Today we Americans celebrate something uniquely American – Super Sunday. It’s time to get together and behold the true American Spectacle. Chicken wings, bowls of chip dip shaped like footballs, really awesome commercials, high-fives, bear hugs, and people puking on your front lawn. The game-day coverage begins before the sun comes up, everything is analyzed to the hundredth degree, and all the “experts” come out of the woodwork to give their opinion and oh yeah, there is a football game.
The Super Bowl puts a spotlight on American excess for the whole world to see. Even in a bad economy it’s our chance to show everyone else how much overindulgence we have in something even as simple as a football game. (more…)