SportsWorld: Praetorian

A Story by Abishai100

A trio of college-grads prepare for the Super Bowl matchup of "Praetorian" dimension for a social-media 'flowery' for this human race.

A Super Bowl anticipation vignette inspired by Any Given Sunday (Oliver Stone).

DISCLAIMER: This work of sports-media/'fanfiction' offers no commercial/legal ties to the Eagles/Chiefs or to the respective hometown-cities (Philadelphia/Kansas-City) and all images/references used herein therefore comprise a purely 'personal' exercise in social culture commentary (open for any city translations!).

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AMLAN: Let's anticipate this chess-IQ between Eagles-Chiefs for Super Bowl Sunday as East-West media.

EZZY: Since we're Ivy-grads of Philly, we'll create Philly-KC media for cool movie-fans.

MARCUS: This is fun, and it's the age of cyber-networks/chats, so we'll be like Praetorians (ha).

Amlan and Ezzy and Marcus were U-Penn grads living in Philly and anticipating the touted Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl (2023) matchup featuring the best teams from the Eastern and Western coasts of the modern United States (wow). The Eagles had already captured their first-ever title against the Patriots in Super Bowl LII, and the Chiefs had defeated the 49ers to capture the title in 2020. The Eagles boasted a new QB and the Chiefs boasted their veteran-star, and Amlan/Ezzy/Marcus made cyber-recreations on Madden-platforms for their friends from neighboring Penn-State as Sunday the 12th approached fast in the new millennium.

AMLAN: I've this 'fantastic' Montana-Chiefs QB card-memento for 'Praetorian' chess-media.

EZZY: The Eagles-Chiefs are a great matchup for symbolism on varied levels for Philly!

MARCUS: The Montana-Chiefs card is a 'gem' for those toasting sports-dynasty.

Philly as we know is the home of the very nice auto-show and though it's not Detroit, it's the place of Brotherly Love, cheesesteaks, cream-cheese, and great schools (UPenn/Penn-State) and Amlan/Ezzy/Marcus planned an auto-show visit this year to make a Christine (Stephen King) adapted horror-lore tale about haunted street-cards of city-lights superstitions (if the Eagles managed to win this year!).

AMLAN: The Chiefs boast some of the finest cheerleaders in America, folks.

EZZY: True, but Eagles fans are the supreme in the 'dominion' of city-cheers.

MARCUS: Whoever wins, it'll be 'good' social-media for sports-night dinner-chats (online).

On the campus of neighboring 'rival' school Penn-State, the Eagles fans prepared to hopefully see their hometown team see their bright season of great wins and dominant performance culminate in this anticipated Super Bowl with an 'academic' cheering of 'Praetorian'-chess (ha).

AMLAN: I'll treat us to some butter-milkshakes at Friendly's after Eagles celebrate.

EZZY: Cool; I'll bring my iPhone for social-media 'pokes' for area fans doing same.

MARCUS: I anticipate a 30-26 victory in Philly prompting 'Praetorian' Ego.

AMLAN: That's the mark of social-media culture (now) --- 'shared' hospitality.

Well, the Eagles marched into the Super Bowl field with great vigor, and our protagonist 'SportsWorld-Praetorians' were on-hand and in the arena to cheer and see if their team had the 'right-stuff' for fans/TV, and as Philly went into Halftime with a 5-point lead, Ezzy told her two U-Penn companions, "I knew this would be an 'era' of great city-docs" (for chess)."