Running from The Knowledge

This game is actually getting harder in australia. There's always someone who you find out follows it.
I don't know, but no hipster cred here though, i just don't follow it (follow plenty of other sport), was out of town working when it was on, so i didn't do my normal news roundup, meaning, that's it - I'll never know now, unless I go looking.

Jackwraith wrote: The Lions deserve nothing more. There are few organizations in professional sports that have been more poorly run, at least partially with intent, as the Detroit Lions. A member of the Ford family was overheard a few years back saying that they were fine just "being"; not striving to be a champion, because that costs money and Detroit, like all NFL franchises, can virtually print money just by being part of the NFL, while Lions fans will still be slavishly loyal to a franchise that regards them as eminently disposable. The Lions are less a football team and more a football simulation that fronts a banking enterprise.

Like every year around this time, someone last night made the comment that, of the teams that have been in existence for the entirety of the Super Bowl's 53 years, two are undefeated in the game: The New York Jets (1-0)... and the Detroit Lions (0-0.)

The Lions play a valuable role as America's Thanksgiving turkey. The local team around here is the Vikings, who have notoriously lost each of their four Super Bowls. A lot of perfectly normal people in the Twin Cities have completely given up on caring about pro football. I had several conversations on Monday that consisted of both people mentioning that they didn't watch the Super Bowl and then moving on to a new topic. I took a mandatory class in Creative Job Search at the unemployment center on Monday, and each participant was supposed to give their name, occupation, how they lost their last job, and name their favorite Super Bowl tv commercial from the previous night. Everybody skipped the last question, and the instructor didn't mind.

Shellhead wrote: . The local team around here is the Vikings, who have notoriously lost each of their four Super Bowls. .

If I look at the teams in different sports i follow, and their appearences in similar events, to use American parlance, I'm at 4 and 10 i think, and I've been at several of the losing ones, and only 1 of the wins (but that was a first leg so it wasn't over yet). Bad times make the good times. But good times don't always arrive either.

Still going. Had several close calls. Jamming out of room when guys start talking about what beers they drank during the game. Kids were painting on a newspaper that said “Super Rams” but it was from the week before, cheering them on. BBC News had some sidebar about cheerleaders that I bet was poisoned, but the little lede wasn’t at least. Going to relax a little now. Start looking at the paper again.