Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The willow is too close to the house.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Their freedom requires your slavery.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Usually wrong but never in doubt

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

No one could have predicted…

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  2. 2.

    FlyingToaster

    Did anybody even bother to watch? I just kept checking Boston.com, and returning to the other shit I’m doing.

  4. 4.

    Mnemosyne

    No Superb Owl here. We’re eating Chinese food and watching “The Good Place” and “Drunk History” on the DVR.

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    Corner Stone

    They call him a runner but Jesse James was not. This is a mindblowing set of rules to determine a catch.

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    They keep saying what a game this is. It’s not. I’ve been doing laundry since halftime and don’t feel like I missed anything.

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    efgoldman

    Over/under on this game was 48-48.5. Blew buy it very early Hope the books took a bath.

    And if they don’t clarify and simplify the catch/receiver/runner/goal line plane rule, if nothing else the odds makers are going to look at who’s officiating and adjust the lines accordingly. Not to mention pissing off the fan base.
    [ETA: And not just Corner Stone]

    Ah well, can’t win ’em all. It’s been a helluva run.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @Corner Stone: By my understanding of the rule, it was easily a catch. OTOH, I am sitting alone in my living room in WI and not getting big money to make those decisions.

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    efgoldman

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    By my understanding of the rule, it was easily a catch.

    Right. Most would agree. But how is it different from the one in the Pats-Steelers game?

  21. 21.

    No Drought No More

    I well recall how strange the old AFL uniforms first looked, and looked down on the league even after the merger in ’66. It wasn’t Namath and the Jets that changed my mind, either; it was Namath and the Jets, Len Dawson and the Chiefs, and Bob Griese and the Dolphins. I considered the Steelers dynasty as reflecting equally well on the old league, too, and still do. I remember how very pleased I was when the Raiders whipped the Eagles, but barring Super Bowl with them in I root for the NFC team. So with 48 seconds remaining, I say: go Eagles! Congrats- I hope- to their long suffering fans.. they deserve one.

  23. 23.

    JCJ

    @Peale:

    you’ve forgotten the towels in the upstairs bathroom again, though.

    Your comment has my wife and me laughing. Oh my goodness we both have done that so often.

  28. 28.

    efgoldman

    @Corner Stone:

    PHI is not going to pay him top shelf money.

    No, not for a backup. Similar problem that the Pats had with Garoppolo. I can’t imagine the Jags think Bortles is their future. Ravens, maybe? How much do they still owe Flacco? I ain’t studied upon it.

  29. 29.

    Shalimar

    Looking at ESPN gamdcast on phone. Their top highlight from a 74 point game is stil Brandin Cooks’ head injury.

  31. 31.

    ant

    I made curry

    Tell me more about how you make it.
    I’ve tried several times going off the recipe on the high heel gourmet web page, and it was a failure everytime.

    I think next time I will try using a commercial thai curry paste bought at a local asian market.

    How do you do it?

  42. 42.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @FlyingToaster: I’ve been keeping it going in one tab while doing other stuff in other tabs.

    It is now as you can imagine rather noisy on the streets here. Yelling, fireworks, more yelling, more fireworks. And this is the suburbs. Hard to envision what’s going on in South Philly about now.

  46. 46.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    If Seattle and Atlanta had just ran the ball, Pats would have lost 5 straight SBs

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I always root for the underdog. So I’m happy with the score, but… I’m not proud of it, but I think I’m happier that the Krafts can suck it and trump can’t tweet about his friends, though I’m sure Lurie (isn’t that his name?) is a trumpist

    @donnah: IIRC the trophy presentation etc will take at least an hour

  49. 49.

    Sab

    In NE Ohio. Some idiot is setting off firecrackers after Suberb Owl. Who around here actually cared who won? Maybe just glad it’s over? Maybe cared about Puppy Bowl?

  53. 53.

    HumboldtBlue

    Yeah, you keep stirring your yogurt chutney, we’ll be over here celebrating.

    Well, me and the cat.

    But at least he’s fierce.

    2018 — bought weed at the corner weed shop (lemon meringue), Eagles win Super Bowl.

    Beats last year.

  56. 56.

    CaseyL

    That was one hell of a game! Cris Whatsisname kept pissing me off with his unabashed Brady worship, and continues to piss me off with his insistence that the Philly touchdown wasn’t one. (At the very least it would have been a first down, just based on the three steps the player took with the ball under full control.)

    But, FSM, that was a terrific game.

  58. 58.

    efgoldman

    @WaterGirl:

    Yay! (sorry, Tom)

    He’ll get over it (as I will). As I said above. it was a great run. And I remember very well the really bad, sad, laughable (for some definition of laughable), embarrassing years, which far outnumber the great years, still. In those seasons we were glad to settle for the occasional mediocrity.
    Any Pats fan who doesn’t understand how stupidly, incredibly lucky we’ve been to watch it should give back his Brady jersey.

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    Bobby Thomson

    God that was sweet seeing the Eagles score on the same play that Brady fucked up. Fuck that guy.

  62. 62.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    YAY Eagles win! Okay I am now going to bed (it is 3:28 here) if anyone expects me up before 2pm tomorrow forget about it.

  67. 67.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Actually, I wasn’t watching the game as closely as all that for a couple of quarters. From halftime till around the end of Q3, we were watching a documentary on Netflix about Aardman Studios that originally aired on the BBC in 2015. Amazing collection of talent.

