I was pleasantly impressed with the Bengals result. Joe Burrow was a great quarterback for LSU, leading them to a national title. His rookie year was marred by injury, but this year his team is going to the Super Bowl. Win or lose, he will be a fan favorite in Cincinnati for a while. We Saints fans know what it was like to have a long drought before finally going to the big game. I have a marginal favorite in the Bengals but to be honest, since the Saints didn't quite make it this year, I really don't care that much.
On the other hand, I will say this: This is the first year that the Super Bowl will be played in a stadium that is "home" to one of the participants. To say that the Los Angeles fans will be buying up tickets like crazy just doesn't seem to cover it. I just hope that whatever team wins, their fans take the example set by the Saints fans during our Super Bowl win. No riots, no huge fights, no excessively rowdy behavior. The bars and clubs in the city just played a lot of music and sold a lot of beer. Then everyone went home (assuming they could find it...) and showed up at work the next day with a huge hangover. Which, considering the way we treat most holidays, was actually par for the course.
