Patriots or Falcons – Who are you Rooting for in Super Bowl LI

The Super Bowl is one of the highest rated if not the highest rated events on TV every year.  This year will more than likely be no exception.  The teams that are playing are the ever present New England Patriots and the second time in the big game Atlanta Falcons.  As everyone knows the Super Bowl has turned into more of an event than the game itself.  Most, well at least many, football fans look at the conference championship games as the last true week of the football season.  After that Super Bowl week is taken up by the masses.

Who do all the people that are either not regular watchers of football or their team has not made it to the big game root for?  We know that most of the people in New England will root for the Patriots and that most of the people in Atlanta will root for the Falcons.

Who do you love to hate

With the Patriots being so successful over the long haul they have become a love or hate team.  There are three types of rooters that will be watching the Super Bowl.  For this post we will leave the 4th type out.  The ones that are just there for the party and really don’t care about the game at all.   There are the Fans of the teams and then there are the people that are rooting against the Patriots.

To me it is pretty obvious who is going to be who here.   There will be some fans that will root for the Patriots because of a player on the team.  Maybe you are a fan of Tom Brady and just want to see him get another ring.  Maybe you are fan of Gisele and just want to see her tweet out about how great Tom Brady is after a win.

My guess is that number is actually pretty small.  It could be bigger than I think but probably not.

Maybe you are the type of person that wants the Falcons to win because they have never won it before.  I am sure a lot of people will use this as their reason to root for the Falcons.

The real reason that people outside of Atlanta are rooting for the Falcons is because they want to see the Patriots lose not that they actually want Atlanta to win.

I am fine with that kind of thinking and rooting behavior.    Saying that, there is a reason to root for the Patriots even if you are a Patriot hater and want them to lose.

Uncomfortable exchange

This reason is Roger Goodell.  Think about how awkward it would be for Roger Goodell.  Having to hand the Lombardi Trophy to Robert Kraft, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.  Roger Goodell tried so hard to make this an unsuccessful season for the Patriots.  The 4 game suspension of Brady for something that there is really no proof he actually did.  Clearly it did not work.

I am a bit torn on this.  I really do not want to see the Patriots win another Super Bowl but I would really like to see an uncomfortable Roger Goodell have to had the trophy over.

Who are you rooting for?  Let us know in the poll who you think will win.