I’ve decided to take the suggestion that I repost an old Sunday Night Journal every week while I’m taking a long and possibly permanent break from writing it. Today being Super Bowl Sunday, I picked one occasioned by the 2004 Super Bowl: The Entertainment Industry and the Ratchet Effect.
Speaking of the Super Bowl: I watched it, in the beginning just because I haven’t watched any football since the Sugar Bowl, and having no interest at all in either time and therefore not caring who won. However, I’ve noticed that whenever I watch a game in which I don’t care who wins, I always find myself rooting for one or the other team by the end of the first quarter. In this one my pick was Arizona, maybe just out of sympathy for the underdog. But what with the red jerseys and Arizona’s general performance for most of the game I felt like I was watching the SEC championship game again. Well, congratulations to Pittsburgh, but I have to say that James Harrison’s personal foul which involved him punching a man on the ground left a bad taste in my mouth and took away some of the luster of his amazing 100-yard interception return.
And I hate to say it, because I used to like his music a lot, but Bruce Springsteen’s halftime show was tiresome. That theatrical rock-'n'-roll stuff just doesn’t seem real to me any more. Maybe it works better if you aren’t seeing it close up.
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