Super Bowl Sunday. America’s “Big Game”. And it usually turns into a big fest for rednecks nationwide to go all “‘mur-a-kin” for their beloved (read: overrated) NFL. Don’t get me wrong. I like football. Casually interested, is what I’d call me. But it’s NOT the best game. It’s among the easiest to understand (”them boys is gotta take that pigskin and get it over that there goal line to get points”), and it revels in good ol’ fashioned blood and violence, making it the choice of a large percentage of the population. Nothing wrong with that, it’s just overrated. Oh, and we love the blood and violence and macho showboating, but for Supreme Being’s sakes don’t you DARE partially expose a breast for 1/100th of a second. But that’s another story.
On this day, I get a big kick out of a bunch of guys getting their jersies (made in China) out of their Mexican-built dryers, hopping into their Canadian-built pickups, driving thanks to their Middle Eastern fuel, putting on the “made in Taiwan” Orange County Chopper $9 sunglasses, heading to WalMart (where everything except the food is also made in China), buying a couple of frozen pizzas (made in America, created in Italy) and some chips and salsa (Mexican heritage), heading home to plop down on their Hong Kong-built sofa, turn on the Japanese TV, and find the network created by the Australian.
All for a good ‘ol game of “‘mur-a-kin” football. The only thing American about the game is the actual game (again…overrated) and the beer (equally overrated), two things that combine to dumb down the country.
But the commercials are awesome.
5 responses so far ↓
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Anon E. Mouse
// Feb 5, 2008 at 10:27 am
You make fun of the “blood and violence” of football, where padded and helmeted men crash into each other but think bare-knuckles brawling in hockey is OK.
Hypocrite!
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bjstone
// Feb 5, 2008 at 10:37 am
No, I did NOT “make fun” of blood and violence. Do you ever actually read what anyone writes? In COMPARISON, I said we allow the blood and violence, but we get indignant and go all apecrap when a partially exposed breast is shown that only three people actually see without having to replay it in super slow motion.
Read first, then comment, okay?
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reno
// Feb 5, 2008 at 1:36 pm
*clap*clap*clap*
The bellicose “patriotism” IS funny to watch, isn’t it?
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Cory
// Feb 7, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I didn’t go apecrap when the breast was exposed. And the nipple really isn’t even visible because of the jewelry she was wearing on it.
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bjstone
// Feb 7, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Reno, it is indeed a blast when people go all “vonster” up in here.
Cory, you’re a smart man. It was NOT an exposed breast, as you correctly point out.
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