Completely Not Pretend Information: Tremendous Bowl rooting curiosity for the Houston Texans’ fanbase (largely)

HOUSTON – By now, the members for Tremendous Bowl LIX in New Orleans are set. In a rematch of Tremendous Bowl LVI, The Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs will take the sphere, with numerous excessive drama, depth, and…fan apathy?

“I mean, we’ve seen this movie before. Eagles/Chiefs…Kelce vs. Kelce, Taylor Swift, Reid’s two teams…blah, blah, blah.” Famous one unnamed fan. “Might be a close game, might be fun for all I know, but instead, it will just be more extended Mahomes/Reid State Farm commercials, and as many shots of Taylor Swift in the luxury boxes. Yes, the NFL dominates headlines, but who really, really wants to watch that matchup?” one unnamed fan famous.

Hopefully, not too many on-field pictures of those two this time…

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“Yeah, we already know that the starting lineup for the Chiefs is practically unbeatable”

Nevertheless, the choice isn’t precisely engendering a lot help.

“You want to cheer for the EAGLES??? You know their fans, right? Ok, Barkley is kinda cool, but the rest of them??? Look at what just one of them will do in a game…and that is a tame fan. I was contacting my representatives to see if they could get ICE to deport them.” One other fan famous.

Illustration of post-Tremendous Bowl celebrations if the Eagles win

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At this level, even with the NFL occurring a full media press to advertise the Tremendous Bowl, that begs the query: Who do you root for? By all rights, this can be a binary query.

Or is it? There’s a sturdy motion afoot in lots of quarters, the place folks can’t tolerate both the Chiefs or Eagles hoisting the Lombardi Trophy (No Coach Belichick, it eternally stay the Lombardi Trophy, not the Brady) are discovering solace in rooting for a 3rd social gathering.

That third social gathering: The meteor.

The meteor? No NFL staff, nor present participant, goes by that nickname. Additionally, the Tremendous Bowl, not like the WWE/TNA/AEW, doesn’t permit for the supply of a triple risk championship match.

But, is rooting for “the meteor” actually a very good factor, and is that even the right factor to root for?

To reply the later query, we go along with what these nerdy, smarty-pants kind folks say at NASA say. At some factors within the anti-Tremendous Bowl LIX discourse, folks use “meteor”, “asteroid”, or “meteorite” interchangeably. We figured they may assist clear this up.

They are often kinda lovely

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Definitions:

Asteroid: “A small rocky object that orbits the Sun. Asteroids are smaller than a planet, but they are larger than the pebble-size objects we call meteoroids.”
Meteor: “A meteoroid – a small piece of an asteroid or comet – burns up upon entering Earth’s atmosphere, creating a streak of light in the sky.” Suppose all of the “meteor showers” you may see within the evening sky
Meteorite: “A meteor that survives the burn and lands on the ground.”

Based mostly on these definitions, you might argue that the actual rooting curiosity must be for the meteorite, because the meteor continues to be within the sky, and the asteroid has but to method the Earth’s ambiance. The meteorite is the precise strong object that impacts the bottom, which, on this case, is the bottom whereupon the Tremendous Bowl is performed.

Nevertheless, there are just a few caveats. Measurement, on this occasion, does matter. A small meteorite doubtless received’t trigger that a lot injury. The Earth receives about 48.5 tons of meteoric materials every day. Clearly most of that might be mud or objects so small as to barely benefit consideration. Nevertheless, some meteors stay extra substantial after surviving getting into the ambiance. Humanity has recorded over 50,000 meteors that struck the Earth. Some are of a smaller scale, say like the dimensions of a small canine. A number of of them…significantly bigger than that.

Then we come to break potential. Provided that Tremendous Bowl LIX is being performed within the Superdome, a comparatively small meteorite shouldn’t affect a lot. An 8-pound meteorite, the dimensions of the one which landed in an Alabama dwelling in 1954, critically injuring an occupant, might be not penetrating that roof. As a lot as we would prefer to see Patrick Mahomes get felled on a scramble by an area rock, or higher nonetheless, a ref get doinked earlier than throwing a flag for a questionable roughing the passer, such issues seem unlikely, even when a meteor is on track for the Superdome.

Sure, that truly occurred

leaning on cane.

But, what kind of meteorite may trigger injury? Effectively, that’s the place it begins getting a bit…harmful. If an meteorite the dimensions of a soccer subject truly hit the Superdome (120 yard diameter), that might instantly finish the sport…in addition to the lives of all personnel within the stadium, and sure each dwelling humanoid within the metropolis of New Orleans. Moreover, the shockwave, warmth generated and fallout from all of the detritus kicked into the air would have injury impacts nicely past the road of scrimmage. The worst-case state of affairs isn’t all that distant from the Superdome. Roughly 65 million years in the past, an asteroid penetrated the Earth’s floor and the next meteorite that smashed into the Gulf of Mexico set off a series response of occasions that worn out the dinosaurs and most different dwelling organisms on the planet, taking tens of millions of years to completely recuperate. Fashionable projections maintain that such a strike now would drive the human race to near-extinction inside just a few years, with no surety of a humanity rebound.

Oh, and even a meteor might nonetheless trigger havoc. As seen in Russia in 1908 (Tunguska) and 2013 (Chelyabinsk), a meteor can “explode” in mid-air, making a pure airburst that can devastate land, natural world. The Tunguska blast leveled forests for miles, fortuitous that it solely hit in a comparatively distant a part of the planet. The Chelyabinsk meteor, a house-sized object, “blew up” 14 miles up within the ambiance, destroying property for miles surrounding the middle of the blast and injuring over 1,600 folks. If both of these issues have been to occur in New Orleans…yeah, not good, and sure not well worth the want to disrupt a Tremendous Bowl, even one with this lineup.

Yeah, that Tunguska meteor…I’d relatively the Alabama one…

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As for any potential asteroids that would evolve into the “desired” meteor/meteorite, there’s a 30-40m (32-43 yards throughout) sized object (2012 PB20) that can have its closest method to Earth on Tremendous Bowl Sunday. Whereas not anticipated to really get close to sufficient to essentially scare anybody, for people who actually can’t stand the thought of a KC/Philly Tremendous Bowl and care little for humanity, maybe that is your play.

and who doesn’t love puppies?

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