That's Real Team Loyalty (Day 3722 - 2/2/20)

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Stephen calls Alex to decide which teams they will each be choosing for the Super Bowl. Alex doesn't have cable, so he usually doesn't watch the games anyway. Alex says that it would be great if they could watch the Super Bowl live at the stadium. Stephen says that watching it live would be great, but Super Bowl tickets are expensive. It would be cheaper if they just get together and watch it on TV. Then, Stephen asks who the two teams are because he doesn't know. Alex says that it's the San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs. Both of them don't know whose turn it is to pick first and they both believe that it's their own turn to pick first. Alex feels strongly about these teams, so Stephen lets him pick first. Alex chose the 49ers.

Alex explains that it was a hard choice especially since they beat the Packers out of the Super Bowl. But, he is a southern California boy at heart and he is okay with picking the 49ers because the Rams are doing badly. Alex only cares about the Packers when it comes to football. For baseball, he would choose the Dodgers over the Giants.

Alex says that he will on the politically correct side because the 49ers have a female coach while the Chiefs have a mildly racist mascot. Stephen says that he was planning on choosing the Chiefs until Alex told him all the reasons that someone shouldn't choose the Chiefs. Alex says that the ability win the game is irrelevant from all that information anyway. Stephen chose the Chiefs because that was the only team that he knew was in the Super Bowl and he didn't remember the other team. Alex says "That's real team loyalty there". Stephen says that he will wear his Patriots hat while cheering "Go Chiefs!" which will probably make a lot of people angry.

They both decide to bet $50 for charity. Alex chooses the Magic City Acceptance Center as his charity. It is a LGBTQ support space in Birmingham, Alabama. Stephen chooses the Video Game History Foundation for his charity. It's a foundation that preserves video games which are important to both of them. Stephen says that they are currently teaching video game store employees to steal from work, so the video games will exist somewhere else after the project is over. Alex is all for that and says that he still has the --bleep-- and not to tell anybody. Stephen says that he will be watching the game with his family and Lindsey while live tweeting.

At his parents' house, they just did the national anthem and had a flyover with jets. Stephen wonders if the flyover is timed or if they used footage that was filmed earlier. Lindsey says that it's timed. Stephen also wonders if they do jet flyovers for every Super Bowl game. Lindsey assumes they do because they also do it during normal football games depending on the stadium. The halftime show is presented by Pepsi, but Stephen is wearing his Coca-Cola shirt. He says that it's the closest color shirt he has to the team colors of the Chiefs.

Later, the Chiefs had a strong start but that's beginning to shift. Both teams are tied with 10 points each. Stephen says that in order to get the full experience of the game, you should go read his tweets after watching this vlog. The halftime show performance was done by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira. Stephen says that their music is not his favorite music to listen to, but the show was good because they're both good entertainers. There was also an aerial short where he thought he saw a symbol that looked like a holy hand grenade. He then realized the shot was upside down, so it was an upside down female gender symbol. Lindsey had to leave after the halftime show because she has to wake up early tomorrow for work. The 49ers are winning with a score of 20 to 10. It seems alarming, but people on Twitter reassured Stephen that the Chiefs would be fine. There are still 15 minutes left and the Chiefs have a good offense.

Later, there are 10 minutes left and it doesn't look good. Stephen feels bad for the camera men because a guy dove into those big cameras. He says that people should be careful on the sidelines since those the cost of those cameras are in the 5 digits. The Chiefs got a touchdown, but it had to be reviewed frame-by-frame. Even Stephen was skeptical about it being a touchdown and believes that there will be a lot of controversy about it after the game. The Chiefs are winning with a score of 24 to 20. Then, the Chiefs got a touchdown and are still in the lead with a score of 31 to 20. The Chiefs had a comeback and even tripled their score. Later, there is only 1 minute left so Stephen believes that this is the end. The Chiefs end up intercepting the ball with 1 minute left. This will be Stephen's 4th win against Alex in a row. Stephen says that it was good that the Chiefs won because they haven't been to the Super Bowl for about 50 years. Stephen says that football is the only ball game he watches in a year. The only exception for this year was when they watched the Packers game at Dan and Lindsey's house. He says that the game was more entertaining because the Patriots weren't there. The Patriots usually completely beat the other team, so it wasn't fun watching the games during the previous years.

Stephen calls Alex to tell him the results of the game. Alex didn't watch the game, but he read all of Stephen's tweets. Alex jokingly tells Stephen that if he puts hashtag #coronavirus on his tweets, his tweets would go viral in no time. Stephen is looking forward to them getting together to watch the Super Bowl at some point. Alex tells Stephen that he wants to have dibs on the Packers whenever they make it to the Super Bowl. Stephen feels like he should have first dibs despite both of them having ties to the Packers through Wisconsin women. Stephen says that he has had his Wisconsin woman for longer, so he should get first dibs. Mallory also adds that Alex got to pick the Packers the last time that they were in the Super Bowl.

Alex then asks Stephen the name of the quarterback of the Packers and gives him a hint that the name starts with an "A". Stephen guesses "Lombardo", "Lombardi", "Aaron Beckham", and then finally "Rowdy Roddy Piper". He got it half right because the name of their quarterback is Aaron Rodgers. Next, Alex asks him what the name of the stadium they play in. He says that the name starts with an "L" and has the word "field" in it. Stephen guesses "Green Bay Stadium", "Lombardo Field", and "Rowdy Roddy Piper Field". Alex will donate $50 to the Video Game History Foundation since his team lost. Stephen says that he will also donate $50 to Alex's charity since it's a good cause. He says that the most important part of the Super Bowl was which one of them won the bet rather than which charity got the money.

Stephen says that his dad was really excited for him to call Alex to tell him that he won. Before the game, Steve asked Stephen which team he was betting on and Stephen said the Chiefs. So, Steve was cheering for the Chiefs the whole time and was telling Stephen that he picked well. Stephen wasn't sure if he said that because he follows football or if he would've said that regardless of what team he picked. He ends his phone call with Alex and talks about how he is not the type of guy who watches a lot of sports. Stephen is not even completely sure how football is played, he just knows enough to enjoy the game. He says that this game was entertaining to watch for someone who is not interested in sports. The charities benefitted and he won the bet which felt nice. Stephen talks about how this year it didn't feel like anyone was stuck with a team because usually one of them picks and the other person is stuck with the other team. But, if he had first pick this year he still would've chosen the Chiefs. Stephen hopes people got some giggles from reading his Super Bowl tweets. A lot of people tell him that the only reason they watch the Super Bowl is for Stephen and Alex's bet. Stephen says that the Super Bowl is a big event, so he is glad that he could make people care about it.