Super Bowl 2018

Neither snow nor slush nor sub-zero temperatures kept American football fans from celebrating the virtual holiday that is Super Bowl Sunday as massive crowds descended on downtown Minneapolis ahead of the big game.

I’m a fan of the New England Patriots, and in the circles that I move in — liberal, underdog-loving, far from New England — that’s a bad thing to be. One hears that the team’s coach, Bill Belichick, wrote Donald Trump a commendatory letter not long before the president took office. One hears that a Make America Great Again hat was seen hanging near the locker of the quarterback Tom Brady. President Trump and Robert Kraft, the team owner, were once big buddies and may well be again.

The hoopla, the crazy questions, the media responsibilities and the practices are over.
Now, all that is left? Trying to win a Super Bowl.