I still maintain what I said on the Kansas City thread the other week about the world not needing yet another New England SB win, but seeing as we're now stuck with one anyway all you can do is shrug your shoulders and admit it - greatest dynasty and QB ever? I guess so. The way Brady went down the field three times late on - two touchdowns to tie it and then the winning drive in OT - was both amazing and ruthless in equal measure.

I'm not a fan of the way, in our dumbed down 21st century world where no one can remember anything that happened before last week, that these greatest team/game/player ever debates usually end up with the most recent great team/game/player getting the vote, but in this case you can't argue against the Pats. Five SBs and all those wins and play-off appearances in the salary cap era? None of the great Packers, Steelers, 49ers - or even Browns teams if you're old enough - ever had to deal with that. Would any of those dynasties have won as much as they did if they had to keep overhauling the roster and releasing some of their best players because they couldn't pay them all? I doubt it. And anyway, weren't salary cap issues among the reasons why the 49ers and Cowboys stopped winning in the late 90s?

For all that (reluctant) praise of New England however, I thought Atlanta really f**cked up by being so aggressive late on. What on earth were they thinking by passing the ball and so risking that huge sack? Just give the ball to Freeman, or even have Ryan take a couple of knees if you want, but jeez, at least have the sense to make sure you stay in range for what would almost certainly, with four minutes to go, have been the clinching FG...

Who won, BTW?

I like the Superbowl & the Academy Awards because it gives me a break
from my compulsion to watch The Simpsons & Family Guy & Son of Zorn
on Sunday nights.
When these are on FOX, as the Superbowl was, obviously they don't
show the cartoons.
When these are not on FOX, which I assume the Academy Awards are,
FOX will air only rerun cartoons.

Until 3 weeks ago, I had the choice of going over to my
community's clubhouse to watch these shows on their big screen tv
or watching at home, & I would choose, if I could get over there,
to watch at the clubhouse, because of the big screen.
Then I'd rewatch the shows on my recording at home,
either from my computer or, as added backup, VCR,

But, 3 weeks ago, I gave up cable tv, because monopoly Comcast
FINALLY unbundled their cable tv from their internet.
So finally I could save money, &, more importantly, give Comcast less
of my money, by giving up just the tv.

So I am without tv. So, now my only source is the clubhouse tv.
For SNL, the SNL YT channel posts most of the skits online the next night.
But, the only other choice for the animated cartoons is Hulu.

Tomorrow I will have Best Buy techie come in to see if they can install
a tv antenna in my attic. Keep fingers crossed it will pick up a signal
to FOX & NBC, minimally.

As a Simpsons fan, I've kind of "made peace" with football.
I've never been "anti"football. In my high school growing up,
I got along well with the athletes as I did with athletes in the math
classes I taught. I was never "into" ANY sport pretty much all for the same
reason: I hate watching competition. Of any type. Including/especially
those musical competitions: e.g. the Tchaikovsky competition.

In June 2011, while at a college reunion at the University of Delaware,
I got a short ride from the ice rink there to the center of the college
by an Olympic ice skater (Philip Dulebohn) who had performed at the
2002 Winter games in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was really nice & friendly,
& he asked me if I watch the Olympics, and I told him: "No. Just the opening & closing ceremonies." (I didn't even watch that for the 2016 Rio games)
because, I told him, I hated seeing the loser lose.

Actually, I feel the same way BION about elections.

The NFL is Rigged. Had this been any other game involving any other teams this wouldnt have happened.

Surely only one thing really matters - did anyone nicely dressed get gunged during the half-time show?