56 points

I’m surprised. I’ve only seen Taylor 3x now. I was expecting more.

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24 points

KC isn’t doing great. Not many opportunities to show her celebrating.

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11 points

Is the game worth tuning into? I maybe catch 2-3 games a season but I almost never watch the super bowl any more because its like, never a good exciting, close game.

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21 points

It was a fucking nail biter!

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18 points

KC just tied it, so the last few minutes might be worth it

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Though plenty would disagree I’m sure, I’d say it was one of the best Superbowls ever. Both defensive squads played their hearts out and the game was 75 minutes of back and forth scrambling. Kind of sad that Mahomes won the MVP, he had a pretty meh game (by his normal standards). It was their defense that deserves credit for the win, hell even Butker more so than Mahomes. The fact that they broke the old field goal distance record three times in this one game is crazy.

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Overtime now, wild game really!

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4 points

Yeah, neither team is playing well tonight, but the chiefs have just been off form all game except the 4th quarter.

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1 point

Not great? Kelce had 9 catches for about 100 yards. Don’t care about the the media coverage.

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4 points

They were doing awful in the first half. Their offense couldn’t get a first down to save their lives. Kelce had one reception for one yard.

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7 points

Our channel was 14 times in all

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53 points

Can someone provide some context here? Why is he screaming at a coach?

Also side note: why is that even vaguely tolerable behavior for a professional sports player / role model?

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He had one target for one yard in the first half. Travis Kelce is the best TE currently in the NFL and considered to be the third best ever to play the game.

Since all the receivers for the Chiefs are mid at best this year, he’s got some reason to be pissed. One of them, Kadarius Toney, was put on the gameday injury report for the AFCCG as being out for a leg injury and “personal reasons”. He then went public saying his leg was perfectly fine and he had no personal reasons to skip the game… Basically clarifying that the actual reason he wasn’t playing was because he’s ass.

But Travis Kelce was also being guarded by Fred Warner during the first half who is one of the best linebackers in NFL history.

It could be a diva moment, sure. But it’s the Super Bowl. Good teams know that you trust your studs. Romo would throw to Dez in double or triple team coverage, knowing he’d come down with it. Peyton Manning would chuck it at Marvin Harrison no matter who was on him. When someone is that good, all you’ve got to do is get the ball in their vicinity. Either they’ll come down with it or they’ll keep the defenders from getting it.

It’s still stupid to yell at your coach like that and physically push him, but Andy Reid was making a lot of boneheaded decisions in the first. They went into halftime down 10-3. They did change things up during the second half, though. Kelce ended up with 9 receptions for 93 yards while the Chiefs won 25-22 in OT.

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I understood nothing. But I feel like you know what you are talking about. I heard about that Payton guy.

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8 points

That sounds very unsportsmanlike. He is better than everyone so gets mad when he doesn’t always get to play?!? That’s not ok. That’s real loser behavior.

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17 points

Its not a participation award game. It’s the game of games. It’s not about kelce not getting to play. It’s about the chiefs losing because they’re not utilizing their best weapon. It’s a team sport and you’re watching your team lose because you’re not being used.

Imagine being on a competitive team project and you’re the best speaker presenting to the state but your teacher decides to let the shy kids try to present, clearly bumbling and being incoherent, letting your opponents out argue every point your peers are making when you clearly can out speak them. You’d be pretty upset with your teacher for getting you to states, you being the reason you’re there, and then once you’re there you’re sidelined.

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6 points

Maybe the coach knows better than the player though.

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I agree on his decision. Yeah they were down a touchdown and extra point at the end of the first half, but the 49ers tired themselves out while Kelcey was just getting started.

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5 points

Eh, sitting through Packers games during the McCarthy years, I wouldn’t assume that.

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5 points

some of these are words, yes.

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2 points

Yeah, I’m still confused too 😆

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3 points

I believe in this case, Kelce missed the block on the player that caused the fumble, or maybe it was a different tight end.

