Timothy Birdnow

Watching the Superbowl yesterday I was struck by how mismatched the two teams were. As anyone who watched the game is aware, the Philadelphia EAgles utterly demolished the Kansas City Chiefs in a totally humiliating manner, winning 40 to 22,and almost all of those 22 points the Chiefs got came at the end when it no longer mattered. This game could have been a shutout very easily.

I was puzzled by it; the Eagles weren't blitzing but were sending a four man rush and they cut through the chief's defensive line like a hot knife through butter. Chiefs QB Mahones never had any time, and was sacked 6 times, and turned the ball over three, with two interceptions and one fumble. Given he's a great quarterback the blame rests squarely with the line - and with the play-calling.

They kept trying those mid-range passes. I couldn't understand what they were doing. If the defensive line is getting through quickly you throw a screen pass - or a bomb. In fact, two of the touchdowns were from bombs and that shouldn't surprise; the Eagles were playing shallow. And there was no running game whatsoever.

I thought about the recent election of Trump and how he was essentially like the Eagles and the Democrats were the Chiefs. Trump played hard smashmouth football but did so intelligently. He did not get the breaks from the officals (as did the Democrats - and the Chiefs during the playoffs) but earned every inch. The Chiefs, were in the Superbowl for the third straight year, and seemed overconfident and sloppy. Their play-calling was terrible, the same tired old plays. Trump mixed it up, going on Joe Rogan and doing a lot of things to attract new voters - Harris went to the standard playbook and it failed her.

I'm going to speak some heresy about the election of '24; contrary to what we are all saying (and I'm guilty of it too because it's important to ride like the wind when there is an opening and the enemy is demoralized) the election was really not a landslide. Trump did win pretty big in the Electoral College but he squeeked by in many of the battleground states. And while he won the popular vote it wasn't a knockout blow by any stretch of the imagination. We can tell this by Congress; the GOP did not pick up a supermajority in the House nor a solid majority in the Senate (despite the fact the Democrats were defending twice as many seats as the Republicans.) We won because the Democrats were overconfident and using very poor strategy. Had another candidate, say, Josh Shapiro, been up he may well have won.

But now Trump is blitzing and the Democrats are like the Chiefs, trying desperately to protect their own qb against the onslaught.

This is exactly what he should do. In war or politics the race belongs to the swift.

So the next four years will be "rebuilding years" for both K.C. and the Democratic sunshine band. What we need to do is labor to make that attempt fail. We need to continue the outreach. We need to not take the mid-terms for granted. We need to continue to develop podcasting and other alternate information sources, and to continue to disregard the media. I am puzzled about why the Administration is sending so many people out to talk to Meet the Press or Deface the Nation or whatnot. There was a time it needed to be done but now we probably can ignore them.They will NEVER give us a fair shake anyway.

And to touch on one of my earlier points, the Chiefs benefitted mightily from the thumb on the scale by the referees. I believe the NFL wanted the Chiefs in this Superbowl, and I suspect it was because a.Mahones is black, or half black anyway and b. because Taylor Swift dates one of the players and they lusted after all those Gen. Z eyeballs on the game, people who normally do not watch football but who follow Taylor Swift as if she was the Virgin Mary. So KC got multiple key breaks through the playoffs; they really weren't the best team this year but were pushed above their performance level by the league. Just like Kamala Harris.

Being the teacher's pet has it's perks, but is a disservice in the long run. The media boosted Harris and she never developed as a person, much less a politician. The League boosted Kansas City and they wound up getting destroyed when the game was fair.

As was said in the movie What Dreams May Come "sometimes when you lose you win". That is so very true.

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