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First Patriots free Super Bowl since the 2015-2016 season.   

You can thank Fitzmagic and the Dolphins for that.

You can thank your former QB, the Comeback Player of the Year for that. 

The true and just outcome occurred, and the apocalypse has been avoided.

The officiating definitely favored KC, that's for sure.

One question, after the final touchdown, wouldn't it be better NOT to try the extra point and just take a knee?  By trying the extra point, you leave the option open of a block being run back for two points, making it a one score game.

Was it just me, or was that an unusually fast game? I thought it was a good game though.

This was Patrick Mahomes best game as a pro.  Not his greatest, but his best.  He really grew up last night.   It's easy to lead your team to victory when you have it.  Last night, he clearly didn't have it.   And he still found a way to lead his team to victory.

Mahomes is lucky former Dolphins Damien Williams balled out, he was the true MVP.  17 carries, 104 yards, 4 catches, 29 yards, 2 TDs.  Mahomes didn't deserve it, two INTs and a fumble.  Obviously, he's the NFL's golden boy and they want Mahomes to be the face of the NFL.

It did seem to go fast. I was really surprised how fast the half came up.

How often has that happened in NFL history?  By scoring an extra point SF needed a FG, TD and a 2pt conversation to tie...otherwise the could have tied with FG, TD and PAT.  Given how easy PATs are relative to 2pts it was a no-brainer.

The ONLY time it wold make sense to just take a knee rather than attempt a PAT or two point conversion would be extremely late in the game (only a few seconds) and leading by 1.

Dolphins didn’t end the Patriots season, Titans did.

Is that why the officiating was so horrible in the Super Bowl, and so horrible in the AFC title game last year?

Also, 49ers fans are all over Jimmy G, saying that he sucks.

I don't know what you're talking about, Superbowl seemed to be officiated okay.

I know a few hundred 49ers fans...and zero of them are saying that.

Wait...was that just one of your ridiculous out-of-left-field comments that is designed solely to get a reaction? 

My bad...

Hell of a year for your team, Sunstroke.  And what an improvement from last year.  Plenty for ya'll to hold your head high about.  I can't say one thing or another about the game because literally the only part I watched was Shakira shaking her azz at halftime.  I didn't watch one play of the game or Jennifer Lopez. 

https://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/niners/189603-jimmy-garoppolo-thread/page2947/

https://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/niners/193456-san-francisco-49ers-kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl/page484/

Also, I read through the live blog during the game, and many of the 49ers fans were criticizing Jimmy G.

https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-Super-Bowl-refs-Chiefs-calls-officiating-PI-15024948.php \

I read through a live blog on a 49ers site and their attitudes were very, very different

You took time away from analyzing all the ways the officials might be screwing up? Say it ain't so!!

I wonder is there a way to clearly define a push-off?

On the Kittle play, I would say at least 50% of the time that would not be called, even though technically, Kittle does push.

I have mixed emotions about how the Superbowl played out this year, it was really an odd game. An odd day for me too, I usually get the time off work to see it live but couldn't this time - I recorded it and had a total media embargo to ensure I did not know the result or highlights until I saw the replay that night!

Before the game my heart was hoping the Chiefs would win (so good to see Andy Reid finally become a Superbowl winning coach) while my head was thinking the 49ers defense would be too strong.

By the end, I got the odd feeling that maybe the better team on the day lost. Yes it's true that champion teams do the important things when it matters, and the Chiefs certainly did just that. The only thing is, like the Patriots against the Falcons a few years ago, they really should not have got the opportunity...

For a large chunk of game the 49ers dominated, and Mahomes was at best very ordinary under pressure from Bosa & company, some of his passes were downright terrible - yes he came through on the final two scoring drives, but I agree with the comment that Williams really should have been the MVP.

On the flip side, there was a long stretch where Garoppolo could basically do no wrong - he had what, 14 completions out of 16 passes at one stage with a QB rating of around 127? Then came the turning points of the game deep in the last quarter...

Shannahan & the 49ers coaches choked - after so much success from getting in Mahomes face, they went to a prevent defense which gave him way too much time to fire the deep pass to Hill who found a hole in the zone. This gave them the momentum & position to get the score and be back in the contest.

In contrast, Reid & Spags defensively turned the dogs loose and dialled up the blitzes to deny Garoppolo the time to pick them apart (which he had done for over half the game) which led to in my opinion the biggest turning point of all, the missed call for a helmet to helmet hit on Jimmy G.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1224161619439165441

Every other day of the season this is a roughing the passer personal foul, 15 year penalty and automatic first down. Even with a concussed QB at the very least the 49ers could have run three rushing plays and burned somewhere between 90-110 seconds off the clock (or forced KC to burn their timeouts) and that's without getting a first down which in itself would be pretty close to icing the game in the 49ers favour. After that the rest is history.

I would not call the officials biased (even though it was amusing to see the referee after the 49ers had won the coin toss and defer, turn to KC and ask what they wanted to do: did they want to receive the kick?!) but the standard was very poor, especially for a Superbowl. It seems like they were instructed to stay out of the game as much as possible and only call the extremely obvious (like the two correct pass interference calls which I have absolutely no issues with) but they choked at crucial times. They refused to call holding penalties all day. They also muffed on a delay of game and encroachment penalty near the end of the game when it was still in the balance - you could see the whistle in the referee's mouth, he literally choked on it! Just terrible.

So that's it for another season. While I am happy that Andy Reid, Mahomes and KC won it, the Referees impact on the outcome along with the 49ers coaches giving the game away has really left me feeling a bit sour. Kind of sums up my last year (or two).

The Comeback Player of the Year being traded to Tennessee is the reason that Fitzmagic is in Miami so technically he's responsible for both things.  >:D

I swear I can tell with near perfect accuracy which posts are yours without being able to see the poster name (mobile, while left column with that stuff is off screen).

The clear way to define a push off is... what Kittle did in the Superbowl.

It was extremely obvious live at the time, so obvious that I called it before the flags were thrown and the commentators picked it. He pushed off so hard while the DB was looking back for the ball you could see daylight either side of his arms when he fully extended!

Like I said in the other thread, I have absolutely no issue with this penalty as it was so obvious, and the same with the PI call later on the game on the 49ers - their fans have nothing to complain about with these two calls...

On the other hand, the miss of the helmet to helmet hit on Jimmy G and other non-calls in the game are another matter.

There seemed to be a lot of "hits to the head and neck area of the quarterback" that didn't get called in the Super Bowl. They weren't really forceful, but that hasn't prevented them from being called during the regular season.

Always seems like there's more emphasis on those types of calls early in the season and then less as the season wears on, which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing. The calls early on set the tone and then as the season wears on you let the players play football. I'm okay with this.

Kittle pushed off...I had no problem with that call at all. I'm still shaking my head a little that the contact to Jimmy-G's helmet wasn't called, but that's the way those things go sometimes.

The 49ers have a young, talented core of players, a stable front office/coaching staff, and the greatest fans on the planet<g>, so I fully expect to see them back in the SB next season.