Super Bowl - I know nothing except Brady is surely too old?

It's the Super Bowl this weekend - the highlight of the American sporting year. There are many people whose knowledge and judgement I respect who thoroughly enjoy the NFL, but try as I might I just cannot get into a game which seems designed to provide TV bosses with as many breaks as possible to sell advertising space. Mind you cricket's IPL is going that way, with this year's addition of timeouts (i.e. 2 minutes of adverts even though a wicket has not fallen).

So what do I like about football as it is called on Pinnacle's website (you have to look up soccer to find the 'football' odds)? The referee's uniform is great and I have heard of Tom Brady, the legendary quarterback, who will be playing in his 10th Super Bowl. 

Brady though invites another comparison with 'soccer'. What if a finalist in European Champion's League had a centre back who was Brady's age - 43? Surely you would think he's too old to be playing at that level? After all Bobby Moore retired at 37 (and by then was in the 2nd division) and Franz Beckenbauer finished his playing career aged 38 with the New York Cosmos in what were really glorified exhibition matches.

This invites no nothing me to think there may be an angle in opposing Brady's team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I suspect there may be quite a lot of sentimental money on a Brady 7th Super Bowl but in betting there is no room for sentiment if a profit is your aim.

There is even money the Kansas City Chiefs at -3.5 on the spread/handicap, which strikes me as ok. I might have a go - it will at least make the Super Bowl slightly less boring.

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