The Super Bowl

Recommended Pairing: A pack of cheap beer and a limitless supply of tortilla chips.

My friend said recently the thing that infuriates him the most about our current political climate is that people aren't bothering to talk sports anymore. I totally get that. I love that I can have very hard opinions on grown men whom I will never meet or interact with.  I love that other grown non-professional athletes will gladly sit around and debate sports trivia with you all day long. 

Sports hate is an important part of life and helps us channel our frustration in our lives away from other real humans around us and place them squarely on the broad shoulders of our fantasy football players. 

This upcoming Super Bowl on Sunday is historic and due to the volume of political news has been under-hyped somehow. It should be a good game — one team without a championship up against one that could set the record for trophies. A young, up and comer versus the establishment. Honestly, it kind of reads like a Star Wars spinoff story.

Without all of the bullshit news that comes in anticipation for the Super Bowl I think this is actually the most excited I've been to watch "the big game" in years. I have no real rooting interest. I just want people to turn their brains off and watch a bunch of idiots smash into each other while giant corporations try to sell us a smorgasbord of artificially flavored deliciousness through overly emotional or overly cheesy commercials.

'Til next week.


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