Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs are back-to-back Super Bowl champions. Mahomes threw a 3-yard touchdown pass to Mecole Hardman with 3 seconds left in overtime and the Chiefs rallied to beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 on Sunday in the second overtime game in Super Bowl his
  • Vespair
    2661·
    9 months ago

    Breaking news: some boys played ball in matching costumes today

    • Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
      6110·
      9 months ago

      Oh wow, lookie here folks, we have a rebel who isn’t interested in one of the largest sporting events of the year. Ladies, please form an orderly queue.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1220·
        9 months ago

        The ladies were all busy watching the Super Bowl because Tay Tay was there

      • Vespair
        1130·
        9 months ago

        Not a rebel, I just don’t think sports counts as news.

        • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
          102·
          9 months ago

          newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events.

          Considering there’s about three or four subjective elements of that definition, I think we can agree that what is news to some may not be news to others, and vice versa.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
          51·
          9 months ago

          Well, Sir or Madam, you clearly haven’t been paying attention if you think this wasn’t newsworthy.

          Far-right influencer Rogan O’Handley went so far as to suggest that if the Chiefs won the Super Bowl, Swift and Kelce would trigger an apocalyptic chain of events that would kill millions. “You MUST defeat the Chiefs,” O’Handley wrote in an X post addressed to the San Francisco 49ers. “If you don’t, Mr. Pfizer and his girlfriend are going to tour the country as ‘world champions’ helping elect Joe Biden WW3 will likely follow in a 2nd Biden term and millions will die. The fate of the free world rests upon your shoulders”

          Looks like we’re all going to die now, and without this discussion, how would you know that??!

      • Vespair
        628·
        9 months ago

        When my local little league team wins, it doesn’t impact the world in significant ways. Same applies here.

        Sports are great, please enjoy sports as much as you want. But don’t conflate sports games as news

        • Astrealix@lemmy.world
          192·
          9 months ago

          Single incidents of murder or other crimes also don’t “impact the world in significant ways” but are most certainly news. Why is this not? It affects more people.

          • Vespair
            924·
            9 months ago

            Yeah you’re right, actual lose of human life and a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around are fully comparable things of equal value and concern.

            • Astrealix@lemmy.world
              21·
              9 months ago

              Maybe not in America with the Super Bowl but sports can do a lot more than just “a bunch of millionaires throwing a ball around”. The Ivory Coast making the World Cup caused a civil war to stop; the qualifications between El Salvador and Honduras started one. Hong Kong beating China in 1985 caused riots in Beijing; while basketball has given America someone who can do diplomacy with Kim Jong-un because the Supreme Leader of North Korea likes basketball

        • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
          22·
          9 months ago

          I’m not a sports guy either, I made that clear elsewhere in this thread. But just because neither of us are sports fans doesn’t mean we have to pretend that sports can be a big deal to quite a few people on this planet. And the big championship game is going to be news.

          There’s no reason to have a temper tantrum over the fact that a news website is reporting the outcome of a football game. This doesn’t hurt anyone in any way, other than those who are incredibly sensitive to the fact that sometimes they are exposed to things they don’t like.