Which SB Matchup has the best story?

[Jonathan Michaels]

One thing I find interesting about this grouping of the last four teams is that I think if you ask each team, they would want a different matchup.

Chiefs-Rams: The Chiefs want the Rams because they want to avenge their home state of Missouri and teach the traitorous Rams a lesson.

Patriots-Saints: The Patriots want the Saints because Tom Brady loves to prove himself against other top QB’s, and Brees is having a solid year, Brady wants to beat the best.

Patriots-Rams: The Rams want the Patriots because while most people either hate or love the Pats, hardly anyone cares about the Rams, and going up against the Patriots will have a lot of people rooting for the Rams, which is certainly preferable to having to listen to the Chiefs fans boo them mercilessly.

Chiefs-Saints: The Saints want the Chiefs because the Patriots have been to the Super Bowl many times in recent years while the Chiefs have lost 11 of their last 13 playoff games.

Each of the four potential matchups have interesting stories, whether it’s a duel between two elite quarterbacks, a team seeking vengeance against former interstate rivals, the possible quarterback of the future seeking to make a name for himself by beating two of the best there are, or a team hoping to win back the love of their former fan base by defeating the “evil empire”

So I want to know, putting aside how you feel about any of the teams, which Super Bowl matchup would be the most interesting story?

[Unocal 76]

NE-NO because of the QB narrative.

[Sicho100]

Patriots/Rams - The team that the Patriots beat to begin their dynasty now needs to beat the Patriots to end their dynasty.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

As long as Tom Brady loses again I’m ok with any match up.

[Ben Wyatt]

As a fan, you can make a case for any of the potential matchups.

My pick, with some bias involved: Pats/Saints due to the Brady/Brees showdown,  wins it for me.

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Rams vs Patriots

Patriots beat the Rams to begin their dynasty, and it's the young upstart team led by the young QB against the greatest QB and a dynasty. Can the new guard take down the measuring stick? Can the old lions defeat the young lions, and keep control of the pack?

[Push R Truth]

Chiefs - Rams has the least amount of assholes playing, assholes coaching and the extra bonus of having the least amount of QB verbal fellatio by commentary.

[sfvega]

I just wanna see KC/New Orleans in an NBA All-Star game style where the defenders don't even keep up the pretense that they're trying. I've got New Orleans 177-172 over KC. Even if both of these teams lose next week, we can just have this game anyway. Put it against the Super Bowl.

[sfvega]

Jan 15, 2019 8:40:12 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Chiefs - Rams has the least amount of assholes playing, assholes coaching and the extra bonus of having the least amount of QB verbal fellatio by commentary.

Not the least playing, Rams employ both Suh and Talib.

[Mayonnaise]

Jan 15, 2019 3:27:04 GMT -5 Sicho100 said:

Patriots/Rams - The team that the Patriots beat to begin their dynasty now needs to beat the Patriots to end their dynasty.

Jan 15, 2019 7:57:04 GMT -5 Jedi-El of Tomorrow said:

Rams vs Patriots

Patriots beat the Rams to begin their dynasty, and it's the young upstart team led by the young QB against the greatest QB and a dynasty. Can the new guard take down the measuring stick? Can the old lions defeat the young lions, and keep control of the pack?

I share this matchup and reasoning.

Most desirable to least for me:
LA/NE
NO/NE
LA/KC
NO/KC

[Mecca]

If the Saints win the NFC...the Chiefs get the best story because it's basically Patrick Mahomes dethroning 2 HOFers in route to taking the torch of the league.

[cabbageboy]

Is it possible to want a match up that isn't the best storyline? I actually want Saints/Chiefs since it is the freshest but the best actual storyline is Pats/Rams with the Rams hopefully destroying them the way the should have in the 2001 season. The least desirable to me is a Chiefs/Rams rematch. I didn't really like the first game though I'm probably in the minority. To me a 54-51 NFL game is a joke. It was like watching a wacky Big 12 game instead of serious pros.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

Patriots vs. Saints. Battle of the legends. One gets one more. A last hurrah for legend and coach.

Flag on the moon. How did it get there?

