Seattle CHAMPS!

[Philo Sofee]

Great Suerbowl........defense astonishing for BOTH teams, but Seattle prevailed. That young quarterback for New England is gonna be great in time, this was his break in. I felt bad for him, but he'll be back with a vengeance!

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

Having grown up in Spokane, I’m always happy when Seattle does well on the national stage. It always feels like the Pacific Northwest is an afterthought in the sports and entertainment world, which is understandable. So, happy to see them win another SB! Also, super happy for Sam Darnold. What a weird path to becoming a champion!

The New England team is great, and they’re close to being the best in the League, but your front line getting exposed in the biggest game of the year is embarrassing. It’ll be interesting to see if Vrabel & Co can make it back. I think Denver is probably the favorite heading into next season.

- Doc

[ajax18]

Also, super happy for Sam Darnold. What a weird path to becoming a champion!

Who's responsible for letting Darnold go in Minnesota? He should be fired.

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

I watched Bad Bunny deliver the most American halftime show I have ever seen. Then I came home and watched it again. And I am not okay. In the best possible way.

He sang every single word in Spanish. Every. Single. Word. He danced through sugarcane fields built on a football field in California while the President of the United States sat somewhere calling it “disgusting.” Lady Gaga came out and did the salsa. Ricky Martin lit up the night. A couple got married on the field. He handed his Grammy, the one he won eight days ago for Album of the Year, to a little boy who looked up at him the way every child looks up when they dare to believe the world has a place for them.

And then this man, this son of a truck driver and a schoolteacher from Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, stood on the biggest stage on the planet and said “God bless America.”

And then he started naming them.

Chile. Argentina. Uruguay. Paraguay. Bolivia. Peru. Ecuador. Brazil. Colombia. Venezuela. Panama. Costa Rica. Nicaragua. Honduras. El Salvador. Guatemala. Mexico. Cuba. Dominican Republic. Jamaica. The United States. Canada. And then, his voice breaking with everything he carries, “Mi patria, Puerto Rico. Seguimos aquí.” My homeland, Puerto Rico. We are still here.

The flags came. Every single one of them. Carried across that field by dancers and musicians while the jumbotron lit up with the only words that mattered: “THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.”

I teared up. I’m not ashamed to say it. I sat on my couch and I wept because THAT is the America I believe in. That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us. The REAL one. The messy, beautiful, multilingual, multicolored, courageous one. The one that has always been built by hands that speak every language and pray in every tongue and come from every corner of this hemisphere.

That is the America I want Jack and Charlotte to know. That when the moment came, when the whole world was watching, a Puerto Rican kid who grew up to become the most-streamed artist on Earth stood in front of 100 million people, sang in his mother’s language, blessed every nation in the Americas, and spiked a football that read “Together, we are America” into the ground. Not with anger. With joy. With love so big it made hate look exactly as small as it is.

And what did the President do? He called it “absolutely terrible.” He said “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.” He called it “a slap in the face to our Country.” The leader of the free world watched a celebration of love, culture, and everything this hemisphere has given to the world, and all he could see was something foreign. Something threatening. Something disgusting.

Let that sink into your bones.

The man who is supposed to represent all of us looked at the flags of our neighbors, heard the language of 500 million Americans across this hemisphere, and felt attacked. That’s not strength. That’s not patriotism. That is poverty of the soul.

And then there was the Turning Point show. Kid Rock in a college arena in North Dakota. Three million viewers watching a man who once wrote a song about liking underage girls perform as the “family-friendly” alternative to a Puerto Rican artist celebrating love. They called it the “All-American Halftime Show”, as if America has a velvet rope. As if this country belongs to some of us and not all of us. As if you need to sing in English to count.

Here’s what I want to say to everyone who posted about that show tonight, who shared it proudly, who turned away from Bad Bunny’s celebration because it was in Spanish and the flags weren’t only red, white, and blue:

Your children will see those posts. Your grandchildren will find them. The internet doesn’t forget. And one day, when the history of this moment is written, when our kids and their kids look back at 2026 the way we look back at the people who stood on the wrong side of every bridge and every march and every moment that mattered, they will know exactly where you stood. They will see who chose Kid Rock over a hemisphere of flags. They will see who called love “disgusting.” And they will carry that knowledge the way all of us carry the knowledge of what our ancestors did when they were tested.

I don’t say that with anger. I say it with sadness. Because hate is an inheritance nobody asks for, and yet it gets passed down just the same.

Bad Bunny didn’t say “ICE out” tonight. He didn’t need to. He just showed the whole world what America looks like when we are not afraid of each other. When culture is shared, not policed. When language is music, not a threat. When a flag from every nation in this hemisphere can walk across a football field together and the only words you need are the ones he gave us:

The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

Over 100 million people saw that tonight.

And no Truth Social post can take it away.

- NC Senator Michael Garrett

What a beautiful observation, and it’s this kind of worldview that gives me hope when so much of the world sees Armageddon.

[Chap]

That is the American story, not the sanitized, gated, English-only version that small and frightened people try to sell us. The REAL one. The messy, beautiful, multilingual, multicolored, courageous one. The one that has always been built by hands that speak every language and pray in every tongue and come from every corner of this hemisphere.

That is the America I want Jack and Charlotte to know. That when the moment came, when the whole world was watching, a Puerto Rican kid who grew up to become the most-streamed artist on Earth stood in front of 100 million people, sang in his mother’s language, blessed every nation in the Americas, and spiked a football that read “Together, we are America” into the ground. Not with anger. With joy. With love so big it made hate look exactly as small as it is.

I am not an American, nor do I want to be an American. But yes, that America you describe is the good America that I like and to which I wish well!

[Doctor CamNC4Me]

It should be noted that the hunk of crap in the White House didn’t watch the hunk of crap halftime show TPUSA crapped out. He watched Bad Bunny. Lol.

- Doc

[Some Schmo]

Also, super happy for Sam Darnold. What a weird path to becoming a champion!

This is where I hung my hat for this Super Bowl, since I wasn't really keen on either team. Plus, I'm much better with Seattle having two championships than New England having seven.

The New England team is great, and they’re close to being the best in the League, but your front line getting exposed in the biggest game of the year is embarrassing. It’ll be interesting to see if Vrabel & Co can make it back. I think Denver is probably the favorite heading into next season.

- Doc

I think it might be at least a few years till they make the playoffs again. Just a hunch.

[Brack]

I don't think it was that great of a Superbowl. It would've been a great Superbowl if it was the Buffalo Bills or Denver Broncos playing against the Seattle Seahawks instead of the Patriots.

[Philo Sofee]

I don't think it was that great of a Superbowl. It would've been a great Superbowl if it was the Buffalo Bills or Denver Broncos playing against the Seattle Seahawks instead of the Patriots.

Agreed.

[Some Schmo]

I don't think it was that great of a Superbowl. It would've been a great Superbowl if it was the Buffalo Bills or Denver Broncos playing against the Seattle Seahawks instead of the Patriots.

The Bills may have made it fun. As much as I love the Broncos (and I do), I don't think they could have competed with Seattle this year either.

But I loved the Super Bowl, honestly. I love watching great defense when that happens. I think the league favors offense too much.