Who Do We Root For
This is a nightmare.
I don’t know who to root for. I don’t even want to watch the game. I will, but more out of a sense of obligation than desire. No matter who wins I’m going to be unhappy about it. This is the least excited I’ve been for a Super Bowl matchup since…probably the last time these two teams met. Honestly I liked that matchup more because McNabb was cool. This is the least excited I’ve been since the last time the Cowboys made it in the 90’s and I was a kid who couldn’t even stay up for the whole game.
If the Eagles win then I can’t use rings against Eagles fans anymore. I can’t brag the Giants are the only team who can beat the Pats. The fanbase will get monumentally bigger and more smug and insufferable, Seahawks style. The team will have accomplished this without their #1 player (on offense at least), which means they are possibly set up for the future quite well. I will get a lot of smug comments here and on twitter and I’ll just have to eat it because well, I have to. Not looking forward to that. The bandwagon will be everywhere. I think we’ve forgotten how bad it got for a few years there in Seattle. At least the Seattle fanbase was newish. The Eagles fanbase is older and angrier. They’ve been waiting a long time. If you think the Eagles fanbase is terrible (which just last week I urged you not to) then a win is only going to make that worse. All those bad Eagles fans will get that much worse, because now they’ll have actual honest ammo to use.
If the Pats win it’s just the same old shit, new year. We’ve seen it. We’ve seen all of it. Even if the game is good it doesn’t have the storylines the previous Pats games have had. This is just business as usual. The “adversity” for the Patriots this year was one dumb article. Patriots fans will continue to be both impossibly smug and bizarrely insecure. So many people emailed and commented to me last year about how I CAN’T THINK BRADY IS THE GOAT WHAT A CRIME and it was astounding…why do you need validation on this? Why do you have to make yourself the underdog every year even when you are the best dynasty in the history of the sport? If the Pats win I assume I’ll get more of that. If the Pats win another fairly interesting year of football ultimately ends with a wet fart as the one team that isn’t interesting stands alone again. 2017 will become a footnote at the end of a long story that we all understood years ago. It will add almost nothing to the Pats legacy. Everyone will immediately turn to the draft because there won’t be anything left to bother reflecting on.
So I have no idea who to root for. The Giants fan in me says the Eagles can burn in hell and that I should root for the Pats to win again, so that Eli can stay the only one to beat them and so I can continue to lord it over Philly fans like the smug selfish fan I am. Besides, if the Pats do win, this garbage season for the Giants will just sorta vanish away instead of having the nightmare year end in the worst possible fashion.
The Football fan in me desperately wants something new. Something interesting. The Eagles are at least that. I can be happy for the fans from a less selfish point of view, as I do want everyone to experience seeing their team win a championship once. It’s a good feeling and I don’t want to deny that to a group of people who happen to wear a jersey of a rival team. I’d love to see Pats fans grumble a little bit again. I think I’ve been far meaner and more bias against the Pats on this site than I have the Eagles. I make jokes about my Eagles bias more than I show it. I genuinely am very biased against the Patriots because of how tired of them I am.
In fact, I’ve made a small promise to myself these past weeks. I’m going to make an honest effort to make less Pats comics. For as tired as I am, I make comics about them a lot, and I’m part of the problem. I’m part of the reason we can’t stop talking about this team we’re all so tired of. I’m part of the bulletin board material the fans use to justify the underdog attitude. So I’m just going to stop. 31 other teams deserve more love. If the Pats win I’ll give them a comic about it and then I’m going to do my best to just avoid making Pats comics.
I don’t have a rooting interest. I’ll figure out where my soul lies while watching the game tomorrow. I think the Patriots should win, but I actually think the Eagles will win. If Foles playes like he did in the NFCCG this Eagles team is exactly the kind of team to beat this Pats team, and this Pats team isn’t as good as it normally seems. So I’m calling it for the Eagles. Gut instinct.
ONE LAST NOTE. I’m moving this month and am going to need a little extra free time to pack and get things in order. So this will be the last Saturday comic from me for at minimum two weeks. If you wanna send in guest comics go for it. Tuesday and Thursday plus the Podcast will still update as normal.
Enjoy the game, I’ll be over here drinking a fine glass of bleach.
Edit: For a change of pace I drew an Odell jersey but it just looked like a 12 so back to Eli we go
My entire adult life has had the Pats winning SBs. From I Can’t Believe They Did It, to old news this dynasty has been really something to watch. I can’t wait to see the drop off though. To amaze my son one day, telling him that the hapless Pats were once king of the mountain, instead of going toe-to-toe with the Browns for last place.
