Of Commercials and Caucuses

We are less than two weeks away from Super Bowl LIV (that's fifty-four for those of you absent the day that Roman numerals were taught at your grammar school), in which the Kansas City Chiefs of the AFC will battle the San Francisco 49ers of the NFC.  Kansas City last played in the Super Bowl a half-century ago. Coached by Hank Stram and led by quarterback Len Dawson, the Chiefs atoned for their horrible performance in Super Bowl I, where the Packers trounced them, by dominating the Minnesota Vikings, 23-7, in Super Bowl IV.  The Chiefs became the second - and last - AFL team to win the Super Bowl.  Super Bowl IV being the final game played between AFL and NFL teams prior to the merger of the two leagues. 

Fun fact:  Since 1984, the NFL awards the Lamar Hunt Trophy to the AFC Champion in honor of the Chiefs' long-time owner and a founder of the AFL.  Sunday was the first time that his franchise won the trophy bearing his name.   

Coincidentally, we are also less than two weeks away from the Iowa Caucuses, in which Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, Andrew Yang, Michael Bloomberg, and Pete Buttigieg will do battle among one another.  If I was a betting man, and I am not, I would wager that regardless of how the Battle for the Hawkeye State plays out, the seven Democrats will all stay in the race for their party's Presidential nomination at least through the New Hampshire primary eight days later. It will be interesting to see how many of the seven are still standing by Super Tuesday, March 3, 2020, when more than one dozen states (including the delegate-rich states of California and Texas) hold their primaries.  

Speaking only for myself, I have as little sense who shall win Super Bowl LIV as I do who shall win the Iowa Caucuses.  I hope that I am wrong in thinking that the average American can name more members of either the Chiefs or the Niners than can name the seven candidates to be the Democratic Party's 2020 nominee to run for President of the United States...

...none of whom shall receive the Vince Lombardi Trophy for winning in Iowa on February 3rd.  

-AK