It is football season right now and the playoffs are in their final stages but this year the fanaticism seems to be at a whole new level. <\/p>\n
Living in Seattle means obviously i should be backing the Seahawks, and that isn’t going to happen any time soon, but the fans here give die hard a whole new meaning. There is fanatics then there are Seahawks fans. They are obsessive, a little bit compulsive and slightly insane. They will sit on the open air stadium in the middle of winter in the rain and cold and pay to do it, i mean seriously that’s just stupid. <\/p>\n
The Seahawks dislike for the 49ers though is as close to a local rivalry as your going to get. Craziness abounds when they come to town and the obsession goes to overdrive, almost a passionate hatred of each other. <\/p>\n
Today is the divisional play offs and my beloved Patriots play Denver (who I hope will choke and lose) in the Denver snow, and the outcome of that game defines the Superbowl. The outcome of this one game will show if I spend the next two weeks with friends or not. If the Patriots win, and so do the Seahawks, I will be hated cursed and probably murdered. But the outcome of my game will define who I back in the NFC game. I don’t want the Patriots to play the Seahawks, they are to strong and would probably mean a possible superbowl loss, so I want the 49ers to win. But if the Patriots win, I want the Seahawks to win to keep my friends happy and so I can experience a truly epic football experience on Superbowl Sunday. <\/p>\n
No matter what happens, today could not be better for a football fan at all, no matter what team wins, we all do! <\/p>\n
Go Patriots!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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