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9 points

This is it. The 2nd string tight end was in for that play and whiffed on the block that led to the fumble. Kelce was screaming “Leave me in, leave me in,” which is a fair point because he’s a monster blocker. I’d give the edge to Kittle for blocking, but still really good.

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7 points

Kelce wasn’t in the game when that fumble happened, but he would have been in position to make that block. He was basically telling Reid to leave him in the game because it’s the Super Bowl and he’s the better player.

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I still don’t understand why he was yelling though. What did the coach do that he was angry about?

edit: Oh, he wasn’t playing him? Yeah that makes more sense.

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29 points

why is that even vaguely tolerable behavior for a professional sports player / role model?

From what I’ve seen over the years acting like a complete dick head is just part of the sport.

They are over paid Neanderthals for the most part.

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1 point

Not a huge sports fan or competitive player, but you will see a great deal of confidence/arrogance in the elite in many fields (even when the elite aren’t chosen by competence). This guy, whose existence I wasn’t even aware of a month ago, is certainly in that category.

As for overpaid, I don’t agree. Overvalued, certainly.

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As for overpaid, I don’t agree. Overvalued, certainly.

The two are synonymous as far as I am concerned. What do you consider the difference?

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21 points

The chiefs fumbled, and that guy thought he should have been in, so they wouldn’t have lost the ball. I believe that he is screaming, “just leave me in the game” like every play.

Why it’s tolerated, not sure.

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19 points

Cause he’s one of the best tight ends to ever play the game. Might be addressed in the off-season though.

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8 points

Nah, the screaming is uncalled for no matter who you are. I don’t care how many sports he balled.

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Let’s hope he doesn’t Icarus the fuck out. It wasn’t even close to his best season. The chiefs are doing this whole villains thing anyway. Maybe it gets them three in a row but I know if you even if you’re just pretending to be a villian you start looking at yourself that way. It’s just not sustainable.

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8 points

He brings in an enormous amount of money for the team and league. Make enough money and you can treat whoever you want, however you want. It’s not morally right, but it’s true.

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6 points

It’s tolerated because he’s literally the best player in his position in the entire world (and one of the best in the history of the entire sport). What are the going to do? Get rid of him?

If you’re not one of the best, the behavior is not tolerated as much.

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4 points

Why it’s tolerated, not sure.

Andy Reid tolerated it because he knows that the violent psychopaths playing for him are hopped up on a variety of drugs and need to be cut a little slack.

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2 points

Let’s say you got 2 people whose job it is to write job proposals. One guy does it, and the company wins the job and people have work. The other guy just doesn’t write the proposal. The job goes somewhere else and people are laid off. This is the first guy yelling at his boss to let him write the 2nd proposal. Youre the boss. Do you tolerate the yelling, or do you tolerate the failure to do the job?

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Neither. I fire the person who doesn’t write the proposal and I discipline the yeller. If I’m the boss, I’m not about to nurture a culture where any employee who thinks they know better than me gets to barge into my office to scream in my face.

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1 point

So you do what Reid did then…

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1 point

None of these people will ever be laid off lol

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1 point

You realize they fire a ton of people every year in the NFL, right? Kelce will eventually be one of them when he gets old, unless he decides he’s done before he isn’t good anymore.

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43 points

She’d just buy the whole team and make his life miserable

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A billion dollars net worth is not rich enough to buy a Superbowl champion NFL team. Not even close to enough.

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16 points

Not enough to buy Bortles Era Jacksonville Jags, much less now when they are somehow much worse.

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36 points

Bortles!

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4 points

I agree about your point, but their point was if they lost.

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4 points

She’s still not rich enough to buy the worst team in the NFL. You’d still need about $5-6B just to get interest.

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If they lost they still be Superbowl champions since they won last year too

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Dude must absolutely crush it in bed, cuz he looks like a giant red flag otherwise.

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29 points

I was planning on losing, but since you insist…

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