Connelly's Top Ten - Super Bowl

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1. SUPER BOWL

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STUFF

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* Crazy to think over an 18-year period (2002-2018) - Patriots were in NINE Super Bowls - we were spoiled

* I'm a big fan of Jon Batiste but: C+ on National Anthem (best national anthems - Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Whitney Houston)

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CHIEFS

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* Joe Thuney was getting destroyed

* Kelce out on dates and doesn't show up

* Mahomes took a beating?

* Chris Jones - zero tackles

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EAGLES

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* Eagles prove - build offensive line before anything else

* Would you bet Barkley held under 3 yards a carry and they win by four scores?

* Eagles throw a long TD pass up 27-0 - Patriots would have been accused of running up the score

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REFS

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* First call goes the Chiefs way - amazing after two weeks of talking about refs favoring Chiefs?

* After every hit on Mahomes you wait to see if there is a flag

* Don't love call on Chiefs hit to head on Gobert

* Missed hit to the face of Mahomes

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BROADCAST

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* Brady needs to put on 15 pounds / He has improved as commentator - give him a B

* Commercials - Dunkin ad expensive (bit a rip off of Anchorman brawl with other stations) / liked the beat Cancer commercial (but why wasn't the mother at the hospital with her son) / three Schitts Creek characters in ads / Yes on Sloth ad / Whip Cream disgusting

* Pumping Daytona 500

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OTHER STUFF

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* Eagles didn't need three Illegal TD's like they got in the Super Bowl vs Patriots

* I don't have to give a grade on the half time show do I?

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2. All Star team of Red Sox players let go:

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C - Carlton Fisk

1b - Cecil Cooper

2b - Mookie Betts

3b - Jeff Bagwell

SS - Hanley Ramirez

LF - Ellis Burks

CF - Fred Lynn

RF - Babe Ruth

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Starters - Wilbur Wood, Curt Schilling, John Tudor, Chris Sale, Jon Lester,?

Closer - Sparky Lyle?

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3. Pass Attempts in Super Bowl

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* 1967 - Len Dawson and Bart Starr - 50

* 2019 - Nick Foles and Tom Brady - 91

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4. In all the Patriots Super Bowl appearances - they have been outscored by 36 points?

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5. Phil Rizzuto in Hall of Fame over Johnny Pesky: Rizzuto - .273 hitter / Pesky .307

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6. Everyone hates the Patriots - Vinatieri and Harrison denied - Hall of Famers from the four dynasties:

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Green Bay (9) - Davis, Gregg, Hornung, Huston, Kramer, Nitschke, Starr, Taylor, Wood

Pittsburgh (10) - Blount, Bradshaw, Greene, Ham, Harris, Lambert, Shell, Stallworth, Swann, Webster

Dallas (6) - Aikman, Haley, Allen, Irvin, Smith, Ware

Patriots (2) - Law, Seymour

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7. Old School - In 1983, running backs Marcus Allen and Walter Payton combined to THROW six touchdown passes

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8. Amazing Stats - In 2019 Super Bowl, Julian Edleman had 10 receptions / 8 for first downs

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9. Just a Little Bit Outside - Special Guest Contributor and pioneer broadcaster - Lesley Visser: "After reminiscing with Mike about things we miss (a Larry Bird dagger three or a Gronk spike,) I said I miss great Cold War movies.? So, here's my list. ??"

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* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (near perfect adaptation of le Carre's cerebral take on Cold War spycraft)

*?Day of the Jackal - (Forsyth wrote it in 28 days - movie gives us heart-pounding detail into the manhunt for DeGaulle's near-assassin)?

*?The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - (Richard Burton brilliant as the disillusioned spy, also written by le Carre)

*?Bourne Identity - (Matt Damon in a modern, action-packed version?of Ludlum's book)

*?The IPCRESS File - (Michael Caine impeccable as Harry Palmer in Len Deighton's spy thriller about brainwashing and conspiracy)

*?Our Man in Havana - (Alec Guinness' clever portrayal of a bumbling spy in Cuba, true to Graham Greene's satirical novel)?

*?From Russia with Love - (007 in a bluff and double bluff, from Moscow to Istanbul to London, from Fleming's most iconic novel)

*?Funeral in Berlin (Caine again as Harry Palmer, sent to arrange a defection in East Berlin - in a coffin! not long after the Wall went up)

*?The Hunt for Red October (from Clancy's run-away best seller, Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan pitted against Soviet Captain Sean Connery in an all-out chase beneath the cold Atlantic)?

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10. Randomocity

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* Bruins management needs to go Rocky 3 and cancel all Four Seasons reservations on the road and stay at no-tell motels - until the team earns the right for nice things - they are 9-15-3 on the road.

* Pitino getting it done for St. Johns: 21-3

* Snowstorms bring out neighbors

* James Taylor wrote Fire and Rain in which he writes "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend." So, his buddy Carole King wrote - "You've got a friend."

* Plymouth Argyles knocked out John Henry's Liverpool of the FA Cup - Payrolls - Liverpool $128 million / Plymouth $6 million?

* Why didn't Notre Dame wear green for the national championship?

* Dick Vitale and Hubie Brown calling games this week - combined age - 176

* Archie Bunker's chair then throne on Game of Thrones then captain's chair for Captain Kirk then couch in Central Perks Coffee Shop

* Last Top Ten until opening day - you need a break

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