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The Cincinnati Bengals are headed to the Super Bowl for the first time in more than three decades. After two rebuilding seasons, the Bengals are looking to prove they're not underdogs anymore.

It was only two seasons ago the Cincinnati Bengals were the worst team in the NFL, finishing with only two wins. Now, they're one game away from being Super Bowl champions.

The excitement surrounding the Bengals this year is both palpable and unexpected. Football fans around the country are rooting for the underdogs this Sunday, and yes, that even includes some fans of the Cleveland Browns, their in-state rivals.

A lot of the excitement revolves around Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow. On social media, you can see him wearing funny sunglasses or smoking cigars. On the field, you'll see him leading game-winning drives and commanding the offense. On Sunday, he could become the first quarterback to ever win a Heisman Trophy, a College Football Championship, and a Super Bowl. Bengals radio play-by-play announcer Dan Hoard says Burrow is exactly what the franchise has been looking for.

"A great leader, a tremendous quarterback, and perfect for Cincinnati," Hoard said. "The Bengals were fortunate to be really bad two years ago and be in a position to draft Joe Burrow."

The stunning turnaround certainly caught Cincinnati by surprise. And now the city is abuzz for its underdog team. Buildings are lit up orange; people are lining up to buy limited edition Bengals beer; and some are even chugging cans of Skyline Chili in the streets. The last time the Bengals were in the Super Bowl was 1989, where they lost by four points to the San Francisco 49ers. That was the last game of Pro Bowl receiver Cris Collinsworth's career, who's calling the Super Bowl for NBC this Sunday.

"I think for a Midwestern city, when they get this kind of opportunity, when they get the chance to go on the world stage in many ways for the first time in over 30 years that theres a buzz and an excitement and a coming together for a city," Collinsworth said.

The Bengals have only managed nine winning seasons since their last Super Bowl appearance. Katelyn Snyder was born after that season and has been a fan her whole life.

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"You have to just keep telling yourself that next season's going to be the season, that we're going to do better next season," Snyder said. "I feel like every season, you know, 'OK, we're going to do better this season. This is the season."

And this season, not only is the quarterback shining, but so is the kicker. The rookie Evan McPherson kicked game-winning field goals in the Bengals' last two playoff games. Shortly before taking his kicks, a nun from Old St. Mary's Church in Cincinnati knelt and prayed. Sister Marie Cecile says they see how much the Bengals are uniting the city. She saw that firsthand after they defeated the Kansas City Chiefs.

"Walking outside on Monday morning going for a walk, everyone was saying, 'Who dey! Who dey!' They don't even know each other," she said. "They've never even seen each other, probably sometimes, but just the joy and reaching out and seeing each other again and recognizing each other, that is something you don't see often."

And it's not just the team's success uniting the city, but also its underdog status. Dan Hoard says the team is embracing that.

"Tight end C.J. Uzomah famously said at the beginning of training camp at a fan gathering, 'Why not us?' That kind of became the rallying cry early and then at the end of the year, Joe Burrow flipped it and said, 'You know what? I don't like that anymore. We're no longer underdogs. We've proven we can beat anybody on our schedule, so let's change it from, 'Why not us?' to 'It is us.' "

Fans here will be cheering on their team at multiple gatherings throughout the weekend. After years of shortcomings and rebuilds, Bengals fans finally get to experience something few expected this year: a shot at winning the big game.

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After two rebuilding seasons, the Cincinnati Bengals are on the verge of immortality - WVXU

History will be made at Croke Park today.

The pandemic meant there was no All-Ireland club hurling championship last year but Ballyhale Shamrocks can become the first team to win three consecutive titles if they beat Ballygunner.

Their opponents would be the first club from Waterford to claim the Tommy Moore Cup in the 52-year history of the competition and are only the third Dise finalists after De La Salle in 2009 and Mount Sion in 1982.

Incredibly, Ballyhale havent lost a knockout match since 2017. James OConnor took over from Henry Shefflin after the 2020 All-Ireland triumph but the conveyor belt of trophies hasnt slowed they collected their fourth Kilkenny and third Leinster on the trot before Christmas.

That they are slight underdogs rather than hot favourites is down to two things.

Firstly, they are somewhat fortunate to be there.

Galways St Thomas must surely have felt they had avenged their 2019 final hammering by the same opponents before TJ Reid fired a last-gasp 20-metre free to the net in the All-Ireland semi-final.

