{"id":4818,"date":"2025-02-10T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2025-02-10T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T03:38:49","slug":"that-was-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4818","title":{"rendered":"That was unexpected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I certainly wasn&#8217;t expecting\u00a0<em>that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin and I did have a few things right last Friday, at least tangentially, as we discussed the big game. I mentioned how no one had ever won three straight Super Bowls, I mentioned a Super Bowl blowout, and I mentioned Jalen Hurts&#8217; previous championship. In college.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin said the team on the right would win. Darned if Philadelphia didn&#8217;t appear on the right side of screen.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s about where it ended.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Philadelphia Story from the word go, and kind of an epic drubbing the final score obscures. Let&#8217;s just say it wasn&#8217;t the prettiest game to watch.<\/p>\n<p>The only sight more sloppy was the parade of downright repulsive commercials. It&#8217;s not just that they were\u00a0<em>bad<\/em>; they really were gross.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like if you were watching this game as a Kansas City fan.<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s always last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I certainly wasn&#8217;t expecting\u00a0that. Franklin and I did have a few things right last Friday, at least tangentially, as we discussed the big game. I mentioned how no one had ever won three straight Super Bowls, I mentioned a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4818\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}