{"id":356189,"date":"2026-03-20T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356189\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:49:10","slug":"frank-roche-the-ups-downs-and-existential-trauma-of-nfls-super-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/356189\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Roche: The ups, downs and existential trauma of NFL\u2019s \u2018Super Sunday\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWho actually wants a Division 1 final? Why does Division 2 matter so much more? And for whom does the bell of the Tailteann Cup tolls?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Donegal manager Jim McGuinness, left, and Kerry manager Jack O'Connor. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dd2a9d75-3721-4399-8952-94fae7725eb3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Donegal manager Jim McGuinness, left, and Kerry manager Jack O&#8217;Connor. Photo: Ramsey Cardy\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u2018Super Sunday\u2019, the last day of the National Football League, is upon us. A smorgasbord of plot twists, wild entertainment and \u2013 if you\u2019ll allow us a pinch of hyperbole \u2013 some existential trauma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">All that, and we haven\u2019t broached the confusion that will run rampant for a few roller-coaster hours. To lessen your bewilderment, here\u2019s a quick explainer \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who actually wants a Division 1 final? Why does Division 2 matter so much more? And for whom&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109956,7070,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-356189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allianz-football-league","tag-frank-roche","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}