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Let's Enjoy The Play That Left Tom Brady In The Dust
We all know what happened in the end, but let’s not forget that before orchestrating an instantly legendary comeback against the Atlanta Falcons and proving that freedom’s enemies will always thrive in 2017, Tom Brady spent the Super Bowl playing like a goddamn jamoke, to the joy of millions. With j...

Donald Trump Praises Tom Brady, Vladimir Putin In Batshit Super Bowl Interview<em></em>
The great tradition of powerful people turning to sports reporters so they can seem folksy—aka avoiding any questions or followups of significant consequence—continued this Super Bowl with our nation’s sentient chancre fielding questions from Jim Gray on Westwood One Sports radio. The interview was ...

Tom Brady Seals Status As Greatest Player Ever As Nation Mourns
Those wild, magical assholes managed to do it again. For the fifth time in seven appearances, the New England Patriots are Super Bowl champions....

Halftime Show Dancer Pays Tribute To Patriots' Offense
One of Lady Gaga’s dancers was really into it during tonight’s Super Bowl halftime show. ...

Tom Brady's Pick-Six, As Heard Around The World
So far the biggest moment of tonight’s Super Bowl was Tom Brady throwing a pick-six. For the purposes of critical and educational analysis, we allow you to listen to and discuss the play as it was called by announcers on Fox Deportes, BBC 1, PULS 4 (Austria), and Televisa (Mexico). Which broadcaster...

Tom Brady Throws Pick-Six, Falcons Up Big
Now, I won’t go so far as to say that Jimmy Garoppolo wouldn’t have thrown a pick-six. But Jimmy Garoppolo definitely would have gotten over to make that tackle....

Julio Jones: Smooth Criminal
Julio Jones hauled in a fantastic sideline catch en route to the Falcons’ second touchdown tonight—one viewers around the world felt deserving of the Moonwalker treatment. ...

<i>Hamilton</i> Stars Add "Sisterhood" To "America The Beautiful"
To kick off the patriotic pageantry of Super Bowl LI, three stars of the original cast of Hamilton sang “America The Beautiful”—and ad libbed a little for equality, making a nice contrast to more or less everything else that happened leading into the game....

You Will Fail: Today's Guide To Ignoring The Super Bowl
You there. Yes, you. Guess what you will not be doing tonight. You will not be skipping the Super Bowl. Sorry....

Watch Ray Lewis Deliver A Pregame Speech To The Patriots In A Seemingly Empty Garage For No Good Reason
Have you ever looked around a vacant garage and thought, “Boy, this would be a great place for Ray Lewis to pretend he’s giving a Super Bowl pep talk, repeatedly using ‘we’ and ‘us’ to describe a team he never played for as he pumps up the empty room”? So has the NFL! ...

Tony Romo Really Doesn't Want To Retire Yet
Tony Romo is coming up on his 37th birthday, after spending essentially an entire season sidelined with a broken back, which followed another near-entire season sidelined with a broken collarbone. But apparently, he’s still interested in finding somewhere to let him play at quarterback for 2017. ...

A Reminder That The Falcons And Patriots Were No. 1 And No. 2 In The NFL's "Paid Patriotism"
As it turns out, today’s Super Bowl match-up involves the NFL’s top two teams in terms of paid patriotism—those all-American displays paid for by the military without being advertised as such....

Terrell Owens Is Still Not In The Hall Of Fame
The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced its next induction class this evening, and Terrell Owens is not among the seven members. This is, as it was last year, bullshit....
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Kirk Cousins Shoves Volunteer Official At Charity Flag Football Game [Update]
We’ve illustrated Kirk Cousins’s legendary competitiveness a few times, but the Washington QB may have taken it a bit far today at a charity flag football game when he got very angry and shoved a volunteer official....

Iowa State Upsets No. 3 Kansas, Breaking 51-Game Winning Streak At The Phog
Iowa State got 20-plus point performances from three starting guards as the Cyclones, who have played like butt for the majority of the season, downed No. 3 Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse behind a school-record 18 three-pointers. The loss marked the first time in 51 games that the Jayhawks have fallen ...

These Beautiful Aquarium Creatures Star In The Only Good Super Bowl Hype Video
‘Tis the weekend for highlight reels interspersed with clips of screaming fans set to bad arena rock music; do not waste your time on those. If you must use a video to prepare yourself for the Super Bowl, let that video be this one—seals and otters and penguins and a beluga whale, among many adorabl...

Actually, Tim Tebow Eating Straight Guac Is Good
Tim Tebow did a good, brave thing today and if no one else will stand with him, then this blog will: There is no sin in eating guacamole straight. Praise him....

Your Super Bowl LI <i>Tecmo Super Bowl</i> Simulation Is Live
We updated the rosters. We updated the uniforms. We even updated the end zones. It’s time to CPU vs. CPU simulate Sunday’s Super Bowl in Tecmo Super Bowl, LIVE:...

The Falcons' Defense Is Basically Fucked
Patriots-Falcons in Super Bowl 51 is being billed as a showcase of the NFL’s two most prolific offenses, at the height of their powers. The Patriots, of course, are the known entity: Tom Brady and [insert name here] on offense, along with a defense that frequently schemes its way into being greater ...
