Super Bowl LV: What is Your Current Rooting Interest?

What is your current SB rooting interest?

  • Rooting for Tampa/Brady and have never wavered from this position all year

    Votes: 153 49.8%
  • Rooting for Tampa/Brady now but had been rooting against them during season

    Votes: 44 14.3%
  • Rooting for Tampa/Brady but driven by hatred of Chiefs more than support of Brady/Tampa

    Votes: 51 16.6%
  • Rooting for KC because I'm a Chiefs fan

    Votes: 2 0.7%
  • Rooting for KC because I like watching Mahomes play and that's about it

    Votes: 3 1.0%
  • Rooting for KC because I'm a salty Patriots fan that doesn't want to watch Brady win elsewhere

    Votes: 23 7.5%
  • Other rooting interest (please specify)

    Votes: 8 2.6%
  • Don't really care who wins

    Votes: 16 5.2%
  • I'm not watching

    Votes: 7 2.3%

  • Total voters
    307
  • Poll closed .

BlackJack

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When the Pats are in the game, my rooting interests obviously are with them.

When they're not, it usually based on which team I don't want to win, and every so often it's that I want a specific team to win. When the AFC was going through their drought of SB wins, I pretty much always rooted for the AFC team just because I was sick of the NFC dominating. With the exception of Pittsburg/Cowboys because fuck the Steelers! :)

This year I don't have a clear cut desire for one team over the other, it's more about how the winning team wins.

If KC wins in a blowout, that's fairly boring
If TB wins in a blowout, maybe a little less boring and more than a little bit of 'I wish the Pats had one of these'
If KC wins and Brady's play is a significant factor in the loss, I have a little bit of schadenfreude which is always fun
If TB wins and it's a reasonably close game but a complete team effort from TB, that would probably be the most enjoyable experience

The outcome that I'm dreading is if TB's defense is crap, KC more or less goes up and down the field at will, but Brady puts the team on his back and just wills them to victory. I think that would sting a bit after losing SB42, 46, and 52 despite otherwise good performances by Brady that could have been victories without some (admittedly few) mistakes by Brady.
 

bsj

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After 2 conflicted weeks and a conflicted season, I am pulling for Brady. Literally woke up today and decided. And honestly what got me there? Rumors of Cam coming back to New England. Whether or not it happens, that it’s even A possibility demonstrates a line of thinking from Belichick I just can’t continue to hate on Brady for wanting away from.
it’s a weird way I’ve gotten here but I guess
 

Mystic Merlin

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After 2 conflicted weeks and a conflicted season, I am pulling for Brady. Literally woke up today and decided. And honestly what got me there? Rumors of Cam coming back to New England. Whether or not it happens, that it’s even A possibility demonstrates a line of thinking from Belichick I just can’t continue to hate on Brady for wanting away from.
it’s a weird way I’ve gotten here but I guess
Don’t follow this. What ‘line of thinking’ that is leading Bill to - per ‘rumors’ - bring Cam back that Brady wanted no part of are you talking about? There are several factual premises underlying your post, and I don’t know how you know they are facts. What credible ‘rumors’ suggest that Bill wants Cam back? Is this that Twitter ‘chatter’ from randoms that was scoffed at a few days ago? It’s certainly a ‘possibility’ in the sense that he could technically be on the Pats next season, but that’s true of literally every free agent and the vast majority of players on any roster. It isn’t like the team is gonna come out and announce it will not re-sign Cam for...reasons? Twitter sucks.

And how do you know Brady left because of whatever ‘line of thinking’ employed by BB that you are referring to? Seems to me based on his actual comments to-date Brady left because he got tired of the NE grind, his lack of power relative to his stature, and TB gave him 50M guaranteed to play on a talented team.
 

ilol@u

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New England's son, who put Boston sports on the map since 2001 vs an unlikeable talented evil empire?

Go Brady.
 

Trlicek's Whip

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The Cheifs also have Frank Clark who they traded for and signed to a massive contract. The Chiefs are worse.
This is the exact same dynamic that the past year's governmental response was to Covid-19: governing institutions and leaders derelict in their responsibility to enforce better boundaries and enact policy and set an example for its citizens, instead ceding that to the states and ultimately leaving it up to the individuals to save businesses, police each other, etc.