They had also needed a late Eoin Cody goal to force extra-time in the Leinster semi, before eventually overpowering Offaly champions St Rynagh's.

Reid said of his stunning strike that "It was pure luck that it went in" but it also spoke to the determination to fight till the bitter end that has long been the hallmark of Kilkenny teams.

The other reason todays contest is not expected to be a cakewalk is the calibre of their opponents.

Ballygunner have won eight Waterford titles in a row. Tallows four-point defeat in 2015 is the closest anyone has come to catching them in those finals. De La Salles eight-point reversal in 2019 is next.

Ian Kenny, Peter Hogan and Dessie Hutchinson are all starters for Waterford. Pauric Mahony is back after missing the last two seasons with the Dise while the trio of Stephen OKeeffe, Barry Coughlan and Philip Mahony are not long retired from inter-county duty but are barely into their 30s.

They hammered 2017 All-Ireland finalists Ballyea and Limerick champions Kilmallock in Munster. Loughmore-Castleiney did give them some trouble in the semi-final until both Noel and John McGrath had been sent off and Slaughtneil were dogged opponents in the All-Ireland semis but they have led from the start in every game.

It will be interesting to see whether they can do the same today, and whether it would even bother a team comfortable coming from behind like Ballyhale,which also has the likes of Adrian Mullen and Colin Fennelly alongside Reid.

"I think the pendulum has moved towards Ballygunner," Anthony Daly told the RT GAA podcast.

"With the way Dessie Hutchinson is playing and the space that thats creating for the likes of Peter Hogan, Billy OKeeffe, the Mahonys I think they have more balance and are at the peak of their powers.

"I could be wrong, youd nearly want to be bringing the cup in the gate of McGinn Park to make sure you have this Ballyhale team bate because we saw the defiance the last day.

"But I just think, overall, good in Kilkenny but so lucky to beat Rynaghs and struggled against Mount Leinster (in the Leinster quarter-final) as well.

"The last day they were hurled off the field in lots of ways but they did take over the match in the last 15 minutes."

The two clubs are just 30km apart, Ballyhale village being situated halfway between Kilkenny city and Ballygunners base on the southern fringes of Waterford city.

However, they have only met competitively once, when Shamrocks won a scrappy All-Ireland semi-final in 2019.

The neutrals will hope for a better contest today but either side would settle for whatever it takes to write a new page in the record books.

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Richard Seymour elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

The fourth time indeed is the charm for Richard Seymour.

The New England Patriots great was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Thursday as part of the 2022 class.It was Seymour's fourth year as a Hall-of-Fame finalist.

The Patriots drafted Seymour with the sixth overall pick in the 2001 NFL Draft. The Georgia product spent his first eight NFL seasons in Foxboro, racking up 357 tackles and 39 sacks while earning three Super Bowl titles. He played his final four years in the league with theOakland Raiders and totaled 496 total tackles and 57.5 sacks for his legendary career.

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick penned a letter advocating for Seymour to be elected to the Hall of Fame in 2019.

"Richard had a rare combination of size, speed, strength and athleticism," Belichick wrote to the Hall of Fame selection committee. "He was a smart player who understood game plans and adjustments on the field. His length, strength and quickness allowed him to match up on any offensive lineman favorably. Although primarily a defensive end in our 3-4 defense, Richard also played nose tackle. In the four-man line, Richard could play defensive end or defensive tackle depending on the situation and desired matchups.

"His physical and mental versatility, as well as his ability to master multiple techniques, made him dominant as an inside or outside player. As an example of his skills as a complete football player, Richard was a force on field goal blocks for us and, early in his career played on the punt return unit. Richard was effective versus the run and pass from a variety of alignments. It is extremely uncommon to see a player of his size, at any position, be capable of doing so many things so well. In addition, Richard was a well-conditioned athlete with the Patriots and he had the stamina to compete for an entire 60 minute game.

"Richard Seymour was unquestionably one of our key players and I do not believe we would have won three championships without him."

Seymour was inducted into the Patriots Hall of Fame in October. Now, he'll finally achieve NFL immortality.

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It's been more than 35 years since the schlocky Wilmington-shot horror movie "Maximum Overdrive" debuted in theaters back in 1986. But what might've seemed at first like a forgettable, if occasionally fun film, has achieved something close to immortality, not to mention a cult following,online.

