An end to football season.

 

There is something primal inside most people, especially from Pennsylvania, that prevents them from cheering for the Eagles. Even with players like Jalen Hurts or Saquon Barkley and decent guys for coaches like Nick Sirriani. They are all perfectly deserving of a Super Bowl win and that's fine. Good for them! 

But to cheer for the Eagles just always feels wrong; Philadelphia is not "Pennsylvania" in the same way that Chicago is not 'Illinois". No one actually likes the Eagles. It physically hurts a little to see them do well....however, like in 2017, they deserve this, so good for them.

The reason for last night's trouncing was simple: The Chiefs didn't deserve to be in the Super Bowl. They had a weird, easy schedule for the first half of the season which set them off on an undefeated record, giving some false confidence. They had the media and the headlines on their side with a potential 3-peat. They had Taylor Swift, pulling in attention and fangirls and fanboys, making them the "popular" team. They had some over-confidence in their abilities. 

And then they had the refs. I'm not saying cheating was blatant but cheating was subliminal for sure. The NFL changed their rules about calls last week, after the Chiefs win over Buffalo, when it came out that the wrong calls had been made. Sure, the Patriots had deflate-gate, but the Chiefs had little nudges from the refs, pushing them across the finish line most weeks. 

So it kind of was what it was and was incredibly annoying to live through for the last 5 months but it all came to a head last night when you could see the talent just wasn't there. Sunlight is the best disinfectant right? 

I was trying to think of what this reminded me of: it's kind of like when we were told by the media that Kamala Harris was the most popular choice for President and was installed by the Democrats instead of holding a primary and then she lost altogether. 

Yeah, you can install your candidate, you can install your team, but when you put them up against actual talent (or policies), the truth is revealed. Just like Donald Trump winning the popular vote, it was heartwarming to see how everyone across the country came out to create a wide tent and support not-the-Chiefs. 

(That's pretty deep for a Monday...I'm expecting 2-3 snow days this week so fingers crosssed.)