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Jilly_in_VA

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Sat Feb 12, 2022, 02:59 PM Feb 2022

The Superb Owl is back, and the crowd goes wild

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.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/11/1080119057/superbowl-superb-owl-super-bowl-sunday
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We hear them A LOT here, but rarely see them.

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The Superb Owl is back, and the crowd goes wild (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Feb 2022 OP
There was an episode of What We Do in the Shadows about this. Coventina Feb 2022 #1
hmmm Kali Feb 2022 #2
best on the colbert report. pansypoo53219 Feb 2022 #3
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