Kvelve's Comments: The big game is here

The day is in sight.

The day we football junkies wait for, long for and anticipate with glee. 

Super Bowl Sunday! 

But for this football fanatic, this year’s game has lost some luster. 

Not for the game itself, the crazy TV commercials or the week-long stream of pre-game hype. 

For me, the contestants involved do not get my football fanaticism kicked into gear. 

The Philadelphia Eagles versus the Kansas City Chiefs, winners of the last two Super Bowls and favored to make it three straight, does not create the mental potluck I was hoping for. 

Not to mention the match-up I was waiting for. 

I was hoping against hope that the Detroit Lions would be traveling to this year Super Bowl in New Orleans to take on the lovable losers, the Buffalo Bills, who just can’t seem to win the whole thing. 

If it were not for the equally lovable loser Minnesota Vikings, like Buffalo multiple also-rans in the Super Bowl arena, the Bills would be America’s team out of pity alone. 

But this year, Josh Allen, the Bills QB who played his college ball at Wyoming, once again could not overcome the AFC blockade thrown up by the Chiefs several years ago. 

The Chiefs ownership of the AFC, while not on the scale of the 20th Century New York Yankees in baseball or the unparalleled run of the UCLA Bruins basketball teams under legendary coach John Wooden, is impressive indeed. 

No team has ever won three straight Super Bowls.  No three-point in the Tom Brady-piloted run by the Patriots in the previous decades. 

And in the Eagles’ favor is the adage that defense wins championships, and most people think Philadelphia’s D is superior to the Chiefs offense.  Many “pundits” think the Eagles can at least slow down Kansas City’s Patrick Mahome to Travis Kelce, who was recently fined by the NFL for taunting Bills players during this year’s AFC championship game. 

He should be fined for dating Taylor Swift and the countless TV images of Swift in the luxury box cheering on her fella.  That ain’t illegal, you can’t fine a player for being annoying or having an annoying relationship with a pop superstar. 

There’s just an air about the Chiefs I don’t like, not even sure what is behind it all, but I feel the same about the Eagles. 

The city of “Brotherly Love” once booed the arrival of Santa Claus at a football game in Philadelphia.  They boo everything, no love in that. 

Chiefs and Eagles could take a lesson in public relations from Buffalo, who keep their fans in suspense until the bitter end each year.  And they have tailgaters who are known as the Bills Mafia. 

How can you not like that? 

Oh, I will be watching the game.  You could put the Plains junior high team in the Super Bowl against the New York Giants and at least it would probably be a close game. 

I will, if I can, find a ride to the VFW or the Legion Club, both of whom plan Super Bowl gatherings this Sunday, as does the Wild Horse Tavern, in Plains.  Bars throughout the region, and numerous private parties will go on as planned.  The country could use a good, down to the wire Super Bowl this year. 

So, after the final whistle, I will realize that I just watched my last live football game until August.  The USFL, or any other Spring football league does not get it done for me no matter how hard I tried. 

It is, as I’ve stated before, the “dark ages” for me. 

But in August I will be eagerly anticipating the first “pre-season” football games and the early bird college games.  I will be, God willing, covering high school football locally. 

It’s part of my wiring.