This Sunday, football fans will choose sides in Super Bowl 56 between the Cincinatti Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams. But while much of the country is preoccupied with football and a smorgasbord of cream cheese-based dips, many others will spend the day rooting for another team: the owls.
“There are the Super Bowl watchers among us, and then there are the superb owl watchers among us,” Ryan Mandelbaum, a science writer and bird enjoyer, told NPR.
If you haven’t already figured out the joke, tack the “B” from “Bowl” onto the end of “Super” and you get “Superb Owl”.
For birding enthusiasts like Mandelbaum, Superb Owl Sunday is a sacred day, a chance to appreciate the majestic creature by posting owl pics on social media en masse.
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