Dear Readers,
The annual championship game of the National Football
League is being played this Sunday, February 5, 2012, in Indianapolis,
Indiana. It is also known as “Super Bowl
Sunday”. This year’s contest is between the
New York Giants representing the National Football Conference and the New
England Patriots representing the American Football Conference. However, the game is much more than the
N.F.L.’s championship game, it has turned into a de facto national holiday. The Super Bowl is the most watched television
program for the year in the United States.
A sporting event has turned into a national phenomenon? Astounding! Even women partake in “Super Bowl Sunday”. Usually, when a man goes out with the guys to
watch a game and gets home at 11:30 p.m. or later, a fight might ensue with the
girlfriend or wife when he returns home but not on this Sunday. It should be called “Free Pass Sunday”. How has a sporting event gotten to this level
of national prominence?
It all boils down to food. “Super Bowl Sunday” is the second largest day
of food consumption in the United States behind Thanksgiving. People love an excuse to get together to eat
and drink. I am sure even cavemen (cavepeople
for you politically correct a**holes) cave hopped after the cave around the
corner scored the big kill. The actual
game is of interest only to the fans of the participating teams. For the rest of the partygoers, the game is
just background noise until the commercials air.
It is high time that our Washington D.C. representatives
stop debating steroids in baseball, SOPA, raising the debt ceiling (that was a debacle
anyway) and work on getting the Monday after the Super Bowl declared a national
holiday- “Hangover Monday”. That way,
millions of hard working individuals like yourself, do not have to call in “sick”
to work on that Monday.
Sincerely,
Drivel
