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SUPER BOWL 2024: The Aftermath

The Game: Taylor Swift arrived at Allegiant Stadium  with her mom and friends at  11:22AM , Hawaii Time. She was wearing Black, so at +550, this color would have resulted in a payoff of $65 if you bet $10.  Well, she was carrying a red jacket, but that's secondary. Game started a shade after 1:30PM Hawaii time.  I was standing in line at 15 Craigside to pick up beer, hot dog and boiled peanuts, so missed the kick-off. The  Kansas Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in overtime, 25-22.   It was as good as the Super Bowl has ever been, with Patrick Mahomes being the Most Valuable Player.  He didn't propose to anyone, as he is already married, so that bet lost ( look at my posting of Saturday about what this means ). Proposition results: National Anthem :  Reba McEntire took 95 seconds, longer than average for her.    There was chaos  because the under/over was 91 or 91.5, but she repeated the ending, which some sportsbooks nullified.   Watch the ending , with six jets flying over

SUPER BOWL SUNDAY

Super Bowl Sunday is a wonderful day for me.  No politics, ignore the pandemic and be somewhat pious.  So I will start with  comedy .  Sure, that was an atheist, but it was funny. So let me balance this near blasphemy with the most popular religious song in history.  According to this source , it is Amazing Grace , by John Newton.  Absolutely beautiful.  Watch it. But the voice sounded female?  I searched and found this John Newton film, one hour and twenty minutes long, called, The True Story of Amazing Grace  ( the whole movie ).  I checked Rotten Tomatoes, and there was only one film called Amazing Grace , and reviewers only gave it a 26 rating.  Benedict Cumberbatch and Albert Finney star, and TTSOAG did not have them.  Plus, AG was almost two hour long. So went to Wikipedia , and found out that John Newton was born nearly 300 years ago in London, first worked on slave ships, and himself became a slave, of Princess Peye of the Sherbro People ( now Sierra Leone in Africa ).  Newto