Asked about the point spread, Vince invokes "The Game That Shall Not Be Mentioned"

[IllegalContact]

I'm surprised that every game with this kind of spread is not an upset


*END SARCASM*

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Semi-related, I think I'm over the idea that there's ever such a thing as an "underdog" in the Super Bowl. Obviously there are extreme examples, and 07 was an upset on paper, but take two teams that have each played 18 or 19 games (plus pre-season), are battle tested through multiple playoff games, have two weeks to prepare, during which there are an untold number of distractions, events, and emotions, then mix that all together with the one-and-done nature of playoff football, and the matchup specific nature of football itself?

The Super Bowl is like a giant parity blender that chews up teams on paper and grinds them into an unpredictable pudding of awesome chaos. Not really comparable to a divisional round game.

Good point.

Somehow it was different before the Super Bowl became The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Eve rolled into one event. There were a lot more one sided games with clear favorites winning in "the old days," but now your description is apt: it's "an unpredictable pudding of awesome chaos."

 

[mikejd]

I had a bad feeling back in '07 as soon as the Giants beat the Packers. Even before that, I was pulling for the Packers because that was a better matchup. I knew we'd have our hands full with NY and that anything could happen. Let's just say I don't have that feeling this week.