{"id":34998,"date":"2019-01-21T03:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T03:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34998"},"modified":"2019-01-21T03:36:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T03:36:02","slug":"patriots-vs-rams-not-the-preferred-matchup-however","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34998","title":{"rendered":"Patriots vs. Rams: not the preferred matchup, however . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BBSw2q5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34999\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BBSw2q5-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BBSw2q5-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BBSw2q5-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/BBSw2q5.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, here we go again. The New England Patriots are going to play for their <em>umpteenth<\/em> Super Bowl championship against the Los Angeles Rams.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the matchup I wanted. I already declared my desire to see the Kansas City Chiefs win the whole thing. They were long overdue for another trip to the Big Game; their latest Super Bowl was in 1970, when they beat &#8212; while still representing the former American Football League &#8212; the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings 23-7.<\/p>\n<p>I remain a diehard American Football Conference fan, so I&#8217;ll root (more or less) for the Patriots against the Rams.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>LA<\/em> Rams last played in the Super Bowl in 1980 when they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers. However, the <em>St. Louis<\/em> Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans in 2000. So the franchise is a recent participant in the big game. So now the Rams, who have returned to La La Land, are back.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t <em>predict<\/em> the Chiefs would take it all home. It was merely my stated preference.<\/p>\n<p>However, having said that, I have to declare that the AFC championship game was <em>incredibly<\/em> well played, given the utterly frigid temperatures the players endured on the field at Arrowhead Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>As for the NFC game, I&#8217;ll merely say that the refs stole that game from the New Orleans Saints with that remarkably hideous <em>non-call<\/em> on pass interference.<\/p>\n<p>They shoulda called the cops.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, here we go again. The New England Patriots are going to play for their umpteenth Super Bowl championship against the Los Angeles Rams. This wasn&#8217;t the matchup I wanted. I already declared my desire to see the Kansas City Chiefs win the whole thing. They were long overdue for another trip to the Big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34998\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Patriots vs. Rams: not the preferred matchup, however . . .<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8324,8323,3259,8325,3302,4468],"class_list":["post-34998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-kc-chiefs","tag-la-rams","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34998","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=34998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35000,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34998\/revisions\/35000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}