Los Angeles Rams: Peter King won’t be the last to fall for Patriots and Brady mystique

Expect a few in the media to fall for the Patriots mystique and bail on the Los Angeles Rams.

It didn’t take long for someone in the sports media to backtrack from an earlier pick. Peter King, the guy behind Football Morning In America, waxed poetic in his revised pick for Super Bowl LIII when asked about the Los Angeles Rams and the New England Patriots.

"“I have gotten religion for about the 98th time in my career about the New England Patriots, in that I’m just following the mantra of any smart person in the United States: I’m not picking against Tom Brady. I’m just not doing it.”"

This won’t be the last big time prognosticator / analyst type to walk back a pick that cuts against the grain that is the Patriots. As the week ramps up to Super Bowl Sunday, expect a lot more to fall under the mystique that is Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, and the legend that is New England.

I get it.

Five Lombardi Trophies will inspire the quick switch. But the Rams are a team who will fool you with their youth, then burn you between the lines. As smart as King is, he’s fallen for the facade of a team from a bad division, on the other side of such youth, and ripe for a tumble.

He even picks Brady to win the MVP for the “73rd time in a Super Bowl.”

Such a fanboy is King.

While he does like an aerial show on Sunday, he also said he expects Rams quarterback Jared Goff and Brady to go toe-to-toe.

It’s hard to not laugh a bit at King. He won’t be the first or the last to swoon over the Patriots and Tommy Terrific. Next to the Dallas Cowboys, no other two teams in the National Football League make the collective media lose their breath. I mean in a perfect media driven world, it would be the Cowboys and the Patriots on Sunday.

Too bad they only ended up with the best team in the NFC and maybe the second best from the AFC. Better luck next year.