The Shrine

Why would you throw when you're literally 1/2 yard away when you have Marshawn Lynch on your roaster and time to spare, easily the worst decision I've ever seen.

That sounds like a play they'd run in a sports manga because nobody would ever expect it for the wrong reason.

I was seeing comments like "You wouldn't even run that play in Madden".

I'll just leave this here.



https://twitter.com/RiggedNFL/status/507654760174850048

Could be a rigged account, post all the combinations, delete all but this one...

Or it might explain an awful lot.

I find it humorous that even taking this out of the equation only leaves, like, four or five genuinely unethical and possibly illegal things the Pats did to cheat their way to the top over the last few years.

I saw this theory that they passed the ball so that Wilson can be the MVP for making the winning touchdown. It's far fetched but it's literally the only thing that'd remotely make sense for making a play like that. The offense coordinator said they're trying to use up the clock, never mind that the both a touchdown and an incomplete pass would stop the clock. Well, it sort of worked because the interception indeed used up all the clock.

No matter how you slice it, the Pats are some of the worst cheaters in NFL history, the only question to me is, did they "only" cheat using spied-on playbooks, deflated balls, and so on, or did they actually have the entire game rigged...

In any case, ask Odin Lloyd's family whether or not Belichick and Brady and company are "heroes" or not.

Don wrote:I saw this theory that they passed the ball so that Wilson can be the MVP for making the winning touchdown.

I actually agree with that. It's the only thing that makes sense to me. That being said hindsight is 20/20, they could have gone for a run and Marshawn could have fumbled, but geezus.

LMAO, do you actually think this was an honest game Eric?

That was a crazy game, for sure. The Pats looked so confident as Brady marched down the field, TWICE, in in the 4th quarter and smoothly scored touchdowns. The way they played the 4th quarter, i thought they were the better team and deserved the win.

I love how Belichick could have used a timeout there, before that game ending interception, but decided not to. Its the Super Bowl, and the patriots were willing to go for a goal line stop as opposed to letting the Seahawks score and getting the ball back with time. That was gutsy and the defense probably was hyped on the faith he put in them.

Flip wrote:That was a crazy game, for sure. The Pats looked so confident as Brady marched down the field, TWICE, in in the 4th quarter and smoothly scored touchdowns. The way they played the 4th quarter, i thought they were the better team and deserved the win.

I love how Belichick could have used a timeout there, before that game ending interception, but decided not to. Its the Super Bowl, and the patriots were willing to go for a goal line stop as opposed to letting the Seahawks score and getting the ball back with time. That was gutsy and the defense probably was hyped on the faith he put in them.

Yeah no shit, I was also wondering if that was bad clock management but that was a ballsy decision to make and it worked out heh.

This is my favorite thing ever and it's all thanks to their terrible play call.

Eric wrote:

Flip wrote:That was a crazy game, for sure. The Pats looked so confident as Brady marched down the field, TWICE, in in the 4th quarter and smoothly scored touchdowns. The way they played the 4th quarter, i thought they were the better team and deserved the win.

I love how Belichick could have used a timeout there, before that game ending interception, but decided not to. Its the Super Bowl, and the patriots were willing to go for a goal line stop as opposed to letting the Seahawks score and getting the ball back with time. That was gutsy and the defense probably was hyped on the faith he put in them.

Yeah no shit, I was also wondering if that was bad clock management but that was a ballsy decision to make and it worked out heh.

The way i saw it, i could see Belichick thinking, "Fuck it, we're in the Super Bowl, you want to win, you need to run over our defense to get there. We're the Patriots, goddamn it, we're not going to give you a touchdown, come get it if you can."

And then Seattle fucked up. That was a hard nosed football decision, right there. Put the pressure on them to execute, dont let them just prance in the end zone so you can have, what, 30 seconds to try and score afterwards? Loved it.

Hahaha that's great.

lol too good. =D

Vine is my latest way to kill a couple of minutes while waiting for things.

Does nobody actually care that the winning team cheated its way to the top over several seasons of spying, bounties, and other dubious tactics and that Aaron Hernandez happened to be watching the thing from prison after killing four people while employed by the Pats?

Belichick should have been ejected from the league a long time ago at minimum. The Pats are cheats at minimum; maybe even institutionalized crooks.

It legit scares me that people will cheer for this team after Hernandez killed four people while rolling around on money the Pats were paying him.

These are not heroes, people.

The league is investigating the stupid deflated ball, i wouldnt get all caught up about it. The Patiots have already been punished for the spying, and you cant blame the team for Hernandez being a thug. If that was the case, every team would have problems. I feel like the Patriots did a good job dismissing Hernandez right away after he was accused, they saw the writing on the wall and cut ties FAST. No one is idolizing the players as heroes, it was just a damn interesting way to end a game.

Even while defending the Patriots, i dont like football all that much anyways. I agree that criminal players seems to be too common and the whole college football landscape is riddled with abuse. But, in a lot of sports people try to bend the rules.

Man, the teams either know about these player scandals or choose not to, you saw what they did with Ray Rice.

I read the Rolling Stone timeline...if Belichick didn't know Aaron was strung out on sherm weeks before he really collapsed, he is an idiot...and Bill Belichick may be called many names, but an idiot is not one of them.

The Pats may have won, but I feel like the country has lost.

A little late to this party. But the Patriots not calling the time out forced the Seahawks to throw so in case it was an incomplete, it would stop the clock. If it was a catch, game over.

But you know how that ended. Also, I think I heard somewhere that 4 out of 5 times this season when they were in the same situation at the 1, Lynch was stopped.

As for the deflate gate, the new evidence is that the Colts may have tampered with the footballs.....and even if they did, it was all moot anyway since the Patriots were using the Colts's football through most of the game (each team gets 12 balls).

I hate the Pats. I thought that patriotism in America implied honor. Seriously, let the air out of their trophy too.