Tomorrow is Super Bowl XLIV, featuring the Indianapolis Colts versus the New Orleans Saints. Above, a postcard from each team's home town.
I am rooting for the New Orleans Saints, for three random reasons. First, while I haven't been to Indianapolis, I have been to New Orleans and between the jazz and the food and the energy in the streets and the voodoo and cemetaries and Mardi Gras and and and - how can you not love the place? Second, New Orleans is a city that could use something to celebrate, and while winning the NFC championship is a big deal in and of itself, the big one is the Big One. Lastly, our friend from college was drafted out of UC Berkeley to be a running back for the Saints many years ago, and because of this I've always felt a certain fondness for the team.
Tomorrow - postcards from the first time I went to the Super Bowl.
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I am so uninformed when it comes to sports...like reading Greek!! But I do remember Uncle Larry sitting there watching and Vic Scully talking...a happy, contented memory.
ReplyDeleteTo inojai--I remember it well. Vin Scully broadcasts the Dodgers. Uncle Larry and I had the fun of attending the 1977 Super Bowl game in the Rose Bowl Oakland beat Minnesota. It was a total spectacle and the football was secondary to me.
ReplyDeleteBased on the postcards above, I guess I would root for New Orleans too. I have trouble getting very excited about teams, unless they're college based. Otherwise, it seems to me that the players are a bunch of mercenaries with no particular connection or loyalty to the City they play for.
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