Super Bowl ICE: It's official, the game has been overshadowed.

Today was Goodell's Super Bowl LX press conference, and his plate was full.

• For the second time, Goodell denied a $5,000,000 fine had been levied on the Seahawks for violations with respect to their ownership situation. I'd have to agree:  If things had gotten that far, I'd have to think the Rams would be in the Super Bowl.   
• Bad Bunny was raised, in light of statements that there are no planned immigration operations scheduled for the game.  Goodell looked forward to Bunny's performance, hoping it will unify (it won't, Terrorist Point USA has announced it's lineup too), and saying the Grammy winner understands the weight of the platform.  If anything happens as I expect, the NFL is also going to pay a heavy price.   
• Epstein was raised.  At least a pre-investigation will be held on Giants co-owner Steve Tisch.  From there, Goodell believes reporters are getting ahead of themselves.  No surprise.  Especially with even David Stern now probably a client, one almost has to wonder when we are going to find out Goodell was too -- that you don't get that high on the food chain without it.  And if we're going to investigate Tisch, how about the owners in New England, Washington, and Carolina?   
• The Belichick Hall of Fame controversy was also raised.  Goodell believes Belichick will be in Canton.
• The officiating got compliments from Goodell as to the quality of the officials.  Doing their jobs well.  Just not the jobs most people think the officials SHOULD be doing.    
• The Rooney Rule, in the face of ten white NFL head coaching hires, will be re-evaluated.  Does ANYONE see this as a surprise in White Right Donald Trump America?    

Super Bowl ICE: Bad Bunny appears to be preparing for a showdown...

Bad Bunny won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, last night at the 68th annual awards.

He had this to say about ICE, drawing a standing ovation at the event, courtesy Entertainment Tonight:

 

Sounds to me someone is preparing for a showdown in a week.

The shit is hitting the fan...

Unsportsmanlike conduct, just about everybody...

Here are at least a couple recent examples:

• Tuskegee University coach Benjy Taylor was arrested on Saturday, and put in handcuffs on the court for an altercation with a police officer after a rivalry game at Morehouse.

Taylor was objecting to the presence of several Morehouse football players in the handshake line after Morehouse won a narrow victory over Tuskegee.  Taylor had reported several obscenities being fired from the football players at his team, and felt a confrontation would occur if the security breach was not rectified.

As seen from this HBCU sports video, it was not rectified...

We have new new footage and insight from Tuskegee 👀: https://t.co/eDyEz8cuSK pic.twitter.com/WdcYkcaCpE

— HBCU Gameday (@HBCUGameday) February 1, 2026

A lawsuit is planned, no further comment at this time. Unless there's more video than that shows which indicates otherwise, appears to me the Morehouse cops were WELL out of line!

• Here's a couple of recent brawls on the court to indicate more of the shit hitting the fan...

 

 

12 players were suspended, 8 for Aquinas. One of them got a six-game suspension for his role in the event.

After a flagrant foul, the officials confer, the player is correctly ejected. Obviously, the coach is unhappy with probably the call, but (given the game situation and things appearing to be about to get out of hand) correctly pulls his team from the floor, forfeiting the game. Three adults from the school which forfeited charge the floor and the winning team. One of the forfeited players attempts to intervene and is misinterpreted as trying to get involved, and it is ON. The ejected player got the standard one-game suspension, there is rumor (but I'm not finding it) that the forfeiting coach was fired.

Epstein: Brian Tuohy catches a DOOZY!!!!

David Stern!

And he's into orgies, probably underage ones, according to the Justice Department PDF drop!!!

(From X account "Basketball Examined")

 

Apparently David Stern was depraved enough to contact Epstein about orgies, but not depraved enough to rig basketball games for ratings/advertising & betting.#fanlogic@TheFixIsInTuohy pic.twitter.com/WU29Yhf4Tu

— Basketball Examined (@Bballexamined) February 1, 2026

Super Bowl ICE: Holding steady on the Vegas lines...

USA Today reports this morning that the line for Super Bowl LX still remains a farcical Seattle -4.5 -- even though the last ten meetings between the two teams were within one score at the two-minute warning.

Fanatics is back down to -4.5, after earlier being up at -5, according to Vegas Insider.  The only question, from there, is the juice you get.  It now does appear that most lines are at least tilting to Seattle, with the -4.5 most places now going -112 to -115, where the +4.5 now only means you lay somewhere -105 to -110.

(The Vegas Insider link will give you the current number, so if it changes, you'll see it there.) 

Money line is Seattle -225, New England +190.

Betonline.ag actually has a prop -- you get 20-1 (+2000) on Bad Bunny being arrested on stage during the halftime show.  (I'd lay a few bucks on that.  I have, more, wonder if someone might not actually shoot the guy during the show.)

ICE raiding a Super Bowl tailgate party in the parking lot will only get you 3-1 (+300) on the yes side.  (That surprises me.  If it's 20-1 for them to go all the way and take Bad Bunny out of the equation, why would it be as low as 3-1 for a parking lot incident?) 

On the other side of the coin, if you really wanna piss off MAGA, Bad Bunny is odds-on to don a dress during the halftime show (-150).  And there's a prop onto which style of dress he will wear. 

(Information courtesy lousianasports.net) 

Prediction Market Kalshi (as well as Polymarket) has the probability of a Seattle win at 68%.  This means that Seattle is actually a little overpriced in Vegas, as computational analysis indicates a 68% probability to win is about -212, rather than the -225 you are getting (about 69 1/4%).

However, that probability indicates that Seattle is UNDER-priced at -4.5 -- that the line should be effectively a touchdown (-6 to -6.5). 

The Transphobia Games: And this is no surprise whatsofuckingever...

Combining two recent threads...

Going through the Epstein Files, what do people see, but the head of Trumplympics Los Angeles Organizing Committee Casey Wasserman, in 2003 e-mails to Ghislaine Maxwell.

And Maxwell is still alive...  shockingly and for now.

And the head of the International Transphobia Committee, Kirsty Coventry, is having a sad over all the distractions the Trump influences (Epstein and ICE) are having over the Milan-Cortina Transphobia Games.

Awwwwwwwww...  Fuck off. 

This Epstein thing could end up an existential problem for the NFL...

Justice Department .PDFs:

• A victim's diary shows that Joe Gibbs and Dan Snyder were Epstein clients. 
• Woody Johnson is at least in the orbit of Epstein.  Moderators at Reddit are still approving that post, as of my time of typing.
• Russell Wilson withheld his buying of one of Epstein's planes in 2019 until he signed a new contract with the Seahawks, thinking it might hurt his widdle reputation.