Is the Super Bowl a political event?

[usregimechange]

Poll question: Is the Super Bowl a political event?

The Eagles didn't run the hurry up offense until it was too late (why?) but watching the game made me wonder the following: Is the Super Bowl a political event?

[Quakerfriend]

1. I was thinking the same thing!

And, What's with Clinton and Papa Bush appearing side-by-side everywhere lately!

[orleans]

7. maybe they're HOT for each other

[Career Prole]

2. It was this year. FOX wouldn't run our ads

but the damn Chimp featured prominently in about half a dozen of 'em, it seemed.
:evilgrin:

[usregimechange]

3. Maybe it is just a fox thing? nt

[Sydnie]

4. I was watching it on Faux and I didn't see blivet** in any just his

message in several.

The Busch ad ... if they had just taken that money and donated armor or bullets, or phone cards, or perscriptions for one company/unit, or plane fare for soldiers trying to get home, or physical therapy for amputees ... etc. You get my drift I'm sure.

That was in really BAD taste. BTW, those were departing troops, not returning ones because there were no injuries in the crowd.

[Career Prole]

6. I was remarking on the prominence of chimpanzees in the ads.

:eyes:

[Career Prole]

5. Those ads by CareerBuilder.com looked like

a shrub family reunion.

[imenja]

8. What happened this year?

I never watch football.

[rman]

9. is "bread and games" political?

you bet it is.

[theHandpuppet]

10. And Tom Brady can't wait to visit the White House Again...

Never one to miss a public opportunity to kiss Bush's ass, in his post-game interview little Tommie said he couldn't wait to visit the WH again. Maybe he can take Rush along this time and they can trade jokes about McNabb.

Got another idea, Tommie boy -- steer yourself to the nearest recruiting station and show Georgie just how much you really love him and what he really stands for.

Y'know, I used to really like the Pats but Brady's blow-jobs for the GOP have gotten on my last nerve.

[CWebster]

11. For Philly it is becoming more like punishment from God. nt

[blondeatlast]

12. Lowest Common Denominator Patriotism.

As long as we dress it up in pomp and pageantry, we don't have to get our hands dirty with what it REALLY means.

That ribbon on your car is LCD Patriotism.

Kissing your son or daughter goodbye, with your grandchild in your arms in tears, as you ship them off to Kabul or Fallujah, is the real thing.

Guarding a voting location against interference from those who would disenfranchise others is the real thing.

But damn--they're just so, so...

UNPLEASANT.

[Hissyspit]

13. Mass Media/Culture event - Another poster's comments yesterday:

Bread and Circuses, people...

"Consider the distraction and socialization factors of male team sports.



Yes, the Super Bowl is the Super Propaganda event that is the pay-off of the more pedestrian kind.

BUT-

The male brain is still programmed by millions of years of hunting to survive and testosterone to be physically aggressive. Look at who is in prison for violent crimes.

Men mostly talk to each other in the common language of ballgames. They discuss the warriors, the records of teams, who is going to 'win.'

Televised team sports are the Roman gladiator battles of our day which occupy men's attention so they know nothing about politics, history, life and death matters.

Sports indoctrinates boys into wanting to 'be on the team' and follow the coach, want a uniform, hate the 'other team', sublimate their identity to the pack, defend their territory, think only one group can win-not all, etc.

You see how all this serves to use the male mind's instincts for war as a distraction and model for recruiting into the military?

Who were the bullies in high school? Mostly jocks who acted like a gang that was rewarded for dominating the weaker kids, very Darwinist, very 'might makes right.'

The evening propaganda-I mean 'local news'- is partly sports and has very little more than fires and criminals, tabloid bullshit.

If boys and men could be weened off organized sports, we might have a chance of demilitarizing our culture. I could go on and on but I think ya git mah drift."

[fortyfeetunder]

14. It was probably one of the most boring ones ever.

I just didn't get that type of excitement from this game as in years past.

The half-time show just seemed to be a bit restrained too. The commercials for the most part were bland.

Guess the Freepers got what they wanted this year.

[trogdor]

16. Paul McCartney has definitely jumped the shark.

They could have gotten the Rolling Stones to play at halftime, and they would have put on a kick-ass show, even at their age. McCartney is as bland as toast, and the songs sounded like he was lip-synching from the original Beatles recordings.

[musette_sf]

15. I kept thinking during the Anheuser-Busch commercial

the one where everyone in the airport is giving the returning troops a standing O -- gee, I notice they didn't show any wounded, injured, amputated, mutilated casualties in that healthy, clean crew of actors portraying soldiers. They all looked mentally well-balanced and calm, too. What a huge lie to perpetrate. But I guess it would have been just too much to show the kids in pieces at Walter Reid, or the kids coming home with their minds all messed up, or the kids who thought they were coming home but then got the word that they were still stuck in the desert for God knows how long.

I guess you can see I hated that commercial.

[trogdor]

17. Definitely inspired by Reni Liefenstahl.

Designed to give you goosebumps - or to make your skin crawl, depending on how closely you've been paying attention.

[musette_sf]

18. Is that Leni Riefenstahl's evil twin?

;-)
Dear Husband keeps saying we should watch "Triumph Of The Will" again, soon. He may be right.

[ThorsHammer]

19. No; but some try to politicize it

[jcappy]

20. buttresses patriotism & state

shows everyone well aligned with status quo--and those ads absolutely ruin the game---ask the players (no rhythm at all)