The latest internet action keeping our collective memory of "Maximum Overdrive" alive? Avideo on The Daily Woo, a YouTube account with more than 600,000 subscribers. Run by a YouTuber who goes bythe moniker Adam the Woo, the series features "everything from abandoned theme parks to movie locations to wacky roadside attractions."

The Daily Woo recently featured a video aboutlocations of the fifth "Scream" movie, which was filmed in Wilmington and released earlier this year.

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Posted Friday, as of Valentine's Day the half-hour video titled "Maximum Overdrive FilmingLocations" was close to surpassing50,000 views.

"Maximum Overdrive" was basedon "Trucks," a novella by Stephen King about a passing comet that somehow causes all manner of motor vehicles and machinery to gain sentience. The machines'first instinct, naturally, is to start attacking and murdering any human that crosses their path.

The movie is the only one that King, the author of dozens of books and screenplays, ever directed. King himself has joined the cultural chorus mocking "Maximum Overdrive," admitting that, not onlywas he anovermatched and inexperienced director, but was also in the throes of a cocaine addiction he later sought treatment for.

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The movie was a box office flop, and it also got twoGolden Raspberry Awards, or Razzie,nominations:one for Emilio Estevez asWorst Actor and one for King asWorst Director.

Still, as the Daily Woo videos shows, "Maximum Overdrive" which starsEstevez, Yeardley Smith (of "The Simpsons") and character actor Pat Hingle, who became a Wilmington resident after making the movie herehas its devotees.

The YouTube video takes anexhaustive, very deep dive into some of the movie's locations, starting with a formerATM at the since-demolished Wachovia bankdowntownon Princess Street between Water and Front streets. (King himself makes a cameo inthat scene, in which the ATM's screen calls the writer an unprintable name.)

Adam the Woo and amohawked video cohort named Scott also visitthe Isabel Holmes Bridge (which theymistakenly callthe Isabella Holmes, something that even locals do from time to time). In the movie, the drawbridgeopens up, spilling cars into the Cape Fear River.

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They also stop by the Wilmington neighborhood at19th and Princess where one character is killed, and the neighborhood atShirley Road and Kenwood Avenue, where various scenes take place, including one with a lawnmower thatpartly blinded the movie's cinematographer and led to a lawsuit.

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Also featured in the video is The Kicking Mule, a store at Fletcher andLanvale roadsin Leland that plays a gas station in "Maximum Overdrive."

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In addition, thevideo spends some time off U.S. 17, where the movie built a set that served as the Dixie Boy truck stop. The set was torn down after filming was finished, but thanks to the Daily Woo, the site has been memorialized for posterity.

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A modern retelling of Romeo and Juliet, starring the creatures of the dark.

We all will die one day. Some, however, slip the clutches of the Grim Reaper and live forever. They become immortal, either through their actions, the tales they tell, or by turning into the creatures of the night.

Mercedes-Benz has brought all three of these possibilities together in its new eight-minute film - a tale of love, the chance of immortality, and the fangs of a vampire biting into your neck.

Made for its near invulnerable G-Class, which the German auto giant claims is Stronger than Time, the film is a tale of Rimon, an up and coming singer, whose love for an ordinary man called Nathan, infuriates her manager.

Hes a stranger. He is the enemy, the David Bowiesque manager tells Rimon.

Rimon is a vampire and Nathan is a human being. As the film goes on, were witness to the struggles of love versus those we count on as our very own. We know what happens to Romeo and Juliet, what will happen to Rimon and Nathan?

The film is the brainchild of antoni, the European lead agency for the car division of Mercedes-Benz. Sebastian Strasser has directed it.

As you watch the film, the G-Class plays a quiet role, especially when Rimon makes a decision that changes things forever.

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The unresolved conflict in Christianity is that were to love our enemies, but Gods justice for them sends them to Hell. Surprise! Judaism (our Old Testament, AKA Hebrew Bible, or Torah) had no doctrine about a heaven or hell the grave was the end. What happened to create this emphasis on Hell?

The idea of both were circulating before Jesus, possibly thanks to 200 years of Greek and nearby Persian religious influence. So he had to address both Heaven and Hell during his ministry.

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Hell is the opposite of Love both are produced by actions leading to mental states.

