The editorial board here at 1 Scaianalysis Esplanade can only provide so many pick-me-ups.

But the CDC isn’t helping. We’ve all got cabin fever, so I understand calls to not host Super Bowl parties. Loyal Scaiaholics will recall we’re so close to the end of this whole COVID story arc, so if we skip this year’s Super Bowl, we can really let ‘er rip next year.

The CDC, however, not only recommends staying home Sunday, but also do not cheer.

Maybe you could stomp, the CDC explains. Did you even consider stomping?!

I discussed this issue with the head of an organization that responds to biohazard situations and provides training.

She recommends staying home, but maybe the CDC’s ban on cheering won’t hold up.

Loyal Scaiaholics will recall how I’m holding the Dallas Cowboys accountable by testing their home delivery of the concessions stands.

Her company has worked with the Cowboys on, perhaps, a more substantial scale to ensure AT&T Stadium, while only opening to 25% capacity, would not become a “super spreader.”

But the CDC doesn’t want us cheering. It’s okay. The game’s already been decided, anyway.

At the Fort Worth Zoo, Bubbles the hippopotamus has declared, adorably, the Kansas City Chiefs will take the game Sunday.

The zoo sent this picture, explaining that Bubbles, at 9 feet long and 2,600 pounds, is 1,250 pounds heavier than the Chiefs’ entire offensive line.

For those wagering, however, the Fort Worth Zoo discloses its animal has chosen the loser six years in a row. Bubbles took her time, too. The zoo reports she needed half an hour to decide which helmet [adorned with honey and apple slices] to swim toward.

The Dallas Zoo, meanwhile, was featuring frozen treats for the lion cubs. The sent #adorbs footage of the lions inspecting both cakes before choosing Kansas City as well.

Here’s a recipe from the Dallas Zoo you can try at home: Jell-O, chicken broth and evaporated milk.

The animals may agree on Kansas City, but they haven’t been perfect. I found this experience at the Dallas Zoo memorable when the Texas Rangers were in the World Series back in 2011.

The pony in the background declared the Rangers would win by eating from their bale of hay. A goat was then brought out for some reason. The goat didn’t eat anything, but it defecated on the St. Louis Cardinals’ bale of hay.

In retrospect, the goat was probably trying to warn us the Rangers would get one strike away, twice, before things went gunny sack.