super bowl = crime against football fans
someone else said this, but i agree with it.
The Super Bowl is a crime against the people who make the NFL popular in the first place.
Think about it-the NFL is a multi-billion dollar corporation because football fans devote obscene amounts of time and dollars to watching, following, attending, celebrating, reading and arguing about football.
On Sunday, CBS's Super Bowl coverage starts at noon-more than six hours before the 6:25 p.m. (EST) kick-off. It includes a four-hour pre-game show, something called the Phil Simms All-Iron Team, and a performance by Cirque du Soleil. I'll say it again: A performance by Cirque du Soleil.
And that's all before the network subjects us to Simms' color commentary and a bombastic halftime gala featuring Prince and Beyoncé.
That's how the league rewards its fans for filling its coffers with ticket, merchandise and TV ad dollars-by holding its final game thousands of miles away from the competitors' cities, charging an obscene amount for tickets, and larding the game with thousands of fluffy extras designed to appeal to everyone except those of us who give a damn about football.
So am I going to watch Super Bowl XLI? Well, yeah. Of course. Don't be ridiculous.
The Super Bowl is a crime against the people who make the NFL popular in the first place.
Think about it-the NFL is a multi-billion dollar corporation because football fans devote obscene amounts of time and dollars to watching, following, attending, celebrating, reading and arguing about football.
On Sunday, CBS's Super Bowl coverage starts at noon-more than six hours before the 6:25 p.m. (EST) kick-off. It includes a four-hour pre-game show, something called the Phil Simms All-Iron Team, and a performance by Cirque du Soleil. I'll say it again: A performance by Cirque du Soleil.
And that's all before the network subjects us to Simms' color commentary and a bombastic halftime gala featuring Prince and Beyoncé.
That's how the league rewards its fans for filling its coffers with ticket, merchandise and TV ad dollars-by holding its final game thousands of miles away from the competitors' cities, charging an obscene amount for tickets, and larding the game with thousands of fluffy extras designed to appeal to everyone except those of us who give a damn about football.
So am I going to watch Super Bowl XLI? Well, yeah. Of course. Don't be ridiculous.