February 5, 2009

• Victory parade more important than actual game.

   

      Okay, before you think “this cracker’s crazy”, hear me out.  First off, you must consider something, unless you live in Arizona or Pittsburgh, your interest for the Super Bowl was probably at an all time minimum.  After one of the most anticlimactic seasons in recent history my degree of give-a-fuck-itude was at an all time low starting at well around the beginning of the post season.  Sure, all you Eagles fans will beg to differ because of Philly’s barely-made-it-by-the-string-on-their-thongs season, but did they survive the playoffs?  Uh-uh.  Maybe I don’t watch enough tv, but this definitely seemed like one of the least talked about (at least before the game started) super bowls of the past many winters. 

      Now don’t get me wrong, from what I’ve heard the game was ballin’.  Something about the Steelers owning Arizona’s face and then Arizona cried for mommy in the last few seconds and mommy just kinda bitch slapped them.  Yeah, that’s pretty exciting, but the point I am aiming for somewhere in this mess transcends the actual excitement of the game no matter who is playing or how close it was.  Frankly, if it had been a Patriots vs. Cowboys game (the two NFL teams with the largest fan-bases) that ended in triple overtime, my stance would hold.

      The reason that I say that the victory parade is more important than the actual brouhaha itself, takes on a more political viewpoint.  In order to properly present this case however, I will explain my position through the use of an example.  Let’s say Detroit (the town with the worst economy out of all the major cities in the U.S.) were to win the Super Bowl next year.  Now that you have finished laughing at the prospects of the league’s first 0-16 team turning around and winning the big game in 12 months time, consider what that would mean for the city.  First of all, obviously a huge (albeit extremely temporary) economic surge would take place.  Shops and restaurants and hotels would be teaming with business and a breath of fresh air would be breathed (gr?) in that extremely polluted populous.  Secondly, everybody on the national stage would see that the city still has spirit, it knows how to celebrate, and nation wide, it would be seen at least for a brief moment as a town of life and excitement instead of a coffee stain on the national map.  Sure, it wouldn’t convince everybody to up and move to detroit, but think if they throw a really shitty party, it could have an even greater negative connotation.  Lets say that motor city would decide to throw the least happenin’ party of the year.  The nation would be exposed to just how deeply they have fallen into despair to the point where a Katrina-esque population shift could occur driving citizens into cities of greater hope.

      Whichever team wins the super bowl gets bragging rights for about 10 months out of the year, but when postseason hits next time around, if that team is even in the playoffs, everybody is on a level field and nothing else really matters.  In this case, the trophy represents what they did, not what they can do.  Therefore a solid case can be set up that the after-party can leave much stronger lasting affects (either good or bad) than the big game.

      Besides, Nadal vs. Federer was way more exciting.

   

      Until next time, good luck with life

      Days since last day off:                              14
      Days since last trip to gym:                           2
      Days since last energy drink:                        4
      Days this year that life’s been good to me:    34

   

      p.s. I love Amber

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