This was a pretty good game, unless you like defense. I will leave most of the political commentary in the capable hands of others.<fn> <img attachment="super-bowl-lvii-philadelphia-eagles-kansas-city-chiefs-247562692.jpeg" align="right"><ul> Zelensky 🇺🇦 video call, of course Marine Corps 🎖 Military Color Guard 🪖 Jets flying over the stadium 🛩 Three or four songs to start it off? ✅ The National Anthem was a very nice rendition by Chris Stapleton 🎸 Coaches and players crying like bitches? 😭 Oh, yeah. Giant American flag? 🇺🇸 Yup. Soldiers and wars mentioned all the time in the run-up? Yup. Paeans to America? Oh yeah. Mentioning 9--11? Yup. Pretending that Pat Tillman wasn't anti-war<fn> and wasn't murdered by friendly fire? Yup. 2h19m into the coverage and still no kickoff? ✅ <div>The first quarter saw the teams trade a couple of touchdowns 🏈 🏈 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 7 -- 7 PHI</info> </div> First-quarter 🕒 <div>Eagles 🦅 quarterback Hurts starts the second quarter with a long bomb for a touchdown in the first eight seconds. 🏈 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 7 -- <b>14 PHI</b></info> </div> <div>But the Eagles fumble halfway through the second quarter and gift the Chiefs a touchdown. 🏈 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 14 -- 14 PHI</info> </div> <div>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. 🏈 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 14 -- <b>21 PHI</b></info> </div> 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. <div>Philly settles for a field goal and the first half ends. <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 14 -- <b>PHI 24</b></info> </div> Half-time. 🕕 Rihanna is high up on a platform. The songs are a mess. It's fifteen minutes long, but feels longer. Lots of fireworks. 🎆 <div>KC gets a touchdown 🏈 in the first five minutes, then quickly gets the Eagles to cough up a fumble and scores on that, too. It's called back ⛔️ 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 🇩🇪 announcers had it 100% right, though. <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 21 -- <b>PHI 24</b></info> </div> Next are a bunch of ⚠️ 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. <div>Eagles settle for another field goal. 🏈 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 21 -- <b>PHI 27</b></info> </div> Fourth quarter begins. 🕤 <div>Kansas City comes marches up the field quickly for a touchdown, on a nice positioning fake-out for an easy walk-in. 🏈 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%"><b>KC 28</b> -- PHI 27</info> </div> <div>KC puts tremendous pressure on Hurts and they're forced to punt. and KC is back on the offense. KC gets another one. 🏈 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%"><b>KC 35</b> -- PHI 27</info> </div> <div>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 <info style="text-align: center" width="20%">KC 35 -- PHI 35</info> </div> Five minutes left and it's all tied up. 🕚 KC gets up the field---with a run from Mahomes---and 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. <div>Field goal KC with 00:08 remaining <info style="text-align: center" width="20%"><b>KC 38</b> -- PHI 35</info> </div> Hail Mary from Hurts goes nowhere, falling harmlessly into the middle of the field. </ul> <hr> <ft>The article <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/15/ssjr-f15.html" author="Kevin Reed" source="WSWS">Super Bowl LVII: Money, militarism, spectacle … and football</a> described how, <ul> Tickets averaged $5000 The pilots of the jets were all-female Rihanna is worth about $1.2B Etc. </ul></ft> <ft>See <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/pat-tillman" author="Brett Wilkins" source="Common Dreams">Anti-War Voices Accuse Super Bowl of 'Hijacking the Pat Tillman Story'</a>, <bq>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.</bq></ft>