As Barry Manilow famously said, “Looks like we made it!” As with every season, t’was a tortuous route for all of us-we lost some some folks/fans but we gained some as well and learned something along the way. (I learned that I didn’t learn anything, which is a kind of learning)
Some Superb Owl Facts You May Not Know-
-The game was named by famous ornithologist John James Audubon who also named The Great Horned Owl on the very same day, the only man to name two species in a 24 hour period. The Germans were so impressed with this feat they named their highway system after him!
-Wacko Super Bowl truthers insist that Lamar Hunt named it after a kid’s toy. (thank heavens the Hunt kids weren’t playing with a Slinky) Actually, sports writers were calling it the Super Bowl back in 1966-Arthur Dailey, a columnist in New York called it ‘the superduper bowl’. It caught on quite easily, given that some of the competition out there at the time was The Bluebonnet Bowl, The Tangerine Bowl, The Sun Bowl and The Pasadena Bowl.
-The game has only been played in Canada-adjacent states three times-each time Michigan and Minnesota’s Labatt’s and Molson reservoirs came dangerously close to drying up. Lesson learned, America!
To The Game!
Chiefs/Eagles:
-Is there a betting line on Kadarius Toney getting hurt? Because he is going to get hurt. As far as other props go, I’d take a Justin Watson anytime TD at +700. You can take the Gatoraid prop and give yourself an enema with it.
-The only teams to record more than the Eagles 70 sacks are the ’89 Vikes (71) and the ’84 Bears (72).
-To offset that pressure look for K.C. to employ wr screens, jet sweeps and delayed screens to the running backs.
-Shoulder Responsibilities?: Hurts was an effective deep passer in the regular season but he is only 2 of 7 on passes of 20+ yards in the playoffs. (none of them for scores)
-Much like all at their position, Philly’s lb’s are overmatched vs Kelce. For that reason the team may turn to man fathered by a 19th century English manservant and birthed by an accountancy firm, one Chauncey Gardner-Johnson.
-The Chiefs run game on 1st down in the playoffs is a crapshoot. They’ve averaged 2.8 yards per carry so far.
-Hassan Reddick Feast Day: He’ll be lined up against Chiefs guard Andrew Wylie who has, bless his heart, very generously given up (9!) sacks so far this year.
-Philly nay-sayers have pointed out that the quality of teams they’ve played against isn’t exactly top-notch. Football Outsiders has their sked ranked as the easiest in the league by a good margin. And really, they’ve battled against the likes of Josh Johnson, One-Armed Purdy, Webb, Rush, Pickett, Mills, Heinicke and Dalton. Do those guys even qualify as ‘C’ level talent?
-“Tyreek, Who’s He?”: The Chiefs as a team had more yards after the catch than any squadoo in the last 15 years. Using the Expected Points Added metric, the offense became more efficient than it was last year.
-Mahomes’ EPA per pass play ranking vs zone? #1. Vs man? #1. Vs the blitz? #1. Vs no blitz? #1. Vs split safeties? #1. Vs single-high safeties? #2, like a sucker.
-No team has beaten the Chiefs by more than 4 points this year.
-K.C. likes to play press coverage and wr Brown ranks #1 there but he’s been quiet in the playoffs with 7 grabs (on 14 targets) for a mere 54 yards. He’s been open but Hurts has missed him.
-All things considered, I’m leaning towards them Chiefs. They appear to have huge advantages at qb and coach and Philly’s gaudy stats have come against questionable teams in questionable circumstances. But what do I know? Nothing.
Enjoy. Drop in and say hello if you haven’t recently, we’d love to hear from you.
Dishes done, time for bed. Good night my darling dears, it’s been a truly Superb Owl. Except for the result. And the officiating. And Intergalactic Disgrace Goodell. And the obnoxious fake patriotism. And the halftime show…
Also, why are these trending? I mean, I get “terrible”, but the others make no sense.
Oooh, 1k! Congrats crew!
NOW we can all go to bed.
I have to do my dishes first!
I think Downtown LA only exists so there are some decently tall buildings when they do panorama shots to show how smoggy it is
And then they shoot the rest of the movie/series in Georgia, NOLA, or Vancouver.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbuji-Mayi
LA is the city above with better historical and geographic luck.