Many read the Bible as if they could tear it out of its historical moorings and spread it like butter. Thats like saying that because the color blue isnt mentioned in the Bible (it isnt), it didnt exist, and we should probably disregard it now.

The color spectrum says that blue and green are two of the seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Im sure some will formulate this as: if it doesnt say it in the Bible, it doesnt exist, so the sky isnt blue, its a shade of green, and science lies. Well, believe what you want and good luck with that.

The Sadducees, who were the Temple leaders, were not believers in immortality, Heaven, or Hell they were very strict about following the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) explicitly, as was Jesus, so to the Sadducee there was no immortality for people.

The Pharisees were more flexible in their beliefs. They followed not just the Hebrew Bible, but also followed the teachings of the fathers known as the Oral Torah. Sometimes they placed the Oral Torah above the written which Jesus scowled at.

The Scribes and Pharisees were somewhat open to new beliefs such as Heaven and Hell. The Scribes were generally responsible for interpreting the law for communities throughout the land. They and the Pharisees had to make The Law work. For the Scribes and Pharisees, interpreting the Bible as to what the Law meant also meant was it palatable to the public. This meant endless reinterpretation and sometimes rewriting. We dont like to think in those terms but evidence is they also reused prophecy that had been fulfilled, and they rewrote passages that would have been disgusting to the public.

While Jesus followed the Hebrew Bible (Torah), his beliefs were also similar to John the Baptist and other Essenes. The Essenes were a mystic Jewish sect and thousands of Essenes lived in Jewish and Roman territories. They formed an enclave by the Dead Sea and kept religious writing safe by storing them in caves (Dead Sea Scrolls). The Old Testament writings found there are regarded by many scholars as more original than later copies.

The Essenes believed in baptism as a symbol for washing away sins (forgiveness), and that the end was at hand. Rather than force people to go to the Temple and sacrifice for forgiveness, both John and Jesus baptized, saying that a priest and sacrifice were not necessary for forgiveness. This brought great opposition from the ruling religious leaders who wanted to preserve the Temple sacrifice tradition it was good business and maintained power.

Was the end at hand that Jesus prophesied? Jesus spoke almost exclusively to the Jews, and actually the end was at hand for the nation of Judaism, and for their practice of sacrifice for sin. In 70 AD the Temple was destroyed by the Romans, ending Temple sacrifice, and by 128 AD the Jewish people hid in the mountains to avoid merciless destruction by the infuriated Romans. They were obliterated or scattered to the wind. The Sadducee sect disappeared. Jesus prophecy said all this would happen.

The Essenes and Jesus were somewhat more progressive or refined in their beliefs believing that the soul is immortal and baptism was a symbol of sins being washed away and forgiven. Jesus was a clarifier, reformer, and agent of change pointing to a new future for Jews. We have similar things going on today.

Generally Jesus taught that for those who remain unrepentant for mistreating others, their soul remains in torment. You cant ignore God and mistreat others without your soul be affected. He likened this isolation and suffering to several things: Gehenna, Hades, Sheol, all common words at the time. He said eternal suffering is like being thrown into the trash, ending life in the grave, being cast into outer darkness, or burning in a lake of fire. Not fun stuff, but reality for those who harm others and dont ask forgiveness.

Later writers in their lust for punishing or influencing others created novel ideas about levels of hell, etc. But that stuff is just nonsense not Biblical. God forgives all who ask for anything theyve done, sometimes despite our objections. The only sin that maybe cant be forgiven is turning away from God and never asking for forgiveness. For this our soul is in torment until we find forgiveness. Bu this is human logic we cant comprehend the mind of God.

Jesus explained and demonstrated for us the best way for us to live with those with whom we have strong conflicts. The way is to love them that is, compassion, want the best for them. If they truly are unrepentant for what the do to others when they die, their soul suffers simply by knowing and living with what theyve done.

Its not for us to judge others. Those who die without forgiveness (Christ) are judged by their works. Thats up to God to decide not us. We are simply told not to judge and to forgive or we wont be forgiven either.

The debate over Heaven and Hell is tiresome and pointless.

We dont know much about Heaven or Hell, or judgment. What we do know about is we must have forgiveness for ourselves and others. And we know how we are to live and treat others as Jesus showed us.

