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[-] 007ace@lemm.ee 56 points 8 months ago

I'm surprised. I've only seen Taylor 3x now. I was expecting more.

[-] radiohead37@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

KC isn’t doing great. Not many opportunities to show her celebrating.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Is the game worth tuning into? I maybe catch 2-3 games a season but I almost never watch the super bowl any more because its like, never a good exciting, close game.

[-] kofe@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

It was a fucking nail biter!

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

KC just tied it, so the last few minutes might be worth it

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[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Though plenty would disagree I'm sure, I'd say it was one of the best Superbowls ever. Both defensive squads played their hearts out and the game was 75 minutes of back and forth scrambling. Kind of sad that Mahomes won the MVP, he had a pretty meh game (by his normal standards). It was their defense that deserves credit for the win, hell even Butker more so than Mahomes. The fact that they broke the old field goal distance record three times in this one game is crazy.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

yeah I caughttheast 5 minutes and the over time. Very exciting game. def the best super bowl I've ever seen, at least since Pats Seattle when Seattle blew it.

[-] shreddy_scientist@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

Overtime now, wild game really!

[-] Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, neither team is playing well tonight, but the chiefs have just been off form all game except the 4th quarter.

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[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

Our channel was 14 times in all

[-] elrik@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago

Can someone provide some context here? Why is he screaming at a coach?

Also side note: why is that even vaguely tolerable behavior for a professional sports player / role model?

[-] droans@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He had one target for one yard in the first half. Travis Kelce is the best TE currently in the NFL and considered to be the third best ever to play the game.

Since all the receivers for the Chiefs are mid at best this year, he's got some reason to be pissed. One of them, Kadarius Toney, was put on the gameday injury report for the AFCCG as being out for a leg injury and "personal reasons". He then went public saying his leg was perfectly fine and he had no personal reasons to skip the game... Basically clarifying that the actual reason he wasn't playing was because he's ass.

But Travis Kelce was also being guarded by Fred Warner during the first half who is one of the best linebackers in NFL history.

It could be a diva moment, sure. But it's the Super Bowl. Good teams know that you trust your studs. Romo would throw to Dez in double or triple team coverage, knowing he'd come down with it. Peyton Manning would chuck it at Marvin Harrison no matter who was on him. When someone is that good, all you've got to do is get the ball in their vicinity. Either they'll come down with it or they'll keep the defenders from getting it.

It's still stupid to yell at your coach like that and physically push him, but Andy Reid was making a lot of boneheaded decisions in the first. They went into halftime down 10-3. They did change things up during the second half, though. Kelce ended up with 9 receptions for 93 yards while the Chiefs won 25-22 in OT.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I understood nothing. But I feel like you know what you are talking about. I heard about that Payton guy.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

That sounds very unsportsmanlike. He is better than everyone so gets mad when he doesn't always get to play?!? That's not ok. That's real loser behavior.

[-] Aermis@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

Its not a participation award game. It's the game of games. It's not about kelce not getting to play. It's about the chiefs losing because they're not utilizing their best weapon. It's a team sport and you're watching your team lose because you're not being used.

Imagine being on a competitive team project and you're the best speaker presenting to the state but your teacher decides to let the shy kids try to present, clearly bumbling and being incoherent, letting your opponents out argue every point your peers are making when you clearly can out speak them. You'd be pretty upset with your teacher for getting you to states, you being the reason you're there, and then once you're there you're sidelined.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago

Maybe the coach knows better than the player though.

[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I agree on his decision. Yeah they were down a touchdown and extra point at the end of the first half, but the 49ers tired themselves out while Kelcey was just getting started.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago

Eh, sitting through Packers games during the McCarthy years, I wouldn't assume that.

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

some of these are words, yes.

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[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago

why is that even vaguely tolerable behavior for a professional sports player / role model?

From what I’ve seen over the years acting like a complete dick head is just part of the sport.

They are over paid Neanderthals for the most part.

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[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

The chiefs fumbled, and that guy thought he should have been in, so they wouldn't have lost the ball. I believe that he is screaming, "just leave me in the game" like every play.

Why it's tolerated, not sure.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

Cause he's one of the best tight ends to ever play the game. Might be addressed in the off-season though.

[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago

Nah, the screaming is uncalled for no matter who you are. I don't care how many sports he balled.

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Let's hope he doesn't Icarus the fuck out. It wasn't even close to his best season. The chiefs are doing this whole villains thing anyway. Maybe it gets them three in a row but I know if you even if you're just pretending to be a villian you start looking at yourself that way. It's just not sustainable.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago

He brings in an enormous amount of money for the team and league. Make enough money and you can treat whoever you want, however you want. It's not morally right, but it's true.

[-] kiku123@feddit.de 6 points 8 months ago

It's tolerated because he's literally the best player in his position in the entire world (and one of the best in the history of the entire sport). What are the going to do? Get rid of him?

If you're not one of the best, the behavior is not tolerated as much.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Why it’s tolerated, not sure.

Andy Reid tolerated it because he knows that the violent psychopaths playing for him are hopped up on a variety of drugs and need to be cut a little slack.

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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

She'd just buy the whole team and make his life miserable

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A billion dollars net worth is not rich enough to buy a Superbowl champion NFL team. Not even close to enough.

[-] kbotc@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Not enough to buy Bortles Era Jacksonville Jags, much less now when they are somehow much worse.

[-] MadBabs@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago
[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 40 points 8 months ago

Sometimes, when I have a problem, I throw a Molotov cocktail. After that, I have a completely different problem!

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[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I agree about your point, but their point was if they lost.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

She's still not rich enough to buy the worst team in the NFL. You'd still need about $5-6B just to get interest.

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[-] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Dude must absolutely crush it in bed, cuz he looks like a giant red flag otherwise.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 29 points 8 months ago

I was planning on losing, but since you insist...

[-] SternburgExport@feddit.de 23 points 8 months ago

Guy on the left looks like a McDonald’s cashier in that outfit.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago

How dare you? That's Andy Reid - he looks like a Walmart greeter.

[-] insanepotato@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago
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