Governor Shapiro announces Super Bowl LVII bets with Missouri, Kansas governors
“Like millions of Pennsylvanians, Lori and I are excited to cheer on the Philadelphia Eagles and watch them bring the Lombardi Trophy back to the Commonwealth,” said Governor Shapiro. “Pennsylvania is home to the greatest small businesses in the country – and while I love to share the best Pennsylvania has to offer with my friends in other states, the Eagles have been so good this season that I’m willing to double down on a win this week. Go Birds!”
Before the game, Gov. Parson and Gov. Shapiro will exchange Eagles and Chiefs flags. The governor of the losing team will have to hang the flag of the winning team in their office.
Gov. Shapiro has bet an assortment of food from Pennsylvania small businesses as part of the wager with Gov. Kelly. The following foods will be sent to Gov. Kelly if the Chiefs win:
*Soft pretzels from Philly Style Hand Twisted Soft Pretzel Bakery in Levittown, Bucks County
*Cheesesteaks from Tony Luke’s in Philadelphia
*Eagles Mini Donuts from Collegeville Italian Bakery in Montgomery County
If the Eagles win, Gov. Kelly will send Gov. Shapiro the following:
*Creekstone Farms Black Angus Beef
*Chocolate-covered sunflower seeds
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I'm rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles this year, since the Steelers didn't make the playoffs.
Go Eagles!
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Here's hoping for a plane-load of cheesesteaks heading West. 
can keep their chocolate covered sunflower seeds though 
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Why so rude? I wasn't that way to you. This ought to be a fun thread but instead, you want to argue about a friendly bet by governors associated with the teams and when I tried to explain why the Governor of Kansas is likewise considered part of the mix, you get mad... I just don't get it. Maybe you are having a bad day. Go drink a beer or relax and maybe things will get better. 
KC Chiefs Superbowl appearances as the gubernatorial players change and I'm too lazy to research it.
'Sorry that we seemed to have been talking past each other.
To a good game! 
when Marty Walsh, then mayor of Boston, was too superstitious to bet on the Patriots (an "Irish thing" as was noted by him in articles although Philly's mayor Jim Kenney is also very much Irish 
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January 25, 2018 / 11:36 PM / CBS Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's traditional for mayors from the cities competing in the Super Bowl to make a bet on the outcome, but when the Patriots are playing, the opponents have to get creative.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, true to his Irish heritage, is superstitious. He bet on the Pats a couple of times and they lost, so he stopped, and then they started winning.
Now, he thinks the bets were a jinx and he won't participate. But the mayor of Brockton reached out to Mayor Jim Kenney this week at the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and offered a Rocky versus Rocky wager: Brockton has a statue of Rocky Marciano. Philadelphia, of course, has Rocky Balboa.
The Rocky in the losing city will wear the winner's team garb. Kenney also put up a keg of Yards beer against a case of Stockton's Rocky Marciano wine.
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/rocky-bet-super-bowl-52/
So I totally get it.
Normally I'm rooting AGAINST the New England Patriots (also Baltimore Ravens) in the Super Bowl. If either of those teams gets to the Super Bowl, it means they dashed our hopes to smithereens. Cheating may have occurred, but it's rarely been proven. Remember when Tom Brady and the Patriots played with deflated footballs? That was against the Steelers and he got caught, but the damage was already done. The referees made him play will fully inflated balls for the rest of the game, but the Patriots had already beaten the Steelers in the first half of the big playoff game.
