Posted on 01/30/2015 10:01:37 AM PST by Lexinom
When the Seattle Seahawks face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX on Sunday, more than a hundred million Americans will tune in to root for one side or the other, or maybe just to watch the commercials. Prognosticators have any number of ways of handicapping the matchup: Maybe defense wins championships, maybe it’s all about the run game or special teams, or maybe one superstar can take over a game.
But from a political perspective, history argues the Seahawks have the advantage. That’s because their fan base looks much more like the American electorate than the Patriots’ fan base.
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Fans don’t win football games. Players and coaching does so this article is just plan stupid. Didn’t bother to read this click bait.
what’s your prediction?
No Seahag will ever again question Brady's balls.
The Seahawks will likely win the Supe Bowl because they are better in all aspects of a tough game - short yardage ground game, catch and run passing game, brutal defense and great special teams. The Patriots are good, but the Seahawks are generally better.
I can hear Rush now......
Who were the Patriots, White Males who had slaves who didn’t want to pay their taxes.
What are Seahawks? Noble birds who are dying because Global Warming and pollution is ruining their habitat.
The Seahawks have historically struggled with big, talented tight ends like Gronk, so I’m a bit concerned from that standpoint....
Well, it's an angry sport. May the angriest team win... :)
the NFL wants what it wants....
I live in Washington State, I despise Pete Carroll because he was a dirty college coach IMO and I despise the hype....GO PATS!
Pete Carroll knows all about deflated balls when he was at SC. It will come down to Blunt vs Lynch.
Go Pats
I'm going to enjoy it because we may never again get to experience it in our lifetimes.
That an easy environmental whacko pick! Hawks by 3!
Maybe, but you may be forgetting an important, possibly game-breaking element: NE is the NFL’s top-ranked field-goal-completion team and tops (12 for 13) in the 40-49-yard range. It will be a tight, close game that could very well be decided by special teams and NE’s field-goal capability, especially late in the game when, NE’s top-talented offense will almost certainly be able to get to get to at least midfield.
Link below is my detailed analysis if interested (I also forgot to include NE’s field-goal talent in the analysis).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3249320/posts?page=77#77
I think something that doesn't show up on the stats sheet will also play a key role. HEART.
This is bunk. While the state overall is liberal, the Pats fans skew conservative.
True ‘nuff, although I think the regular season stats could be a REFLECTION of heart.
Seattle?
Brady is one of the fastest at dumping the ball at 2.4 seconds. I don’t think the Pats will win on the deep ball, but Brady can win if he can keep finding people to catch it that quickly.
The Pats have a pretty good run game. Defense did a good job on the Colts, though the Colts dropped a lot of passes. I couldn’t believe that. Seattle’s O-line is a mess. Lynch is good, but he’s not a magician.
Seahawks are nowhere near 100 percent physically, and their line has been patchwork since week four. Like Arizona, its a miracle that they are back in the bowl.
As for the defense, it is amazing. They are just so fanatical about preparation and their expectations of performance. The most amazing thing about the GB game was that GB only scored one TD. The defense was on the field without rest the entire game, and in the end Sherman and Thomas played with injuries that would have sidelined other players immediately.
If Sherman and Thomas are healthy, and Therrel Simon is ready (he’s the weak link in the secondary right now), then it’s going to be interesting.
If its going to be short passes and run game from the Pats, I would expect more field goals in the final score, like with GB.
If the offense can find its keester by the second quarter, then I do think the Seahawks will win. If they played like last week, then no way.
This year, I think that the Pats are a better team than GB. The only flaw in that train of thought is that last year Denver set records. They were scoring 50 a game for a while there.
I thought for sure Denver would smoke Seattle, for the same reason as this year: Seattle’s O take so long to get rolling for some reason.
The last thing is that divine intervention cannot be ruled out. The GB win was a miracle in the classic sense of the word. The probability of Seattle winning like they did, when you stack it up situationally through that last three minutes, is so miniscule. To say that Wilson is religious is an understatement. He lives his faith, and his faith in the idea that he is in the game until literally the last second is gone is also real. He doesn’t attribute this to his own skill either. He actually believes that someday he’ll be a good quarterback, but that day is not today. One of these days, people will probably compare Wilson with Roger Staubach, especially on character.
God may not ultimately care about football, but He may very much care about whether He considers Wilson a worthwhile example about what the power of faith can accomplish.
I would never have written that if I didn’t see the GB game with my own eyes. I’ve never seen anything like that in watching sports over the last 45 years. I say this also considering that Aaron Rodgers will be an HOF quarterback of the highest possible character and that GB is one of the classiest organizations in the NFL - period.
Most of the penalties went GB’s way that day. The 2 point conversion is what did it for me. They miss that and the game is over - period. How they made it, and then what they did in overtime caused me to consider that perhaps God had taken a side in that game. This is especially true in light of the game Jermaine Kearse had had before his game winning catch.
Seattle, given the health of its players and the performance of their offense of late, should lose on Sunday. Based on what I saw in the GB game, perhaps they won’t.
I like your style.
GO PATS!!!
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