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“I actually picked the Lions last year.”

Let me tell you what I did last year, I’m still so proud I must boast!

I’m a permanently unaligned football fan. (In baseball I’m a Mets fan, except I still hate them right now.)

In years gone bye, when I was a kid, I kind of liked whoever was on top. The packers, the dolphins; then there were many decades where I paid no attention to football at all.

That changed eventually and I finally came to understand how the game works (rather than having it be what Dad had on the TV, which was fine, although my Mom never understood that).

At that point, I became a big fan of Tony Dungy so first I was a Bucs fan and then rooted for the Colts. I was so, so, happy when those deserving guys won the Super Bowl.

Then, again, I floated around for a while, rooted for the Giants on behalf of my daughter who somewhere along the way had become a devoted Giants fan, rooted for the Falcons who hubby likes for who knows what reason.

Finally I chose the Baltimore Ravens. I’d always liked them for picking that name, just great, and I love Ray Rice and the whole Michael Oher story, so that just worked for me.

Last year my beloved daughter had a baby, and of course everyone got him little onesies for different teams. Giants, Redskins (his dad) some college teams, etc. But grandma got him a somewhat larger shirt in the hopes that he could wear it when Bmore played in the Superbowl. And he did. And they won.

So that was really great.

I think I’m going to be a Ravens fan forever now.

And that is pretty much the entire story of my football life. And I hope I haven’t bored everyone to death with it.