You know how much I love sports, especially the NFL, and the biggest day of the whole year is coming in a couple weeks. I was accurate in my predictions of last week's games: Colts scoring 17+ points = win (and Garcon and Collie having big days) and Saints winning a high-scoring affair at home.
But now I am in a little predicament: I have no idea who to root for! Patriots are out, my playoff picks Chargers and Cowboys are gone, the other local team (Jets) finally landed. Both remaining teams are over a thousand miles away from my home.
Colts Cons
1. I support three NFL teams, and the team in Indy is the biggest rival for two of them (Patriots and Titans). Yankees fans never support the Red Sox.
2. Along with that, as Tom Brady and Peyton are huge rivals, any support I give Peyton brings Brady a little lower, right? If I want to say Brady is the best quarterback in the NFL I can't see Manning win his second SB.
3. I'm still bitter about Jim Caldwell's decision to bench Peyton and most of the other starters in the 3rd quarter in a close game with a 14-0 record. Give history a chance!
4. They have been one of the most boring teams to watch all year.
Pro-Colts
1. They do have a BYU alum starting for them, Austin Collie.
2. They are a well-run franchise that has consistently been among the NFL's best teams for an entire decade. Excellence deserves to be awarded.
3. My wife went to school in Indiana and her brother is studying there now, too.
Ain't Saints
1. I've got no real connection to the team or city.
2. Even with a win last week, they really didn't look very good on offense or defense, and (except for the Cardinals game), it's been like that for about 6 weeks.
3. Never been good before so why now?
For all the Saints
1. It is nice to see a city rally around a team so strongly. The Saints mean more to New Orleans than any other football team can relate. It is very cliché, but the city of New Orleans deserves a championship after going through what they did with Katrina.
2. They've got Drew Brees but no standout players after that so it's a complete team effort.
3. They torched the Patriots and Giants so I have to give them props for that.
4. Saints are a likeable underdog and I tend to pull for underdogs, especially when history won't be made the other way (like Patriots a couple years ago or Roger Federer winning a million straight matches).
Okay, so that is the situation. What do you think? Do you have a case for why I should pull for either team?
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It's okay to root for neither team. Last year I was in the same predicament with the Steelers/Cardinals. How can any Seahawks fan cheer for the team that beat them in the Super Bowl three years earlier. And the Cardinals? No Seahawks fan would ever cheer for them. I know a few Cardinals fans and it would have truly sucked with all the trash talking I've done over the years about how bad Arizona is to see the Cardinals win a Super Bowl before the Seahawks, much less defeating the same team that the Seahawks couldn't.
ReplyDeleteJust cheer for a catastrophic event to decimate the stadium, although somehow leaving everyone uninjured, and no winner actually declared.
Based on your specific situation, I'd cheer for the Saints. You have no beef with them, no reason to cheer against them, and you're right. Cheering for Peyton is unforgivable for a Brady fan.
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