Not sure who I will be rooting for in the Superbowl which is almost a week away. I normally would root for a team located in the heartland of the country. Except, no way I would ever be rooting for the Green Bay Packers. The Cincinnati Bengals would ideally be the choice as a town from Ohio who likes their Chili on spaghetti noodles. If the Rams were still in St. Louis, I may have a problem with my Bengals choice. Rams are in LA and that is a tough pill to swallow rooting for anything out of that town. Sometimes it’s who you root for. I’m not this guy who changes teams and jerseys and roots for the player. Most of these sick people mentally are following the King, Lebron James. Changing the team jersey like putting on a clean pair of underwear every other day. I do follow and like the sub plots of these Superbowls. If the Rams win, it would be nice to see defensive safety Eric Weddle earn a ring. Weddle came out of retirement to fill in for Jordan Fuller of the Rams who suffered a season-ending injury versus the 49ers in regular season. Weddle like Superman went in the phone booth and has not missed a beat making impact plays after retiring in 2019, almost two years stepping away from the game.

The 37-year-old safety Eric Weddle says during retirement he stayed in football shape by keeping up with workouts & eating right. Weddle has coached his son’s football team and has spent quality time with family. In 2019, his last year in the NFL was with the Rams as LA did not even make the post-season that year. Weddle stayed in contact with head coach Sean McVay since hanging up the spikes at least for the first time. Weddle got the call just in time for the playoffs. In the first game, Weddle saw some game action versus the Cardinals in the wild card round where he was in on 19 snaps. In the second round of the playoffs, the Rams faced the Buccaneers and Weddle’s work load tripled as he was involved in 61 snaps and contributed 4 tackles. Last week in the NFC Championship, Weddle was the leading tackler versus the 49ers. Weddle had 9 tackles of which 4 of them were solo. Weddle’s big tackle came when he tackled 49ers running back Elijah Mitchell for a loss of one on second and one. Weddle said he lost some weight over retirement where most people would gain ten pounds or more. Weddle said losing some of the weight off his frame made his knees feel much better.

Eric Weddle has played 14 seasons in the NFL. Weddle gave his heart and soul to what was then the San Diego organization for 9 long seasons, to a horrible owner in Dean Spanos. This is the same owner who fined his dedicated safety all those years $10,000 dollars for staying on the field for one game to watch his daughter dance at half time. Spanos is the same owner who took the team out of San Diego and moved them to LA. The Chargers ownership during Weddle’s days could not figure out how to get a team to the Superbowl as they had somewhat of a solid foundation in place, but could not get a few additions to put those teams over the hump. Weddle would leave San Diego head to Baltimore, and play for the Ravens for three seasons. He then came back to the West coast to conclude at the time his career with the Rams.

Eric Weddle played in over 201 games of regular season and has 29 interceptions and 4 touchdowns on defense for his career. Weddle was selected to six Pro-Bowls. Weddle was a 2 x All Pro as well. Weddle has never played in the Superbowl. The Rams have never won a Superbowl at their LA home as St. Louis, the greatest show on turf team, won it all with Kurt Warner behind center back then. The Rams will be the second team in history to get to the Superbowl and play at their home stadium. Of course Tampa Tom Brady and his Buccaneers were the first ever playing a home game in the Superbowl. If the Rams do win the Superbowl, history will be made for their franchise. Besides Weddle’s amazing play on the field on short notice. Weddle can earn a ring and walk away into the sunset for good to end his great career for the 2nd time. Weddle would have the last laugh especially to his former team that shares the stadium and city with the Rams. The second fiddle to the Rams in the city of LA. The Chargers. The dozen or so Charger fans in the world could rejoice seeing one of their favorites win the big game as well. Chargers are on the rise like they have been before. Maybe seeing Weddle win a ring will change the evil ways that they run things over in Chargerland. Maybe the Chargers will not waste their talent they picked up in Justin Herbert and surround him with the additions they need to win their own Superbowl. Eric Weddle, win or lose, is like a Marvel superhero with a chiseled frame whose help is saving the Rams season that has been marked Superbowl or bust.