Super Bowl LV: What is Your Current Rooting Interest?
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I mean both. As a Patriots fan, I cannot understand the thought process rooting against Brady and rooting for the chiefs. As a human being, I cannot understand rooting for the Chiefs/Hill/Clark/Reid/Chiefs fans/etc.
Respect to Reid and Mahomes, but I dare anyone to spend 15 minutes wandering around Chiefsplanet.com and not come away with a new least favorite team. I hate that team and definitely it’s fan base even more than the Steelers and Ravens and Jets (back when you cared about the Jets).
“Deplorables” doesn’t begin to describe it.
Would feel great for TB12 and never rooted against him this year — but I’d root for the Yankees over the Chiefs.
“Deplorables” doesn’t begin to describe it.
Would feel great for TB12 and never rooted against him this year — but I’d root for the Yankees over the Chiefs.
I would root for Brady and TB in the Super Bowl, just as I did during the regular season, because I love the guy and all the memories he's provided, what he's done for the game, the joy he's brought me, the history I've witnessed and because I'm not an ingrate. But also...
Tyreek Hill. Frank Clark. Mahomes's fiancee. And their awful, if rabid, fan-base for booing the moment of unity during NFL kick off night. Deplorable.
Tyreek Hill. Frank Clark. Mahomes's fiancee. And their awful, if rabid, fan-base for booing the moment of unity during NFL kick off night. Deplorable.
Jets fan base is dumb(I include myself) but not overtly racist. Just the nature of having a diverse fan base.
This is where I was. I think it would have been a great story for the Bills to breathe a sigh of relief that Brady was finally gone, take advantage and win the division, then make the Super Bowl and he's there, looming, as the end boss. No matter which way it ends up (Tom coming back to make sure they remember who the boss is, Buffalo finally getting past him on the biggest stage possible) it would have been a fun story. With this, I really just want KC to lose. Which is strange because I actually really like Mahomes, and have a bit of affection for Reid, but I just really don't like the KC team. Maybe this is what it was like for like, a Titans fan or something during the Pats' runs of dominance.
Riding the Tom Brady train. Heres some irrational thoughts:
TLDR - Tom Brady's still a god, a win for him doesn't diminish (and probably enhances) anything he did for New England or with Belichick, and the Chiefs can go fuck themselves.
- I have said since the day he signed with Tampa I'd root for him. I found myself rooting against him during the season, and I was mad at myself. Once the playoffs started, I was full steam ahead for Brady again. Dont know why, but the heart wants what it wants.
- I really like Mahomes. I like his leadership and the way he carries himself. I hate that he's now the heir apparent to Brady. I rooted against Rodgers because he was supposed to be the next best thing (and then he turned out to be a dick, so that worked out). I do the same now with Mahomes.
- Tyreek Hill can die in a fire.
- Travis Kelce is an obnoxious asshole. Gronk was funny because it was off cuff. He acted like a goofball because he is a goofball. Kelce's whole routine just feels scripted. Hes trying to be Gronk, but he's a poseur asshole. And he can't block. Fuck off, tight ends that can't block.
- I understand the irony of the following statement as a Patriots fan: I can't stand the bullshit "trick" plays. The underhand pitches to Kelce at the goal line. The WR handoffs out of motion. They're smart plays. I get it. I just fucking hate them. Especially at the goal line, because they're always going to work. Get that shit out of here. (Note: I understand I sound like Jim Harbaugh. Fuck off and leave me alone. Don't cover an ineligible receiver. Excuse me while I go masturbate to Kevin Faulk direct snaps and WR's throwing touchdowns on loop.)
- The Andy Reid sploogefest. Media love him, and because hes a fat, round, dope, even fans just give him a pass with his "Aw shucks, I'm the koolaid man!" schtick. I bet hes an angry, fat asshole.
- Tyrann Mathieu. I rooted for him when he was drafted because he was a little, scrappy, overachiever. Now that hes established, I'd like for him to chill out and shut the fuck up. His tough guy schtick has worn on me. You're like 5'2. Shutup and ballhawk. You're not scaring anyone.
- Chiefs fans. All these fan bases that think they're the bestest, hardcorest, biggest uber fans in the world. Chiefs fans, Eagles fans, the "12th man", "The Dog Pound", "The Black Hole", "Bills Mafia"...all of you can fuck off. Be loud, enjoy the game, try to fuck with the opposing team. But you're not amazing fans because you're loud. You're loud because your stadiums acoustics make you loud. You think the 9k fans at the Bills game last week were louder than the 71k fans that fill capacity, or do you think the echo's off the empty stadium made it louder? That goes double for any racist asshole that tomahawk chops their way through the game. I hope you tomahawk chop the dude in front of you in the head and start a big hillbilly brawl. Shutup.
