{"id":27910,"date":"2018-02-06T00:17:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27910"},"modified":"2018-02-06T00:17:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:17:14","slug":"go-philly-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27910","title":{"rendered":"You go, Philly Eagles!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Normally, I might be a bit down in the dumps over the result of a Super Bowl contest that ended the way Super Bowl LII did.<\/p>\n

You see, I am a fan of the American Football Conference. I root for the AFC team over the National Football Conference team in the big game. I have rolled that way dating back to the original AFL-NFL Championship Game, in 1967, when the Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n

This year, the Philadelphia Eagles outscored the New England Patriots in a barn-burner.<\/p>\n

Why aren’t I saddened by the outcome? The Patriots have won more than their share of Super Bowls. Head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady sought their sixth<\/em> Vince Lombardi Trophy together.<\/p>\n

The Eagles had been denied the fruit of victory in their previous two attempts: once by the Oakland Raiders and once by, that’s right, the Patriots.<\/p>\n

So it was their turn Sunday to bring home the coveted trophy.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to feel too badly for a sports franchise that has won so much for so long.<\/p>\n

As for the underdog upsetting the favorites, I return to one of my favorite sayings about such things: That is why they play the game. <\/em><\/p>\n\n

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Normally, I might be a bit down in the dumps over the result of a Super Bowl contest that ended the way Super Bowl LII did. You see, I am a fan of the American Football Conference. I root for the AFC team over the National Football Conference team in the big game. I have … Continue reading You go, Philly Eagles!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[157,170,3259,3301,3302,3588,4468,4837],"class_list":["post-27910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-afc","tag-afl","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfc","tag-nfl","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-super-bowl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27912,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27910\/revisions\/27912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}