACT IF THEY
KNEW YOU LOST THAT BAD OVER THESEASON THEY’D COMP
YOU AT THE DAYS IN IN METAIRIE.
Go back and make some flower pot bread. That’s your specialty…
and nothing you do comes close.
Sorry…luv ya but you are no sports expert. NO way…NO how….
Now tht football is over lets get some stories about strippers…comedy…
shootouts…..gunslinging….and the big upcoming movie.
YOU ARE THE WORST.
and now that footballs overs repeat after me “ITS OVER…ITS OVER…
ITS OVER”….SO THE KCC READERS WON’T HAVE TO READ YOUR
WORST PICKS insports.
have a great off year…..see ya in april when you screw up another
prediction!!!! That’s one thing we can all bet on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
glaze…you you o.d.’d on your spinash dip. Go back and read your article
on tom brady. You bitched tht people dished the guy for losing super bowls
and that people were jealous because of weathl and beauty.
Not much about football…or deflategate…or spygate…or that he ran out
on his pregnant girlfriend…or that he slept with others …….or about
Adelman….kronk….the o line…..revis….the system that bellycheck
put in….their receivers over the years …….their incredible special teams….
his running backs…..his arm….his delivery…NO GLAZE YOU DIDN’T
MENTION ONE SINGLE ITEM ABOUT WHY HE WOULD WIN THE
SUPER BOWL…BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T KNOW A GOD DAM THING
ABOUT ANY OF THT.
JUST THAT PEOPLE DIDN’T LIKE HIM BECASUE HE WAS RICH…FAMOUS..
AND HAD A BILLION DOLLAR WIFE.
YOU NEVER GAVE US FACTS ABOUT WHY HE WOULD WIN…BECAUSE YOU
DIDN’T KNOW ANY. YOU DIDN’T QOUTE ANY STATS…ANY TENDENCIES…
ANY INFO ON HOW THE SEAHAWKS WOULD COVER GRONK….HOW HED
DING PASS THE HAWKS….NOT A THING INTHAT ARTICLE EXCEPT THE
SAME B.S. WE’V READ ALL YEAR FROM YOU.
NOOFFERNCE…BUT IF I WATCH SPORTS CENTER THEY GIVE REASONS
WHY A TEAM AND HOW A TEAM PLAYS ANOTHER A CERTAIN WAY.
I GOT NONE OF THT FROM YOU…EXCEPT THE USUALLY SAME LINE
“haters”.
If everyone who said something against brady was a “hater” half the
nation would hate the guy…….
Congrats on saying he’s a great guy with lots of money …a nice wife….
but he has no moral compass just like you…..a runaway dad who took his
child away from th mom….and that’s bullshit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could care less who won…nice fun game…really no drama for me….
except that hawks blew it on last play.
so be it….one ring makes a champion….ask len dawson/mike garrett/
Otis tay lor/or any of the old chiefs.\\
So please give us a break til april….you’ve proven yourself wrong again..
and again…again…again…again…again…and again…..
maybe go fishing at lake perry…because this sure was one 3 year bad streak
for the glaze.come back refreshed…maybe you’ll hit 34% of your games
over the next 5 years.
please…no more sports !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you don’t understand gambling glaze.
the point spread is designed to get half the people betting on team A
…half the people betting on team B…..did you know that or is that
something you never knew.
so when suckers prop bettrs like you walk up to the window with that
prop bet of teasers that only fools bet the window guy says “HERES ANOTHER
SUCKER”.
iTS OFF SEASON…READ UP ON THOREASE INSANCE LOSING BETS
YOU MAKDE FOR 3 YEARS…AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM THE
REAL PEOPLE FROM VEGAS…YOUR CHANCE OF BEATING VEGAS OVER
A SEASON WITH THOSE STUPID TEASER BETS IS ABOUT EQUAL
TO YOU GETTING HIT BY AN ASTEROID FROM MARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go to thE library…lay off the hotties for a few nights…you’ll learn
the majic to beating vegas….and that is>>….
YOU NEVER BEAT VEGAS..THEY ARE THERE FOR SUCKERS LIKE YOU
UNLESS YOU WENT TO M.I.T. (MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) YOU
CAN’T BEAT THEM. They just borrowed 100 million from china and the
beest gamblers in the world are Asians…they understand the games and how
to play them all and win).
good luck in the off season…see ya in april…but please dow you homework~!!!!!!!!!!
Well I spoke too soon.
no glaze….read your story on kcc a few weeks ago.
I am your biggestfan…(enven though you you catch as mcu
hell as I do on here_+_)
football ain’t important…life is…
you got many mile to go before you sleep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love
Harley
glaze..go back to calling all haters article…I express my feelings there…
keep going…you are doing it regardless of what others box you in as…
good luck…
by the way the spinach artichoke dip is absolutely incredible.
wishing you a great 2015…
Harley…
by the way…if you ever decide to give yp those girls you date..i have
a 5 star beauty you’d love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Edelman had a GREAT game — shoulda been MVP-
p.s. — while Edelman’s father was part – jew — his mother was a Catholic –
he was raised as a Catholic — and plays that way .
Well Harley you need to write a book it seems. I posted my Vegas best when I went there the last four years..this year I didn’t have a big bet due to the odd way things were going…the others and they were posted were 8 for 10. I’ll take that all the time…my pix the first three years were over 70per cent and posted this year did suck. I agree.
your 70% for two years was based on you taking one team that
won out of the tease that you lost and counted thatas a win as you
tried to do with dallas in playoffs this year.
don’t work that way glaze….have hearne buy you a book on
betting and handicapping and read it because you’re wrong.
thnx for the memories of picking poor teams n changing
your views like the weather in kc…but a bettor you aren’t…..
maybe stick withcomedy and hospitality because sports
aint your game. Period!
H I explained to you how teases work about 9 times…both teams must win to win..we scored it that way…a push by one or both causes a push no bet…simple…remember you, the genius…thought I made up the idea of a tease, they didn’t exist. Remember.
I knew about teases for ever. But learned from experts
they are for suckers.
and sorry glaze but you proved it.
so lets clean the slate…itsa new season….a new
year….and stop trying to bang on our royals andcheifs
and root for the local guys.
I understand that when the royals are playing well
it affects your business. I can see your point of view.
but the negativity you put out is getting old.
You’re sounding like a old grouchy grandpa.
loosen up…have some fun…
and lets hear some more about the hotties at
woodside asap.
your pal and advisor
Harley
youflunked math at phenoix university and asu…you were below 40%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!