- Sammy Watkins. Underachieving loser. If he wasn't catching balls from Mahomes - you know, when he doesn't disappear for the majority of each game - he'd be out of the league. The one time a season he explodes for a 200 yard receiving game doesn't make everyone think he's good. It makes everyone realize how good he could be if he wasn't such a fucking loser.
- Le'veon Bell. The fact that I almost forgot he was on the roster says enough about him. His best skill is his "vision". For most running backs, that means finding good running lanes. For him, it meant sitting behind linemen and hiding long enough to squirt through a hole for 6 yards. Dude capitalized on hiding as a running back and catching screens. Turned it into a monster contract...by the only team dumb enough in the league to not understand he sucks.
TLDR - Tom Brady's still a god, a win for him doesn't diminish (and probably enhances) anything he did for New England or with Belichick, and the Chiefs can go fuck themselves.
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I'd have probably rooted for the Bills over the Bucs and found myself pulling for the Bucs opposition for no valid reason, but against the Chiefs? I'm quite happy to root for Brady and the Bucs
On the other side, Shady McCoy is trying to get a second championship ring despite having exactly zero touches in the past two postseasons.
I picked "Rooting for Tampa/Brady now but had been rooting against them during season" because it's the closest but not really accurate. I've been meh on the NFL all season until hopping back on the Brady bandwagon before the Divisional round. Now it's equal pro Brady and anti KC rooting in the SB.
Oh, I'm not saying Jets fans (or Ravens or Steelers fans for that matter) are racist -- that's the unique provenance of too many (and, of course, not all) Chiefs fans.
I just hate those teams and fans on their own terms (but not @luckiestman, of course, who's an incredible part of SoSH).
Was largely ambivalent about Brady and the Bucs this season. I can't root against Tom, but I wasn't really rooting for him either. Was just watching it play out, in a clinical way.
I'm rooting for him in the Super Bowl, largely to protect the Pats legacy of being the last repeat champ, and to keep Mahomes at bay for at least another year. I'd be happy for Tom too, as a fellow 40-something guy who's employer has recently thought our best days are behind us.
I'm rooting for him in the Super Bowl, largely to protect the Pats legacy of being the last repeat champ, and to keep Mahomes at bay for at least another year. I'd be happy for Tom too, as a fellow 40-something guy who's employer has recently thought our best days are behind us.
Rooting for KC because a) I'm a fan of another team in the NFC South and don't want to see Tampa Bay win, and b) on principle I don't think any team in the Super Bowl should get home-field advantage, least of all a team with a clearly inferior record to its opponent. And also, at this point I'm ready for Tom Brady to be out of my life, although admittedly Brady might be marginally more likely to retire after another Super Bowl win than a loss.
Tom ain't going anywhere when he's 1,200 yards away from being the all time passing leader and at this point I think he cares about that sort of stuff. He'll play next year.
I don't get this. I also really like Mahomes for the reasons you state, plus he's a fantastic QB. There's gotta be an heir apparent to Brady at some point, I think Mahomes is as good a guy to do it as anyone.
Why does there have to be an heir apparent? I’m cool with 5-8 top QB cannibalizing each other for the next 15 years. Basically, what happened in the NFC the last twenty years or so, where only three QBs (Warner, Manning, Wilson) have played on teams that reached multiple SB, and only one of them (Manning) won two.
Mahomes has got some Vlade Divac in him. I didn't notice it until this year, but I've seen it enough times now in the limited number of games I've seen of his that it's past the point of coincidence.
He likes to run to the sideline and then either:
a) Stop just before going out of bounds, wait for a defender to start the process of hitting him, then quickly dart a foot to the sideline and argue he was hit out of bounds
b) Take any contact that happens just before going out of bounds, ride it for 2-3 steps out of bounds, then throw himself to the ground dramatically so it looks like he was thrown down
It bugs me. He did it again last night, and I've probably seen it 4 or 5 other times. It's one thing to lobby for a call, it's another thing entirely to flop for one.
I have nothing against Mahomes personally, but when you have the booth orgasming over a shovel pass it starts to get really annoying.
