Good afternoon mai babaies, thinking of past FFFs and considering what is coming up this weekend, I'm sure you'll be able to take a "wild" guess to what this week's FFF is going to be about. The best, un-official holiday of the year that is Super Bowl weekend. While it isn't the best Super Bowl ever, only because the Packers aren't going to win, it is still a festival of joy, beer drinking, and sadness as it is the last football game for seven painful months. For those who don't know, the Packers actually won the first two installments of the Super Bowl, sorry I had to get that in there some how. The game started out to ease the eventual merger between the NFL and the AFL. In the early days, there was the National Football League that was consistently the top pro football brand, and there would also be another league that would last a year or two before financially failing. That was until the American Football League came around and was the NFL's only real viable threat. The original NFL teams consisted mostly of the current NFC teams except for the expansion teams, and three others who moved to the AFC after the merger, to balance the divisions out (The Colts, Steelers, and the Browns). The name "Super Bowl" was coined by the late Lamar Hunt, owner of the Kansas City Chiefs after a ball that his children were playing with called the "Super Ball." The first team from the original AFL to win the Super Bowl was the New York Jets, who beat the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III still considered one of the biggest upsets in Super Bowl history. Today's game is much more than just bragging rights between two similar leagues. Now it is a multi-billion dollar extravaganza. I'm sure everyone knows the $3 million price tag for a thirty-second commercial during the Super Bowl, not to mention the truck loads of merchandise the NFL moves with which ever team wins and the amount of betting that's made on the game. Hell, Vegas even takes bets on whether the coin toss will be heads or tails.
Enjoy the festivities and be safe,
PROST!!!!
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