I didn’t follow the NFL at all for several years—decades, really. There were years in my young adulthood that I could’ve been offered $10,000 to name five of the starting quarterbacks in the league, and I would have lost the money.
Still, I usually watched the Super Bowl even then. It’s a good excuse for a party in the middle of winter, and the commercials were usually reliably entertaining.
This year, somehow, part of me is even less interested in the game than in those years. I can’t not cringe. Normally I’d be for anyone playing the Patriots, but gee, it’s pretty tough to get excited about the Rams, isn’t it?
Then another part of me says it’s not really the Rams’ fault; we can as easily hang a game’s outcome on any number of other single events as we can a bad call; etc. I believe all of that intellectually, but I’m not sure how viscerally I feel it.
How would I feel if it was a team besides the Saints who got left out? How would I feel if the Saints had gotten in this way? I don’t know.
We’re breaking new wind this Sunday.
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I do feel for the rams fans because if they win this I think it will be viewed as tainted.
I am generally rooting for chaos.