Cinco de Luncho: The Least "Sexy" Super Bowl of the Last 20 Years

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Cinco sets the tone for Super Bowl week and admits it out loud. The excitement just is not there yet. As the booth spirals into controlled chaos, the crew debates whether this year’s matchup belongs in the conversation as the least appealing Super Bowl in recent memory. That leads to a full countdown of the five least exciting Super Bowl matchups going in over the past 20 years, based on hype, star power, and buzz at the time, not how the games eventually played out. From Steelers Seahawks to Panthers Broncos, the guys argue legacy quarterbacks, franchise fatigue, and whether dominant regular seasons always translate to must-watch Sundays. The discussion circles back to this year’s game, the perception of quarterbacks like Sam Darnold, and whether coaching intrigue and future legacy can overcome a lack of pregame juice. Plus, a quick temperature check on why we always end up watching anyway, even when the matchup does nothing for us.

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0:00.0	Took a while to really get that hunger.
0:02.0	But here at about 126, I don't know about you, Teak.
0:05.0	I'm hungry.
0:06.0	Sean Muresh in the booth, somebody hide the casso.
0:10.0	Hot ticks flying phones ringing Evans yelling.
0:14.0	No!
0:15.0	Teak is laughing chaos, cracking nobody's in control.
0:23.8	It's Cinco de Roncho.
0:25.9	Bam! Crunch!
0:27.1	Let's go!
0:29.6	Let's go on this Thursday.
0:35.2	Eat up. Cinco de Luncho is brought you by Helix Wireless, connecting everything everywhere.
0:37.3	Yesterday, Cinco about foods. Pissed a lot of people off. Got a lot of angry complaints about mozzarella stick haters. So I'm hoping to move on and not have as much ate today. So here we are Thursday Super Bowl week. I don't know where everybody's at. Temperature check. I started yesterday. I go through more Super Bowl highlights. I'm just trying to set the mood. And I still wake up today. And I'm just not excited for this game. I'm still there on Thursday. I know on Sunday, I love Super Bowl Sunday, but it's the matchup. But it's a great quarterback matchup. Is it? I mean, in theory, it could be. Sam Donald in a game makes it a great quarterback manager?
1:11.5	Sam Donald's been amazing.
1:14.3	Sam Donald's got to win a game like this for me to then put him in a spot.
1:17.3	Yeah, the NFC championship game doesn't count.
1:18.9	Forget the, I don't know, 30 other games he's won in the last two years?
1:23.9	Tiki, I'm going to admit, this is a me problem.
1:25.8	This is a me problem.
1:26.8	31 games, to be exact, I think.
1:28.6	I haven't gotten there.
1:29.7	I'm not a believer.
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