Another Year of Ignoring the Super Bowl;

I have said it before and I will say it again: The Super Bowl (in lower case from this spot onward) is a totally ludicrous event. I suppose that it might help the economy a bit, with all those Super Bowl parties, the beer and the junk food. Its main contribution to society though appears to be getting all of those huge, redneck SUVs off the road for at least a few hours.

Countless morons have bought themselves huge television sets just for ‘the big game”. That alone should help out the Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese economies quite a bit.

Lets not forget the super bowl “memorabilia” – also made in China, of course, that the diehard fans have already bought and will probably keep as family mementos for generations to come. I suppose that buying crap to put into those empty bookcases might be a good idea. After all, they do not look very impressive when empty…

The U.S. economy will get propped up with purchases of millions of gallons of cheap, pissy American beer, equally American pretzels, chips, hot dogs and hamburgers.

The downside of course will be millions of drunken and stuffed rednecks driving home from the super bowl parties in the dark in their SUVs, probably killing and maiming at the very least several dozen people. Let’s not forget the increased consumption of electricity used to light up the parties, power those oversized TV sets and chill the beer to the point, where whatever minimal taste it had to begin with evaporates almost to the point of making the foamy, pissy stuff taste like tap water.

Isn’t it also amazing that so many people seem to be actually looking forward to seeing the commercials? And don’t worry. They will actually discuss them around the water cooler tomorrow. Wonders will never cease…

Anyway, to each his own, I guess, with an important caveat. Tomorrow’s papers will have an inordinate amount of super bowl coverage, instead of something actually important and meaningful.

My fondest memory of one of the past super bowls was a trip to one of the ski areas, where the lodge had a rather nice skating rink, which got so filled up in the evening that one could hardly move, never mind skate. All of a sudden, the rink started emptying at an accelerated pace with people rushing to the TV sets and soon I was left alone on the ice with a very attractive and proficient female skater. We skated and talked for a couple of hours. It was a beautiful, starry night, the ice was in great shape and so was the company. The rest is history. Needless to say, neither one of us bothered to watch even a tiny bit of that super bowl and I for one, do not regret it one bit.

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