Super Bowl LVII
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]
- Zelensky πΊπ¦ video call, of course
- Marine Corps π
- Military Color Guard πͺ
- Jets flying over the stadium π©
- Three or four songs to start it off? β
- The National Anthem was a very nice rendition by Chris Stapleton πΈ
- Coaches and players crying like bitches? π Oh, yeah.
- Giant American flag? πΊπΈ Yup.
- Soldiers and wars mentioned all the time in the run-up? Yup.
- Paeans to America? Oh yeah.
- Mentioning 9β11? Yup.
- Pretending that Pat Tillman wasn’t anti-war[2] and wasn’t murdered by friendly fire? Yup.
- 2h19m into the coverage and still no kickoff? β
The first quarter saw the teams trade a couple of touchdowns π π
KC 7 β 7 PHI- First-quarter π
Eagles π¦ quarterback Hurts starts the second quarter with a long bomb for a touchdown in the first eight seconds. π
KC 7 β 14 PHIBut the Eagles fumble halfway through the second quarter and gift the Chiefs a touchdown. π
KC 14 β 14 PHIHurts 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
KC 14 β 21 PHI- Mahomes makes a poor quarterback run of his own and is tackled on his injured ankle. Philly gets the ball back and makes a run down the field.
Philly settles for a field goal and the first half ends.
KC 14 β PHI 24- Half-time. π
- Rihanna is high up on a platform. The songs are a mess. It’s fifteen minutes long, but feels longer. Lots of fireworks. π
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.
KC 21 β PHI 24- Next are a bunch of β οΈ flags with questioned calls. Philly gets a razor-thin decision on a catch/not-catch, gets the ball back, and KC loses a time-out.
Eagles settle for another field goal. π
KC 21 β PHI 27- Fourth quarter begins. 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 28 β PHI 27KC puts tremendous pressure on Hurts and they’re forced to punt. and KC is back on the offense. KC gets another one. π
KC 35 β PHI 27A 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
KC 35 β PHI 35- Five minutes left and it’s all tied up. π
- KC gets up the fieldβwith a run from Mahomesβand gets within TD range. They’re a bit early, though. So, they need to waste time before kicking a field goal. The Eagles help them out by holding on a play, giving them a new first down. Chiefs are wasting as much time as they can. It’s 3rd and 5 with less than a minute. They’re at the 7-yard line.
Field goal KC with 00:08 remaining
KC 38 β PHI 35- Hail Mary from Hurts goes nowhere, falling harmlessly into the middle of the field.
The article Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle β¦ and football by Kevin Reed (WSWS) described how,
- Tickets averaged $5000
- The pilots of the jets were all-female
- Rihanna is worth about $1.2B
- Etc.
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.”