Chad Henne retires a champion.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/1625002216250818560?s=46&t=EF1XhlgZ0kxD2YxzIsUzCA
SexinaCanoeGuyHenne!
The smirk is a work.
I’m hungry again! Whyyyyyyy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox6jSkk0W1A&ab_channel=NooneSpecial
Hormones, everything is hormones, it’s nawt just sex (although that is the fun part)!
The word ‘acacia’ annoys me for not having enough distinct letters in it
It’s also a worse album than Abacab.
Acai is worse.
They are both always in the same word game which I’m just gonna assume you also play (NY Times Spelling Bee) but I picked out acacia cause it’s longer, although I have the same ‘oh this dumb word again’ moment for both!
The crossword also seems to have some similar words two weeks in a row.
Indeed, although there are multiple crossword builders and editors while it’s one guy for multiple other games
65 looks…. horrible.
Did Adam Driver lose a bet?
I guess Star Wars money does run out.
“Think the thought that you are sitting in a chair”
I am sitting in a chair, SCORE!
Oh an now they are slandering Squirrels!
I saw Slandering Squirrels open for Arctic Monkeys once.
Oh I love these filming on filming moments, infiltrating scientology is hilarious
Nothing from Leah Remini?
We blew past 969. We have to get over a thou now, or it’s all been a turrible waste!
I ‘spose.
I fell asleep during the 8 o’cock hour. It’s now the 10 o’cock hour. Prob should wrap it up like a condom and pass the fuck out.
Have a great night, everyone, and see you… at the draft!
Sleep tight!
Tom Brady might become a scientologist, but he might nawt be able to afford it depending on his FTX losses. What’s their opinion on tomatoes?
Wouldn’t at all surprise me if Brady became one of those guys who is so adrift in retirement that he falls for anything that offers him a sense of purpose.
And he might also get to marry Katie Holmes
I would sign up tomorrow if I thought that was a possibility.
I would hope she learned her lesson.
To the extent she’s not pushed into it 🙁
Was she Pacey or Joey?
Joey. Pacey is the mascot for the Indiana Pacers.
Didn’t Faux just give him a huge contract?
Entertainment industry! Just gets him closer!
He’s delayed its start to 2024.
The Anthony Bourdain in West Virginia is magical apart from all of the firearms.
Fuck you DirecTV. Fuck your bullshit customer “Service” fuck your help line. Fuck your billing department and most of all just fuck you.
What’s he eating, pepperoni rolls? Muskrat?
possum or gtfo
There was some raccoon and bacon Gravy. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I believe that’s called a “Tomsula Chowder”.
I’d politely decline any soup Scotchy offers you.
Pfft, no way you could get Garbo, silly LRON!
The whole ‘baking soda in the fridge’ thing doesn’t make any sense. The baking soda in the bottom of the box can’t be absorbing much, wouldn’t you want to increase the surface area of odor absorber that’s exposed to the fridge air?
Also, dude, old school scientology promos are HILARIOUS
We used to make their testing centre the start of our annual Christmas fraternity pub crawl.
“I took a personality test once. It came back negative.” — Steven Wright
Oooh, did your thetan levels go up or down with the boozing? Nawt really sure which is good
We were considered “unrecruitable”.
60 now
Should we stop at 969?
I think that’s wise
Another weak things about Canadian sports coverage is how they try to draw any connection they can to what’s going on.TSN’s postgame coverage is a whole bunch of US tv clips & some Canadian chucklefucks trying to add two cents.
I’m honestly surprised we weren’t treated to a Laurent Duvernay-Tardiff Super Bowl watch party from Laval.
Did he finish medical school?
He is currently doing his residency at a Jewish hospital in Montreal.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2023/02/02/walking-away-from-football-for-year-reaffirmed-super-bowl-winners-humanity/69848339007/
Good for him.
I was going to say there were only 69 comments until 1k, but then my comments refreshed and it’s only 67 now
That’s 69, but one of them isn’t really into it.
