Let the second-guessing begin.
McVay with yet another play call that outsmarts even himself. Kind of incredible he’s in the Super Bowl for a 2nd time, given some of the dumb shit he and Stafford do. Solid punt return, we’ll see if Cincinnati can finally string some offense together.
More ads: Jurassic Park trailer - awesome. If the move sucks, I’ll be pissed. Carvana - fine, but again … slow-developing ad that I think people won’t remember. Hologic - love the ad’s intent. Don’t think … well, you know. The Coinbase ad: whoever made that up is laughing their ass off that they got paid however much money to put that however many seconds of shit together. Avocados? Cute, will be better if there’s a couple more during the game.
Cincinnati gets on the board with a FG after a long pass from Burrows to Chase, and then they stall out around the 10. And then the Rams run a play, go hurry up and line up like they’ll get another snap off before the end of the quarter, and don’t (by design). Almost feels like 14-dimensional chess there.
Doritos commercial: funny, but I feel like they could have done better.
Meta: OK, I hate the company, will never use its products, but I give them credit for a solid commercial.
Nope trailer: I totally agree.
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McVay makes up for the score from his last time in the Super Bowl. I was really hoping for a 2-point conversion by the defense, for no other reason than some poor bastard who had 3 and 5 on squares and thinks goddamn it, I’m never winning anything with that has a moment of joy and hope.
Cleveland is in a pickle now; I don’t think I’d rely on coming back from down 17+ again.
Michelob Light commercial: that was great.
Chevy Silverado commercial: what the hell is it with slow-developing ads this year?
I think there was something else in there, but I don’t remember what - which tells you everything you need to know.
Bengals have a great drive, eats up a little time but they move it down the field well. Ends with a halfback pass from Mixon to Higgins. Exactly what they needed.
OBJ down injured. Replays show the left knee buckled; that didn’t look good. If he’s out, that’s going to be a huge blow for the Rams.
Rocket Mortgage - Anna Kendrick was great. Here’s a fixer-upper - hilarious.
Disney - all the goats. OK, funny enough.
WeatherTech - great commercial. I kind of want that crew to show up at my house and do that.
T-Mobile: getting better.
Uber Eats: funny.
Caesars Sportsbook: “Caesar tells the jokes around here.” 
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Maybe it’s always been this way and I’ve just gotten old, but it seems that commercials try to be funny by being stupid instead of being funny. :heynow:
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I really would like to see a rams field goal for the next score.
Stafford does Stafford things. Bengals have 2 minutes to drive 80 [after an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty] 90 yards and score, plus they get the ball to start the 2nd half.
Cincinnati acting like it’s got 8 minutes to play with, no urgency to this drive at all. Then they get a 3rd-and-6, still on their own 25, and take a time out instead of forcing the Rams to take a time out. [Which would have put the Rams down to 1 time out, then with the Rams taking a time out on the sack would have left them with none.]
Larry David is right about FTX: it won’t last.
Stafford is throwing rainbows hoping for miracles. Burrows will [better] take a knee, and we’ll go into the half 13-10.
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That was a pretty damn good halftime show. All the haters are incredibly disappointed and are desperately searching for other reasons to hate the shit out of hit. Eminem was the weakest part of it IMO, they could have done a lot better with him.
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I used the opportunity for a bathroom break. It’s not my genre. My genre ended 272 years ago. I’m not offended that a large group of people have a different taste in music than I do. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I really need both teams to score a field goal.
I really dislike that all-black-with-orange-outline-B on the bengals’ coach’s baseball cap.
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This has escalated quickly. Burrow to Chase on a huge strike to start the 3rd (little help from a facemask by Chase on Ramsey), then Stafford with an INT on a throw that goes off the hands of his receiver.
Burrow picks up a huge 4th-and-1 conversion, and then it stalls out. Rams fortunate to hold that to a FG, Cincinnati up 20-13. Matches their largest-ever lead in a Super Bowl [they led the 49ers 13-6 in SB XXIII].
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McVay with another brilliant play call [why not just keep doing what you’re doing, throw 7-10 yards down the field?] and Kupp wildly overthrows Stafford. Matt Nagy watched that and got furious at himself for not trying to run that play at least 3x a game.
Rams get the FG, though, and force a 3-and-out. Kind of an important drive coming up.
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woo hoo!
From here on out, only score ten points at a time.
Stafford gets sacked, and goes limping off the field. Which, I think he did in at least half the games this year. Looks like the angle got rolled over, so he’ll be hobbling the rest of the night.
The GM commercial with Dr. Evil. Hilarious.
Rams defense is now getting to Burrow. He needed to throw that one away. Bengals are going to have to adjust; the quick-throw, dump-it-out that was going on earlier is what they need to counter that.
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So, each teams only scores multiples of 10? And 0 by both is even OK?
Yes, I need Rams to end with a 6 and Bengals to end with a 0.
…but it just gets me into a drawing with everyone else who was assigned those numbers.
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Now Burrow goes limping off, and the Bengals take an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to boot. Rams should end up with pretty decent field position after this.
It’ll be a battle of gimpy QBs the rest of the way.
Stafford can’t do much, Rams continue to suck at running the ball.
Mixon starts with a decent run. Bengals can probably salt this away if they can put together a long drive and score.
How many times do I get to vote for mvp? I keep voting for defensive players.
Rams driving. If Stafford leads them to a TD here, the Bengals are in real trouble.
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