Kottke discusses why the Patriots should lose the Superbowl, to avoid becoming boring and to embody the ennobling tragic flaw. I am not much of a football fan but, living in Boston this season, I have to play one. And I have been saying essentially the same thing kottke says. As the season has progressed I have become fond of tweaking the noses of the ‘real’ football fans I find myself among with scurrilous comments about how the games are not worth watching because the outcome has not really been in question.