Beating Brees, Rodgers, and Mahomes in the playoffs would certainly add to Brady's legacy (like he even needs that at this point). My parents recently moved from the Boston area to Tampa and I would have caught a few home games COVID aside (will next year I hope) so I've been all aboard the Tompa train. (Although Arians can go fuck himself ... "Belichick never knew how to coach Brady" bullshit) Likeable and talented as he is, I'm hoping JPP rips him a new butthole with his remaining fingers and Tom thanks the New England fans as well as Tampa from the podium
Lots of neutral fans are going to end up rooting for KC just because they are sick of Brady. Fair enough. I'd be sick of him too if he was not our guy.
I've probably posted conflicting opinions on all of this, but it is very easy to be on team Brady going up against a Chiefs team that is loaded with jerks.
Also, Mahomes is not ever catching Brady. That is just something to chat about to kill time. There are just so many things that can and almost inevitably do go wrong that getting to 10 SB and winning 6 is not something I'd bet on for anyone, including a player in his 20s sitting on, say even a few rings, and this is especially true in the modern NFL where great teams just can't be held together. What the Pats did was just not supposed to happen given all the built in biases against dynasties.
I've probably posted conflicting opinions on all of this, but it is very easy to be on team Brady going up against a Chiefs team that is loaded with jerks.
Also, Mahomes is not ever catching Brady. That is just something to chat about to kill time. There are just so many things that can and almost inevitably do go wrong that getting to 10 SB and winning 6 is not something I'd bet on for anyone, including a player in his 20s sitting on, say even a few rings, and this is especially true in the modern NFL where great teams just can't be held together. What the Pats did was just not supposed to happen given all the built in biases against dynasties.
Mahomes just needs to marry one of the richest females in the entire world.
I want to go to my grave knowing I saw the best QB that ever played. May ill will and minor injuries plague every great QB for the next 100 years.
Combination of this for me. Not particularly proud of it, but it is what it is. Hopefully Hill breaks his own arm in the first quarter though.
I find Arians really hard to root for. They may win it in spite of him but I dislike the guy.
I just find the Chiefs so gross that it's easy to pick.
I just find the Chiefs so gross that it's easy to pick.
KC and Mahomes are not likely to catch up simply because it's such a high bar. That said, if at age 25 he can get his 2nd ring (which I think is likely to happen), then he'll be on the path and moving fast.
Brady is a total trailblazer. He has completely changed the perception of what people think is possible. Someone like Mahomes now has the Brady example to follow and the Brady goal to shoot for. Assuming Mahomes wins LIV, he would be four rings behind Brady and 18 years younger. It's hugely unlikely he'll want to play to age 43, but winning four more rings in the next, say, 13 years would certainly not be out of the question for him, especially if he's shooting for a goal.
Brady is a total trailblazer. He has completely changed the perception of what people think is possible. Someone like Mahomes now has the Brady example to follow and the Brady goal to shoot for. Assuming Mahomes wins LIV, he would be four rings behind Brady and 18 years younger. It's hugely unlikely he'll want to play to age 43, but winning four more rings in the next, say, 13 years would certainly not be out of the question for him, especially if he's shooting for a goal.
I don't ever remember a Super Bowl where I can't imagine rooting for either team. I've rooted against both all season.
Maybe I'll just enjoy the commercials.
Maybe I'll just enjoy the commercials.
Buccaneers and it's not even close regardless of Brady.
Somewhat relatedly, though, I really don't understand the thinking behind the "a Brady win tarnishes the Pats legacy" argument (not that anyone here is really making that argument, I don't think). Let's just take the argument at face value and assume that Brady winning the Super Bowl this year would somehow show that he was way more responsible for the Pats' success than Belichick was. At the end of the day, the Pats won 6 Super Bowls so who gives a shit who gets "credit" for them? If the Bucs win this year, that would be like someone telling a Bucs fan, "ok yeah you won but that was mostly due to Brady, not Arians." Like, no shit, but why does that matter?
Somewhat relatedly, though, I really don't understand the thinking behind the "a Brady win tarnishes the Pats legacy" argument (not that anyone here is really making that argument, I don't think). Let's just take the argument at face value and assume that Brady winning the Super Bowl this year would somehow show that he was way more responsible for the Pats' success than Belichick was. At the end of the day, the Pats won 6 Super Bowls so who gives a shit who gets "credit" for them? If the Bucs win this year, that would be like someone telling a Bucs fan, "ok yeah you won but that was mostly due to Brady, not Arians." Like, no shit, but why does that matter?
