Super Bowl Best vs. Best: The NFL's narratives leave the two most-pushed teams of the year at the end.

Well, I hope the NFL is satisfied.  I have to take back a fair amount of what I said in the post several previous on the NFC Championship.  (Though I did say I would refrain "here" in that post.)

Because at least that NFC game was one of the most disgraceful "performances" I've seen in many a year.

I get the quarterback injuries and all, but San Francisco took a full-scale dive and tried to injure a number of the Eagles on the way out.

I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt (see previous post) until a mid-fourth-quarter brawl in which Trent Williams went ham and got himself (and, apparently, a Philly player too) tossed, and about 15 49ers started coming off the bench.

It was at that point I became clear they got told beforehand and didn't like it.

As I said, I get the quarterback injuries -- but that defense, when "on", was a unit which could make a difference and hold the line and you (kayfabe) somehow grind out 14-10 and figure out what you're going to do against Cincy or KC.

What we got instead was an absolute disgrace.  An NFC title game over in three hours and nine minutes -- given the extended halftime, that's nothing.

The 49ers had neither poise nor control, and it's clear that the whole mess was known beforehand and not taken very well.  

So the 49ers took a summary shit all over the game, and Philly makes the Super Bowl 31-7 -- in a game which should've been an even larger blowout.

And here's the bigger problem:  Take the Omenihu arrest and all the Dallas off-the-field problems off the table, and what other choices do you have?

* A Minnesota team with a gaudy, over-inflated record.  They DID, however, have one thing the NFL could easily want:  The Fantastic Finish (tm).

* The Tom Bradys, a 9-8 team which, without league rigging, was 5-12 at best and that's probably generous.  By the end of the season, no one believed them and people weren't talking about Brady winning another Super Bowl, but what team he's going to finish his career with.

* And teams in New York and Seattle which had no real merit to be there, except that seven teams from each conference had to go.

And so, you end up with a no-choice and a dive on the part of the 49ers...  I was willing to give the benefit, but that looked and felt to me an entire team and franchise which got the script, didn't like it, and shit all over the game as a result.

And, if you've paid attention, you've seen it in other cases.  The two Super Bowls Peyton Manning had to dive, etc.  I would not be surprised, however, if the league looks elsewhere next year, because it's clear San Francisco did NOT want to be the job-boy again.

(Hmmmm...  Doesn't that sound like another NFC false-powerhouse?  And now there's word Saboteur COVIDIOT-12 may actually be open to being traded from that false-powerhouse!)

(Ironic moment:  My mentioning of the Omenihu arrest had an interesting moment come up on my MSN homepage.  An Omenihu jersey -- company name?  Lady Fanatics.  Do I really need to go into how out-of-touch that is with the reality of that player in particular (allegedly!), but definitely the NFL in general!)

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But that now pales in comparison to the debacle of the AFC game, set a post below.

So we have Chiefs vs. Eagles.

And people wonder why the league scripts this, especially allowing the Chiefs into the Super Bowl after marching off both the Cowboys and 49ers, largely if not completely due to off-the-field concerns.

There are two reasons you're getting this game:

1) As has been said before, the NFL has been trying to throw Patrick Mahomes as The Next Man, the next face of the league who goes 15 years, wins 4 or more titles, and goes down with the Bradshaws and Bradys of the league's history.

2) In a means to state the games aren't rigged to a nation slowly opening it's eyes (if you don't believe me and are reading this Sunday night, go to Twitter!) that the games are rigged.

I guess you could add a third, as some Republicans are already complaining:  Two Black starting quarterbacks.

BetMGM has the game opening at Eagles -2.5 with a total of 49.5

The Superbook, however, opened the game at a pick at 48.5.

Draft Kings have the Eagles a single point favorite at 49.

I think they're trying to sucker money to the Chiefs on this line, and I think it's because the Eagles (barring news indicating to the contrary) are going to win their second Super Bowl.