Who Dey? Good Luck Cincy...

I won't be staying up for the Superbowl since the Packers managed to flush themselves down the toilet, but I'll be rooting for the Bengals. Can't see them winning it, but after the journey so far never write them off! A bit too much quality in the Rams roster to lose, you'd think.

 

The Cincinnati Bengals will be taking on the L A Rams in the Superbowl tonight, sort of American football cup final. The way the two teams have got here couldn't be more different. Two years ago the Bengals had the worst record in the league, and with good recruitment in the draft, as it's known, and good coaching have hauled themselves up by their bootstraps to get here tonight. The Rams have spent their way here, and are playing in their home stadium. It's pretty close to David v Goliath. Imagine Watford beating Man City having already overcome Liverpool and Chelsea. That's what tonight would be like.
I follow the Green Bay Packers, who were in a great position to be here but completely clammed up and lost to San Francisco. Hence "down the toilet". Hope that helps.

PS the Packers beat both of these teams in the regular season....

 

Only time I ever got into Football was when I was living in S.Africa. There was a seaside pub upcoast from the city that showed MON night Football and it was a gathering of mostly Saffers who'd lived in the States and became fans, but an occasional Yank or two would also show up, and there's not many of us down there at all. So those evenings became quite a "jawl" as the locals say and we all kind of reveled in American culture for a couple hours. I'd go hang out for nostalgia's sake but I learned more about the sport there than at any time before. Football's just never been my thing. I think I've only seen a Superbowl all the way through one time, that's it. And this was only like 2 or 3 years ago. My Saffer Mrs. watches Football casually, mostly the Charlotte Panthers, our state team, but also Green Bay. She couldn't figure out why she was so drawn to Green Bay until I pointed out what I thought was obvious…. they wear Springbok colors. Duh?

Needless to say RSA is also where I picked up my own affinity for Rugby.