News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
PHILADELPHIA, PA — To prepare for the aftermath of either winning or losing a football game, the citizens of Philadelphia have decided to pre-emptively raze the city to the ground.
“One way or the other it’s going to burn,” said local man Dylan Timms. “With Philly, you never have to wonder.”
After nearly twenty years without a Super Bowl appearance, the city of Philadelphia is about two-thirds rebuilt from their last Super Bowl appearance. “Philly has such a tough reputation, everyone thinks it’s so run-down,” said long-time resident Macie Tapper. “What people don’t understand is that the city was in pretty good shape before we torched it after our last Super Bowl win. Now, you might ask, why do we burn it down when we win? You might as well ask why the groundhog digs holes, or why the beaver builds dams. It’s what Philadelphia does.”
In addition to burning the buildings down, the city has planned ahead by greasing every single light pole in the city with thousands of gallons of high-grade lubricant. “Yeah, we got a few funny looks when we ordered thirty-thousand pounds of petroleum jelly,” said City Manager Dave Rubeck. “But who will be laughing when people break their legs slipping off of light poles? Me. I’ll be laughing.”
Go here to read the rest. Of course predicting riots in the City of Brotherly Hate is as safe as predicting that Congress Critters are taking bribes.
Philadelphia official this AM announced that “for the most part, there was no violence”. Hope they still have the rebuilding plans available from the last time the city need a major rehab.
The past two KC Chiefs wins were decided by penalty flags.
Not saying the refs were wrong.
Stating fact.
Or, why I don’t watch the No Fun League.
I turned it off after Chris Stapleton. No other highlights would beat that one.
Ten of eleven professional football players have permanent brain damage. You never see them again.
I made the Call and we checked out to watch a good movie last night.
(My wife doesn’t care about football.)
This morning I heard there was a different national anthem sung, a singer rubbed her crotch, somebody wrote f*** on a car and the game was decided by referees.
I don’t feel like I missed anything.
I have never watched a Super Bowl game. My dislike for professional sports cannot be overstated.
I have never watched a Super Bowl game. My dislike for professional sports cannot be overstated.
Never bit by that bug.
We have a relation who for many years had NCAA basketball and football on the tube when we visited. The pro leagues bother me a great deal less than the NCAA. Ideally, pro football and pro basketball would develop a set of commercial farm teams like baseball and the link between big-money sports and higher education broken. Ideally, also, the NCAA would be dissolved and replaced with a series of sport-specific leagues which regulated competition among teams composed of actual students who play to amuse themselves.
You just have to see through the BS when it comes to professional sports and, so to speak, not throw out the baby with the bath water.
It’s probably doing the rounds in the Catholic news media but, Harrison Butker who kicked the winning goal at the Super Bowl for The Kansas City Chiefs serves at his Traditional Latin Mass, is a fraternal member of the Knights of Colombus and he was seen wearing the Brown scapular under his team shirt. He is vocal about his Faith. That’s very important for young people who look up to faithful Catholic players, otherwise they look up to the deadbeats on the big salaries. And there’s plenty of them.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/253626/all-glory-to-god-chiefs-butker-makes-game-winning-kick-in-the-super-bowl-while-wearing-scapular
By the way a young Jordan Mailata from Sydney was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. A big Samoan youngster who was too big to play Rugby league. The fact he got selected for the starting side is no easy feat. Many Aussie Rugby League have tried to cross over to NFL and haven’t made it too far in the selection process. His community was proud of him.