China Daily, February 2, 2019 The first professional sports event of the opening year of 2019, the Australian Open recently came to an end. Djokovic became the creator of history, claiming Melbourne for the seventh time, but what was more surprising than the result was the way he won.
Deyo's final opponent is Nadal, the two are the top two seeds, and the semi-finals are each swept 3-0, and public opinion is full of praise: it is really the two of them that can become each other's opponents! But it is expected that the match between the opponents did not appear, and Deyo won nadal in only 2 hours and 6 minutes, making the audience sigh that Xiaode was back to the peak, but the game itself still made the audience feel a little disappointed.
But if you think about it, such one-sidedness seems to have become the norm for World Series deciders: in the 2018 World Cup final, France took a 4-1 lead in 65 minutes, and the super dark horse Croatia was powerless to return to the sky; in the 2018 NBA Finals, the Warriors swept the old rival Cavaliers with a big score of 4-0.
Do you feel that the final without suspense can only meet the needs of fans on the one hand, but for the audience who simply pay attention to the game, such a showdown is tedious, bland and even disappointing.
For such a phenomenon, the ancients have long made an assertion: the game of chess is nameless. What's the solution? In this kind of high-profile game, if there is a gap in the strength of the two sides, then everyone is seriously preparing for the game, and the result of the game is one-sided; then what if everyone's strength is close? Even more troublesome, any wrong step can lead to a full set of ropes, so we see one defensive battle after another, and caution and conservatism have become the mainstream.
Admit it, you are somewhat disappointed and sorry for such a competition, which determines the highest honor of a sport, but does not represent the highest level of the sport. Fortunately, there are always exceptions to everything, right?
The NFL Super Bowl, the most watched global sports entertainment feast of the year, only the winner can lift the "Vince Lombardi Cup", which represents the highest honor of the year, and the Super Bowl of the past few years vividly illustrates the truth: why this is the highest commercial value game in the world, because the Super Bowl never disappoints anyone.
Remember that? Two years ago, at super bowl 51 in Houston, veteran patriots battled the league's upstart Falcons, and the Falcons' offense was wide open, and by the third quarter, they had taken a 28-3 lead. If you change to another sport, such a score means that the game has lost suspense, and the lagging side can admit defeat early. But NFL great quarterback Payton Manning once said during a visit to China: "The most interesting thing about rugby is that even if you are much behind in the fourth quarter of the game, even if you play uselessly in the first three quarters, the game still has a turnaround." 」 Manning's old rival, Tom Brady, the veteran who was called the "Reversal Kid" 20 years ago, then directed one of the most incredible turnarounds in rugby history.
The Patriots' repeatedly blocked offenses suddenly returned to their senses, and they mobilized Falcon defenders to exhaust their lives, and the score was quickly approached. But before the finale, the Falcons, who led by eight points, had withstood the pressure and looked like they were going to survive the crisis and touch the victory! Look, it's the mighty super-out Julio Jones, who took an incredible kick near the sideline, and the Falcons have advanced to the area where they can shoot, a three-point free kick that is enough to seal the win for them.
But rugby is such an interesting game, the Falcons' next choice is not wrong, they want to spend some more time, they want to continue to push forward to make the shot more secure, but they not only failed to move forward, but were beaten by the Patriots' defense team, they withdrew from the shooting area again, after giving up the ball, the turning point of the game appeared.
With a touchdown and a two-point conversion, the Patriots took the game into the first overtime game in the Half Century of the Super Bowl, and they finally played a 31-0 super attack wave reversal game, and Joe Barker, a Fox commentator who was responsible for the on-the-spot commentary, exclaimed after the game: "You will never meet such a miracle battle again in this life!" ”
As Sri says, if the 51st Super Bowl is a super reversal that is difficult to replicate in any rugby game, then the 52nd game a year later staged a rare confrontation in history.
Coincidentally, this time the contestants have patriots, and their opponent is the Hawks, whose main quarterback Carson Wentz has been reimbursed for the season and has been constantly counterattacking with a "dog" posture. According to common sense, should the Eagles be defensive and strive for stability? But they don't, Doug Peterson, who was just a high school coach 10 years ago, called out one aggressive and wonderful offensive tactic after another in the game, especially in front of the Patriots' end, they actually played such a fancy combination as a near-end forward pass and a quarterback catch - what's wrong, the Super Bowl has to follow the rules? The Super Bowl isn't for adventure? Eagles are not!
But what about patriots? They certainly didn't sit still, they fought back 33-32 at one point in the fourth quarter, and at the last minute they trailed by 8 points 1:05, and Brady's desperate counterattack was finally snuffed out. The Patriots did not become the winners, but rugby won, again and again the Super Bowl, rugby successfully captured people's hearts, just like the audience watching the World Cup final may exceed the sum of all the previous group games, the audience of the Super Bowl is also unmatched by any ordinary rugby game, but the Super Bowl in which the Patriots participate seems to have magic, whether they win or lose, they can always keep the suspense of winning and losing to the end, and always create a famous scene: for example, in the 2007 season, they lost to the Giants David Lee. Terry's helmet catch, for example, in the 2014 season they relied on Malcolm Butler's 1-yard line to intercept the thrilling pass, and last year's defeat to the Hawks, the two teams advanced a total of 1151 yards offensively, which is not only a Super Bowl record, but also surpassed all the previous games in the NFL's history!
So, Chinese New Year's Eve morning, get up early, and the Patriots are waiting for the world's football fans in front of the screen again. They reached the Super Bowl for the ninth time in 18 years, against their old rivals when they won the first Super Bowl, the Los Angeles Rams who rose to prominence this season. It couldn't have been a better showdown, the Patriots represent the old spicy, the Rams represent the sharpness, the Rams head coach Sean McVeigh is only in charge of the team for the second season, he just passed the 33rd birthday, 8 years younger than the opponent's quarterback Brady, and even once played against the "micro-shock" Edelman in college.
The magic McVeigh, who took over the Rams coaching whip in 2017, brought the Rams' average points per game from the bottom of the league to the first place in the league in one season. After seeing the hope of the rapid rise of the team, the Rams management immediately decided, taking advantage of the team's core quarterback Jared Gough and others are still in the rookie contract period, in the 2018 offseason very aggressively reinforced the lineup, a large number of professional bowl and best team level players joined the Rams, for a time the whole NFL trembled, the Rams were also jokingly called "cosmic sheep" by fans.
The Rams began to soar in the 2018 season as everyone expected, they only suffered their first defeat halfway through the regular season schedule, and although they suffered some minor twists and turns in the second half of the season, they finally reached the Super Bowl and looked forward to winning the cup again after a gap of 20 years.
The 53rd Super Bowl is coming, it is a new chapter belonging to the two cities of Boston and Los Angeles, and the love and killing that has lasted for half a century has reached its climax; it is also a battle that belongs to the old rulers and new challengers, when Patriot coach Billy Cecek joined the NFL in 1977, Sean McVei was born 8 years ago, and when Patriot quarterback Brady first lifted the Super Bowl, the Rams' team brain Gao Fu was only 6 years old...
There are too many points to watch waiting for everyone, the most important thing is: the first 8 Super Bowls with patriots, all the games have a point difference within one goal, do you still have to worry about whether this Super Bowl is not good? Chinese New Year's Eve 7:30, please lock in Guangdong Sports, Five Star Sports, Tencent Sports and BesTV to watch the world's eye-catching audio-visual feast!
Source: China Daily