01-30-2019, 01:29 PM
This Sunday I decided to have a Super Bowl party at the apartment's community room where I live. It will just be chips and dip mostly.
My first thought about this Super Bowl was that it would be a scripted carbon copy of the one two years ago where Tom Brady beat the Falcons. Now, my thoughts are a little different.
The NFL may script it so the Rams win, which would stimulate fan interest in the huge Southern California market. With the Raiders possibly moving to nearby Vegas their sights could be on that, also.
Bengals fans take notice because it was not long ago that the Rams were a nothing kind of team, one that the Bengals soundly beat in 2015 and in 2011 there was the "F-bomb over the air" incident during a game played in St. Louis. Even their first year in L.A. (2016?) the fans cheered louder for the other team and they lost most of their final games on the way to a 5-11 season or something like that. People were wondering if putting pro football back in L.A. was a good thing. Then, they got a new coach and a new staff and things seemed to turn on a dime.
So, Sunday I'll be rooting for the Rams because I have lived near both of the places where they have played and maybe even the NFL realizes it's time for the Brady/Belichick era to end gracefully for the benefit of the sport. But, I'll be prepared for, and not surprised by yet another Tommy "miracle."
My first thought about this Super Bowl was that it would be a scripted carbon copy of the one two years ago where Tom Brady beat the Falcons. Now, my thoughts are a little different.
The NFL may script it so the Rams win, which would stimulate fan interest in the huge Southern California market. With the Raiders possibly moving to nearby Vegas their sights could be on that, also.
Bengals fans take notice because it was not long ago that the Rams were a nothing kind of team, one that the Bengals soundly beat in 2015 and in 2011 there was the "F-bomb over the air" incident during a game played in St. Louis. Even their first year in L.A. (2016?) the fans cheered louder for the other team and they lost most of their final games on the way to a 5-11 season or something like that. People were wondering if putting pro football back in L.A. was a good thing. Then, they got a new coach and a new staff and things seemed to turn on a dime.
So, Sunday I'll be rooting for the Rams because I have lived near both of the places where they have played and maybe even the NFL realizes it's time for the Brady/Belichick era to end gracefully for the benefit of the sport. But, I'll be prepared for, and not surprised by yet another Tommy "miracle."
