I can see where the hoopla would offend some folks. Perhaps a milder word should have been used, but it is somewhat off-putting to some folks.
Let me suggest a different way to look at it.
It’s an all American event. It’s probably the biggest draw and periferal activity in the United States each year. The Rosebowl may compete when you toss in the Rose Parade, so it’s a big event.
It’s a heralding of Americana. It’s an amazing event that tens of thousands attend in person, the game or it’s surrounding activity.
It is watched by millions on the tube. The commercials are fascinating, even though they are just hawking merchandise.
The game is a great one. It’s two pseudo military forces seeking to take land and conquer the enemy. God how it drives the Left bat S crazy. Gotta love that as well.
Celebrate the big event. Sure it’s commercialized. This is a Capitalist free enterprise nation, and we should celebrate that.
Very cool on so many levels.
Civilization on parade...
“It’s an all American event. It’s probably the biggest draw and periferal activity in the United States each year. The Rosebowl may compete when you toss in the Rose Parade, so it’s a big event.”
That’s peanuts. Mardi Gras / Carnival draws millions to the Gulf South.
Google search: “1.2 MILLION people attended Mardi Gras festivities last year—3.5 times the population of New Orleans. The City of New Orleans Spends $3.33 MILLION on Mardi Gras each year. Mar 8, 2011”
And that’s just one city. It doesn’t include the other cities and towns that put on Mardi Gras parades.
There are something like 20,000 RVs parked in the area around the track at Talladega -- including the track grounds, parking areas, and campgrounds within the surrounding counties -- during the week of their biggest races.
NFL was brilliant to give us an annual spectacle to break up the mid-winter blues and blahs
You say it’s civilization on parade.
I say it’s THE END of civilization on parade!