This was a pretty good game, unless you like defense. I will leave most of the political commentary in the capable hands of others.[1]
The first quarter saw the teams trade a couple of touchdowns π π
Eagles π¦ quarterback Hurts starts the second quarter with a long bomb for a touchdown in the first eight seconds. π
But the Eagles fumble halfway through the second quarter and gift the Chiefs a touchdown. π
Hurts again: long run on his own to set up 4th and 2 at the 6. Chiefs with illegal motion and it’s 1st and goal. Hurts runs it in himself on the first play. π
Philly settles for a field goal and the first half ends.
KC gets a touchdown π in the first five minutes, then quickly gets the Eagles to cough up a fumble and scores on that, too. It’s called back βοΈ because the received did not have control of the ball, which is a totally bizarre call because it very much looked like he did. The German π©πͺ announcers had it 100% right, though.
Eagles settle for another field goal. π
Kansas City comes marches up the field quickly for a touchdown, on a nice positioning fake-out for an easy walk-in. π
KC puts tremendous pressure on Hurts and they’re forced to punt. and KC is back on the offense. KC gets another one. π
A quick drive, a long pass, an unfortunate step out-of-bounds two yards before the end zone, but then a quarterback sneak, a two-point conversion, and it’s
Field goal KC with 00:08 remaining
The article Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle β¦ and football by Kevin Reed (WSWS) described how,
See Anti-War Voices Accuse Super Bowl of ‘Hijacking the Pat Tillman Story’ by Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams),
↩“However, the army knew in the days immediately following Tillman’s death that he had been shot three times in the head from less than 30 feet away by so-called “friendly fire,” and that U.S. troops had burned his uniform and body armor in a bid to conceal their fatal error.”