Thank you for this comment. I did not know. Since I back an NFL team I should have been for the Rams. I had no axes to grind but after the play-off games and the class the Pats showed in the face of the ignominius treatment they have had especially from the media, I figured I had to back the Pats on principle.
Now I understand that there was more at stake. I surely would not want an anti-gun backer in the win column. That's on priciple, too. Principled Americanism.