Category: Super Bowl LVI

Super Bowl LVI logo released via video featuring Snoop Dogg

The Super Bowl Committee in Los Angeles for the 2022 game at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium has been released

The Los Angeles Super Bowl committee wasted no time in starting the clock toward the kickoff of Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in February 2022.

The committee on Tuesday released the logo for Super Bowl 56, which will be played at the home of the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers.

“Today more than ever the Super Bowl stands for hope and perseverance,” said Casey Wasserman, Chairman, Los Angeles Super Bowl Host Committee. “We are proud and excited that Los Angeles will once against host the nation’s biggest sporting event, however it’s the promise of recovery and opportunity that Super Bowl LVI brings to our City’s people and industries that reigns supreme.”

In addition to the logo release, a video debuted featuring rap icon Snoop Dogg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfjJGrc70Og

“Since Los Angeles hosted the first Super Bowl back in 1967, the Super Bowl has become a spectacle larger than the league could have ever imagined,” NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said.

“… I don’t know what the environment is going to be like by next year; we’ll be prepared for that. We hope it will be filled with fans, and not just in the stadium, but around the stadium and enjoying the facility, and we will be back to more of a normal cadence. But safety’s driven everything we’ve done this year and safety will drive that decision as we approach it, making sure that we keep, obviously, the participants, as well as our fans and others, safe through that process.”

Jags have 100/1 odds to win Super Bowl LVI next year

The Jags have the lowest odd to win Super Bowl LVI per BetMGM, but there are things that could go in their favor within the division.

There is one game left to play in terms of the 2020 NFL season — and that’s Super Bowl LV, where the Kansas City Chiefs will take on the Tampa Bay Bucs. On one side will be the scariest offense in football led by Patrick Mahomes, and on the other will be the best of all time, Tom Brady, and a Bucs offense that doesn’t lack star power either. 

With all of the other 30 teams watching from home, most of the NFL is focused on improving themselves next year and participating in the Super Bowl in 2021. Oddsmakers are on the same boat, and BetMGM recently published their initial odds for Super Bowl LVI.

Unsurprisingly, the Jacksonville Jaguars currently have the lowest odds of any team with a +10,000 or 100/1 figure. The teams closest to that figure were the New York Jets, Houston Texans, Detroit Lions, and Cincinnati Bengals, who will start things with +8,000 (80/1) odds. 

Going from being the worst team in football record-wise to the Super Bowl in one season would be beyond difficult for the Jags, even with all the resources they have to improve. However, making the playoffs could be a more reasonable achievement, though it would also be difficult. 

One thing going in the Jags’ favor to make the postseason is the probable addition of Trevor Lawrence and the potential turmoil in which the rest of the AFC South could be heading towards. Deshaun Watson could be on his way out of Houston while Indy is losing Philip Rivers to retirement. The Colts’ offensive coordinator, Nick Sirianni, is also leaving the team to coach the Philadelphia Eagles and the Tennessee Titans are also losing their offensive coordinator, too, thanks to the Atlanta Falcons.

In a nutshell, teams in the AFC South could be making key subtractions while the Jags have nowhere to really go but forward after a 1-15 season. How much better they become in the division is the bigger question fans can better gauge later in the offseason. 

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The 3 best records set or tied in Super Bowl LIV

After leading the Chiefs to their wild win over the Niners in Super Bowl LIV, Patrick Mahomes became the youngest quarterback in Super Bowl history to win SB MVP. Cowboys Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, who also won the regular-season MVP award and was …

After leading the Chiefs to their wild win over the Niners in Super Bowl LIV, Patrick Mahomes became the youngest quarterback in Super Bowl history to win SB MVP. Cowboys Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, who also won the regular-season MVP award and was named the MVP (at 24 years, 233 days) of Super Bowl XXVIII in 1994.

The NFL MVP is the third-youngest player to win the Super Bowl MVP, behind just Marcus Allen (23 years, 301 days, Super Bowl XVIII in 1984) and Lynn Swann (23 years, 315 days, Super Bowl X in 1976).

Wise beyond his years, clearly, this seems like a prophetic tweet, from 2013, about  what he was dreaming about:

And then this tweet seven years later, almost to the day:

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Yearbook memories: One of Patrick Mahomes’ high-school classmates correctly believed the QB would win a Super Bowl ring

Usually, nobody fully knows what a high-school kid might do or become or how much he or she will succeed. Usually. But one of Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes’ classmates at Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse, Texas, had a hunch back in 2014 and …

Usually, nobody fully knows what a high-school kid might do or become or how much he or she will succeed.

Usually.

But one of Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes’ classmates at Whitehouse High School in Whitehouse, Texas, had a hunch back in 2014 and must have recognized Mahomes’ unusual talent.

That’s all. Just sayin’. Maybe you should be an NFL scout, Spencer.

Why in the world didn’t Kyle Shanahan take a timeout in the final two minutes of the first half of Super Bowl LIV?

Midway through the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LVI, when the Niners were up 20-10 over the Chiefs, and when the San Francisco 49ers looked like they were on their way to winning their sixth Super Bowl title, it didn’t seem to matter that many were …

Midway through the fourth quarter of Super Bowl LVI, when the Niners were up 20-10 over the Chiefs, and when the San Francisco 49ers looked like they were on their way to winning their sixth Super Bowl title, it didn’t seem to matter that many were questioning Kyle Shanahan’s first-half thinking as he appeared to waste the last two minutes of the first half.

The Niners missed a chance to at least try to score and would have had the ball with about a minute and half left in the first half if he had used a timeout after the Kansas City Chiefs were forced to punt. After they got the ball, back the 49ers ran twice in a row before, finally, with 20 seconds on the clock, the Chiefs called a timeout.

Playing it safe against the comeback-capable Chiefs proved to be prophetic for some tweeters. Not saying it would have made the difference, but against KC you need to score as many points as you can, or at least try to, and the Chiefs’ 21-point fourth-quarter rally proved that.

TouchdownWire’s Barry Werner analyzes Shanahan’s failures in the Super Bowl.