Of the three legitimate franchises in the NFC West, I’ll take Seattle every time
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Seattle went through the entire playoffs without a turnover. First SB winner to do that. Quite surprising given Darnold’s late season turnovers.
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NE fan - my hope for the game was that they played well and would then have a chance. a big NE win was the only result I thought was off the table.
the chance I figured they could have depended on SEA making more mistakes than they did. well,the NE defense was pretty good IMO. But the offense was just blown up all night long (except for garbage time).
SEA was so much the better team all night and good for them. and darnold. as was said above, darnold w a good OLine can deal with some talent to work with.
Halftime I thought was a cool show. didn’t understand it until the very end. the visuals were cool. i can see why BB is popular - the music was fun.
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The Conference champions get a ring, even if they lose the Super Bowl.
While in a race, second place is the “first loser,” but in playoff sports, second place is the “last loser.”
Trivia: How many NFL Football teams won their last game this season?
Answer here
SEA
CLE
LV
NYG
WAS
DET
MIN
TB
ATL
My logic:
14 playoff teams, with only one win there. 18 non-playoff teams. With parity and, presumably, with several non-playoff teams playing non-playoff teams, I’d expect only slightly less than .500 with those teams. So 8 more wins there. It’d be interesting to see how much this varies year to year, but I’m too lazy to try. Probably not much, I’d think.
iirc, TB still had something to play for and LV had nothing to lose since they already clinched the first pick. The other teams need to get better at tanking.
Tell Trump the Grey Cup is 111-1 in favour of Canada.
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Whoa! Wait! There was a 1?
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I also just discovered that the league is down to 1 Roughriders.
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The CFL expanded to the US briefly in the 1990s and the Baltimore Stallions won a Grey Cup.
The NFL was never going to expand to Baltimore after the Colts left. So the market was good for a CFL expansion team in Baltimore as the fan base had a lot of pent up anger at the NFL. Then Art Modell announced he was in talks with Baltimore about moving the Browns, so the CFL team knew it could not compete with the NFL and effectively “moved” to Montreal right after winning the Grey Cup.
The CFL had a variety of US teams so it was possible to win one Grey Cup.
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Most Americans are unaware. It was a total flop.
I don’t remember if I was aware. Followed CFL peripherally when you had guys like Flutie and Moon
Never cared about the WFL, UFL, XFL… - except when they started raiding decent players from the NFL in the 70s
NFL Europe was so much better
Up until the 60s, the CFL could compete with the NFL on player salaries. But NFL revenue exploded and the CFL just became a league for players who couldn’t make an NFL team. There are still a lot of good players in the CFL but lower quality than NFL.
An analogy between CFL and NFL may be MLS and European soccer leagues.
Pretty insulting to the CFL.
I was both aware and knew it was total flop.