And here I thought I'd gotten through Sunday with minimal hatred

[krinndnz]

I am, in fact, the kind of person who despises professional sports in their current form, and the Super Bowl in particular. However, most of the time I keep a lid on it in order to be civil. Yesterday was reasonably nice, and I was blissfully working on other things without being forced to think about overpaid 'roid-head modern gladiators

Comments

[conrad_zaar]

Is it the slowest news day in the world, or something?

[conrad_zaar]

Anonymous explanation: The source in question, The Press Democrat, is based in commuter-town suburbia and all around boring location Rohnert Park, CA. For them, every day is a slow news day.

[krinndnz]

I probably should have included that bit of context. Thanks for the backup.

Rohnert Park is kind of aggressively bland and whitebread. Not a community I'm fond of.

[postrodent]

If _100 million_ Americans were watching the Super Bowl, doesn't that make the other 200 million Americans the majority and the football nerds the weirdo Other minority? Why do they get to dictate the terms of the narrative? Sorry, stupid question -- because most of them are white males. :>

[rax]

It's a failure at coalition-building.

cynical snarl

[krinndnz]

And a success of money-making.

[relee]

Wha? Buh? Huh?

Did someone change the location of your link? I don't get how this article could possibly give you that feeling.

It's an article about how awesome it is to be one of the two thirds of americans not watching 'the big game' and how relaxing it is with all the knuckleheads stuck in holes glued to t.v. sets or herded into a single massive arena.

I mean, it even used that figure, only one in three are watching it, how does that make you a freak when you're part of the majority? o.o

[krinndnz]

It's the implicit assumptions in the piece. I resent that the Super Bowl, a manufactured spectacle and a vile thing, is treated as normal, and people who don't bloody care about it are the abnormal things, worth scribing a newspaper article about. Despite, as you note, that we're two-thirds of the country.

[baxil]

Part of this is inevitable due to the fact you're looking at a local newspaper's story about the Super Bowl. Unless a local newspaper happens to be close enough to cover the game itself, the only possible story they can write is "how the Super Bowl affects our readership," and there are exactly two permutations of that narrative

[krinndnz]

This is very relevant, and makes me more charitably inclined towards the writer. I should've known that you'd have Relevant Facts. Thanks, dragon.

IT HURTS IT HURTS

[pope_guilty]

But with about one in three Americans watching the Super Bowl, this Sunday was an exception.

For those who did venture out, they got to experience what it would be like if Sonoma County had about one-third its current population - or about 155,000 people.

But with about one in three Americans watching the Super Bowl, this Sunday was an exception.

For those who did venture out, they got to experience what it would be like if Sonoma County had about one-third its current population - or about 155,000 people.

one in three Americans

one-third its current population

owch

[krinndnz]

Good catch - I missed that the first time.

[two_pi_r]

I refer to it as the "stupor bowl" in front of obvious football fans, who I try not to hang out with anyway. Recently, I have also been referring to the relevant sport as "handegg", but that's less original.

[krinndnz]

Hah! I'd nearly forgotten about the handegg joke. I usually deal with the distinction by referring to association football as "footie."