Bowl Mirror(s): Dreamcatcher(s)

A Story by Abishai100

As the 'Super' Bowl begins, there's media-glitter, hype, energy...and 'real' heroics!

I'll sign off with a sports-story after all, in honor of tomorrow's Super Bowl (Rams-Bengals), a patriotic tale.

DISCLAIMER: I have no official ties/commercials with any listed team here and intend this to be purely a work-of-fiction for the purpose(s) of clear sociocultural diagram(s).

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The Super Bowl was underway, and the Rams would face the Bengals, and the field was LA, which would make this the first time the Rams had enjoyed home-field Super Bowl 'feelings' since the Ferragamo-era of Terry Bradshaw's Steelers. Both the Rams and Bengals boasted a free-wheeling swing-out sort of clumpish offensive options-play style, which would make the contest between their two nearly-identical styles rather elegant and competitive, albeit with the Rams boasting a slightly 'tighter' free-options playing method. The fans were excited for this year of crazy contending teams, all arguably with a chance to win the Bowl.

The Bengals' QB Burrow's style of commandeering the team's own style of free-wheeling options offense run-and-gun swing-out was quite unpredictably hard-to-handle, enabling the team to get past the tough playoff bracket/rungs of teams, and Burrow's confidence is quite clear.

The Rams QB Stafford transferred over from the Lions before taking the helm over his new team's unique free-wheeling style with forms of controlled and tightened zone-style focus. This might spell the right 'words' for upstaging the equally-competitive Bengals who boast a very similar style-of-play. Stafford is as confident as Burrow, but many argue he has 'what it takes' to bring the Rams back to Bowl heights.

SPORTS-WRITER: All teams had a chance to get here (honestly), but the Rams-Bengals matchup spells clear mirror-match!

Do you know how much money the Bowl generates for American sponsors/companies? Super Bowl ads generate more revenue than any other championship/tournament broadcast game in sports in the United States. This is way more money than any other game of any other sport! This is ironic, given that in the rest of the world, it's 'soccer' and not 'football' that dominates fanfare. Sports-marketing is all about brands and equipment flair and sponsors and spokesmen and models and products and of course amazing shoes for the consumer/athlete/fan.

SPORTS-WRITER: It's those 'dazzling' American cheerleaders for the Bowl that reflect the audience's spirit of design.

During Halftime, a bomb-threat is received by the executive office. Storm-Shadow, paramilitary operative of the covert unit known as 'GI Joes' is called in to marshal the dilemma. He suspects that this media-touted 'mirror-match' contest between the Rams and Bengals, right with Rams home-field spirit(s), has drawn in some kind of anti-American terrorist(s) with an 'eye' for in-game hellfire.

STORM-SHADOW: Both Stafford (Rams) and Burrow (Bengals) wear number-9 on their team jersey, and there's a dark omen!

As Storm-Shadow coordinates all the 'media jazz' surrounding this touted Rams-Bengals matchup for the great Bowl, he's thinking about all the consumerism 'money' that's generated this Wheel-of-Fortune we know as American football. It's drawn in many kinds of movie-stars, models, and fans who want to celebrate what makes the Bowl...an American magazine. There's just so many 'celebrities' out there who're to reflect the Bowl's media flair of dollars.

Storm-Shadow suspects the 'terrorist(s)' hid some nasty explosive somewhere on the playing-field and intends to set-it-off during the Bowl game itself, upsetting this otherwise 'cool #9' mirror-match rivalry axis between Stafford (Rams) and Burrow (Bengals). Storm-Shadow also suspects the terrorist may be inside the stadium, disguised as a Bengals fan! He decides to roam around the stadium crowd/stands claiming he's a 'foreign performer' showcasing Rams jewelry for buyers, to see which Bengals fan will be most annoyed! That's the 'fan' who's the terrorist. Storm-Shadow carries out this plan to find the bad-guy and does so with great swiftness as the 3rd period begins, with the Rams ahead 20-16. He's carrying serious imagination(s) and fear(s) in his calculating mind!