Super Farce XLVIII: One of the saddest human displays ever...

I saw about a half of yesterday's game before I walked out in disgust.

I thought about a team which had literally spent a half committing unsportsmanlike conduct on basically every major defensive/special teams hit it committed.  It was not enough for our new "champions" to just make the play, they had to tell you about it and be physically separated from ever-escalating incidents by the referees.

But no flags came out.

I thought about a fanbase that would spit at the concepts in the very Declaration of Independence FOX wants to ram down our throats now every time the Super Bowl is played on FOX.  (Nice propaganda stunt there, gentlemen.  Surprised you allowed the First and Second Ladies to take part...)

I thought about a fan in that fanbase who has no problems worshipping football and her precious fucking thugs in Seattle to the very expense of the lives, fortunes, and sacred honor of everyone around her -- and now she gets fucking rewarded as a fan of a "champion" for this?

I thought about a team that said "FUCK YOU!" to everyone around them -- the league, the rulebook, the opposition, the media, everybody.  A disrespectful lot of thuggery, almost certainly drugged out of their minds (they looked on another level than any team I've ever seen on the speed end -- one of the derogatory names for the team is the "Seattle Adderalls", and I do believe it after that display), coached by the most corrupt coach in football the last 15 years, and lauded to be our "champions" now.

I came to a fairly immediate analogue:  "The U".  The University of Miami, especially with it's zenith/nadir in that one Cotton Bowl against Texas that I compare this Super Bowl to.

For a good example, the first half of the game is below:


If Roger Goodell wants this (and, though I think he relishes the thought of a heel "champion", he did not look pleased as to the game on the field when the cameras cut to him late in the second quarter, Hags up 22-0), you will see this from every team within 1-2 years.  It will no longer be enough to make the play, now the chirping becomes full-scale.

This, of course, gives Goodell the power to ensure the winner and loser by who gets called for unsportsmanlike conduct when this occurs.

I also think of a Peyton Manning who is being increasingly seen as a paper tiger.

(I better quickly Edit To Add:  Yes, many other players were responsible, but Manning had zero poise at Met Life Stadium from anything I saw of him from before the game or during it.  This is NOT to bow to the ESPN Mantra about "It's all about the quarterback."  But when your quarterback looks pissed off and scared from 45 minutes before kickoff, and looks so completely out of sorts even before Seattle begins to pressure him, then one has to wonder if his 59 touchdowns were only accumulated because of inferior opposition and the like.)

If we are to believe that he was told he was going to throw the Super Bowl to New Orleans before the game, and didn't like it, then I have to conclude, from what I saw in a cut-in 45 minutes before kickoff, that not only was this the case again this time, but Manning, at that point, refused all pretense.

(Another edit to add:  And I think no secret was made, at that point, that attitude running throughout the team:  an attitude of "Fuck you.  We lay down, and you won't get your close game.")

The biggest Super Bowl rout in decades was the result, and a game which completely belied the Roger Goodell Cliffhanger Principle which allows companies to pay $4,000,000 for a thirty-second spot.

Manning threw two of the most embarrassing ducks in history in the first half.  One was picked off, the other should've been for what would've been his second pick-six of the half.  (A third which appeared to be a duck -- the pick-six -- was on a throw that his arm was struck.)

But I should've known 45 minutes before kickoff.  Those eyes were a pissed-off man who knew his legacy was, rightly or otherwise, about to get spit on -- again.

Those 59 touchdowns and that record passing yardage mean nothing, because a bunch of fucking trash-talking thugs with a trash-talking fanbase make more media for the NFL.

Even at the expense of any semblance of a contest...

I do believe that, at least for a short time, this offensive explosion is over, unless the league does what the NCAA did with Miami and takes the entire highlight reel and basically says that the clutching and grabbing and yakking and the like will be flagged -- and then they actually do it.

But, make no mistake.  In the day and age where the last three seasons have led to record scoring, this is the ONLY feasible way to stem the trend.

So fuck you Roger Goodell.

Fuck you 12th Man.

Fuck you Seattle Seahawks.

And fuck you to the NFL.