So fans carp over which team is *worse* with misogynistic violence and splitting hairs over the 1st to 3rd degree levels of the offenses because there's no clear zero tolerance policy nor any consequences, yet we still want to try to enjoy these games and give the NFL our eyeballs and money.

It's all bad under the NFL umbrella. The only moral and ethical ground to stand on is to not watch at all.
 

bsj

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Don’t follow this. What ‘line of thinking’ that is leading Bill to - per ‘rumors’ - bring Cam back that Brady wanted no part of are you talking about? There are several factual premises underlying your post, and I don’t know how you know they are facts. What credible ‘rumors’ suggest that Bill wants Cam back? Is this that Twitter ‘chatter’ from randoms that was scoffed at a few days ago? It’s certainly a ‘possibility’ in the sense that he could technically be on the Pats next season, but that’s true of literally every free agent and the vast majority of players on any roster. It isn’t like the team is gonna come out and announce it will not re-sign Cam for...reasons? Twitter sucks.

And how do you know Brady left because of whatever ‘line of thinking’ employed by BB that you are referring to? Seems to me based on his actual comments to-date Brady left because he got tired of the NE grind, his lack of power relative to his stature, and TB gave him 50M guaranteed to play on a talented team.
I dont have much to say in response to this other than I have used an admittedly very convoluted thought process to ultimately arrive at a 51/49 rooting interest in the game. I'm not trying to pretend it makes much logical sense.
 

Silverdude2167

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This is the exact same dynamic that the past year's governmental response was to Covid-19: governing institutions and leaders derelict in their responsibility to enforce better boundaries and enact policy and set an example for its citizens, instead ceding that to the states and ultimately leaving it up to the individuals to save businesses, police each other, etc.

So fans carp over which team is *worse* with misogynistic violence and splitting hairs over the 1st to 3rd degree levels of the offenses because there's no clear zero tolerance policy nor any consequences, yet we still want to try to enjoy these games and give the NFL our eyeballs and money.

It's all bad under the NFL umbrella. The only moral and ethical ground to stand on is to not watch at all.
You will be happy to know I won't be watching and with that said the Chiefs are still worse.
 

Trlicek's Whip

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You will be happy to know I won't be watching and with that said the Chiefs are still worse.
To clarify: I wasn't trying to dunk on you or any one person. I was pointing out with the royal SoSH "we" that it sucks in these parallels that the individual (myself included) must inject a like or dislike of a sports team with more moral value than we should have to, because the men leading the organizations that sponsor said entertainment aren't themselves ethical or moral.
 

CR67dream

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Let's move on from the in-depth discussion of the political angles here. Those conversations belong exclusively in, and are welcomed in, V&N. It should be crystal clear to everyone by now that politics and political issues are not welcome in any other forum. It's an edict that is not going to change. It will continue to be enforced.

It's understood that some tangential overlap will occasionally happen, but this is an example of getting too far afield.
 

amRadio

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At the risk of repeating myself in this thread, I'm standing firm on Sunday. I just started drinking beer, so my emotions may sway toward my beloved Tommy, but right now, I'm all Chiefs. They play offense like the Lebron/Wade Heat played basketball. They make things just look different out there, like they've put in low gravity and turbo cheats.

And I still think a non-NE ring for Brady will allow the sports media at large to ignore the NE dynasty and make us the new butt of NFL jokes going forward. So, fuck all that. I hope the Bucs are a speed bump tonight.

KC 30 TB 17
 

Gammon_Clark

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Apr 24, 2010
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My rooting interests:

1. The Patriots

big gap

2. Brady
3. Gronk (I wish for his sake that he'd retire, but if he's gonna play I hope he wins and has fun)

bigger gap

4. Andy Reid
5. Mahomes

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105. Chad Henne
106. Another remake of The Longest Yard
107. Antonio Brown
108. Tyreek Hill
AB over Hill, why? I’m curious...
 

Cellar-Door

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Just one year I'd really like there to be a Superbowl where one (or god forbid both) teams didn't have a bunch of just absolute shit human beings on the roster.

Edit- really wish TB didn't sign AB, because while I think Arians isn't a good coach, he's one of the few NFL guys who really does promote opportunities for minority coaches at every step and try to get them Coordinator and HC jobs.