Completely ambivalent, really. I’ve fallen away from the NFL over the past five years, despite the astounding success of the Patriots. I wish I had a morally good reason, but honestly I don’t. I just don’t care anymore. My main interest this year was seeing Roethlisberger fail and that has been achieved in stellar fashion.
I really, really hate the Chiefs. A lot. For all the reasons other posters above have so eloquently stated. I want them to lose in the most heart breaking way imaginable. I guess technically that means I'm rooting for the Bucs.
I'm old. I saw games at Fenway Park. I was at the very first exhibition game and regular season game at Shaefer Stadium. Season tickets through most of the 70's and early 80's. I loved Babe and Gino when I was a kid. I went through the awful owners and the awful coaches.
Tom and Bill swept all that fan pain away. We went from laughing stock to hated franchise. Just awesome. Tom is up there with Larry, Bill Russell, Yaz, Ortiz and Bobby Orr. Maybe on top.
I feel the same way about Brady. I could never go against him (unless he was playing the Patriots) Go Tom and screw the Chiefs.
I'm really interested to see how rooting interests shake out in regards to Brady. Needless to say, the Pats were as loathed as any team in the NFL (granted, they were also as popular as any as well). I got the sense that the hate was equally doled out to both Brady and Belichick. I wonder if the Brady hate will lessen, being away from BB and the Pats dynasty.
Honestly, I've gotten a decent amount of shit from my friends for rooting against Brady these playoffs and it's still surprising to me. There is a not insignificant part of me that feels like a Pats fan rooting for Tampa this year is only marginally better than a NYC resident rooting for the Giants in a year the Jets are bad. I didn't want him to suck, and I'm glad it looks like another year or three of him playing at a high level is a reality, but man to me it feels embarrassing as hell for the Patriots if he wins it all in year 1.
But at the end of the day, the Chiefs are the worst. I fucking hate Tyreek Hill and it's probably not a stretch to say I've never hated an athlete more. And I love Mike Evans. And want Leonard Fournette to be great. And Tom Brady, other than being a MAGA idiot, and peddling concussion water, and dumping my favorite team, has provided me with basically nothing but happiness for near 2/3 of my life. And deep down as much as my heart hates that he left, I can accept in my head that at 43 he's not an asshole for not wanting to wait out a rebuild. So go Bucs, I guess.
But at the end of the day, the Chiefs are the worst. I fucking hate Tyreek Hill and it's probably not a stretch to say I've never hated an athlete more. And I love Mike Evans. And want Leonard Fournette to be great. And Tom Brady, other than being a MAGA idiot, and peddling concussion water, and dumping my favorite team, has provided me with basically nothing but happiness for near 2/3 of my life. And deep down as much as my heart hates that he left, I can accept in my head that at 43 he's not an asshole for not wanting to wait out a rebuild. So go Bucs, I guess.
I’m rooting for TB.
That said, I have 0 concern that even if he should win this year, Mahomes has a realistic chance at winning 3 more SBs, never mind 4.
That’s not going to happen.
I appreciate what Brady(and Gronk) have done for our team. But he's won enough, and I respect the Chiefs and Love Mahomes. Plus I live in Philly and because Reid never won a Super Bowl here and Pederson did, they think Pederson is better then Reid and Foles is their greatest QB over McNabb. I would love to see him stick it to them again by winning two Super Bowls. Go Chiefs!!
@Kenny F'ing Powers with the perfect anti-Chiefs take.
And I hear the concern that TB12’s success with the Bucs might reflect somehow on the Pats or on Bill Belichick.
But I think it’s the reverse. TB12 continues to prove how right it was to draft then hold onto him 21 years ago. He shows up Goodell, the Collinsworths, the Cheatriot mouth breathers, Chiefs planet, Stillers, Kellerman - every one of them.
I want Brady to retire when he effing feels like it, but preferably with 8 rings, 90,000 yards and 700 TDs. Or more.
Best. Revenge. Ever.
And I hear the concern that TB12’s success with the Bucs might reflect somehow on the Pats or on Bill Belichick.
But I think it’s the reverse. TB12 continues to prove how right it was to draft then hold onto him 21 years ago. He shows up Goodell, the Collinsworths, the Cheatriot mouth breathers, Chiefs planet, Stillers, Kellerman - every one of them.
I want Brady to retire when he effing feels like it, but preferably with 8 rings, 90,000 yards and 700 TDs. Or more.
Best. Revenge. Ever.
I'm rooting for a high-scoring game on both sides. 50-48 sounds interesting enough to me. I really don't care which team scores the 50, just score and keep it close