I'll bring all the news and hype here and would appreciate all of you doing the same. Plenty of stuff to chat about. Game time is 6:30 pm et.
Belichick is going to his eighth Super Bowl as the Patriots’ head coach. No other head coach has even been to seven Super Bowls, and only Don Shula has coached in six. Belichick is already the only head coach with five Super Bowl rings, and he’s doing it at a time with more teams in the league and with greater parity than the league saw in Shula’s day. Belichick has seven Super Bowl rings when you include the two he won as a Giants assistant coach, and if he gets his eighth in two weeks he’ll be the only person ever to earn eight Super Bowl rings in any role with a team. The only other person with seven Super Bowl rings is a former team executive named Neal Dahlen, who received five Super Bowl rings while working for the 49ers and two while working for the Broncos.
Brady should be escorted right into the HOF as soon as he retires. It doesn't even matter if he wins or loses. 8 SBs as a Starting QB. Unheard of. The AFC just can't compete with Belichik. Except for the Giants neither can the NFC.
Instant HOF for BB and TB... their stats and championship success is mind blowing. True some have had success, but the over-all picture is amazing.
Tom Brady pumped to go to Minnesota for Super Bowl Minnesota won't be hosting their hometown Vikings in the Super Bowl. Instead, perhaps fans can embrace a five-time Super Bowl champion with some local ties? Tom Brady explained on WEEI on Monday his connection to Minnesota. "My mom [Galynn] grew up in central Minnesota, a small town called Browerville," Brady said, via ESPN's Mike Reiss. "My grandparents lived there, and my grandma died of multiple sclerosis quite a few years ago. She was in a nursing home and my grandpa was a farmer; he was a dairy farmer, had a lot of cows and he farmed corn. "So every year we would go back in the summer and spend weeks. We'd go fishing in the summer, ice fishing in the winter, and milk the cows with my grandpa and just kind of tend to the farm. It was a great experience for me, [being] born in California." Brady is set for his eighth Super Bowl when the New England Patriots take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Feb. 4 at U.S. Bank Stadium. The Pats QB played Super Bowls in Houston twice, Arizona twice, New Orleans, Jacksonville and Indianapolis. The game in Minnesota will bring a more home-feel for the four-time Super Bowl MVP. "I've always felt a connection to Minnesota. It will be fun because my uncles live there, my cousins. We were just back there last year when my grandpa passed away," Brady said. "It's just a great place. It's really special to go back there. The last time we played in Minnesota [Week 2 of the 2014 season], I had a lot of people come; a lot of family and extended family. So it will be a lot of great support there in Minnesota too." (NFL.com)
NFL rejects veterans group's Super Bowl ad urging people to stand for the anthem The National Football League has rejected a Super Bowl advertisement from American Veterans urging people to stand for the national anthem. The nation's largest veterans service organization had been invited by the NFL to place an ad in the Super Bowl LII program. AMVET's advertisement included a two-word message - "#PleaseStand." "It's a simple, polite request that represents the sentiment of our membership, particularly those whose missing or paralyzed limbs preclude standing," wrote National Commander Marion Polk in a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. American Veterans accused the NFL of outright censorship by rejecting the advertisement. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy defended the league's decision to ban the American Veterans' advertisement noting that the game day program "is designed for fans to commemorate and celebrate the game, players, teams and the Super Bowl." "It's never been a place for advertising that could be considered by some as a political statement," So, the NFL believes that politely asking people to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner is akin to making a political statement? (FOX News) ________ ____________________ I have lots to say about this, but mums the word. My Granddaddy raised me to never say anything if I don't have anything nice to say. I'll just bite my lip here... besides this is not the place for political banter, I just thought this article was interesting. Must have turned down some major coin too.
Now, Here is some really important news... New England Patriots to wear white in Super Bowl LII As the home team in Super Bowl LII, New England earned its pick of jersey colors in next weekend's big game against the Philadelphia Eagles. With 12 of the last 13 Super Bowl winners wearing white, including last season's Patriots squad, the decision was an easy one for Tom Brady and The Hoodie. New England is a perfect 3-0 in its road whites when Brady has taken the field on Super Bowl Sundays, but the Pats are just 2-2 when the future Hall of Fame quarterback wears the home blue on the big day. The Patriots' decision forces the Eagles to wear their home green uniforms. The last time the Eagles played in the Super Bowl? They lost in green to the Patriots, who donned their road whites. _________ ______________________ So, there you go... now there is no need to watch the game... white uni's for NE means certain victory!
Never thought id say this, but I'm actually considering pulling for the Patriots here. That or just boycott the whole damn thing which is never fun. I was gonna pull for the Eagles, but after the scenes of how Vikings fans were treated before that game, F the Eagles and their POS fanbase. I may not like the Vikings(obvs), but I wouldn't have wanted that kinda treatment even to cheeseheads. No fans should be treated that way. I thought this was meant to be amercian football, not a soccer match in Europe.
Even when the bus left the stadium it was assaulted with cans and bottles. Philly fans are notorious... i'll leave it at that.
It may be boring rooting for the seemingly-perennial champ Pats, but as a Dallas fan, I can't in good conscience EVER root for the Eagles (unless it somehow benefited the Cowboys).
Bill Belichick: Fletcher Cox is as good a defensive lineman as there is Asked this morning about preparing to face the Eagles’ front four in Super Bowl LII, Patriots coach Bill Belichick interrupted and said, “It’s a lot more than four. I wish it was four. It’s about eight, nine.” But when he got to talking about the specific players on the Eagles’ defensive line, it was one who stood out: Fletcher Cox. “Cox is as good as anybody in the league at his position,” Belichick said. “He’s a very disruptive player, hard to block, run, pass, no matter what it is, good edge rush, and they come hard every play, those guys come hard every play. There’s no plays off so you have to block them hard every play.” Belichick said the Eagles’ front is not easy to game plan for. “It’s a very disruptive group, hard to run against, hard to throw against, and they’re well coached, very instinctive in their screens and plays like that that you think will take the edge of the pass rush, don’t look as good as you think — when you run them they don’t look as good as you think they will,” Belichick said. “Draws, screens, play action, they blow those plays up too. They have a lot of good players. They have good inside rushers, good outside rushers.” Keeping that line off Tom Brady will be a tall order for the Patriots. (PFT)
Being a Pittsburgh sports fan, I understand this sentiment completely, but Boston fans are just as obnoxious... well, almost. I really want a cluster of asteroids to hit Earth Super Sunday morning and they just cancel Super Bowl LII altogether, but since New England is in, I want them to lose... and embarrassingly so. Considering EB's perspective and recent events in Philadelphia, this seems pretty silly, but if there is anything good and decent left in this world, the Evil Empire (5-4) will even up their record in Super Bowls. #GoAsteroids!
Damn. Even Vermont and Connecticut is green. CT, I get, since Big Blue has some hold there. VT is the real surprise there.
but Boston fans are just as obnoxious... well, almost. not true, we may have some terrible fans but the crap these guys pull is well beyond anything Ive ever seen in Boston. Even the BC hockey player that just got KOd in an unprovoked attack in Boston was hit by Philly fans!
VT around the NH state line is solid Patriots territory. I experienced it (aka dealt with it) for about a year. Not sure about Burlington and up north, but the Upper River Valley area is Red, Blue and Silver to the effin' hilt.
I wouldn't buy the Patriots not being rooted for outside of Massachusetts. There are Patriots fans everywhere you go, no freaking way everyone is rooting for the Eagles. Steelers, Patriots, Packers & Cowboys have fans anywhere you go in the US and other countries too.
