Monday, February 6, 2012

I'm not troubled by the garishness of the Superbowl

I don't know if I'm troubled by any of the hoopla, the adverts, the laundry (as Jerry Seinfeld once put it. Uniformed professional sports is just laundry as the men in the uniforms constantly change though the uniforms stay the same. Whatever.). Seems to me that the Superbowl is just a loud, gaudy piece of Americana bordering on what passes for a holiday.  How different is it from the ridiculousness that a day like Halloween has become for adults or for that matter a holiday where people stuff themselves silly with a so-called traditional dinner or the white sales during  President's Week & (ironically) MLK Jr.s day or the exploding bombs on the fourth of July? and let's not forget the "religious" holidays. Symbolism you might think.  But symbolism representing what? The Superbowl is just the evolution of the hucksterism of a P.T. Barnum and all the boorishness, gratuitousness, vileness and expansiveness America has become heir to and has attached to all its holidays.  But hell if you love football you just go with the flow. . .

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