Welcome to Bad Takes Week, where MMQB staffers have been asked to expand upon some of their worst football takes. Keep an eye out for more of these throughout the week, and every story is posted here.
Every year, when an NFL team wins the Super Bowl—regardless of the team, its makeup, its franchise location or the locations of all other franchises—it is crowned WORLD CHAMPION. Cue the laugh track. Expect the eye rolls. Then prepare for the debates. Start with what constitutes, well, the world?
Anyone who disdains the application of that particular phrase to the latest professional football champion has an easy argument to make. Each of the 32 NFL franchises is based, of course, in the United States. Duh. Debate over.