Hm, I guess Scientology is just based on the idea that quite a few aspiring actors are gullible and occasionally come into large amounts of money. I should try to start something similar for tech startups
BAH GAWD THAT’S ELIZABETH HOLMES’ MUSIC
Her mistake was trying to have a company with an actual product
I can’t be spokesperson, can we find a 20-something mostly white dude who’s really enthusiastic about shit?
Disney channel leftovers?
I just heard the sound of 10,000 podcasters straining their shoulders from raising their arms quickly
The kiddoes seem to like that Timothee Shamalamadingdong.
Armie Hammer thought he was tasty.
Dammit, only 8% battery left. I’ll never know if we made it to 1000, because my shitty charging cord isn’t long enough!
You can always check tomorrow! Adding one to the heap!
Nope, I made Gumby move, the cord is long enough where he was sitting.
“Yeah, I have problems with things not being long enough too.” – Deanna Favre
I think my ass is too big to be a scientologist, these bitches are all skinny
I think that’s a country song?
Doesn’t ‘scientologist’ have too many syllables for a country song?
Signtallgist. Three.
New country is so sophistimacated.
Kirstie Alley had a big ole booty.
Which is better, that Jesus US thing or Scientology? I’m gonna call both their Owl commercials shitty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0JEc0arOQ
Someone noted that it’s interesting that Tom Cruise won’t film one of these. I know he’s appeared in internal Scientology propaganda, but a commercial for the general market? No way, he ain’t risking the box office for Misson Impossible 17 on that!
Just a reminder that Koach Kliff had Mahomes at Texas Tech for three years and a 19-19 record.
“Somebody better hire that guy, stat!” — dozens of owners who dismissed any idea of hiring Eric Bienemy because hey, who can’t run an offense with Mahomes?
And he’ll still get a(nother) head coaching job before Eric Bieniemy.
ooh, change of plans, gonna watch this scientology documentary!
Will we be seeing you in a commercial with JD and Turk from Scrubs next Superb Owl?
Oh look, the Chiefs won another game thanks to extremely questionable officiating, and the NFL’s most heavily marketed star is once again on top of the world! Just like the old Gypsy woman said!
Was it really that questionable? Maybe I was out of the room, but the only close call I know of is that holding call, and the DB admitted he did it in the postgame interview.
It’s an old chestnut yes, but you can call holding on any play. I would say the officiating was about 60/40 Chiefs, and when it’s a close game (like the conference championship) that can be enough to tip it. It’s not horrible, no, because yeah, when teams are pretty even anything can tip it. But it’s also not great because with reviews and an overall larger focus on officiating it makes it more obvious when officiating makes a difference, and that includes any inconsistencies or weaknesses in the rules (i.e. poor operational definition of a catch)
I don’t think from that tiny jersey grab that the receiver would have caught the ball anyway, so the call is questionable just for that.
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First drive that Eagles had there were multiple missed calls against the eagles, including an illegal hands to the face and offensive PI and holding calls. Completely fucked KC on the first drive. You and I would have both been yelling at the television, holding each other while wearing Mahomes jerseys.
I ate so much food today, but it was all small bites, so it doesn’t count!
That’s my logic for continued snacking tonight. Also, need to save fridge space!
Closing down the night of drinking (read: I’m gonna have three more and then fall asleep) with some old fashioneds.
What protein(s) did you put in your paella?
Chicken thighs and andouille sausage
Yum! Lots of saffron?
I don’t know about lots. I put in what I had, which was maybe a teaspoon full all told?
Forgot to take a picture until half of it was gone, but you get the idea.
That is a lot, it’s powerful stuff! And pricey as fuck.
Welp, I just did the worst I’ve ever done on a Sunday crossword! Gonna go mix another drink and watch some Rick and Morty
Seven more comments until 900…
Six…
Has any city lost the World Series and Superb Owl in the same season?
NOAP
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-11743835/Philadelphia-city-HISTORY-lose-three-straight-sports-championships.html
The soccer one is the real stinger.
“Do we have any bombs left from the MOVE raid?”
~Philadelphia’s Mayor
Ah, MOVE. Up there with the Branch Davidians and the SLA in the police assault hall of fame.
Walking so others can run.
Moar like limp.
Giving my second KC-themed cocktail of the night a try, the Horsefeather. Whiskey, ginger beer, lime, and Angostura bitters. Pretty good!