Our focus as Christians has to be on living, not dying. It has to be on forgiving others and treating them well or we risk our souls being in torment for things we have done.

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Our answer is God. Gods answer is us. Together we make the world better.

Dorian

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Love Your Enemies but Jesus Love Sends Them to Hell? - Patheos

For all the grandiose backing tracks assembled in the Gold Star Studios between 1962 and 1966, there was nothing to match the overwhelming into-the-red chorus of love and reverence that met the passing of Ronnie Spector on January 12, 2022. Who else could unite the full spectrum of the pop pantheon, from the heavenly Brian Wilson to the infernal Keith Richards, from Ariana to Zendaya, not to mention Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Elton John, Joan Jett and Morrissey?

What were we mourning? On the face of it, it seems a slender achievement: a handful of singles across 1963-66, only one of which went Top 10. A solitary album, which barely scraped into the Top 100. A version of Frosty The Snowman on a brazenly shameless Christmas compilation. And a series of doggedly hopeful comebacks from the 70s onwards that never really found an audience.

And yet lets put it plainly if you measure an artist by the strength and depth of the response they provoke, then Ronnie Spector is one of the greatest pop artists of the last 60 years. In fact, its a tribute to the era that Ronnie co-founded and defined that it meant a mixed race teenage girl from Washington Heights could make a reasonable claim to immortality armed with not much more than industrial quantities of Cleopatra eyeliner and Aquanet SuperHold, a scrappy, wavering, heartfelt voice born out of a schoolgirl infatuation with Frankie Lymon, a sensational smoulder and shimmy, and a certain indomitable East Harlem defiance.

Pop songs are spells. Most work their magic for a season, borne aloft by passing currents of adolescent spirit and commercial whim and, if theyre lucky, they retain some faded charm for those they once seduced. Seventy years on, so many of the greatest hits of early rocknroll now sound antique, like something from the days of horse-drawn carriages, gramophones and daguerreotypes.

But mysteriously, through some uncanny force in their framing and performance, a few slip free of their time. As Ezra Pound almost put it: A great pop song is news that stays news. And no pop song has stayed new over six decades as successfully as Be My Baby, first released roaring into the summer of 1963, and roaming ever since, like some inexhaustible tropical cyclone Hurricane Ronnie across the airwaves, screens and senses of the world.

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What does Justin Trudeau see from the main house of his country estate or from his seat inside the House of Commons?

Perhaps he sees flames dancing among the treetops instead of ice and snow covering the black ash and trembling aspen trees outside Parliament Hill. Perhaps he sees Los Angeles in April and Chicago in May, the two burning as one, with mayhem at the intersection of Florence and Normandie and a massacre at Haymarket Square. Perhaps he sees the first day of the 1992 Los Angeles riots as an opening ceremony, and the fourth of May 1886 as his chance to answer a mayday call with an attack on the workers who honor May Day.

Perhaps its time to stop conjecturing about what Trudeau says he sees, before the emergency he citesand the month-long Emergencies Act he invokesbecomes a sight too gruesome to behold.

Someone needs to tell Trudeau that the attack on Reginald Denny, a former truck driver, isnt an LAPD training video on crowd control. The video should have a Parental Advisory label, and Trudeau shouldnt watch the video without adult supervision, because he may order the police to act like the four criminals in the video: treating all the protesters in the Freedom Convoy as one; as a Christian like Denny, regardless of faith, whose fate he holdswhose life hed betraywithout remorse.

Before Trudeau tries to repeat history and imitate art, before he orders the cavalry to remake Calvary in his own image, he should see the faces in the convoy.

He should see the images of Denny bleeding in the street and of four Good Samaritans, including a fellow trucker, driving Dennyin Dennys truckfrom the scene.

He should see the CT images of Dennys crumpled skull in which the fractures look like fault lines, bearing in mind that the crater in Dennys forehead isnt the result of an act of nature but of men acting like brutes in a state of nature: that the acts are a series of assaults on Denny, culminating in a gang member doing a victory dance after throwing a cinder block at Dennys head.

Trudeau has a duty to see these things, so he may not misrepresent the facts or misinterpret art as a license to commit arson.

He sees what he wants, superimposing his cowardice on one mans portrait of courage and anothers source of inspiration, for Trudeaus political survival hinges on a tale of two paintings; of Richard Eurichs Withdrawal of Dunkirk and Ed Ruschas Los Angeles County Museum on Fire.

