Super Bowl Preview

Super Bowl Preview

With the NFL season half over its time for many teams to make vacation plans. It is also time for the “experts” to start predicting who should make plans to play the final game in Miami on February 10th. Sorry Dolphin fan, it won’t be a home game. But does it really take an “expert” to predict the Saints will play the Colts in Super Bowl 44 or what will sooner or later be coined Super Bowl X-LIVe? Forget Miami, forget the Saints, forget X-LIVe. The real Super Bowl preview is taking place this weekend in Detroit. That’s right! When the Cleveland Browns meet the Detroit Lions this Sunday over 400 fans at Ford Field and probably three dozen more watching on hi-Def will be treated to a preview of Super Bowl L.

“Super Bowl L”? It even looks like a dud. It certainly looks like something is missing. Hmmm how about “oser”, or maybe “ame”? But that is not the point. You see by the time 2016 arrives the Saints, Jaguars, and Texans will have all played in the Super Bowl and the NFL will have gone international. “The Game” will be known as The Globowl…okay it needs marketing support. But here’s the good news if you are a Browns or a Lions fan.  The Super Bowl will be wide open, it’s all yours! Finally after decades (good grief we used to say after years) of drought the Lions won’t have to win their second playoff game in 50 years to get there and Browns fans can stop slamming their fists against an imaginary John Elway. No more living off ghosts like Lou Groza, Tobin Rote, Otto Graham, and Robert Hoernschemeyer. Who? So hang in there Browns fans. It only seems like the last touchdown you scored was on a 45 yard gallop by Bernie Kosar.  Lions fans take heart, Santa Claus may not be coming to town but Cleveland is and I think Bernie is playing again.

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