I am stunned! I thought there was no way they were going to win that thing but the Eagles not only won by they won easily. Normally, I don’t like the Eagles and I’ve had enough bad Philadelphia experiences to not like the city too but I have to respect the game the team played tonight. They were never behind. They never struggled. And from their first touchdown, I think we all knew who was going to win.
Final score:
Eagles — 40
Chiefs — 22
And it wasn’t even close!
I’m torn. I don’t want either team to win.
I don’t want the Chiefs to win because they’ve had the referees on their side for the entire season and I think its debatable whether the Chiefs would have even made it to the Super Bowl if the refs hadn’t rigged things for them. The NFL views Taylor Swift as being good for their ratings. When people talk about Taylor Swift cheering for Travis Kelce, they aren’t talking about concussions, the off-field behavior of the players, or anything else that could reflect negatively on the league. I feel like a Chiefs victory would be a victory for the rigging of a once great sport and, in future years, it will be seen as a significant moment in the downfall of the NFL.
I don’t want the Eagles to win because they’re the Eagles.
I’m going to predict a score that’s not as close as many are expecting.
Kansas City Chiefs 41
Philadelphia Eagles 21
I won’t be happy that Chiefs won but I will be happy that Philadelphia did not.
Congratulations to the Evil Empire on the Super Bowl victory tonight.
The 49ers put up a good game though and I really thought they were going to pull it out up until that final drive.
The final score was:
Chiefs 25
49ers 22
In overtime!
My Super Bowl prediction is that the refs are going to come hard after the 49ers and there will be a lot of shots of Taylor Swift watching from the owner’s box and cheering every Travis Kelce play. The narrative has been set since the season began and the NFL knows how they want this story to end.
And with the ratings they’re going to get for this Super Bowl, who can blame them?
Final score:
Chiefs — 28
49ers — 14
The Kansas City Chiefs have won the Super Bowl! After trailing for much of the game, they made a comeback in the Fourth Quarter and defeated the Philadelphia Eagles by three points! The final score was 38-35! (My prediction was not too far off.)
Sometimes, the good guys win! Congratulations, Kansas City, and thank you from a weary nation.
In the end, I think it will all come down to who wins the most points.
Chiefs 35
Eagles 31
I watched quite a bit. Let’s see what I can remember about it.
Accused (Tuesday Night, FOX)
This week’s episode was actually pretty good. It has an enjoyably macabre ending and was well-directed by Jonathan Mostow.
The Amazing Race 5 (Netflix)
The fifth season of The Amazing Race is on Netflix! I watched a few episodes this week. I’m glad that Colin and Christie were given a second chance to compete on the show because they really were the strongest competitors during the fifth season. After getting used to the mellow Colin who appeared the second time, it was interesting to be reminded just how intense and ultra-competitive he was the first time he appeared on the show. I know that Colin and Christie were meant to be the fifth season’s “villains” but, honestly, it’s impossible not to like them. I respect the fact that they consistently refused to yield or U-turn anyone.
American Auto (Tuesday Night, NBC)
Anna Gasteyer’s character went on the Seth Meyers show to try to soften her image and convince everyone that she really wasn’t the country’s most hated CEO. I understand that the whole point here was to reunite Gasteyer and Meyers, as I assume they were on Saturday Night Live at the same time. But I don’t know. Gasteyer had a few funny moments but Meyers has never really appealed to me a a talk show host. And really, if you were a CEO trying to improve your image by appearing on a talk show, would you go on the one that most people don’t watch? She should have held out for Fallon.
The Bachelor (Monday Night, ABC)
Boring!
The Brady Bunch Hour (YouTube)
I wrote about The Brady Bunch Hour here!
California Dreams (YouTube)
I wrote about California Dreams here!
City Guys (Tubi)
Uh-oh! It looks like Tubi has removed a few episodes of City Guys! Fortunately, I think I can find them all on YouTube. Anyway, click here to see what I wrote this week!
Football Game: Bengals vs Chiefs (Sunday Evening, CBS)
I watched this game with Jeff and Erin. I guess I’m glad the Chiefs won. The Bengals uniforms were a kind of silly looking.
Football Game: Eagles vs 49ers (Sunday Afternoon, FOX)
Was it on FOX? I honestly can’t remember. Anyway, I watched this game with Jeff and Erin and they were a lot more into it than I was. I decided that I would root for the 49ers because Philadelphia is the city of Parking Wars but I changed my mind once it became obvious that the 49ers weren’t going to win.
Hell’s Kitchen (Thursday Night, FOX)
I’m not sure if I agree with Chef Ramsey’s decision to keep Dafne over Sommer. Sommer may have been abrasive when she was put in charge of the Kitchen but she was still a lot less scatter-brained and more effective than Dafne was. That said, we all know that Alex is going to win this season.
Kids Behind Bars: Life or Parole? (Hulu)
This show originally aired on A&E. I watched an episode on Monday morning and I was immediately reminded of why I never particularly cared for this show. Not only does it exploit real-life tragedy but it’s also so biased and heavy-handed that it’s not really worth watching as a work of journalism.
Law & Order (Thursday Night, NBC)
This week, the murderer was a prosperity preacher. Nolan Price used a bunch of shady legal tricks to convince a judge to force a minister to break his sacred oath. This show is always at its most cringey when it tries to deal with religion. As I watched this week, I noticed that the show is now playing up the whole “relationship” angle between Price and Maroun. They’re a cute couple but I kind of want to see Maroun handle a case without Price hovering over her shoulder.
The Love Boat (Paramount Plus)
I wrote about The Love Boat here!
Night Court (Tuesday Night, NBC)
I know I watched the episode because I jotted it down in my notes for the week but I can’t remember a thing about it. That’s kind of a recurring problem with Night Court. I’ve seen every episode so far and I still can’t really tell you anything about the show or its characters.
