The title of this post was to be “Just like the first time.”

The first Super Bowl I watched with genuine interest was January 28, 1990… Super Bowl XXIV. The San Francisco 49ers beat the Denver Broncos that day to repeat as Super Bowl champions.

The final score was 55-10. Dad said championship games aren’t usually this one-sided.

Dad was right. Most games are like the one last night, which pitted said 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs.

Most of the game it looked as though San Francisco would win, and I would have had a nice sappy footnote to put on the victory.

Alas it was Kansas City who came out on top, and the Chiefs now call themselves back-to-back champs.

Though I had no actual interest in the result I found myself pulling for the 49ers, and the heart-wrenching way they lost kind of made me wish the game had ended 55-10.

But most championship games usually aren’t so one-sided.

Dad’s usually right about these things.