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.
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.