This weekend includes Super Bowl Sunday.
Like most Super Bowl Sundays, I'll put on my Minnesota Vikings team gear, and eat and drink and watch the game and commercials.
I'll probably root for the team I dislike the least, usually the NFC team.
And for the 38th consecutive year, I will do it all without passion, because it's been that long since the Vikings have been in the Super Bowl.
The Vikes were in 4 of the first 11 contests, losing all of them, and haven't been back. Their consistent winning tradition in the 1970s made it fun to be a fan growing up, it's just that they never got the brass ring.
Sadder still is that they've come within a game of getting back to the Super Bowl several times in those following 38 years (5 to be exact), only to lose that penultimate game, twice in torturous overtime fashion.
Fortunately, I can at least say I've seen other favorite professional sports franchises win titles over the years, including baseball's Minnesota Twins, hockey's Chicago Black Hawks (recently) and basketball's San Antonio Spurs (very recently).
But not football.
So this weekend, another Super Bowl champion will be crowned, and I won't care.
Maybe next year?
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