Just root for the first tie in super Bowl history man
Truthfully I haven’t watched the patriots play a game in two years and I enjoy football more because of it. I’m not going to watch this superbowl and instead do something I enjoy, and just like last year I am confident that I won’t miss a single thing. It’s perfect
But… You missed a really good game lol
Didn’t. Miss. A thing.
The Patriots lost.
I pray for two things. Rain, and chaos. Give me chaos Sunday.
You gonna drink bleach and eat Tide Pods lol
That’s what we’re having at my Super Bowl party. With any luck, it will be over at halftime.
That’s not an Elisha jersey…
Yeah, WHO IS IT!
It’s a OBJ Jersey! Why no Eli?
4th String qb Jerel Jernigan
*Clearly* it’s a Giants-color Brady jersey.
(And tomorrow, I’d wear one if they existed.)
(Fuck the Eagles.)
*Clearly* it’s a #12 Brady jersey in Giants colors. And hell, I’d wear one tomorrow if they existed.
(Fuck the Eagles.)
ive been saying “meteor” but i actually like yellowstone better, less chance of anyone surviving
I don’t want the pats to have 6 like us and eagles fans will never shut up, so IM GONNA HAVE BLEACH WITH TIDE PODS AS ICE CUBES.
and how do you send in guest comics, someone please tell me.
Just email me at drawplay574@gmail.com
Thanks dave
What’s with the different Jersey?
Eagles fan – I rooted for the giants both times, 2004 was hard to let go of.
I want to see the Eagles win just for EatDatPussy445’s reaction.
god, that asshole isn’t the least bit funny and his cringeworthy screams and random swearing that he pulls out everytime are what’s wrong with attempts at humor nowadays
The guy from Youtube?
I considered wearing a “Not my Super Bowl” shirt but I figured that it may be a dated pun.
Brady is just a less athletic Alex Smith. His biggest talent is being coached by Belichick and constantly having great defenses carry him to Super Bowl wins. You could replace him with any franchise QB over the years, and the Patriots would have had the same level of success. If you replace him with any top 5 QB, the Patriots have even more success.
Carried?
There was a drastic difference between the Pats offense in 2001 before and after Brady took over when Bledsoe died in that Jets game. The 2001 Pats offensive support weren’t that good as Brady was sacked over 40 times that season.
Good, now you know how the NFC South felt.
“The Football fan in me desperately wants something new. Something interesting.”
buuuuuuuuuuullshit. if this was Eli going for his 6th ring you’d be defending dynasties and chastising us all for not appreciating how hard it is to stay good for so long. just be honest please. it isn’t your team so fire up the butthurt express to poutytown and jump on with the rest of these hating losers. If I can endure a season of watching my Texans get picked off like they’re in a Saw movie and still enjoy football then the rest of you can suck it up.
So did you like, completely miss the part in the post where I separated myself into two fans? The Football fan and the Giants fan? The Giants fan would 100% be doing what you described because that part of me wants to win every game.
The football fan, which is the part of me that is less homeristic and tries to see everything from a complete perspective, would not be on board with that because I realize how boring this would be for everyone else and honestly probably for me too.
The Giants fan in me is rooting for the Patriots. The Football fan is rooting for the Eagles. They are currently mixing in me like oil and water.
I like the Giants more than I like football so… go Pats.
I seem to go through a pair of glasses every couple of weeks before I stupidly break them. Man, I want to know where you get your awesome lava-proof ones.
As a Pats fan who had to go to work in NYC circa Feb. 4 2008, let me say with all sincerity that I am drinking your suffering by the gallon.
(shoulda #%$^ called in sick)
I rather the Pats wins, not only that the curse of passing yards title will be put to rest, they will lose an excuse for SB 42.
I’m gonna root for the Patriots to win 3-0, in one of those games announcers call “an embarrassment to football”.
Or 2-0 score.
60-58pats, all safeties
I want both of these teams to lose.
I would have been behind the Eagles except for the way that the fanbase defended the thuggish behavior of the “minority” of their fans.
Thiggish behavior is like 20% of their fanbase.
Ditto.
This is one of those SBs where I wish the NFL had a money in the bank briefcase like in wrestling. The patriots exhausted from a long gritty game, confetti falling when a team that just missed on the playoffs like the ravens come running out of the tunnel. “By gawd, it’s the ravens! It looks like they’re going to cash in and challenge the patriots right now”
Cheering for the Eagles. I have family in Philly and I stick with my state. I’m tired of the Pats and I don’t want them matching the Steelers for Super Bowl rings.
I’m so sad. Well, at least the Jags have a chance to get their first DPOY/Hall of Famer.
Or they could get none of those things. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jags were disrespected at the NFL Honors–plain and simple. Aaron Donald wins DPotY over Calais Campbell? Not only does Calais’ stats dwarf Donald’s but he was an integral part of changing the mentality of the Jaguars as they climbed out of the basement.
