Monday, January 08, 2007

GO BUCKS!

Ha. Knew you'd read it if I titled it that.



The whole OH-IO thing, the whole "Columbus shutting down for the game that's in Arizona," the whole "Wear your Bucks gear to work," yeah.

It's all trite.

Here's food for thought: I'm willing to bet that more people of voting eligibility will be watching the game tonight than voted in the last election.

Do stores close early when something important occurs? No. But they do for a goddamn football game. Are we a nation of beer-guzzling, shoutin' at the tv, jersey wearin', pig-bellied, idiot fans? Answer: yes.

This is why high schools get no funding for the arts, yet the football team gets new uniforms every single year.

Here's another good example of how out of control sports, and pointedly football, are in the U.S. When T.O. switched teams, his old team basically wanted him to die. There were public displays in the tail-gater areas of fans carrying around caskets with T.O.'s name embossed on it.

Really? That's how you feel about it? Go ahead and lie in that coffin yourself. Because you're the reason this country is seen as a bunch of fucking idiots.

At what point do people can deconstruct football to a bunch of guys running around, throwing a goddamn eye-shaped ball?


Anyway, that's how I see it.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I <3 you. Just so you know.

In elaborating on that, I'm so relieved I left Ohio the day before that stupid big game. The entire airport was decorated in Buckeye gear. There were people on the airplane with "#1" painted on their faces. Thank god there's at least one sane person in the Columbus area who doesn't buy into all that crap. And I'm sure Amy is rather ambivalent as well.