BBQ vs. Cheesesteaks: Super Bowl LIX thread

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Still pissed about the 1990-91 Trailblazers. They had a one year window between the demise of the Lakers/Pistons and the rise of the Bulls and blew it.

 

[dixiehack]

'01 Rams are still the ones that got away.

(stares menacingly in two-tone blue)

 

[qtlaw]

And as to the champion not being the best team, hockey offers several candidates if we want to extend it to teams that didn't even reach the finals - '71 Bruins, '86 Oilers, '93 Penguins, and '96 Red Wings foremost among them.

Oilers losing on an own goal was brutal.

'90 49ers losing on Craig fumble (without even being touched brutal too).

 

[Batman]

Fred Cox didn't score for the Vikings in Super Bowl IX - missed an extra point and a field goal attempt.

Good catch. I went back to the start of the two-point conversion era in 1994 and forgot about that one.

 

[da man]

Fred Cox didn't score for the Vikings in Super Bowl IX - missed an extra point and a field goal attempt.

But he did invent the nerf football.

 

[mateen]

Fred was a man of many talents - I used to drive by the Cox Chiropractic Clinic (sign out front had a silhouette of a kicker) in Buffalo, MN on the way to the family cabin.

 

[Batman]

Donovan McNabb's vomit and the legend of Tom Brady make us forget that the 2004 Steelers and Eagles both deserve a mention.
The Steelers were 15-1. They lost to the Ravens in Week 2 and then didn't lose again until the AFC championship game. They beat the Patriots in the regular season.
The Eagles were 13-1 before parking the bus for the last two weeks and finishing 13-3, with the one loss to the Steelers. Then they had every chance in the world to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl but let it get away.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

1968 Colts would like a word.

At this point, I don't know if never winning the Super Bowl would be less lamentable for the Jets than pulling a horseshoe (!!!!) out of their ass in January 1969. Somehow, I think, they'd feel less hexed and lame if they'd simply lost to the Colts 23-7 and were still seeking their first title of any type.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

A quick scan of box scores showed an odd stat: This was only the second Super Bowl in which one team's kicker did not score a point. The Chiefs went for two after all three touchdowns, so Harrison Butker never even tried a field goal or PAT.
First was Super Bowl 48, when the Broncos went for a two-point conversion after their only touchdown against the Seahawks.

I can't take credit for this one (heck I may have even seen it on this thread) but Butker was neither seen nor heard Sunday, much like his ideal of the perfect woman.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

And as to the champion not being the best team, hockey offers several candidates if we want to extend it to teams that didn't even reach the finals - '71 Bruins, '86 Oilers, '93 Penguins, and '96 Red Wings foremost among them.

Can add some recent candidates there too...the '11 Canucks, '16-17 Capitals, the '19 Lightning (though that laid the foundation for the back-to-back titles) & the '23 Bruins.

 

[dixiehack]

I can't take credit for this one (heck I may have even seen it on this thread) but Butker was neither seen nor heard Sunday, much like his ideal of the perfect woman.

Saw one that said he'd have made a bigger impact Sunday if he had stayed home to cook, clean and watch his kids.

 

[Batman]

Saw one that said he'd have made a bigger impact Sunday if he had stayed home to cook, clean and watch his kids.

That's the one I saw, and what made me look up the stat.