🏈 Super Bowl LI

[footballer]

It'll be a fun superbowl to watch this year. I'll be happy for the winners and sad for the losers.

 

[bamachine]

Just glad that at least two former Bama players will get a ring. Kinda pulling for the Falcons, since they have never won one and are the only team in their division not to win one.

 

[Mark Inabinett |]

Alabama, LSU, Rutgers and Stanford have four former players apiece on the active rosters of the Super Bowl LI teams -- the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots.

No collegiate program has more than four players on the active rosters of the Super Bowl participants. Two programs - Auburn and Virginia - have three players apiece.

The former Crimson Tide players going to Super Bowl LI are wide receiver Julio Jones and defensive tackle Courtney Upshaw of the Falcons and linebacker Dont'a Hightower and cornerback Cyrus Jones of the Patriots.

The Patriots also have a former Alabama player on their practice squad - wide receiver DeAndrew White.

Upshaw and Hightower already have played for Super Bowl winners in their NFL careers. One of them will become the sixth former Alabama player on two Super Bowl winners. Larry Roberts, Jeff Rutledge, Bart Starr, Deshea Townsend and Steven Wright accomplished that feat.


Alabama and Auburn are among the 10 collegiate programs assured of having an alumnus on the winning team in Super Bowl LI. The other programs are Georgia Tech, LSU, Oklahoma, Purdue, Rutgers, Stanford, Texas A&M and Virginia.

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[bamachine]

Ignore the last part of my last post, dumbass is I. Forgot that Car had just got there but did not win.

 

[planomateo]

If there were 11 rounds, would they have one in each round?

 

[BamaFan334]

Finally getting some gratification from the NFL. After being a Falcons fan for over thirty years, we are finally going to the Super Bowl with a legit shot. Obviously proud as heck of/for Julio and Upshaw as an Alabama alumni wanting anyone from Tuscaloosa to succeed. You wouldn't believe it, but the year Julio hurt his foot and was out for the year people that were "fans" were calling him a bust and waste of a top draft pick. Guess that simply shows you the intelligence of NFL fans over college fans. Hope we roll the freaking Patriots and stick it to the garbage town of Bahstan. P.S. I hate the Celtics and Red Sox big time.

 

[TerryP]

Check out the date on this tweet:

 

[TerryP]

Alabama, LSU, Rutgers and Stanford have four former players apiece on the active rosters of the Super Bowl LI teams -- the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots.

 

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[bama alum]

Those damn Russians...

No Steelers, no Super Bowl!

 

[PhillyGirl]

Just glad that at least two former Bama players will get a ring. Kinda pulling for the Falcons, since they have never won one and are the only team in their division not to win one.

As a fan of a team without a Super Bowl ring (but 3 NFL championship rings, at least!), I appreciate this. I am rooting for the Falcons too. Julio is unstoppable!!

 

[RTB X Bot]

 

[bama alum]

As a fan of a team without a Super Bowl ring (but 3 NFL championship rings, at least!), I appreciate this. I am rooting for the Falcons too. Julio is unstoppable!!

That big TD catch and run he made in the second half yesterday (I think to make it 31 - 0) was very reminiscent of the Bama/LSWho game. Wow! I hope he stiff arms Butler like that.

 

[TerryP]

Rutgers - Five if you count injured reserves.
Alabama - Four, if you don't count the practice squad.

 

[planomateo]

Bill Belichick has coached in 10 of 51 Super Bowls, wrap your head around that one, in other words 19.6% of all Super Bowls. Even more mind boggling, he started coaching in the NFL after the 9th Super Bowl, so that would mean he's coached in 10 of the 42 (23.8%) since he's been coaching in the NFL.

1986 Giants - defensive coordinator
1990 Giants - defensive coordinator
1996 Patriots - asst HC / secondary
2002 Patriots - HC
2004 Patriots - HC
2005 Patriots - HC
2008 Patriots - HC
2012 Patriots - HC
2015 Patriots - HC
2017 Patriots - HC

 

[planomateo]

Check out the 3D LI below.

 

[#80]

It's time for the dirty birds to get one. Julio in beast mode.

 

[planomateo]

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

True enough but Smith is the poster child for clowning up the NFL. Julio is a rarified talent that is just better than anyone lining up his opposite. Sherman didn't have a chance. Going to be interesting to see how the Patriots decide to pick their poison.

If I were the DC, I'd man up and bring 5-6 on every passing down, mixing in some fire zone, etc... Get in Ryan's face early at the risk of giving up an occasional big play, to make them adjust and leave a TE or 2 in pass pro.

More blockers --> less WRs---> less coverage responsibility, so you can effectively bracket Julio.

But I'm rooting for Jew-lee-o.

 

[TUSKtimes]

If I were the DC, I'd man up and bring 5-6 on every passing down, mixing in some fire zone, etc... Get in Ryan's face early at the risk of giving up an occasional big play, to make them adjust and leave a TE or 2 in pass pro.

More blockers --> less WRs---> less coverage responsibility, so you can effectively bracket Julio.

But I'm rooting for Jew-lee-o.

Belichick will have 2 weeks to figure it out. My guess they'll give Julio the attention he deserves with double teams. Feels like a shootout.