  72. 72.

    donnah

    @rikyrah:

    Oh, I know, but I don’t want to see it after everyone’s talked about it. It’s been a long time in the making. And I have tissues on hand!

  73. 73.

    FlyingToaster

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: In Bwahstin, they close Kenmore Square at the beginning of 4th quarter; fill the blocks leading in with horse cops and riot police, and make everyone go the fuck home.

    The first year the Pats won, some outtatown yahoos and BU students collectively tipped over parked cars in Kenmore and set them on fire. Which pretty much pissed off EVERYBODY in the Hub, with loud demands to “DO SOMETHING”. So no parking in Kenmore after about 4 pm; all bars black out curtains in their windows at 6pm, and cordons for the drunkards to walk through to get to parking garages / T stops. I assume the MBTA turns the 57 bus around at Packards Corner, and doesn’t let it into Kenmore.

    We never had problems in the burbs (some honking, some illegal fireworks at the VFW, nothingburger stuff), and it was fine downtown, but the Kenmore area went to shit every time the Sox or Pats won.

    If the Celtics or the Bruins win, they have to shut down the Garden area (West End/North End/Haymarket nexus), as well as Kenmore. Greasing the lightpoles would be dramatically insufficient.

  76. 76.

    Scuffletuffle

    Very satisfying game…second favorite play: watching the ball batted out of Brady’s hand. Laughed my fat ass off.

  84. 84.

    Major Major Major Major

    @Nicole: I literally finished the book Friday and watched the first episode yesterday. While the show seems pretty fun, I have a hard time judging if it’s told well, since I just read it. My husband says it’s confusing, FWIW.

  89. 89.

    Nicole

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: The Eagles owner actually contributed to Clinton‘s campaign. $2700, the maximum an individual could contribute.

    For an owner, he’s also been pretty supportive of players choosing to protest during the anthem. Choosing his words carefully, but it’s clear from statements he doesn’t have a problem with it.

    How I know this when I don’t watch football, I have no idea. Probably because I visit Deadspin regularly.

  91. 91.

    NotMax

    Early reviews of Altered Carbon were not propitious. Essentially boiled down to ‘Blade Runner done wrong,’ with gratuitous helpings of T&A.

  92. 92.

    Corner Stone

    @JR:

    but beats the hell out of Jerry Jones et al.

    You know when you’re watching TrueBlood on TV and someone stakes a vampire? That pile of schmutz and blood beats the hell out of Jerry Jones.

  99. 99.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @NotMax: Oh, so they’re trying to ape both Blade Runner and Game of Thrones? With none of the quality writing, acting, and production?

  103. 103.

    gene108

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Lurie also disputed claims that the NFL had ‘blacklisted’ former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and added that he fully supported his player’s protests, including Malcolm Jenkins, who drew headlines for lifting his fist during the Anthem earlier this season.

    SNIP

    He also donated to Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

    Don’t think he is a Trump supporter

    Link

  106. 106.

    Corner Stone

    @patrick II:

    So, what are Nick Foles, Superbowl champion quarterback, chances of starting next year?

    There are 5 or 6 teams he could possibly start for next year. If I were Nick I would stay away from Browns, MIA and Jets. I’d look at the AZ Cards first and then move down.

  108. 108.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Villago Delenda Est: @NotMax: Oh, so they’re trying to ape both Blade Runner and Game of Thrones? With none of the quality writing, acting, and production?

    you talking about the street celebrations in Philly? as long as they don’t throw batteries and leave the horses alone

  111. 111.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Some years back I watched a Super Bowl (don’t recall who played) at the Arena club in Kyiv. No such thing as last call or closing time there, so it was pretty tough stumbling out half-drunk at nearly 0600.

  114. 114.

    Mike in NC

    Watched the first episode of “Altered Carbon” last night and it was terrible. Print reviews have also been brutal. Now we’re trying another Netflix cop show set in Scotland called “Retribution”.

  120. 120.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Omnes Omnibus: The 8th ID once delayed the start of a CPX because the original first day was on Super Sunday. Someone on the staff got their ass handed to them for that one.

    Then there was my Super Sunday on a Monday in Korea. Show up for duty at 1300.

  123. 123.

    Aleta

    Worst thing about the game was when announcer said, ‘This game is as just good as the halftime show was. As good as Justin Timberlake was, this game is as good.’ No commitment to the truth.

  128. 128.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Villago Delenda Est: I did spend one on an ARTEP. I had been in Germany less than a month and just out of artillery and airborne schools and I was supposed to grade another unit. Damn. 1989. I think the Giants won.

  129. 129.

    Aleta

    Worst SB commercial was Jp driving down a stream and up a waterfall and calling it, I think, A Manifesto.

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    efgoldman

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Some years back I watched a Super Bowl (don’t recall who played) at the Arena club in Kyiv.

    Whichever one was the Namath/Colts big upset, I watched at the service club or the EM club at Fort Sam Houston, having recently gone there from basic at Polk, for dental assistant class at the medical training center.

  133. 133.

    Mike in NC

    @Sab: Edinburgh is the closest city to this rural area. We always have subtitles on just to be safe and not miss the dialogue.

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    J R in WV

    @efgoldman:

    I watched that football game on my first (only) ship in a crew lounge. The first AFL team to beat an NFL team IIRC. I made $10, which when you only earn $90 a month is a pretty good score. Always did like Joe Namath!

    I read somewhere that there were multiple $Million bets on the Eagles to win, and at least one on the Pats to win.

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