It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again everybody and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the BetRivers Network.

As we come to you on what is the last football Friday of the year, uh, as we get ready to see who is going to win a Super Bowl that has not, in my estimation, in any way, garnered the attention or impressed the nation.

I looked at the ticket prices.

They're going down a little bit, but most years they do.

It's the odd game in a certain city where it goes up,

or if you have certain teams, it goes up.

You know, the team that has been the most dramatic through the years, the giants.

I mean, the giants really escalate tickets prices because

new yorkers and wall street and madison avenue are never afraid to pay big money for tickets

when they've been there now they haven't been there in a long time um but that's really the case

uh also going to san francisco is a long trip and it's an expensive one.

So going to Super Bowl now isn't for the average family.

It's now become a very expensive proposition all the way around.

These teams earned it.

I know people are disparaging the paths based on their schedule. They can only play who they played and they were able to win the games, even though they have been anything but impressive

offensively in the postseason. Yes, Seattle played a much tougher schedule. There's no question

about that. And Seattle has been a team that I think has not gotten accredited deserves this year.

I thought the Rams would get to the Super Bowl.

I thought the Rams would win last week.

This team beat the Rams twice.

And not only that, winning these two big, dramatic, exciting games against the Rams and realized

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