Nola vs. NOLA: Who ya got?

Is Aaron Nola better than the host city for Super Bowl LIX? Photo by Luke Hales/Getty ImagesThe Eagles are back in the Super Bowl! Two years ago, I did a baseball-related comparison of the cities of Philadelphia and Kansas City and was planning to do the same this year...only to end up with a rematch of that matchup. To be fair, this is probably preferable to going up against Buffalo which hasn’t had anything resembling a major league team since the Federal League folded in 1915 and took the Buffalo Blues with it.

While I may still run a Philadelphia vs. Kansas City redux later in the week, I sought out an alternative way to somehow tie the Phillies into this weekend’s big game. And then it…