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Is the Super Bowl good for America?
Beware sports fans. Today's game could give you a heart attack. Stay calm, though, and you might enjoy what has become America's biggest secular holiday -- complete with a generous spike in the sales of beer and snack food, and unbelievable amounts of money spent on advertising.
Will the Patriots finish a perfect season? Can the Giants pull of the upset? Is the Super Bowl good for America?
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For what it is worth...
Submitted on February 3rd, 2008 by BPDLove football. Cover it for a check... but today's game made me wretch in my mouth, so I don't have an overwhelming desire to talk about it. It's like reading a great mystery novel that seems to come from some maniac superbrain genius, only to find out the butler did it... like I just wasted the last year.
I would like to see the thoughts of the moderators and passionate political pundits on our governments insistence on poking their nose (and funds) into professional sports. Not that it's worth much, but I find it insulting that Spector doesn't have something better to do than question Roger Goodell (NFL Commissioner) on the tapes the Patriots had confiscated by the league earlier this season.
Really... I'm fairly certain every person that reads this can list 20 issues that would be better served with that time, effort, and financial commitment.
Football is, in fact, a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war!
Submitted on February 3rd, 2008 by BenIf Joel won't say it, I will!
You're right, Brad
Submitted on February 3rd, 2008 by JoelWe should be watching the 18-hour pregame show.
And that reflection? Tom Coughlin. I see how you'd get that mixed up.
Dude, if we're here on Super Bowl Sunday, we have issues
Submitted on February 3rd, 2008 by MonkeyBradWhere did you guys find a picture of the Super Bowl trophy with a reflection of John McCain in it? Is he supposed to be representative of the unhappy has-been retirees with busted bodies?
Seriously, I will watch the game. It will be about the 5th game of the season I've watched. The NFL puts on a good show, but it is hard for me to get past the fact that so many of the players are using/abusing steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Honestly, I think this is the 380 pound gorilla in the story of the broken bodies of the retirees.
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Submitted on February 3rd, 2008 by JoelI will watch today's game: It will be the only NFL game I watch this year.
It's not that I try to be a snob. Somewhere back in the 1990s, when the Chiefs lost a couple of heartbreaking first-round games -- when when the KU Jayhawks had similar early round flameouts in the NCAA -- I realized that far too much of my emotional energy was being spent on sports. So I don't pay that close attention most of the year, as a result. I don't want that heart attack alluded to above because, well, that would be a stupid way to die.
That said, take a look at the Harvey Araton piece above. A lot of NFL players leave the league broken, physically. Is our entertainment really worth that?