Night Flight (Night Flight Plus)
I watched an episode from the 80s. It was all about the use of animation in music videos.
Survivor: Philippines (Hulu)
There are several old seasons of Survivor on Hulu. I watched a bit of the Philippines season, which featured the unbelievably hot Malcolm and the unbelievably obnoxious Abi-Maria. Along with Penner, RC, Russell, and a few others, this season featured some of the least likable castaways ever but it also featured Malcolm so it all worked out.
TV Party (Nightflight Plus)
I watched an old episode of this 80s public access program on Friday night. Chris Stein, of the band Blondie, led a small band in playing medieval music. Then a bunch of drunk people called the studio and threatened to beat him up.
First published in 1981, Chiefs follows the town of Delano, Georgia over the course of five decades.
Delano starts out as a small, rural town, one that sit uneasily on the dividing line between the old and the new South. Under the leadership of forward-thinking civic leaders like Hugh Holmes, the town starts to grow. And, like any growing town, it needs a chief of police to maintain the peace. In 1919, a simple but honest farmer named Will Henry Lee is selected as the town’s first chief of police. Not selected is the wealthy Foxy Funderburke. That’s probably for the best because Will Lee is determined to do a good job and fairly treat all of the town’s citizens, regardless of their race or their economic class. Foxy, meanwhile, is a serial killer who has been killing young men and dumping their bodies all over the county.
Chiefs tells the story of three men who serve as Chief of Police while Delano grows and Foxy continues to murder anyone that he can get his hands on. Will Henry Lee is followed by Sonny Butts, a war hero who soon turns out to be a corrupt and racist psychopath. Sonny is eventually followed by Tucker Watts. As the town’s first black police chief, Tucker has to deal with both racism and Foxy Funderburke’s murders. However, Tucker himself has a secret of his own, one that links him back to the very first chief of police.
Chiefs is kind of all over the place. Not only does the novel follow the growth of Delano and the decades-long investigation into all of Foxy Funderburke’s murders but it also finds time for appearances from Franklin D. Roosevelt and a subplot about Billy Lee, Will Henry Lee’s son, running for governor of Georgia and potentially replacing LBJ as Kennedy’s running mate in 1964. (The President, of course, explains that he’ll make his decision after returning from Dallas.) At times, it gets to be a bit too much. The mystery of the Delano murders too often gets pushed aside for the far less interesting political stuff. Chiefs was Stuart Woods’s first novel and he makes the common first-timers mistake of trying to cram too much into his story.
The book is at its best when it just sticks to Delano. Foxy Funderburke is not just a murderer but also a symbol of the times when there law was only arbitrarily enforced in the former Confederacy and wealthy, white landowners could pretty much do whatever they wanted without having to worry about the consequences. Foxy represents the old ways and each chief, even the evil Sonny Butts, represents just a little bit of progress towards the new way. Though his prose is rarely memorable, Stuart Woods was a good storyteller and Foxy Funderburke is a memorable villain. (And, to be honest, Foxy Funderburke is a brilliant name.) Even if their characterizations aren’t particularly deep (Will Lee is honest, Sonny is narcissistic, Tucker is determined to prove himself), the three men who oppose him are all worthy adversaries and it’s interesting see how, over several decades, the three of them each finds a different piece of the puzzle until Foxy’s true nature is finally exposed. Will Henry Lee may not have known Sonny Butts and Sonny certainly would never have even spoken to Tucker Watts but, in a way, the three of them work together to solve the town’s greatest mystery.
In the end, the book appealed to the side of me that loves a mystery and it also appealed to my dedicated history nerd side. Chiefs is flawed but compelling.
Since the game is just a few hours away, I guess I should make my prediction as to who is going to win the Super Bowl.
This is exactly the type of Super Bowl that I’ve always wanted to see. Tom Brady is the best quarterback of his generation and probably the best quarterback of all time. Patrick Mahomes is the best quarterback of the next generation. This season, Brady proved that he can lead more than one team to the Super Bowl. Mahomes seems like he has the same type of talent. This is the best vs. the best.
I think the Buccaneers are going to win. I think the Chiefs are going to give them a good game. It’s not going to be easy for either team. But I think Tampa Bay is going to win in the end. The Buccaneers are playing at home, which is going to be a huge advantage. And I just have an unquestioning faith in the ability of Tom Brady to win Super Bowls. I know that’s not a very scientific analysis but Tom Brady has a talent that sometimes seems to defy everything that we’ve been led to assume about football. Tom Brady went from being nearly undrafted to winning 6 Super Bowls. At an age when most football players have already retired, Brady is still playing like a man in his early 30s. The rest of the team is going to have to do their part but I still see Tom Brady and the Buccaneers winning this game.
Final prediction:
Buccaneers — 24
Chiefs — 21
The game will be won by a last minute field goal that Tom Brady will probably volunteer to kick himself. Having won his 7th Super Bowl and led two separate teams to victory, Tom Brady will then win a Nobel Peace Prize and write a memoir that will be turned into an Oscar-winning film. Brady will then be elected governor of whatever state he decides to run in. Eventually, President Tom Brady will bring about world peace along with ending climate change and personally overseeing the first manned mission to Mars. After you win seven Super Bowls, there’s nothing you can’t do.
If the Buccaneers somehow lose, it will mean the winter is coming.
Enjoy the game!
Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on their amazing come from behind victory in the Super Bowl tonight! I thought that the 49ers had it all wrapped up until the final six minutes of the game when the Chiefs came alive and scored two touchdowns, giving them a 31-20 victory and their first Super Bowl title in 50 years! It was a great game.
And now that the football season is over with, bring on baseball!
Through the Shattered Lens 