The title of this post was to be “Just like the first time.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The final score was 55-10. Dad said championship games aren’t usually this one-sided.<\/p>\n
Dad was right. Most games are like the one last night, which pitted said 49ers against the Kansas City Chiefs.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Alas it was Kansas City who came out on top, and the Chiefs now call themselves back-to-back champs.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
But most championship games usually aren’t so one-sided.<\/p>\n
Dad’s usually right about these things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading