Look, I'm not going to lie to you: I spent most of the Super Bowl yesterday at a poker table with my back turned to the TV screen. And as we arrived late to the Super Bowl party we attended, I missed the stirring video of NFL players, armed service members, and Pat Tillman's widow, Marie, reciting America's founding document in the pregame show. It's about six minutes long, but worth it. Show it to the kids. Twice.

Now, I happen to be listening to the Dennis Miller Show (it's tape-delayed in L.A.), and Miller's producer, "Sal," is going on about how he didn't like the pre-game patriotism at all. He thought it was out of place at a football game and called it "paper-mache patriotism." No way...