As for Tony Boselli not making HoF again, John Oehser put it best, “When Boselli played – from 1995-2001 – he was the best left tackle in a golden age for the position. The other elite tackles around that era – Walter Jones, Jonathan Ogden, Willie Roaf and Orlando Pace – are all in the Hall of Fame. Almost no one who observed the NFL at that time would argue that Boselli wasn’t at least as good as the majority of the players in that group; many consider him the best”.
Disrespected.
Just act like the Patriots are major underdogs and boo the Eagles whenever they touch the ball. It worked in Super Bowl 51 for Pats fans
I can’t root for anyone this year. I don’t have anything against NE, but when a SB win for them feels routine, it’s hard to get excited for that. I have nothing against Philly, and it would be nice to see them win a SB, but here’s the part where I can’t root for them. If they win, then they have to win next year. Because Wentz is their franchise QB, not Foles. Just by making the SB Wentz is behind the 8 ball. For them to win and not make it next year… that would be an awfully big shadow Foles would be placing over Wentz. I can’t root for that kind of fate.
I’m pulling for the Eagles just because them winning will piss off Giants AND Cowboys fans.
As a Packer fan, all I can say is thanks for taking the bullet. Going into the NFCCG, I’d conceded that the Super Bowl was going to be a miserable hate watch. You really can’t know just how good it feels to have that weight lifted off you until it’s off your shoulders.
I don’t want to root for the Eagles because screw them after they beat the Vikings. I don’t want to root for the Pats because I hate the sense of entitlement. I can’t even root for the giant meteor because the Superbowl is in my city. I’m just going to pretend it’s not happening and catch the commercials online.
You can just leave the city for the day and still root for the meteor. I’m just hoping for the meteor to destroy the stadium and hurt zero people so the game gets cancelled never gonna happen but we can dream.
EAGTRIOTS! PATGLES! ONE OF THEM GOTTA WIN
Plus if the Pats win it’ll be the Patriot/Alabama perfects, which (and I had to look this up) has not yet been done, despite all the success those two have had recently
*perfecta. oops.
Please do one of those standoff comics for the Super Bowl winner, I loved those.
For those of you in despair and rooting for meteor, look at it this way: one of them has to lose.
on the other hand, one of them has to win, too…
Pats fans are insecure because they know deep down in their black little souls: No matter how many wins they get, no matter how many MVP’s and Rings. That they’ll always be cheaters. That they rooted and cheered for cheaters that the greatest Football dynasty of all time were cheaters, and they’ll never know if they could have that record and those titles without Belichick and Brady cheating so well they’re never on the hook for it.
Not calling Brady the GOAT for them is tantamount to refusing to buy to the mass hysteria. Remind them of the year when they could have been 16-0 but they stopped cheating, and watch their heads explode. To call them out, it’s being the guy that went after Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong. From play call taping to ball deflating, headset interference and the like; they can’t stand the bright light of day showing hard truths on their cult like following.
One thing is for certain, Foles is a better pass catcher than Tom Brady.
Looks like the passing yards title curse will live.
Congrats to the Eagles! Good game.
Their fans can still eat a dick though.
#FlyEaglesFly
I don’t know many, so I don’t really know what they are like. Usually, I reserve dicks for teams of major U.S. cities, like LA and NY.
You probably don’t want to know.
Well that was an amazing game. Sadly Tom’s record breaking day simply wasn’t enough.
With that said, do you think Sproles getting a ring may add to ringless Rivers chapter?
“Patriots fans will continue to be both impossibly smug and bizarrely insecure.“
Dave, that is a brilliantly concise distillation of what i’ve struggled to put into words about the Pats fans i’m stuck dealing with. All I could come up with was “f-ing needledicks”.
Foles beat Tahmy. I’m finding joy in football for one brief moment….
Well, the Eagles finally did it.
Very enjoyable game for me personally(and it made the season great too, thoroughly enjoyed all of it).
Now… we wait for the inevitable great Dave meltdown where he bemoans the fact that the ‘pee-pee-doo-doo’ Eagles have a title as well, and the fact that Eli’s achievement of GOAT-killing has been matched by literal Nick Foles. (pst, Eli did it twice though, you still have that)
I’d imagine a 2nd rap album is on the way.
He’s getting jiggy with it.
Why didn’t they run Lynch up the middle?! Seahawks lose!
Seriously though, Eagles are going to be dangerkus next year. They will have Wentz back and they can trade Foles for a first round pick minimum.
Nick will return to be a backup to my boi wentz but there’s a chance that Carson Wentz could be traded problems to cleavlend. And browns will be half good but you never know, Buffalo or Jags might pick him up. (Can you imagine Wentz with jags defense! WOW)
I seriously doubt the Eagles are that retarded.