The Super Bowl of snow and ice

Chuck Thompson | The Sunday Column

It's not really a Super Bowl column...

All I’ve been seeing and reading, this week, as far as op-eds and columns are concerned, are mostly Super Bowl this or that – and look at me complaining even though I’m reading them.  That’s not a bad thing but do you really need one more column about The Patriots or The Seahawks or the halftime shows?

No.

There’s no more room on that bandwagon.

In a post Belichick - Brady world, it’s nice to see New England get there in a new era. And the Seahawks in a post Richard Sherman era, now he gets to watch in retirement (I’m not a Seahawks fan), but let’s not do this.  

Let’s talk about you and your own “Super Bowl.”

It’s sort of customary to go to a party to watch the game even if your team isn’t playing and you couldn’t care less because you might dislike both teams, but you go, or you watch at home or somewhere just so you’re not the one that didn’t see it, but let’s be honest.. and this is an opinion: it just ain’t what it used to be. It’s lost something — but that’s not what this column is about.

Over the last two weeks, we, as Southerners have survived and ice storm, a snowstorm, accidents and mayhem…. That’s the real Super Bowl for Southerners during a snowy winter.

Regardless of if New England gets their seventh win or Seattle takes home their second win (would this be considered a rematch of 2015 or not the same?) However, I’ll never forgive the Broncos for how Seattle treated them during Super Bowl XLVIII in 2014. That was an embarrassment.

But YOU already won.

You played your biggest opponent and survived. You won.

For us Southerners, more specifically, all of us Cleveland Countians, it’s not the heat, not the humidity, nor the downpour rain or being without electricity in the summer once in a while; yes, all miserable days but almost our natural habitat. No – the worst enemy (or biggest rivalry) we have is snow and ice and you won!  You won your Super Bowl back-to-back on Jan. 18 and Jan 25 when you didn’t do anything stupid and made it beyond the wintry weather.

Congratulations.

And I’m sure if your game of snow & ice had a halftime show, it would be something actually worth watching. I’m not saying it’s going to be … bad, … but I just want to watch what I want to watch, but having things crammed in my face and expecting me to watch something that I have no interest in (and getting judged if I don’t like it or don’t watch it ) isn’t a ‘game’ I’m playing this year.

Nope. Sorry, I’m not playing by those rules. Stop being a bandwagon participant and be your own person. I’d rather watch my grandma knit a sweater for my dog than sit through something I can’t understand. There’s a reason I don’t go to the opera either, I don’t pretend to appreciate something for the betterment of culture when I can’t understand a dang thing being said. Have confidence in yourself, be your own person and know that you’re the real winner when you refuse to go along with the crowd “just because everyone else is” …

I hope you all had a great weekend, and if you are a big fan of either the Seahawks – or the Patriots – that it all worked out for you.

Hey – I’m not a Browns, Lions or Texans fan, but if they ever make it to a / any Super Bowl (depending on who they’re playing) I hope they win. Heck, they win just by getting there, since they’ve never been; just like you won simply by not breaking your leg a couple of weeks ago during the ice storm.

Okay, so this was (technically) a Super Bowl column, but not in the traditional sense.

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