A Cinecle View – Live/Not Live: Super Bowl LII
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In honor of the one organized sports team to which I have always remained faithful, the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, I’ve decided to do something different with this week’s A Cinecle View.
I call it, Live/Not Live.
Essentially, it’s as close as I’ll ever come to live blogging because, well, I have a crippling fear of anything that even rhymes with social media, and a pathological need to rewrite up until deadline. And sometimes, for two to nine days past deadline. Sorry, Joel.
But what you’re about to read is a timestamped, blow by blow account of how I perceived Super Bowl LII as it happened.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 4:27 pm
I started writing a column about watching the Super Bowl and took a picture to prove it.
See!
Scintillating, right? This is going to be fun!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 4:41 pm
I’m already bored with pregame analysis and hype. Let’s change the channel for a bit.
I wonder if the New York Giants or Cleveland Browns are watching this and wondering if they can pick up any of these players in the off season. Couldn’t hurt.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 5:14 pm
For @#%&$ sake, why does the game have to start so late? How can I make the wait less boring?
Consider me timbers shivered.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 5:48 pm
I just put on the same jammy pants, thermal shirt and hat that I was wearing during the NFC Divisional Playoffs and NFC Championship Game.
World class athletes trained in state of the art facilities by the best physical fitness experts that money can buy, executing strategies concocted by some of the greatest minds in professional sports are no substitute for a freelance filmmaker/writer and his magic hat.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 5:55 pm
On the Pregame Show, legendary coach/broadcaster Tony Dungy and Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh just picks the Eagles to win the game. I don’t know whether to feel bad for rooting for EVERY team the Ravens played this year or be pissed that these endorsements probably just negated the magical powers of my hat and cursed the Eagles. I’m so freaked now. If only there was something that could calm me down.
Thanks, Harbaugh.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:20pm
I’ll give Pink $5 if she medley’s the National Anthem into U + U.R. Hand.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:28pm
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom looks BAD ASS!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:31pm
Oh yeah, there’s a football game and they just kicked off! I’ll drink to that.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:28pm
A long Eagles drive ends with a field goal: Eagles 3, Patriots 0. SALUD!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:44pm
Afraid to get my hopes up for any part of this, but Donald Glover looks amazing as Lando.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:52pm
The Patriots answer back with a field goal of their own. Eagles 3,
Patriots 3. This is entirely too nerve wracking.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:58pm
Foles to Jeffery TOUCHDOWN!
Eagles 9, Patriots 3. Cheers to that!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 6:58pm
The Patriots kicker just missed a field goal!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 7:17pm
No Super Bowl is complete without ridiculous food.
Homemade Buffalo Chicken Meatball Wraps and Hand Cut Dizzy Pig Red Eye Express Fries! Nom nom nom …
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 7:21pm
Cool, J.J bought another movie and slapped a “Cloverfield” sticker on it … and sent it to Netflix.
But it’s got Elizabeth Debicki so …
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 7:31pm
21 yard TOUCHDOWN run by FORMER Patriot, LeGarrette Blount
Eagles 15, Patriots 3
This calls for a celebration!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 7:38pm
The Patriots kicked another field goal. Epic comeback starts right here?
Eagles 15, Patriots 6
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 7:43pm
An Eagles receiver just deflected the ball into the hands of a Patriot defender!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 7:51pm
Touchdown Patriots …
Eagles 15, Patriots 12
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 8:03pm
WHAT THE EVER-LOVING @#&#?
Eagles 22, Patriots 12
Hell to the yeah!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 8:33pm
I wonder if at some point during the run of this show, Jack Ryan will defeat a villain by getting ahold of his stationary and FAXing him fake notes from his future self?
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 8:46pm
Ugh, here we go …
Touchdown Patriots.
Eagles 22, Patriots 19
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:00pm
I feel like there’s something on my TV, but I don’t see anything …
I’ll tee one up for that …
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:02pm
… and slam it down for this!
Eagles 29, Patriots 19
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:03pm
Yikes!
How could they have been doing this better 12 years ago?
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:11pm
Touchdown Patriots.
Eagles 29, Patriots 26
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:21pm
Best … Super Bowl … Commercial … EVER!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:25pm
Field goal Eagles. I have a bad feeling about this …
Eagles 32, Patriots 26
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:35pm
… and this would be why.
Eagles 32, Patriots 33
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 9:59pm
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
Where did all the rum go?
Eagles 38, Patriots 33
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 10:05pm
Patriots are driving, only down by 5, and I’m out of rum. I don’t think that I can anymore.
No, wait, I TOTALLY CAN!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 10:09pm
Field goal.
Eagles 41, Patriots 33
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2018, 10:13pm
I spoke to soon. The Eagles failed to run out the clock and now the man with more Super Bowl rings than any other, the man with more come from behind victories in the post season than any other, is one score away from tying the game and forcing over time.
THE EAGLES WIN! THE EAGLES WIN! THE EAGLES WIN! I’m out of rum. BUT THE EAGLES WIN!
Tony Marion is a writer and filmmaker who splits time between Lancaster, PA and Baltimore, MD. He lives for the work of Descendents (the band), Chuck Palahniuk and Rian Johnson. Check out the digital embodiment of procrastination he calls his website here.