It is safe to say that most Dallas Cowboys fans will be rooting for the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX.
The Philadelphia Eagles won the NFC Championship Game on Sunday afternoon and did so against the Washington Commanders. Watching it was not very fun in any sort of way for Dallas Cowboys fans as the winning Eagles punched their ticket to Super Bowl LIX.
If you are anything like me you knew that whoever won that game… you were going to be rooting for the AFC-winning team whoever it was between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills. Philadelphia and Washington are bitter rivals of the Cowboys, so imagining either one of them lifting the Lombardi Trophy is among the worst possible outcomes.
After a thriller of a game, the Chiefs are headed to their fourth Super Bowl in six years and third straight. The artists formerly known as the Dallas Texans are back in the big game.
Super Bowl LIX will mark the 7th time that Cowboys fans have had to watch a division rival play for it all since Dallas last did so themselves:
- Super Bowl XXXV: Baltimore Ravens defeat New York Giants
- Super Bowl XXXXIX: New England Patriots defeat Philadelphia Eagles
- Super Bowl XLII: New York Giants defeat New England Patriots
- Super Bowl XLVI: New York Giants defeat New England Patriots
- Super Bowl LII: Philadelphia Eagles defeat New England Patriots
- Super Bowl LVII: Kansas City Chiefs defeat Philadelphia Eagles
If you were rooting against the NFC East teams in each of these games, as you should have been, then you are an even .500 to date. It is time for the proverbial rubber match, so to speak.
I’ve long held the belief that there is no wrong way to be a fan and therefore what you choose to do and how you choose to root is ultimately up to you. Maybe you have a reason for rooting for an NFC East team in the past or the Eagles in the present. Everyone’s fan journey is different.
But as far as my two cents are concerned there is absolutely no world in which I want to see any NFC East team win it all.
Funny enough, odds are you have rooted for the Chiefs in each of their three Super Bowl victories to date as they have faced the San Francisco 49ers twice and obviously the Eagles once. If they are victorious again, for what would be a historic three straight titles, they will have won all four of their championships against San Francisco and Philadelphia.
Go Chiefs.
