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I am happy to proclaim that for the first time since I cannot remember I actually have an interest in professional football’s final game of the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n

Super Bowl LIV is coming up. I am pulling hard for the Kansas City Chiefs to win against the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n

I have not a single thing against<\/em> the Niners. They’re a fine team, coming from a fine program. They have wonderful fans; a beloved member of my family is one of them. They have a storied history of winning the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to one of the key reasons why I am pulling for the Chiefs.<\/p>\n

You know perhaps already that I am a staunch American Football Conference fan, owing to my previous allegiance to the American Football League, of which the Chiefs are a charter member, although they did enter the AFL as the Dallas Texans; the Texans moved to KC in 1963.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs have played in two Super Bowls, the first one and the fourth one. They lost the initial AFL-NFL World Championship Game — which wasn’t even yet called the “Super Bowl”<\/em> — in 1967; the Green Bay Packers beat the Chiefs 35-10. Ahh, but the Chiefs came back in 1970 to defeat the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings; the score was 23-7.<\/p>\n

So, it’s been 50 years since the Chiefs lined up in the Super Bowl. Fifty years!<\/em> The 49ers have been to six<\/em> of them. What’s more, the 49ers have won five<\/em> of their Super Bowl games. Do you get where I’m going with this?<\/p>\n

The Chiefs are long overdue to play, let alone win<\/em>, this media extravaganza that now masquerades as a football game.<\/p>\n

Do I care about the halftime show? Or the commercials? Maybe the halftime show; I mean, who can look away from Shakira and JLo, eh? The commercials \u2026 not so much.<\/p>\n

I am intently interested in the behemoths who’ll be beating the daylights out of each other during the game.<\/p>\n

So, there you have it.<\/p>\n

Pass the popcorn.<\/p>\n\n

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