Day 332: St00pid Bowl LV

• Sounds like the game is going to kick KC -3 at 55 1/2 total.  Money line (KC -160 TB -140) is about 50-50, according to VegasInsider.  Spread is about 55-45 KC.  Over is about 70-30.
• Cardboard cutouts being added to the stands to make them look fuller.
• Heads won the coin toss.
• Didn't take long for the first screw-call.  Mahomes got away with a fairly blatant intentional grounding in the first series -- could only get an extra first down out of it eventually, and the field position was largely normalized on the next punt.
• Strong message of the Super Bowl:  "It Takes All Of Us"  THEN WHY 25,000 FANS IN THE STANDS???  WHY 120 PARTIES????   
• Good luck on that million-dollar John Cena commercial -- that's gonna take some awful good freezeframing for all those flying bottles.

First half thoughts:

• Kansas City is throwing this SB and throwing it HARD.  This team is completely out of sorts.  One player could've been ejected for a punch in the first quarter, another got a stupid UC at the end of the half (which ultimately didn't mean anything).  Two BLATANT DPIs to get the Bucs a TD right at the end of the half.
• A hair's breadth from 28-6, if even THAT!!!
• 8 KC penalties for 95 yards means the Chiefs are a net 29 yards for the entire first half!!
• Several calls against Tampa in this first half, but none really seemed to make a whit of difference.
• Gronkowski, Gronkowski, Antonio Brown.  If that isn't the NFL telling the bulk of it's fans "ABSOLUTE FUCK YOU ALL EXCEPT THE BRADY JOCKERS", I do NOT know what to tell you.
• This may be one of the worst Super Bowl first halves in memory.  Yes, worse than Rams-Patriots II.  Because it is almost OBVIOUS to anyone paying attention that the Kansas City Chiefs are either scripting another 28-3-esque comeback or throwing the game in a way either reminiscent of the second and third Brady titles or the Jets "win" in Super Bowl III.

So on we go:

• Halftime show = Yawn and pass. I know why they did it -- last year, they got complaints for the burlesque show J-Lo and Shakira put on.   
• If they're this blatant this year, there is some skinny talking about top free agents trying to congregate for the Rams next season.
• This gets to 28-6 with Tampa with the ball, and the over-under on a Michael Jordan picture on the CBS broadcast can probably be measured in SECONDS.
• Bovada is thinking a script-job is forthcoming -- Chiefs are a 7.5 point favorite in the second half, even though NOTHING THEY'VE DONE YET indicates it.
• NFL Walter Payton Man of the Year winner:  Russell Wilson.  Ugh.   
• When the hashtag #rigged is typed in, at 28-9 Tampa, the NFL Twitter account is coming up as a recommended account.  :)
• Here comes the Brady lovefest for the entire fourth quarter in 3 2 1....
• Another.  Fucking.  Local.  Scientology.  Super Bowl Ad.
• This may be the biggest shitshow Super Bowl since the Bears' rout or something.  No effort to keep the game close -- the game is either being rigged or thrown and anyone paying attention can see this...
• I'm seeing a ton of people saying the refs did it -- and I won't disagree.  I just think there's more to it than even THAT.  The Chiefs are participating in all of this, and, now, may be shortening the career of Patrick Mahomes if they're not careful.  He has looked absolutely slipshod the last 12-15 minutes, and a major injury is just one more of those plays away.

Think this over:

• Antonio Brown, Super Bowl Champion
• Ndamokung Suh, Super Bowl Champion
• Leonard Fournette, Super Bowl Champion
• The narratives continue for Tom Brady...

I mean, are YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???

• And now the questions, at least in social media:  Does Brady call it quits RIGHT HERE???
• And with the graphic, they just admitted it.  Tom Brady 7 Super Bowls, the Patriots and Steelers with 6 each.  He IS bigger than the League.
• And Mahomes flees the field instantly, job done.
• And the game is over.  More paragraph-based commentary to follow.