The Boston Globe: John Lewis loses Super Bowl bet to Seth Moulton

One is among the longest-serving current members of the US House of Representatives, an icon of the civil rights movement, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

The other is a Patriots fan.

But John Lewis and Seth Moulton have more in common than just blistering rhetoric aimed at President Trump. Both Democratic congressmen follow their districts’ native football teams, Lewis the recently dispatched Atlanta Falcons and Moulton the five-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, who executed the greatest comeback in championship history on Sunday. (Trump, incidentally, is also a Pats fan, as has been discussed ad nauseam.)

Last week, Moulton challenged Lewis via Twitter to a wager on the game’s outcome. At stake, a “day of service” in the victor’s district. “Challenge accepted,” Lewis tweeted back.

Pretty nervy for a second-term congressman. But Moulton has the benefit of hailing from a region whose team overcomes 25-point leads rather than chokes on them.

“It did cross my mind that I could be spending a day down in Atlanta,” Moulton said Tuesday of the nerve-fraying game. He added, “I would never claim to be going toe to toe with John Lewis, but this is a bet about service and there is nobody who exemplifies service more than John Lewis.”

Moulton said he does not know Lewis well, though they have worked together on some issues. He said his office had already received extensive outreach from organizations within his district and that details are still being ironed out.

“They all want him to host John Lewis,” Moulton said. “They don’t care about me.”

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