Super Bowl I Halftime Show- January 15, 1967 Los Angeles Coliseum
Welcome to the halftime edition of WM.
It’s very clearly an Eagles crowd there in Glendale, as evidenced by the cascade of boos that rained down on Dak Prescott when he was named the Walter Payton NFL man of the year. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before, but then again these are the same folks who booed Santa Claus.
Each team’s second TD was a classic. And Jalen Hurts was responsible for both of them. The TD he threw was placed perfectly… the Chiefs cornerback couldn’t have covered it any better.
But then he fumbled almost out of nowhere and kicked the ball away, allowing KC to recover and score the tying TD. He’s rushed for the other two Eagle TD’s.
And now Patrick Mahomes is hobbling off the field. Not good.
My favorite commercial so far was the old man doing the Safety Dance near the water fountains (Turbo Tax). The Will Ferrell commercial was pretty good too. I suppose it was fun for Bradley Cooper to do a commercial with his Mom, but I thought that one was stupid.
One again, I think the fact that we are playing this game on Lincoln's birthday is ridiculous. Football season should have been over three weeks ago.
OTHER SPORTS: Big Week For Trades
I'm going to get more into the state of our non-football winter teams next week, but I'd be remiss if I didn't discuss the trades that were made last week by the Knicks, Rangers and especially the Nets.
We'll start with the Nets- Having dealt both Kyrie Irving (to Dallas) and Kevin Durant (to Phoenix) after having dealt James Harden last year (to Philly) it's been said that this was the biggest flop in NBA history. To have tried to create a dream team of future Hall of Famers to try and capture multiple championships and have that effort not only fall way short of the goal, but to see of the parts like so much scrap metal.
While I agree this has to sting if you are a Nets fan, I still submit that the trade for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce was way more damaging.
The Garnett/Pierce Nets team, like this Durant/Kyrie team won a grand total of one playoff series. But to acquire Garnett and Pierce, the Nets gave up a bunch of players and a slew of draft picks, the worst of which was a draft swap in 2017, that gifted the Celtics the overall first pick in the whole draft.
At least for Kyrie and Durant, it just cost them money and they were able to recoup draft picks. They had absolutely nothing to show for Garnett and Pierce.
Now of course the Nets could still screw this all up by drafting busts, or trading the picks for players who don't live up to the hype, but at least they are in a position to do remake the franchise. The Nets in 2017 were bereft of talent and also of a means to restock the cupboard as it were.
As for Kyrie, my first thought was what Uncle Junior Soprano said of Jackie Aprile Jr. after Jackie Jr.'s funeral...
"Kid was always a dumb f-ck though, wasn't he?"
Between his refusal to get vaccinated for COVID-19 which cost him playing time, his endorsement of an anti-sematic movie, and his refusal to play in some games pre-COVID, his time here in Brooklyn was much more trouble than it was worth. He made it impossible to root for him.
The easy thing to say is that the Nets organization should have known about all this crap before they signed him, as he pulled similar stunts in Cleveland and Boston beforehand, at one point suggesting the Earth was flat. I'd love to say I wouldn't want a dick like that on my team, but I also know that I root for a team that hasn't won since two months before I was born. (For those of you counting at home, that's 50 years this year). I get the notion of holding your nose as you hope these guys get you over the top. But when they flop, like is what happened here, it stings even more.
As for the Knicks, they traded a guy who barely played in Cam Reddish, for a guy who looks like he can be useful in Josh Hart. From what I've read about him, he's a decent scorer, but is more known for his defense and rebounding. If Julius Randle, Jalen Brunson and RJ Barrett score like they are capable, then they don't need another guy scoring 20 ppg, they need a guy to clean up on the boards and get stops on the other side of the court. Sounds like they got just the guy for the job.
Plus , it was nice for a change to hear people talk about the Nets as dysfunctional, as opposed to the Knicks who have been the definition of dysfunctional for most of the 21st Century.
The Rangers meantime traded a guy whose always hurt (or so it seems) and a minor leaguer (albeit one with an amazing hockey name) for Vladimir Tarasenko and defenseman Niko Mikkola. Tarasenko has been a consistent 30 goal scorer, and is good friends with Ranger star Aretmi Panarin. The Rangers dealt the oft-injured, and inconsistent when healthy Sammy Blais, and a youngster named Hunter Skinner. I don't know much about him, but if you were on the ice, or anywhere else for that matter, would you mess with a guy named Hunter Skinner?
Me neither.
I’m wondering if Roger Goodell is going to ring up Adam Silver and politely request the NBA move their trade deadline a couple weeks out next year.
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I like to consider myself somewhat social media savvy, but I have to admit I had never heard of the term thirst trap until this week when it was used in relation to recently retired QB Tom Brady. Brady took a selfie of himself in his underwear and posted it on his Instagram account, the same method he used incidentally, to announce his latest retirement.
According to the Urban Dictionary-Thirst Trap. A sexy photograph or flirty message posted on social media for the intent of causing others to publicly profess their attraction.
Now seeing Brady in his underwear does nothing for me, but I will admit this, I'd rather see him in his draws than in full NFL uniform facing off against my Jets. He is quite possibly the main reason I haven't been able to enjoy football for most of this current century.
Seems to me that for at least one or two days every February, you have spring like weather, almost a gift from Mother Nature. We had two days last week, Thursday and Friday that felt like late April.
Of course we also get a couple days in March and April that feel like mid January. We'll see if that happens again this year.
Stay Safe
and Enjoy the Rest of the Game
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