Who won the Super Bowl subsidy game?

The Super Bowl is over (presumably, I didn’t watch), and there is a winner and a loser! Or multiple winners and losers? Only one winner, multiple losers? Methinks we need a list:

For those who need a refresher: Actual after-the-fact studies have shown that the benefit of hosting a Super Bowl is at most a few million dollars, which is less than most cities spend on advertising the game, let alone increased police presenceWinners: NFL owners who keep getting large chunks of their stadium costs paid for by taxpayers, plus Nevada police who get overtime pay, I guess?

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9 comments on “Who won the Super Bowl subsidy game?

  1. I always get a kick out of seeing these cities and organizations insist that these types of events generated some untold, unquantifiable amounts of “economic impact.” Orlando/Orange County makes a show every year of how much money is being pumped into the economy by the tier-two/three/four bowl games hosted by the city. Even the (grossly-inflated) numbers they trot out anually is equivalent to just a typical Tuesday at Epcot.

    1. Touché.

      The Orlando visitors bureau is good at making things look however they want. Just sayin.

  2. Two thing about the Taylor swift seeing her boyfriend event.

    1. I watched the Nickelodeon broadcast. It was silly, fun, and IMHO better than watching a traditional broadcast.

    And 2. I did rather enjoy reading about how the 49ers didn’t understand the overtime rules, or the analytics of it.

    The analytics say if you win the coin toss, you kick. Make the opponent score and decide if they want to go for two. Then you respond to that choice.

    Shanahan said he wanted to get the ball THIRD. Which is odd. Especially since the two drives took up the whole OT.

    And some say that was the place where the game was lost.

    1. I don’t think he made the wrong call. The Chiefs defense looked gassed by the end of the fourth quarter, so putting them back on the field made sense.

      1. Perhaps not. Arm chair coaching in hindsight is always easy. :)

        But the fact that the players said they didn’t know the rules makes me wonder a bit.

        I mean maybe the coach went old school and went with his gut. And that’s fine.

        Just an interesting point.

  3. It doesn’t matter how long the two drives took. If it finished the first OT period tied, they’d just switch ends of the field, but the team with the ball would carry on, like the end of the first quarter

    1. That’s a good point. It just felt a bit off. It is mahomes on the other side; if the 49ers didn’t score a TD on the first drive, good luck trying to keep the chiefs to a fg.

      1. To each their own.

        If memory serves, they had the Chiefs in 3rd and 15 and also forced a 4th down conversion on the OT drive.

        Plenty of chances to stop them. They just didn’t.

        And if the 49ers score a major (which they should have) on their first OT drive, all the teeth gnashing of tv talking heads and pundits is a moot point.

        I’ve never agreed with the “go second so you know what you have to do” argument.

        If SF had scored a major would they have gone for two?

        If SF scores and just kicked the PAT and then KC scores a major on their possession, do they go for two?

        Better yet… if KC is 4th & 1 at the ten after SF scores a FG, does anyone really think Reid will pull a Dan Campbell to try and win it and probably hand the trophy to their opponent (like Campbell did)?

        As with the Luis Suarez handball on his own goal line in the WC years ago, the only reason we are talking about this is that the ensuing PK was missed in that example, (and that SF took the ball but didn’t score a major in this one).

        The fact that everyone now seems to think it was obvious that Mahomes was going to lead his team to a major score belies the fact that he almost failed twice on that very drive, and did fail multiple times during regulation time.

        As Deming said “Variation is part of any process”

        1. Fair enough, John.

          Even mahomes is guilty of seeing it in the rearview. It’s easy to say *now* … that if the 49ers had scored seven he would have gone for 2, no matter what the coaches said.

          I’m quite sure we’d all have an opinion if it had come out differently or if any of the things you note had (or hadn’t) come true.

          It was a close game. It was entertaining. Its fun to dissect tho.

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