SUPER BOWL 2023

SB UPDATE- The refs just gave the game (again) to the Chiefs with that ticky-tacky holding call on 3rd down. That being said, the Eagles had a horrible game plan. To many QB runs. No good plan on defense. No sacks. No turnovers for the Eagles D. What a very disappointing performance by the best team in the NFL this year. 

ET UPDATE- SEE OUR PRIOR POST TODAY: WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS QUOTE UP FROM A NEWS ARTICLE TONIGHT:

Gen. Glen VanHerck, commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, said he was certain that the initial episode, the downing of a Chinese surveillance balloon off the U.S. East Coast on Feb. 4, “was clearly a balloon. These are objects. I’m not able to categorize how they stay aloft.” The general also declined to rule out any possibility, including whether the objects were extraterrestrial in origin.

Is it us, and our age, or was the WORST halftime SB show since "Up With People" in the old Orange Bowl? It could not have been any worse. To us, it was someone lip-syncing nonsense with some people wiggling around a bit. 

OUR PROPS: 

ONLY THIS BLOG GAVE YOU THE FIELD GOAL DOINK BET YESTERDAY AND IT HIT!!

OVER 1:59 ON NATIONAL ANTHEM- WIN

COIN TOSS- SHOCKING LOSS

OVER 11 ON  PLAYER NUMBER TO SCORE TD- INITIALLY A WIN THEN OVER TURNED ON REVIEW AND NOW A LOSS

FIRST SCORE BY EAGLES WILL BE A TD- WIN 

FIRST SCORE WILL BE A TD- WIN 

The coin flip will be.....based on dew point, humidity, moon gravitational pull, and other factors....HEADS! 

 The Eagles will win their second super bowl in five years. It should not be close. 

The Eagles have a superior defense. 44 sacks and 9 INTs. 

The Eagles have a superior offensive line. 

The Eagles dominated their opponents this year. Most games were not close. The stat making the rounds that Jalen Hurts threw 24 passes all year with the Eagles behind, is meaningless. When you have the kind of support the Eagles have given their QB, then there is a reason they were rarely behind- they are so much better than the rest of the NFL. 

The Chiefs barely beat a better Bengals team, and only did so by getting questionable penalties called on Cincy that moved them into FG range at the end of the game. 

When the best argument you can make for KC is that their QB has been here before, well ask Fran Tarkenton or Jim Kelly how much that is really worth (Tark lost 3 and Kelly lost 4 in a row!). And while you're at it, what was KC Coach Andy Reid's record in NFC playoff games when he coached the Eagles?    1-4! And he lost the SB he took the Eagles to. Reid is NOT a money coach in big games, so we discount the supposed "experience edge" the Chiefs have. 

This is very simply a bet on an overall better team against a very good QB who is coming off an injury. And don't discount that his receivers were all banged up. Players coming off an injury are more susceptible to getting injured in a game. Would you even think of betting on the Chiefs if Mahomes was injured, or JuJu or Kelsey were out? No. 

We do not think it will be close, so give the 1.5 points and take the Eagles and the over 50.5. 

A few more prop bets: 

+1850 Philly WR AJ Brown to be MVP. 

+500 any FG or extra point to doink a cross bar or upright of the goal post. 

Eagles first half -.05- our biggest bet of the day. The Eagles come out strong. 

Rumpole's SB menu: 

Seafood stuffed mushroom caps; 

2018 Caymus Cabernet. 

Joes grilled tomatoes with cheese and spinach. 

Soy and garlic marinated chicken wings air fried. 

Intercept Chardonnay. 

Ginos Philly Cheese Steak hogies. 

Buffalo spiced air fried cauliflower bits with Rogue River Blue cheese crumbles. 

Wyke Farms cheddar cheese on crackers. 

2016 Quilceda Creek Cabernet

Bison sliders with pickle relish.

Nathan's Hot dogs with chili-cheese and onion relish.  

Fireman Derek's Red Velvet Cake

2017 Palmiz Louise Riesling.