As the media drills into us, today is Super Bowl Sunday, the television event that draws the largest audience of the year in the United States. Personally haven’t watched it in years for a number of reasons:
1)Football got boring to watch. There is hardly any action left on the field, and it is continually stopped by the referees for penalties.
2) There are too many injuries as the players have become such hulking behemoths crashing around like titans destroying each others’ bodies. Mean Joe Greene would be a puny guy today.
3) Not allowing celebrations after a good play has taken the gusto and fun out of the game. Gastineau’s silly quarterback tackle dances were fun to watch.
4) The announcers and commentators, particularly when Fox took over, became so over the top with theatrics and shouting along with swooshing graphics and music that it became unbearable to watch. Give me the class of Madden and Summerall back.
The game just wasn’t much fun to watch anymore. And then you start to question why I am sitting on a couch watching a game that used to be fun to play actively. Get together with some guys (and gals) and have a game in the sand, snow, grass, etc. Play tag if you don’t trust others to tackle gently. Sitting down and watching others play is the road to a passive existence of witnessing a spectacle on the viewscreen. Instead of watching others play the game, play the game yourself. It’s more fun, healthier and interactive. Stop living a passive life and leave behind spectator sports to live your own life’s narrative actively, not vicariously through a imagined viewscreen.
Originally posted: http://www.mccarthyism.com/2015/20150201.htm
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