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Who do I like in the Super Bowl? Neither, literally.

Maybe this game will get great ratings in Missouri, Kansas and Pennsylvania, but I doubt it will pull big numbers anywhere else in the U.S. of A.

Why? Well, the Eagles are a great team but dull, dull, dull, with perhaps the best boring quarterback in the NFL, Jalen Hurts. If they win, their defense will have to contain the other QB, who’s still limping on a high ankle sprain.

Two-time NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes is great, but something about his personal life doesn’t add up and frankly is a little wacko for his All-American boy image: His wife and brother and their antics. Good thing the game is outside of Phoenix in Glendale, without any glitz that would light them up.

And, of course, I am prejudiced. Tom Brady was my guy when we had two great decades together in New England with millions of our best friends. Then he left the Patriots after the 2019 season because owner Kraft and coach Belichick had him playing with mostly low-caliber mates at skilled positions.

I didn’t root for Brady at Tampa Bay, where he eventually crashed and burned, not as soon as ESPN’s Max Kellerman predicted his fall off Cliff QB, and it was probably his divorce from Gisele, more than Max, that finally killed his career. My brother lives down there in winter and he stuck with TB12. Not me.

So, you guessed it, this notebook is way slanted.

Brady would have won his 7th Super Bowl with the Pats if the Eagles hadn’t pulled off the Philly Special and Belichick wasn’t so stubborn as to overlook whatever cornerback Malcom Butler did to get benched by the Hoodie. Shoot, Coach, didn’t you owe him one transgression for his super-pick in Super Bowl 49?

And the Chiefs are just too good for me. I don’t understand how they have the money to keep replacing or keeping great players like Travis Kelce, who is the best tight end I’ve ever seen because he catches balls all over the field. Unlike Gronk, who lived in the seam.

Belichick’s greatest win, leading to his last Super Bowl, was beating Mahomes in Arrowhead after they won the flip in OT just like they had against the Falcons, who blew that big game in Houston more than the Pats won it.

I went to see the Brady movie with the four old broads (“their words, not mine”) and enjoyed watching that comeback again if not the Hollywood happy ending on the beach in Florida for Brady and his highfalutin harem. His next gig will be analyzing for FOX in 2024, bumping Greg Olsen who has already become a favorite.

So, this Super Bowl is without anyone I cheer for. That’s fine with me.

 

Featured image via Associated Press/Ross D. Franklin

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