Is there anything sadder than viewing alone?

I have actually been sensible, and I have learnt from recent mistakes. Tonight is the SuperBowl, and I have every intention of sitting up to watch it, so I have booked a half-day off work tomorrow. The match and its aftershow will finish about 3.30, so I can be in bed by 4 and still get the equivalent of a good nights sleep before rising at lunchtime to head in for a 2 - 8pm shift. 
I’m so well organised…
All I have to do now is drink and snack and enjoy (as much as you can enjoy a sports event that is based on being social when you’re completely on your own) and try to predict a winner. I’m pretty awful at this, and I’ve changed my mind hourly all week, and all the ‘experts’ seem at a loss as to what to expect, and it might all be scuppered by a moment of Donald Trump nuke-based madness, but working on the assumption that the match WILL go ahead…..
I’m supporting Atlanta, as they’ve never won before. I think it will be a high-scoring game. In fact - if I was working for the NFL website (which I’m not, incidentally) and I’d been asked to take part in their BOLD PREDICTIONS segment, I would say “For the first time in SuperBowl history, both teams will score 40+ points.” I think the Falcons have possibly the best, most innovative offence I have seen in my scope of limited viewing experience and limited knowledge, but I don’t think it’ll be enough. I think the Patriots will take it by virtue of keeping it close, making big defensive plays, and having the good sense of timing to finish with the ball at the end.
Final score: New England Patriots 34 Atlanta Falcons 31
But I’m well aware of the fact that posting all this amateur analysis is a risk. This time tomorrow, if it ends Atlanta 9-6 New England, I’m going to look like a bit of a twat.
(So what else is new?)

RC 5-2-17