Long & Short Reviews: No Plans to Watch the Super Bowl

This week's Long & Short Reviews prompt asks whether we plan to watch the Super Bowl; why or why not.

Well, that's good for a short post. I don't plan to watch anything in my TV-free home. There have been years when I've been enticed into someone else's home to watch a professional sports event. The local lack of popularity of the teams involved makes it unlikely that that'll happen this year.

I am seriously interested in sports events when the kids playing, or cheering, or playing in the band, are related to me or to close friends. Otherwise, I can take them or leave them alone. 

I do have some tiny residual vestige of preference for some teams, based on where they call home, who's playing, and who else used to cheer for them in my family:

The Washington team, even in sports I don't watch, because Washington is my city. I even knew a few of "our" players; in fact a Washington Redskin who played for one season and then became a school coach was a masseur to whom I used to refer some clients.

The Green Bay Packers, because my father and an uncle used to cheer for them.

The Baltimore Ravens, because my husband used to cheer for them when I was cheering for "our" Redskins, just to make things interesting, he said.

The San Francisco 49ers, because the boyfriend used to cheer for them and they were a good team, that year, having both Jerry Rice and Steve Young.

The Indianapolis Colts, because my Significant Other used to cheer for them, because it was politically incorrect to like them. A colt is a young horse, a lovable lifeform that makes a good mascot, but the Colts got their name from a man whose ancestors might have raised or trained colts--who knows?--who made his fortune selling firearms. 

But, Seattle? New England? A team based that far away would really have to own a sport to have any following here, and they've not done it. Yet.