Kieran Shannon: What if the NFL was run along State lines?
MVP: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes holds the trophy after their win against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl. Pic: AP Photo/Matt Slocum
Although to a kid you could describe the Super Bowl as sort of like an All Ireland, it wouldn’t take them long to tell you how the two events differ more than they’re alike.
John Kiely doesn’t have to keep his men in a dressing room for half an hour simply because the biggest game of their year happens to be something either side of a Rihanna concert. Nor has the NFL’s greatest showpiece a fixed abode like Croke Park; this year it was Arizona, next year the party rolls into Vegas.