[OGBoardPoster2005]

Rams/Patriots

Because Super Bowl 36 still haunts me and the fact that the game would be played on the 17th anniversary of that game in the city where we won our last Super Bowl is a huge deal and a shot that I'll never see again.

[Mecca]

From yahoo...

sports.yahoo.com/nfl-needs-kansas-city-chiefs-135554717.html

The NFL needs the Kansas City Chiefs to win the Super Bowl
[The Loop]
Shane Ryan

Let me be the first to admit that after a lifetime of watching professional football, including a couple very fanatical years coinciding with my New York Giants winning a pair of Super Bowls against the devil, the league has faded from my interest recently. It has nothing to do with politics, and everything to do with life, but clearly I'm not alone—despite being the most popular sports league in America by a good amount, the NFL's reputation has dipped in recent years for reasons as diverse as the CTE scandals, political fury (from both sides), and quality of play.

However, this has been a rebound year for the league in a few key ways. The games have been more fun, the story lines are better, and ratings shot up by five percent overall (and a whopping eight percent on ESPN's Monday Night Football). This has coincided with college football's devolution into predictable boredom, and the NFL—which has always boasted an unpredictable postseason—stands out by contrast. In addition, there's been a wealth of surprising new stars. All in all, Roger Goodell seems to have stumbled out of his own shadow, and whether he deserves it or not, the 2018-19 season has been a boon.

A year like this deserves a fitting ending, and there's no more appropriate Super Bowl champion than the ultra-enjoyable Kansas City Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes has become the exciting young face of the league in one season, the offense is explosive—as it proved against the red-hot Colts in a stunning first quarter on Saturday—and the Andy Reid Redemption Arc would be incredibly satisfying after a lifetime of mockery for his crunch-time decisions. Not to mention the fans: It's been 50 years since the Chiefs won Super Bowl IV, and the intervening years have been so routinely heartbreaking that you can make a depressingly long list just from the kicking woes.

The champion the NFL does not need is the New England Patriots—an aging but still dangerous relic of the bad old days. The Patriots are everything that should be left in the past: A grim, hostile group of serial cheaters endowed with the world's foremost superiority complex, worshipped by a smug, spoiled fan base whose brains have been addled by pervasive tribal groupthink that promotes hyper-aggressive hero worship and—when met with the slightest criticism—a hasty retreat into conspiratorial posturing. It would be beyond dispiriting to see them win another Super Bowl.

The Chiefs have been a breath of fresh air in a year that has been propelled by the winds of change. The NFL's problems are not over, but a Chiefs victory would be a stylish finish to a league on the rebound, and a symbolic clearing of the cobwebs to usher in a better, more exciting era.

[AdamAFL was sooooo wrong]

Literally every match up appeals to me. I think KC vs. NO will be the best on field match as I genuinely believe they are both the two best and simultaneously most entertaining teams in the league. Rams vs. Pats has the best storyline, 20 years in the making. NE vs. NO has two of the greatest QBs of their generation taking each other on in what may be both men's last ever SB appearances. And Chiefs vs. Rams is kinda the opposite with two of the biggest QBs of the upcoming generation (although I'm still not sold on Goff) repeating their classic clash from earlier this season.

[Deleted]

KC-NO. Best QB matchup (in my eyes). And I'm a Drew Brees guy.

We've had more men land on the moon since the Chiefs were last in a Super Bowl. Think about that one.

[Cyno]

Storyline-wise, Rams vs Pats would be the best matchup given how SB36 went down. Especially since a lot of Rams fans and former players still think something fishy happened in that game.

Game-wise, I want Chiefs vs Saints. Two #1 seeds with prolific offenses. And we already saw Rams vs. Chiefs.

[Duke Cameron]

Rams/Chiefs

[arrogantmodel]

They all have stories. I'd love for Brees to drop like 50 on the Pats myself and watch them lose back to back Super Bowls. I would also like to see Mahomes or Goff go Austin 3:16 on Brees and Brady. "You ain't got what it takes anymore, old man!"

But I can see the young guns with the Rams and Chiefs. Either Sean McVay proves that he's the real deal, or Andy Reid finally gets the monkey off his back.

But bottom line...anybody but New England.