Old Great quarterback against the young Great quarterback. It was a great game. If someone didn’t ever watch football this would be the game to show them.
At first I thought Romo had a bromance with Mahomes, but then he was gushing over Tom Terrific in those last two drives. Tony’s was excited for both QB’s.
Tony is an excellent analyst (he called both of Gronk’s catches), but he talks too much for my taste.
Yeah, he is. But his day is tomorrow, bcos, today, he went up against the GOAT.
Yes on the Gronk (who was great today). Yes on the talks too much.
They hate us cuz they aint us 
Two great games, lousy officiating in both. We should be playing the Saints, that no-call was ridiculous, someone should lose their job!
Mahomes is slated to be the next GOAT. Unbelievable talent at 23. I wish him all the luck in a very bright future. I don’t often feel bad for the other team, but my heart went out to him with this loss. That being said…
GO PATRIOTS!!
@NEPatsGirl --I’m really trying to be the bigger person here, but you really want us to not like Pats fans, don’t you.
But my weariness with that team is tempered by knowing that they don’t always win the SB. It’s been a while, and my team sucks, but beating Brady twice is still a nice memory.
(Even being a Michigan alum, I still can’t stand him.)
All I can say about Brady is that he got beat by us last year and he wasn’t man enough to congratulate Foles and shake his hand. Seriously? Such a lack of respect.
Go Rams!!!
I love Romo! Makes me laugh.
I thought Romo did a nice job. Like calling the plays before they were going to happen and explaining why. He should of just gone and quarterbacked… Ha…
So… Should the NFL change the rule in overtime that each team gets the ball once at a chance to make a score? Patrick looked liked a lost puppy knowing he would never get a chance to score. Both quarterbacks/teams played great.
The current rule is already much better than it used to be. If you go any farther you might as well just play the whole quarter, and get rid of sudden death.
Romo was the enemy when he was a player, but I am loving him as a commentator. I feel like I learn stuff when I listen to him. Also I don’t mind if he talks a lot. NY sports commentators talk more than in many other parts of the country, in baseball for instance, and I’m used to that.
Also, he’s so much easier to listen to then, say Joe Buck.
@notrichenough… You mean we get more football… Then OK… Lol…
I agree with @notrichenough that the current OT rule is better now than before. The team that has the ball first needs to score a touch down.
Football has offense, defense and special team. The Chiefs’ defense could have stopped the Pats and given Mahome a chance. That’s what the Rams’ defense did to the Saints in OT.
@Knowsstuff If each team is guaranteed a possession, it gives too much advantage to the second team, because they know what they have to do. So the trade-off is providing a way for the first team to win outright. It is not easy to score a touchdown. KC’s offense scores TDs on 4 of 10 drives, the Patriots on 5 of 11…
Huh, it seems Mahomes didn’t shake Brady’s hand after the game. That unsportsmanlike jerk! Such a lack of respect.
It’s ok though, Brady tracked him down in the stadium:
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/tom-bradys-message-patrick-mahomes-afc-title-duel-064838899.html
Geez, what a stressful day of football! My heart rate was going through the roof last night! So happy the Patriots made it. I totally get why most people are sick of us, I always feel the same way about teams like Alabama, but being from MA and growing up with them being so bad I can take the hate.
I took my D21 and her friend sup to Universal in Orlando this weekend. When we were leaving the hotel yesterday I was wearing my Patriots short and a man sitting right next to my car had a Chiefs shirt. The valet made a comment and I laughed and said I would have to say hi. He said that i should give him the finger! I said no way, that is what gives Patriots fans a bad name. (he said he was just kidding!) I said good luck as I got in the car and he smiled and said the same - I have to do all I can to give us a better reputation. :))
Re: NFL overtime
https://www.theringer.com/2017/2/6/16042116/nfl-overtime-rules-super-bowl-li-patriots-falcons-62316a6f8e3c says that. under the current overtime rules through the 2016-2017 season and playoffs, there were 87 overtime games. The team that got the ball first had a record of 45 wins, 37 losses, and 5 ties.
So winning the coin toss is significantly associated with the likelihood of winning.
Not sure that those numbers are relevant. Digging deeper, the question is how many times does the receiving team go down and score a TD so that the other side never touches the ball? And that answer is less than 20%. In other words, in 80% of the pro OT games, both sides get the ball at least once.
Sure, field position makes a difference for teh second team to get the ball, but the point is that they do get the ball.
Even the Rams’ safety knew it was a PI:
45/87 = 51.7%, you can’t get much closer to even than that.
How many of those were walk-off TDs?
According to the stats I could find, after they moved the kickoff back 5 yards to the 30 in 1994, teams won on the first possession about 60% of the time. So the current system seems more “fair” than the old one.
Personally I think that in the playoffs, both teams should get a crack at the ball. It’s not regular season.