The Superbowl is a joke.
Like I need another excuse to get drunk on a Sunday night anymore.
Does anyone still watch sports? Since I stopped working them due to the Covid pandemic, seriously, I’m just asking.
I’ve worked hundreds of games but I never really cared for sports. I never understood the fascination and often obsession so many have with so many man-children chasing their balls on a field together. Sorry, that’s sexist. Women are just as silly about it all too.
Ok, I take some of that back.
I’ve had a few epiphanies watching the watchers. It's something primal, isn’t it? A deep lizard-brained need to engage in some sort of mortal combat. A feeling of tribalism. A notion that if I wrap up my entire self-worth into a team or an individual champion, I too am a champion. I too share in that glory albeit barely and from very far away.
Bragging rights, that’s the thing.
Sports are just like American politics and vice versa. The winner takes all. Losers go home.
At least it used to be that way, but not anymore.
In some cases, now you’re allowed to never leave until you get your way. The “game” never ends until the other side is murdered. That’s what “winning” now means in America. Now it’s become “legitimate political discourse” to be complete and utter sore losers and violent fuck heads. Democracy seems to now mean complain and complain about the tribal butt reaming y’all got when HE LOST and then storm The Capitol so your “team” can be on top.
I keep waiting for the results of The Super Bowl to be contested in the same way as Biden’s win.
Death threats on refs just for doing their contractually protected obligations as laid out by the NFL coming soon maybe? Nooses outside the corporate offices of the NFL headquarters?
I wonder if The Big Liar has chosen his team yet? If they lose will his tribe of “very fine people” storm the NFL headquarters and demand a review of all the calls until some “fraud” is found?
My god, let's hope so.
They all clearly still need something better to do with their time. This time though, they’ll be drunk AF and so will the rest of America.
What fun!
Go sports!
