Once again five months of watching, cheering and a little betting is almost over. The Superbowl is on Sunday. A showdown of the two best teams in football. Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints. Both have great offenses but they present a contrast in styles. The Colts are a slick, well oiled machine. They don't change there tactics much and they don't care if you know what play they are going to run. They simply dare you to stop them. The Saints are continually changing there playbook. New plays, new formations, and chicanery are the name of there game. They want to keep you on your toes, constantly guessing. It should be a fun show, and I will be sad when its over.
This particular game is interesting to me for a different reason though. I harp on choosing the third option when faced with Evil vs. Evil. But what do you do when faced with Good vs. Good. When you are not a fan of either team but you like them both. Who to root for, who to root against? It is a quandary of the mind. For those in the same pickle I have come up with two solutions. The first is to root for the underdog. I, for one, believe that a victory is much sweeter when no one saw it coming. However in this case the New Orleans Saints are not that big of an underdog. Therefore making a Saints victory a little less sweeter.
The other option is to root for whichever team is currently losing. Many people have trouble with this because they are incapable of rooting for more than one team in the same game. They have to pull for the same team throughout the whole game or root for no one. However it is my favorite way to watch a game in which I have no interests. You are constantly rooting for a come back from behind victory, while at the same time rooting for a close game. The one chink in this theory is what to do when the game is tied. I usually root for whoever is on offense or whoever was trailing last. All in all I just get to enjoy the game and have fun with it because the outcome doesn't matter to me. By games end, as long as the score is close I will be a happy man. Well and if there is some good eats too.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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Eh not the best post but I was pressed for time and I hadn't posted in awhile. Plus the one I had already started I didn't like. Maybe I will finish it another time.
ReplyDeleteYay! Football is almost over! Just kidding...you almost got me to like it now. Almost..
ReplyDeleteI follow your strategy. Whoever is behind becomes my rooting interest. But I'll be honest, a couple more days of RAISING NEW ORLEANS FROM THE RUBBLE OF FREAKING KATRINA will have me rooting for the Colts to smack them all back into the flood zone. Okay, we get it. They had a flood. Things were bad. But football brought them back. Now they can wallow in the same drunken debauchery that caused them to be flooded in the first place. That's a good thing?
ReplyDeleteHaha yeah. It gets a little old. Despite being preventable (the flood not the hurricane)it was a horrible tragedy. But at some point you just get bored with the story over and over.
ReplyDeleteBut at the same time how many times do we have to hear how GREAT Payton Manning is?