Dear Reader,
As kickoff nears for what could be the most watched Super Bowl in many years, we’re stumped by the surge in popularity. After all, many former fans walked away from the sport and declared We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together. Others had no interest whatsoever.
Now? They can’t get enough.
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Maybe they’re drawn to the main color associated with the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers. What was it again?
Red.
Regardless, hardcore football fans will share couch space and fake cheese dips with relative newbies as they watch Super Bowl LVIII – the lesson on Roman numerals follows the word problem involving when a certain flight leaves Tokyo and arrives in Las Vegas.
So we offer the public service of 13 things every fan should know before the Chiefs and 49ers play the season’s End Game.
Love Story: We’ve surmised it’s probably the reason casual fans will watch. He’s a blue-collar guy who raves about her talent as an artist. She’s his biggest fan despite all the recent acclaim she’s received. Niners fullback Kyle Juszczyk and his fashion designer wife Kristin, who created jackets for a couple prominent Chiefs fans early in the playoffs and just secured a licensing agreement with the NFL, are the adorable couple who will be magnets for TV cameras throughout the game. Of course.
Bad Blood: This is the second Super Bowl meeting in five seasons between the Chiefs and 49ers. San Francisco took a 10-point lead into the fourth quarter in Super Bowl LIV, but Kansas City scored 21 points in the final 6:13 to win the franchise’s second Super Bowl and first in 50 years.
Superstar: The big names won’t all be in uniform. Before the game, the scheduled singers are Reba McEntire (national anthem), Post Malone (“America the Beautiful”) and Andra Day (“Life Every Voice and Sing”). And Usher will be the latest the halftime show performer to fall far…
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