Super Bowl LX was a game that was all talk but no sauce. 124.9 million people had to watch this atrocity. Was this the worst Super Bowl ever? Well, no, that honor goes to Super Bowl LIII, which also involved the Patriots (maybe the American Football Conference should stop them from going to the Super Bowl). What really made this game terrible was the hype around it.
Super Bowl LX was extremely interesting, as it ended the most screwed up National Football League (NFL) season known to mankind that makes 2017 and 2021 games look like child’s playtime. We had a matchup between two teams that nobody expected: the Seattle Seahawks (who were pretty mediocre for the past three years), and the New England Patriots (who were four and 13 last year as Drake Maye led them to the Super Bowl). This match up had the fan’s curiosity at an all time high; but the hype did not stop there.
This game was on National Broadcasting Company (NBC), who heavily marketed the game as it coincided with the celebration of the company’s 100-year anniversary. To top it off, this game was played as America celebrated 250 years of independence, adding excitement in the air. But then… both teams forgot how to play ball. The Seahawks were useless on offense, with their kicker doing practically all the work (now you know how Chris Boswell feels). The Patriots were awful. Just awful. Drake Maye was absolutely cooked by Seattle’s dark-side-defense. He was sacked six times, and threw the ball 27-of-43 for 295 yards. He had two touchdowns and two interceptions (but note that those two touchdowns came at a complete garbage time when nothing mattered anymore).
In fact, in the first half, the Patriots had 51 yards of total offense. 51. That means Bad Bunny and the streaker had more yards than the Patriots in the first half. And it’s not like the Seahawks played well on offense either. Sam Darnold did not have the greatest game; he went 19-of- 38 for 202 passing yards and had one touchdown. But at least Darnold did not commit any turnovers like Maye did. Particularly, no one was really happy with the results of this Super Bowl. Nobody got a good game, and really it’s a disappointing end to one of the most chaotic seasons in NFL history. One disappointed fan, sophomore Spencer Newbold, was the only person in the NFL Club to pick the Patriots as the team he wanted to win. Naturally, he had to deal with massive amounts of humiliation at a Super Bowl party.
So, really, in the end, no one wins. Not even the broadcast itself was that interesting. Mike Tirico clearly was disappointed that he didn’t get a good game, and Chris Collinsworth was upset because he didn’t get to talk about Patrick Mahomes. And the commercials were just straight-up boring. Every single year the advertisements just kept getting worse and worse (plus that Ring doorbell one was really disturbing).
Was this the worst Super Bowl in all of NFL history? No. But it was certainly a very strange one for a variety of reasons, mostly because both teams failed to show up in the biggest game of the year. There is no way this game will even get an ounce of redemption… it just straight-up sucked. Somehow Sam Darnold, the same man who was seeing ghosts when he played the Patriots in 2019, managed to win a Super Bowl before Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Brock Purdy, Trevor Lawrence, and Jared Goff. This was a very strange Super Bowl. Now, let’s never talk about it again.