Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- Super Bowl 2018 Edition

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible! music) is to:

1)  The Super Bowl is on Sunday, 4 February 2018 in the USA.  The New England Patriots are playing the Philadelphia Eagles for the National Football League championship up in Minnesota (an indoor stadium!).  The winners get to go to Disney World. 

2)  Predict the score for this game.  You have to predict the winning team and the closest to the actual score (point differential summed for both teams) to be the winner.  The winner of this contest gets announced next week in a Genea-Musings blog post. 

3)  Tell a story about your experiences playing football or watching professional football games.  Did you go to football games? Who in your family was the real fan of the game?  What were the pre-game routines?  How do you, or your family, react to good plays or bad plays, or wins or losses?

My responses:

I don’t follow football and have no idea who would win. My guess is Patriots 28, Eagles 10.

Now, growing up, my father followed football. He was a season-ticket holder for the Oakland Raiders in the late 60s and early 70s. The seats were on the first level at the end zone. I attended a couple of games with him until my mother learned to understand football and she accompanied him.

He later followed the San Francisco 49ers, probably after the Raiders went to Los Angeles the first time. He was a much more die-hard 49er fan, wearing team colors, and having Super Bowl parties.

He also kept track of all the teams during the regular season. I found charts he kept of the teams’ stats each week. He must have really enjoyed keeping up with all of the teams.

I’ll be traveling so will have no idea who wins.

Copyright © 2018 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.