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Forums - Sports - The NFL Thread 2015: Denver Broncos win Super Bowl 50

 

Who will win Super Bowl 50?

Patriots 116 25.00%
 
Seahawks 41 8.84%
 
Colts 7 1.51%
 
Packers 42 9.05%
 
Broncos 85 18.32%
 
Ravens 8 1.72%
 
Cowboys 18 3.88%
 
Panthers 56 12.07%
 
Other 74 15.95%
 
Scoreboard 17 3.66%
 
Total:464
cheshirescat on 24 January 2016
MTZehvor said:
cheshirescat said:
MTZehvor said:
Fuck, I just realized that AFC gets home uniform in the Super Bowl this year. That means I'm going to have to watch another three hours of those stupid orange Broncos jerseys.

I guarantee you the broncos won't be wearing orange. 

They wore them in Super Bowl 48, and I've never seen them wearing navy at any point this year. I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if they did go with navy.

"Home" team in the super bowl is given a choice of color to wear, after super bowl 48, and losing four fucking super bowls in orange, everyone on the team and management said they'd never wear orange in the big game again.





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pokoko on 24 January 2016

All you people who doubted the Panthers must be feeling really silly right now.



MTZehvor on 24 January 2016
pokoko said:

All you people who doubted the Panthers must be feeling really silly right now.

Speaking of feeling silly, I now feel very silly for mocking the importance of HFA in these picks.





noname2200 on 24 January 2016
RolStoppable said:

Like mentioned last week, the Conference Championships were going to decide the winner of this contest. Since the Denver Broncos won, chocoloco is confirmed as the best predictor of the season. Should we congratulate him? Does anybody like him? We'll have two weeks to think about that, so let me know how you feel about it.





Mike321 on 24 January 2016

So that's how it ends, oh well maybe next season. Kudos to everyone that made it to the vgc superbowl



                                                                                     

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noname2200 on 24 January 2016

Yeah, it's basically the NIT to the NCAA championship: even the winner is still a scrub-tier team.



Mike321 on 24 January 2016
RolStoppable said:
Mike321 said:
So that's how it ends, oh well maybe next season. Kudos to everyone that made it to the vgc superbowl

Well, next year you should aim to get into the top 16, because I don't think that winning bracket B will be considered an important success by anyone. If noname2200 wins, I know that I won't tell myself "maybe next season" because winning bracket B requires to lose beforehand.

 

Of course I'm aiming for that A bracket! I should have specified that tho 



                                                                                     

ReimTime on 25 January 2016

I declare myself Lord of the Bandwaggoners since I was cheering for the Panthers before the playoffs



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noname2200 on 25 January 2016
RolStoppable said:
noname2200 said:
(...)

I was thinking about reducing the work for our matchup. Since we both don't care much about it, how about you pick one of the teams by 3 and I pick the other one by 3? Or if you'd rather want me to decide who picks who, then I'll go first.

Would save me the trouble to look for a person who handles our predictions.

Sounds good. I'll take the Panthers, seeing as how they'll be staying and practicing about a mile from me. Maybe I should keep my laptop chained up...





LudicrousSpeed on 25 January 2016

Wow, what a masterful game plan by the Broncos defense. Play someone deep, rush only your three or four linemen, and make Brady dink and dunk down the field against aggressive man coverage. And thanks to enormous pressure, it worked. Sure, the Pats line was beat up. But the Broncos best two linemen are banged up (one out for the year) and their QB is playing with a bad foot. Injuries happen.

That was the 16-0 Super Bowl all over again. Patriots just too damned proud/stubborn to make adjustments on offense. Keep a back or a TE in to block. Otherwise Brady will just get teed off on over and over and that's what happened. No line in the world will stop a ferocious pass rush like that when there is 0 risk of a run.

Manning again has 0 turnovers. Only bad thing about his game yesterday was taking a couple sacks where he could have easily thrown it away. This is exactly why Kubiak made the switch. Had Os been in there with a struggling run game and little protection, who knows what kind of Brady-like INT's he throws.

Peyton moves to 3-2 against Brady in the playoffs, which is a far far cry from the rhetoric you constantly hear from experts. The team will show up this time ready to play after that SB 48 fiasco. Panthers have a strong defense too, it should be a good game.