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Understanding the Overwhelming Pressure to Win a Super Bowl

MIAMI — Super Bowl week continues apace, although Tuesday was another—dare I say—quiet day down in South Florida. I mean, there was literally a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in the Caribbean that caused some tremors and at least one building to evacuate in Brickell. But for the most part, it was a quiet day.

What do we make of this? I’m not sure. Neither the Chiefs nor the 49ers are boring teams—both have interesting head coaches, quarterbacks who are compelling for different reasons and other notably extroverted superstar players on the roster. It’s possible this is a product of our current media (and social media) era, where it simply feels like everything has already been covered and discussed ad nauseum.