What’s Hot and What’s Knott in Football – Super Bowl LX

By Rhys Knott

If there is one takeaway from the shemozzle the NFL calls Super Bowl LX, everyone should have, it’s that they should never play a Super Bowl in Santa Clara ever again! And it’s not just because it looks like it’s made of Lego!

It was the second time the travelling circus had unfurled its big top in the 49ers’ stadium, and it was the second time everyone watching enjoyed the half-time show more than the game. 

When there’s a kicker in the MVP discussion, you know the game has been less than stellar! 

For the first three quarters of the game, the Patriots and Seahawks served up the sort of insipid, soporific football usually reserved for games played at Wembley Stadium. Thank god for Bad Bunny! 

Luckily, Super Bowl week is just one giant media circus, so there’s still plenty to talk about. 

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What’s Hot in Football – Super Bowl LX

Bobby Wagner winning the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award is hot; his speech thanking his mum is even hotter. 

Christian McCaffrey playing the piano with Zach Bryan is so hot that words don’t do it justice! Maybe CMC can play next year’s halftime show? 

On the subject of half-time shows, Bad Bunny proved that Roc Nation really know what they’re doing when it comes to throwing a party. There was an actual real-life wedding. 

Lady GaGa showed up, and she wasn’t the only celebrity to make an appearance. 

Supporting businesses run by immigrants is hot, too. 

Mike Macdonald’s record as a head coach is hotter than the sun! 

On the field, Kenneth Walker III was hot.

But Jason Myers was hotter.

And watching Christian Gonzalez is always hot.

And we can’t have a week in this NFL season without a hilarious interception.

Flag football is undeniably hot, but UV flag football is next-level stuff. 

Especially when Brock Purdy is one of the coaches. Like father, like son, eh? 

Celebrity flag football is something we definitely need more of, especially when everyone’s favourite NFL content creator is scoring touchdowns. 

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Kay Adams putting Gronk in an “anaconda vice” is pretty hot, but it’s mostly hilarious! 

Bill Belichick’s other half declaring war on Robert Kraft via the medium of a t-shirt is very hot. But Drake Maye’s Patriots had actually turned up for the first three quarters of the Super Bowl, it probably would have been Knott. 

By far the hottest and most heart-warming thing to happen during Super Bowl week is Patriots’ rookie Jack Gibbens making reporter Dave Stevens’ job as easy as possible. 

What’s Knott in Football – Super Bowl LX

Unfortunately, there are more Knott things than hot things this week. But the end of the football season is sad enough, so we’ll try to keep it light. 

Ok, not that light to begin with. Will everyone stop punching people who are wearing actual helmets? It’s become a regular thing this season despite being one of the dumbest things you can do on a football field.  

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And yes, obviously, the officials missed it, never change NFL, never change. 
 
On the subject of missing things, missing tackles is very Knott. You might think that teams that miss tackles don’t make the Super Bowl, but you’d be wrong! 

Bad Bunny might have more charisma than the rest of America put together, but he really needs a new costume department. Fast fashion is incredibly Knott.

Traditionally, we’re all over Mack Hollins’ cosplay schtick, but this one went over our heads. Why is he dressed in a jumpsuit from a Supermax prison nicknamed “the Alcatraz of the Rockies”?

Will Campbell’s postseason has been very Knott. He has almost certainly been playing through an injury, but the Patriots might want to acquire some veteran help for the left side of that offensive line. 

The Cris Collinsworth curse is very Knott (but funny). 

Jason Kelce eating a burger that would kill a normal-sized human on live TV? You best believe that’s Knott! 

We all know the tush-push is old hat, and the sooner the NFL ban it, the better, right? Well, how about a tush-push in a game of flag football? It’s truly, soul-destroyingly Knott, not least, but “shielding” is illegal in flag football. 

C.J. Stroud’s new haircut makes him look 12, that’s Knott (and yes, I am very jealous).

RHYS KNOTT

NFL/FANTASY FOOTBALL ANALYST

Rhys has been watching the NFL for 30 something years and still hasn’t managed to pick a team to support. When he’s not fixatED on pass rushers you can find him blithering on about most sports on Twitter @wrhys_writes

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