Well, I am clearly not drunk enough to mark these assignments.
Gumby just told me a story I’ve never heard before, which you wouldn’t think is possible since we’ve been married for 40 years and have known each other for 50. He took 13 percodans once when we were like 18 or 19 and then picked his sister up after she got out of high school. He drove past somebody in the parking lot and slow motion scraped the whole side of the guys car, and then told his sister to get in and they left. He said the guy was looking at him the whole time, but he just did not care!
13 Percodans??!!
When I got my wisdom teeth pulled (in the Navy at Great Lakes using only local anesthetic) they gave me Percodan and told me to take one every 12 hours. So I immediately took three and I travelled into a different dimension.
13 sounds like a lethal dose, and no way he’s driving a car or even figuring out how the door knob works. I don’t doubt the story just the number of Percodans. Sounds like a fish story where the fish keeps getting bigger over the years.
He had built up a tolerance, after massive knee damage from football. You are probably right, he is remembering the wrong number, but I bet it was a bunch.
I’m betting six. That’s a healthy dose, considering you’re supposed to take one.
“Begun, the Gumbyboy Percocet Truther Movement has.” — Yoda
I’m betting closer to 10. Like I said, he took them for a few years. The car thing scared him straight ( ish. ) I remember when he stopped taking them, but I never knew it was that bad. We took a lot of drugs back in the day.
There was a Dr. Feelgood who gave them out like candy when we were in high school. By that time, he’d been taking them for 3 or 4 years. He had to taper off them for many months after the car incident.
I still have 9 of them left over from my surgery.I’m saving them for a special occasion.
Like a fucking lady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXkwBpCZuQ&ab_channel=letsbepandas
PERCODAN ROTS YOUR BRAINS
I think I just cut the fucking cord on DirecTV. Trying YouTube TV and it’s 1/3rd of the price.
Yo DirecTV, come pick up your shee-it!
I lurve YouTube TV! I was Big Mad for awhile, but I got over myself. Congratulations Revanchist!
You should try Fubo. It’s very good.
YouTube is getting Sunday Ticket
Hasn’t the man suffered enough with this Vikings season?
Good evening, gentlepersons!
My hot wings inflicted serious damage on two people, while making another shrug and say “it’s sort of hot,” so I think I hit the window correctly.
Sauce report?
It was basically a bitches’ brew. I melted some butter, and then threw everything I had at it. Some leftover ghost pepper wing sauce? In. Some Carolina reaper powder? In you go. Nashville hot chicken seasoning? Get in the damn saucepan. A little apple cider vinegar to re-establish the acidity, and we’re off to the races.
I should also add that the paella came off well, and I finished it in time for kickoff so I didn’t miss the game due to cooking like I have in many years. (Which often I don’t mind, but this year I correctly expected a good game.)
They’re now playing the American Dad where they go to Philly, there’s an old lady who got a “Fuck Dallas” tattoo, kickass!
I am down with that. Dallas fans are as insufferable as I am trying to be.
You know, I take it back. I’m now looking forward to the Super Mario Bros. Movie.
New Super Mario Bros. Movie Ad Has Surprising Saturday Morning Throwback (msn.com)
@litre No consolation really, but the gin you sent is delicious with a dash of Jamaican bitters and a low sugar punchy ginger beer
Oooh. Sounds good. They do make good spirits.
Welp, now I guess it’s the off-season. So…
See everyone at the next NFL Draft/March Madness/Funeral/Spelling Bee/Intervention!
Ooh, when’s the spelling bee?
That reminds me, I should go do the crossword and do poorly at it cuz I’ve been drinking
It means my ass better get in the kitchen.
Why are the eagles such pussies? Not the good kind, either.
Oh, fun. Meth on the train!
Well NOW it’s a party.
For dentists!
Just another NFL Sunday in Buffalo.
Gary Bettman be like “This is why our refs never call penalties in the Cup finals”
That was in effect before him. He should not get any credit for that.
Well, at least the Beasties are making a few cents off of this
As a stoner, i feel anger is a wasted mood. I am furious right now. Weird feeling.
I am so mad.
If the eagles didn’t cheat, it would have been a different outcome.