The Best Super Bowl That Can Still Happen
January 28, 2021
It all started because of this Instagram post by Tom Brady’s backup on the Buccaneers, Blaine Gabbert, captioned, “Gangsters move in silence.” I was intrigued because I did not see Blaine Gabbert as the gangster type. I sent it to my friend, Jeremiah Garcia , Carver ‘22, and he said, “He definitely is silent because I didn’t know he was on the Buccaneers,” which meant that because of the transitive property (or something along those lines) that Blaine Gabbert is indeed a gangster. Anyway, learning that Gabbert was the backup to Brady, led to me being curious as to who the backup for the Chiefs is. Imagine my surprise when I saw Jacksonville Jaguars legend Chad Henne is the current backup for Patrick Mahomes. This immediately got me excited, because if a miraculous series of events were to occur that caused both Brady and Mahomes to be unable to play in the Super Bowl, we would have a Super Bowl in which Chad Henne and Blain Gabbert were the starting quarterbacks. When I brought up this proposition to Angel Rodriguez, George Washington ‘22, after a brief pause he responded, “Yeah…I guess that would be cool.” I mean, think about it. You would have a quarterback that has 60/63 TD/INT ratio going up against a quarterback with a 50/47 TD/INT ratio. This would cause a football game that would be both extremely chaotic and entertaining. It would essentially be a game to see who could mess up less, and I am here for it. Talking to Geraldo Gutierrez, George Washington ‘22, about it, he simply said, “I don’t watch football.” Obviously I’m not in the minority here when I say that I think this would be the superior Super Bowl. Given the circumstances however, it is very unlikely that it’s going to happen.