Sometimes-Annual Super Bowl Prediction

     
     It's hard to say who's going to win this year because the damn Patriots are back again, and I have a natural inclination to say "well, they won one year, then lost one year, so this year they should win again." On, off, on. But that's just kind of bonkers. The Rams also bring complications. I thought they were sort of jerks for leaving St. Louis without a football team (I found this out only by happenstance when shipping something to someone in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago---it's not anything I'd usually learn in my everyday life!), but they had been in L.A. before they went to St. Louis, so it was kind of just like coming home again. Being where you belong is always nice. But they started out in Cleveland! So L.A.'s not really their true home, it's just where they have stayed the longest. What has that to do with anything? Not much.

     Also apropos of nothing, the last time the Rams were at the Super Bowl, they were up against the Patriots!! And lost. I'm sure if you're a football fan, you know this, but it was interesting gossipy info to me. So are they due? Or did they cancel out their due by abandoning St. Louis?
     I don't think the Patriots deserve to win again. They're always hogging the fun at the big party. There are so many teams, why do the Patriots keep coming back and getting all the way to the Super Bowl? Are they just a good team? So much better than all the other pro football teams? Seems hard to believe, especially for someone to whom all teams and players kind of look the same. But I think whatever the reason, it's part of what so heavily influences me to feel the On-Off-On sensation, and I can't shake the feeling that this year they will indeed be on again. And the Rams will have to be loyal to L.A. for several more years before they get their win. It would be pretty coolly poetic if I were wrong and they beat their old opponents at the first Super Bowl visit rematch. But despite what L.A. Story had to say about the quirk and magic of the town, modern-day L.A. isn't really a coolly poetic place. Too bad for the Rams they didn't stay in St. Louis a while longer.

     Hey! Why can't I get the same frickin' font I always get automatically? I even went to an old post and did "paste and match style," even though it's supposed to be built in to my blog theme to have the same font. And what's up with the kerning/tracking in the whole first paragraph versus the rest? Super annoying, to fit with the "Super" Bowl theme, I suppose.