{"id":578,"date":"2019-02-07T17:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T17:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/02\/07\/201927hannah-cotter\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:36:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:36:49","slug":"201927hannah-cotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/02\/07\/201927hannah-cotter\/","title":{"rendered":"Football fans call Super Bowl LIII the &#8220;most boring ever&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">ATLANTA \u2013 The New England Patriots\u2019 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII on Sunday was a record-breaking night, but it won\u2019t go down in history as a very memorable one. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Among the Super Bowl records set: fewest points by both teams (16), fewest points by winning team (13), most consecutive drives ending with a punt (8 by the Rams) and longest punt (65 yards). <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The story of this game, however, wasn\u2019t defined by what did happen, but what didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The defense-dominated game started off slow, with the Patriots settling for two field goal attempts for a 3-0 lead going into the half. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cYeah, it was tough,\u201d Patriots quarterback Tom Brady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2019\/feb\/04\/super-bowl-2019-new-england-patriots-bill-belichick-coaching-tactics\">said<\/a>, of going into halftime. \u201cWe just couldn\u2019t make the big play, we just couldn\u2019t stay on the field on third down. We just knew we had a whole half to go, defense set the tone.\u201d<\/p>\n<div\n        class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \"\n        data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"\n    ><\/p>\n<figure\n            class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"\n            style=\"max-width:1600.0px;\"\n        ><\/p>\n<div\n              \n                style=\"padding-bottom:66.66666412353516%;\"\n              \n              class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                \n          \n        \n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \"\n              data-animation-role=\"image\"\n              \n  \n\n          ><br \/>\n            <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/https-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-190203225810-44-super-bowl-2019.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of David J. Phillip, AP.\" \/><\/noscript><img class=\"thumb-image\" data-src=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/https-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-190203225810-44-super-bowl-2019.jpg\" data-image=\"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/https-cdn.cnn_.com-cnnnext-dam-assets-190203225810-44-super-bowl-2019.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1600x1067\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of David J. Phillip, AP.\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5c5c7bde4785d3fecc21e11a\" data-type=\"image\" \/>\n          <\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-caption\">\n<p>Photo courtesy of David J. Phillip, AP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Maroon 5\u2019s halftime show offered fans no relief: from a shirtless Adam Levine to Big Boi\u2019s brief appearance to Spongebob Squarepants\u2019 cameo, fans took to social media to express their disappointment in what used to be one of the biggest nights in music. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SpongeBob tribute was the best part of the Super Bowl so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MKBHD\/status\/1092229321320738816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wait a damn minute!! Janet Jackson show&#8217;s a tiny bit of nipple, and all hell breaks loose. He takes off his shirt and nothing?!!  What??!!!! I&#8217;m outraged!  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SuperBowl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SuperBowl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PepsiHalftime?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PepsiHalftime<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 sans Care (@Madjora77) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Madjora77\/status\/1092232174772805632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cThe halftime show was super boring,\u201d Quinnipiac senior Urushi Madani said. \u201cAnd the game didn\u2019t get exciting until the end.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">When the Rams finally got some points on the board in the third quarter, Greg Zuerlein kicked a 53-yard field goal, falling just one yard short of the longest ever in a Super Bowl. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Though the Patriots found some scoring opportunities, they couldn\u2019t close out until the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Pats rookie Sony Michel finally broke through the end zone with seven minutes left in regulation, scoring the game-winning touchdown. <\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u201cFinally we kind of broke through in the fourth quarter,\u201d Brady said. \u201cWe kind of needed that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2013 The New England Patriots\u2019 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in Super Bowl LIII on Sunday was a record-breaking night, but it won\u2019t go down in history as a very memorable one. Among the Super Bowl records set: fewest points by both teams (16), fewest points by winning team (13), most consecutive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2019\/02\/07\/201927hannah-cotter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Football fans call Super Bowl LIII the &#8220;most boring ever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qnn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2326,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}