Our next door neighbors have been flying a Bronco’s flag for several weeks now. They had a pretty good-sized (but well behaved) party a couple of weeks ago. It will be interesting to see what happens today. Meanwhile, I’m going to embed some of the commercials as I find them. First up, Budweiser has now outdone Hallmark in producing the tug-at-heart-strings style of advertising … Chevy runs with an almost
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January 26, 2014
“Is it immoral to watch the Super Bowl?” [Darleen Click]
Pearl-clutching at NY Times Pro sports are, by definition, monetized arenas for hypermasculinity. Football is nowhere near as overtly vicious as, say, boxing. But it is the one sport that most faithfully recreates our childhood fantasies of war as a winnable contest. Over the past 12 years, as Americans have sought a distraction from the moral incoherence of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the game has served as a