The latters an aerial perspective of an imaginary fire, where process destroys progress and chaos defeats the illusion of control, because the building in the paintingwith its breeze blocks and concrete colonnadesis a model of conflict.

Streaks of graphite and steel wool stain the canvas, creating swirls of black smoke, while shades of orange and yellow color the background toxic.

Trudeau would have us believe the fires real, so as to justify his aggrandizement of power and war on freedom.

He sees himself as the savior of Canada, more sovereign than the Queen of Canada and Canadas Head of State, with the people in his sights.

He sees himself in the virtual cockpit of a Spitfire, gliding beside the musicality of time and the sound of immortality, when in fact hes deaf to the noise of democracy and the judgment of history.

Blind to the obvious, Trudeau has no patience for reason or reason to stop his collision with reality.

May the people show him the mercy he denies them.

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LeRoy Butlers long wait is over. The creator of the Lamebau Leap has leapt into football immortality.

The former Green Bay Packers safety has been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2022 after being a finalist the past two years and a semi-finalist for a few years prior. While the wait was not nearly as long as the one Jerry Kramer had to endure before finally being enshrined in 2018, Butlers enshrinement is overdue and arguably should have come before both John Lynch (class of 2020) and Steve Atwater (2019).

Butler finished his career with more sacks, forced fumbles, and interceptions than both Atwater and Lynch and he played in 43 fewer games than Lynch (181 to Lynchs 223) while Atwater played the fewest games with 167.

Butler was the only member of the leagues All-1990s team not enshrined in Canton and he was also a four-time All-Pro (1993, 1996-1998) and he also was a revolutionary player at the safety position. When he moved from cornerback in 1992, safeties werent necessarily known at the time for being great pass rushers and great pass defenders at the same time. They were either one or the other.

Butler flipped that notion on his head by being the first defensive back to record 20 interceptions and 20 sacks in his career. Of course, he is also a Super Bowl champion and the creator of the Lambeau Leap, a celebration Packers players still use today almost 30 years after its creation.

The resume was more than enough and thankfully voters finally had enough sense to put him in the hall where he belongs. Butlers journey from a wheelchair as a child to the peak of the football mountain is finally complete.

The Packers legend will be inducted in Canton this August alongside his fellow members of the class of 2022 that includes Tony Boselli, Cliff Branch, Art McNally, Sam Mills, Richard Seymour, Dick Vermeil, and Bryant Young. Butler joins teammates Brett Favre and Reggie White in the Pro Football Hall of Fame alongside team architect Ron Wolf.

Butler could represent the final modern-day Packers enshrinee until Aaron Rodgers goes in sometime in the future. Former wide receiver Donald Driver and former head coach Mike Holmgren have both been nominated but it seems only Holmgren has a remote chance at getting in.

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Story 5.0

Acting/Cast 9.0

Music 9.0

Rewatch Value 8.0

This review may contain spoilers

This drama is mainly about a love triangle between a girl and two guys that are polar opposites of each other - Qiu Yue from the Demonic Sect and Xiao Bai from the Feng Ming Manor who claims to uphold the righteous side.

For me, Qiu Yue was the star of the drama. He is an anti-hero, scheming and cunning with no morals but below his cold and ruthless exterior was a vulnerable and lonely person that had an abandonment complex. Li Hong Yi did very well portraying such a complex character and the chemistry between Chun Hua and Qiu Yue was really sizzling. I loved all the kisses between them. Chun Hua was a more typical character, but she showed maturity as the drama progressed and I didn't blame her for leaving Qiu Yue in the latter half of the drama.

Xiao Bai was clearly the weakest link in the main cast. The actor portraying him had too wooden expressions and I couldn't really buy his character or his 'love' for Chun Hua. Though to be honest, his character is a very conflicted/contradictory one that didn't do him any favours either in terms of likability.

A special shout out to Feng Cai Cai who I initially disliked but became such a wonderful, understanding and intelligent character by the end of the drama.

Overall, the drama probably doesn't deserve the 8.0 rating that I gave it since it really isn't a good drama but I enjoyed the scenes between CH and QY so much that I really recommend it if you like xian xia and romance.

On a side note, the ending was actually very faithful to the book although they could have included the side stories that mentioned their child which would have made the ending more satisfying.

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