On February 4, 2018, U.S. time, the Rockets ended their big win in Cleveland and rushed to New York in advance to prepare for an away game against the Brooklyn Nets.

After three days, the opponent can only be said to be weak, struggling in the eastern lotto area, so the Rockets are in a relaxed mood, just have a physical training session in the morning, and have an early holiday in the afternoon, allowing all the players to move freely.

In fact, not only the Rockets, but all NBA teams today have all been scheduled for the afternoon even if they have game tasks, just to finish the game early, give the players a holiday and rest, and also make room for the broadcast signal, and the prime time on the evening of February 4 will be reserved for the much-anticipated Super Bowl finals of the 52nd NFL of the American Football League!

It is an annual sports event known as the "Spring Festival Gala" of the American people.

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"Yang, where are you going to watch the Super Bowl in a moment?" Just after training, Yang Yiming received a call from Meritis on his mobile phone.

Meritis is the beautiful manager of the team, responsible for arranging all kinds of chores of the team from big to small, and she is indispensable for her thoughts. Blonde and blue-eyed, with a good face, she is one of the earliest Americans Yang Yiming knew, but half a year ago, he probably wouldn't have thought that he and she would be familiar with each other from the Halloween party, and finally fell in love with each other, and at this time they were already lovers.

"It's going to be a Super Bowl for a while... Just now, it seems that some players said that they want to use the hotel's audio-visual room to buy some food and drink to watch together. Yang Yiming is still a little unaccustomed to the relationship between the two. He covered the phone with his hand, also for fear that his teammates around him would overhear it, and their relationship was still a secret in the team for the time being.

Although the last time he was in Houston's riverside green, he confided in a friend because of a fight with Blake-Griffin Field, and finally made out with Meritis intentionally or unintentionally, but he obviously hasn't touched the door to love yet. The two usually send messages to each other every day, but every time he calls, he is always a little uncomfortable.

"That's not bad!" Meritis on the other end of the phone was always smiling, "Houston also gave us an early afternoon holiday today, and I made an appointment with a few girlfriends to go to the bar to watch the game later." ”

"Well, that's pretty good... That's great! ”

Maybe it's just the language. When Yang Yiming made a phone call, he always felt that it was better to be careful with every word like sending a message, and he could write the meaning of "lover".

Perhaps he didn't know enough about Meritis.

After all, most of the time they know each other are as colleagues, and when they meet away games, they will get together less and leave more.

"Take some pictures of me when you go to the bar and tell me about the game." Yang Yiming tried to come up with a topic for the two to talk about.

"Okay." Meritis agreed cheerfully, in a cheerful tone, "But I think you're good at basketball, and you'll understand it when you look at football." ”

"Haha, okay." Meritis's American-style optimism is indeed infectious, and Yang Yiming laughed as well, saying, "But I haven't even figured out which team to support." ”

"I support the Philadelphia Eagles, and I love stories of the weak beating the strong. Otherwise, you can support the Eagles with me. ”

"Good!"

Philadelphia Eagles, it's you!

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The Philadelphia Eagles play against the New England Patriots.

Starts sharply at 7:30 p.m. local time in the United States.

About half of the Houston Rockets players stayed in the hotel to watch the game together, led by Eric Gordon and Nene team, Gerald Green, Bamot, Yang Yiming were also among them, and Zhou Qi, who had just played a game, sat with Yu Xiaochun, who is now also working part-time as Zhou Qi's translator.

Although there are not many people, there are a lot of food in the room, not only exquisite snacks and non-alcoholic drinks prepared by the hotel, but also a takeaway of a pizza in Brooklyn and a barrel of craft beer. The food in the room is fragrant, which makes people's appetite move, and a bunch of NBA players have also become fans with clear camps at the moment, wearing all kinds of fan equipment, and the noisy scene of crowds is really a bit of a family Spring Festival Gala.

Yu Xiaochun was squeezed between Yang Yiming and Zhou Qi, two big men, as a "person who has come over" who once studied in the United States and still had some contact with rugby, he was treated as an expert at the moment, and all questions had to be answered one by one.

However, compared to his erudition in basketball, Yu Xiaochun really only knows a little about American football. He can explain the basic rules, but if he wants to go deeper into the tactics and the staffing on the field, it will be difficult for him.

But the charm of the Super Bowl lies precisely in the fact that both rugby fanatics and laymen can see their own taste.

Either Caesar or nothing.

One will be successful, and ten thousand bones will wither. If from an aesthetic and sociological point of view, the game of rugby is more like a war of civilized societies than the game of basketball. In this war, there are players who wear steel helmets and are heavily armed, and their bodies are deliberately shaped into inverted triangles to highlight their masculine charm. They have a clear division of labor, some defend and some surprise attacks, some are born as unknown cannon fodder, and some people hold the moon in the stars, scolding Fang Yu after a quarter of a yard, and strategizing.

But only if all of them work together, like an army, to regain all the land, foot by foot, and score touchdowns, can the battle be won.

The accumulation of battles is the only way to win the war for one side.

It's really too different from a basketball game where individual ability is maximized.

And just like in the wars of the Cold Weapon Age, the victorious side can loot the most lucrative spoils.

Fame, historical status, wealth, beauty.

All the treasures are laid out there naked, tempting the bravest of warriors.

The glittering Vince Lombardi Cup, waiting to be engraved with the name of the champion.

Tom Brady, the legendary football quarterback who has almost locked in the best football quarterback of all time, is fighting the court to chase points, the camera sweeps over the VIP audience, and a generation of supermodel Gisse Bundchen is holding their children, willing to marry and raise children, and be a model mother.

Justin Timberlake returned to the stage of the Super Bowl halftime show, and this time Boss Jia sang and danced vigorously and did not forget to dress himself and the dancers in strict camouflage, probably really afraid of a repeat of the dew point accident eleven years ago.

Fruit sisters, Lady Gaga, and Mike Jackson, who have appeared on stage before him, all regard it as one of the highest honors to please the national audience at the Super Bowl halftime show, and Boss Jia certainly doesn't want to mess it up.

Waiting to give away a lot of gold dollars in the rest time is the greatest corporation on earth.

Google, Apple, Amazon, Mercedes, Toyota, BMW, Nike, Adidas, Coca-Cola, Gatorade.

Banking and insurance giants.

Oligarchs in the daily chemical industry.

Video social networking sites and internet upstarts.

Superhero movies to be staged in the next season.

Everyone lined up, racking their brains for those few seconds of exit time, waving green bills and screaming: "Take my money!" ”

What a frenzied attraction, what a terrifying and unshakable business empire.

The Super Bowl game was magnificent, the unfavored Hawks took the lead at the beginning, but in the second half they were gradually eroded by the New England Patriots, and the Patriots even achieved a one-point overtake at the beginning of the fourth quarter, and it seemed that the director was going to catch up again. But the Eagles withstood the pressure, scored a flying touchdown, and regained the lead.

As the Patriots legend Brady was tackled by the Eagles' defensive group, the scales were completely tilted in favor of the weak, and Yu Xiaochun, who was watching the game, felt that his heart was about to jump out of his throat.

The king has ascended to the throne, and the king has fallen.

The time has come to establish a new order in this world.

The dawn of the empire, which he and the people around him have taken over, seems to be lighting up too!