Doesn't matter if you schedule your life around the Super Bowl, or if you barely even notice when it happens. You're going to love this either way.
Actors Chris Evans and Chris Pratt — best known to moviegoers as Marvel's Captain America and Star-Lord — have placed a friendly wager on Super Bowl XLIX. When the New England Patriots go up against the Seattle Seahawks in the biggest football game of the year, Evans and Pratt will be rooting for opposing teams. Evans, it seems, is a hardcore Patriots fan, while Pratt is a diehard Seahawks guy.
When the two actors engaged in a playful Twitter fight, it ended with a bet placed on the winner of the big game. Both men are well-known supporters and activists for children's hospitals, so the stakes they settled on sends the loser to visit sick kids at the other's favorite hospital. And the kicker is that they have to do it in costume as their on-screen superhero.
Pratt favors the Seattle Children's Hospital, while Evans supports Christopher's Haven in Boston, a home for young cancer patients. So should the Patriots win, Pratt has to visit Christopher's Haven as Star-Lord, aka Peter Quill from Guardians of the Galaxy. And if the Seahawks prevail, Evans must travel to the Seattle Children's Hospital in his full Captain America garb.
Check out the back-and-forth exchange below. The hashtags might be the best part. Or it might be when Pratt casually slips in a dig at the Patriots' "DeflateGate" scandal.
Well, well, well @prattprattpratt, looks like our teams are going into battle. For the next 2 weeks, you are not my friend, you are my enemy
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) January 19, 2015
@ChrisEvans We both know there's only one Captain America and his name is Russell Wilson. #SuperBowlBound #LOB #Repeat — chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) January 19, 2015
@prattprattpratt them's fightin words. Stakes? #whatisaseahawkanyway #somethingtombradyhunts
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) January 19, 2015
@ChrisEvans OK. Seahawks win you fly yourself to Seattle, visit @seattlechildren hospital as Captain America, waving the 12th man flag. — chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) January 21, 2015
@prattprattpratt I accept. And when the Patriots humiliate your seachickens, I expect Star-Lord to arrive at @chris_haven in a Brady jersey
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) January 21, 2015
@ChrisEvans Humiliate my Seahawks? Maybe talk to Brady about deflating your expectations. BOOM! (legion of) You're on sucka. — chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) January 21, 2015
No matter which team wins the Super Bowl, it's deserving children who will win. That's a game we can all get behind.
