It’s a dilemma, all right, this Super Bowl, LIX I guess it is.

The main thing you’ll notice is that it would have been a lot more fun if the Buffalo Bills were playing the Washington Commanders.

Something different. A game in which it would be hard to pull against either team.

Instead … Kansas City and Philadelphia.

Meh.

Been there, seen that, plenty of T-shirts. Just two years ago.

I suppose the Redundant Chiefs, who are in the Super Bowl for the fifth time in six years and won three of them, can show you some history with a third consecutive victory.

That’s never been done, not in NFL history anyways.

I don’t detect a groundswell nod of approval or anticipation for it, however.

You could even call it Chiefs fatigue.

Philadelphia?

Nothing particularly wrong with the Eagles.

They get the local angle, perhaps, with Iowa native André Sam, the defensive back who played for both McNeese State and LSU in a well-traveled college career.

The defensive back can get a Super Bowl ring but is only on the practice squad and won’t dress out. Same for the other former Tiger in the game, running back Ty Davis-Price.

Technically that makes it 24 consecutive years that the Tigers have had a player in this ultimate game, which, according to LSU, is the longest active streak by any school.

Of more interest, maybe, is the Eagles’ quarterback coach, Doug Nussmeier, whose Lake Charles-born son Garrett is better known amidst these bayous as LSU’s starting quarterback.

Otherwise, an Eagles victory would be tough on me, at least, since I usually think of the fans.

Hard to root for the rowdy Philly bunch — rowdy not in a good way like the ever-faithful Who Dat brigade. No, it’s a fandom best known for showing that City of Brotherly Love spirit by once booing Santa Claus. A former mayor, Ed Rendell (1992-2000), once was a ringleader in leading the citizenry in pelting the field with snowballs in 1968. It’s not what eventually got him elected governor, but it didn’t hurt.

At least that won’t be a problem in the Superdome.

Still, I get the feeling most of this otherwise divided nation will be squarely in the Eagles’ corner.

I get the fatigue factor with the Chiefs. What I don’t understand is how the Chiefs got to be the NFL’s appointed villains.

Kansas City itself seems like a good, down-home inconspicuous city. Full of excellent barbecue, too.

Shoot, Walt Disney was from KC.

What’d they do to warrant this?

And at least you can probably expect a good game — the Chiefs’ last two Super Bowl wins were both by three points.

Granted, a questionable flag from the zebras will probably decide it but … that’s just the NFL.

At least it’s not like back when the 49ers were running roughshod, seemingly turning every game into an event highlighted by the halftime extravaganza (after which there was little drama).

More recently, of course, it was the Patriots who were so easy to root against.

I got that.

Head coach Bill Belichick was too dang ornery to cuddle up to. He could have at least acted like he was enjoying all those Lombardi Trophies, which he now says should be renamed the Tom Brady Trophy.

Nothing wrong with Brady, per se, but face it, he — his face, mostly, the face of the dynasty — was way too handsome for anybody’s good. Hard to pull for a quarterback who already has everything.

The Chiefs aren’t any of that.

Who’s a more likable NFL guy than head coach Andy Reid, at least among those who win all the time?

I can’t think of one. He’s everybody’s favorite uncle.

And he can flat draw up some ball plays.

There’s the quarterback, of course, Patrick Mahomes, who’s almost uncatchable — and if you do wrestle him down, it’ll probably be another 15 yards, automatic first down, probably at a crucial time.

Admittedly that part is frustrating. You have to admit, however, that he’s two tons of fun to watch when he’s throwing from every which away, not the mention the gyrations en route.

What’s he supposed to do? Decline the chintzy penalties?

True, it can be annoying that the Chiefs’ mascot, Taylor Swift, a songstress of some renown in her spare time, gets entirely too much TV time in the luxury suites. That might not be her fault, although she doesn’t seem allergic to the attention.

I guess what I’m trying to say is …

Just cheer your conscience, but mostly for your number to come up at the end of a quarter on one of the several boards you’re anted up on.
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Scooter Hobbs covers LSU athletics. Email him at scooter.hobbs@americanpress.com