A Superbowl rationale

Pats win 13 to 3 lowest scoring game ever.  Hey, a win is a win. Until the 4th quarter it was like a baseball game. If it stayed 3 to zip it is still a win that is all that matters and it was an amazing defensive superlative.

Such mixed emotions I had throughout the game but in the end I actually cried.  The rationale for the sports enthusiasm for all things Boston is that it has to do, I think, in large part from where one was born or the state with which one identifies. For me my dad transmitted his Red Sox uber love and it transferred to me. 

I am a northeast person and Boston is in my bones. I just love the city, I love the politics of the state and from a child I wore a Red Sox uniform. As an adult I love the Pats as much. It is just plain fun when they win and heart break, for me, when they do not. It's hard to explain my own explanation of my allegiance but it is there and will be always.

One bit of political caveat of sadness: the fact that Kraft puts his arms around Trump I try to eradicate that from my Patriots euphoric brain!  

Mitch McConnell reportedly linked to Putin, Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska and Russian companies

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/28/1830431/-Mitch-McConnell-now-tied-to-Putin-Oleg-Deripaska-and-Russian-companies-after-lifting-sanctions?detail=emaildkre

Excerpt:

Monday evening brought a new twist. It was discovered that one of Mitch McConnell’s major donors, Len Blavatnik, who is tied to Vladimir Putin and other Russian oligarchs, benefited when Trump and McConnell lifted Russian sanctions on Sunday.

Blavatnik contributed a total of $3.5 million to a PAC associated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Blavatnik contributed $1.5 million to the GOP Senate Leadership Fund PAC in the name of Access Industries and another $1 million in the name of AI-Altep Holdings during the 2015/2016 election season. And as of September 2017, he had contributed another $1 million this year through AI–Altep.

Blavatnik, whose family emigrated to the U.S. in the late 1970s, is a longtime business associate of Russian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, both of whom have ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Along with McConnell, Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham received hefty sums from Blavatnik as well.