I’m a football guy, to the extreme; it’s the one sport I regularly watch and follow. And the biggest event in football, of course, is the Super Bowl every February. Everyone gets together, with snacks and a big TV, and watches the biggest game of the year.
That’s what I’d be doing, if it weren’t the same match-up from two years ago.
The Super Bowl has a fundamental problem these days: it’s getting stale. The AFC has bent the knee for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs (as have the referees), while the NFC can’t find its superstar team. And, for almost every season since the 2019 season, the Chiefs took up the dynasty mantle from the husk that is the Patriots without Tom Brady.
It feels like NFL football has gotten worse, honestly.
Like I mentioned, the NFC struggles to have a superstar team of its own. The 49rs, who led the conference last year, sat with a paltry 6-11 record at the end of the regular season. The Cowboys, who hadn’t been to a Super Bowl since the 90s, barely beat out the Bay, going 7-10. The Rams, who won the conference a few years ago, barely made it into the playoffs with a 10-7 record. And the Bears, with Caleb Williams? Don’t even get me started.
The AFC is no better. The Chiefs now own the record for the most regular season games won within one score, beating the 99-year record from the Frankford Yellow Jackets. Ever heard of them? Thought so.
The Jets, predicted to be better this season with a healthy Aaron Rodgers, sent him out in what could be his last season with nothing but 5-12 glory. Jim Harbaugh can’t get the better of John. The Raiders had to pull Pete Carroll out of retirement. The Texans looked worse than they should have been. And the Browns added even more quarterbacks to the long list of rotating starters.
And now we’re left with a Chiefs-Eagles rematch on the 9th. See, I like predicting games, week-by-week, but this was the first time I predicted “meteor strike,” because that’s how little I want to see this Super Bowl.
It’s blatantly obvious that the Chiefs are trying to cheat their way into stardom. The amount of bad calls they’ve managed to get on other teams, especially in the playoffs, is part of why they’ve been so dominant this year.
The Eagles, led by Jalen Hurts, return to the Super Bowl almost certain to lose, because playing real football is no match for a fan base radicalized by Swifties and blind referees.
The only saving grace this year is that the halftime show is headlined by Kendrick Lamar, who is sure to put on a good performance after the well-documented feud with Drake and the release of his latest album, GNX.
The NFL has a serious problem on their hands: how do they make this game interesting when they so clearly want the Chiefs to win every year?
We can only hope that the NFL improves.
