Posted on 02/08/2005 1:45:06 PM PST by Sprite518
The Super Bowl may h been about football, but it was also about something much more important. By Stewart Nusbaumer
Watching the Super Bowl last night, it occurred to me that politics was everywhere. There was of course no political discussion, yet politics was everywhere.
In no particular order of importance, only in the order the thoughts rambled or squeezed into my mind, this is the politics I thought about during the game.
First, both teams, the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots, were from Blue states: Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Although the game was played in a Red state, Florida, a Red state team did not qualify -- nor, if I remember correctly, had a decent shot to make it to the big event. Evidently, the art of stealing elections is not transferable to stealing football games.
Second, defense is what brought these two teams to the Super Bowl. Good defense requires a psychology that recognizes one’s limitation, a philosophy of living within one’s means. The South doesn't get this, not the least because it has never lived according to its own means. First it was Black slavery; today it is the transferred tax revenues of Northerners.
Good defense always beats good offense -- when the bigmouth losers don’t cheat their way to victory -- because the latter gets lost in its own rhetoric of self-hype. The glamour kills the edge of the offensive, leaving it vulnerable to the old American values of hard work and honest feedback. This is something that Bush’s “war on terror” doesn’t get, which doesn't bode well for the future security of the United States.
Third, both the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots are pretty much devoid of the mega-superstars. To find the really big superstars, you need to find the losing teams. And to find the losing teams, follow the self-hype until it becomes pure lying and utter fantasy. Lying is much more effective in the political arena, however, than on the football field. Note the tremendous success of the Republican superstars in winning their elections.
Fourth, on the football field the Eagles and Patriots excel at what the medium of television tends to obscure on your sets. That is the battle of the offensive and defensive lines, the most important part of the game. Since the cameras do not show this well, and the television commentators follow the cameras, most football fans are clueless about what is the most important aspect of football. But Republicans understand what is most important, for them anyway, which is the money. They have their own football, and their own America -- which isn't really America.
Fifth, the Dallas Cowboys did what Texas is known for: trying to bully others while attempting to hide that they are first-class wimps. Note, “bring them on” George is so far over his head in Iraq that he is now threatening to take away everyone's Social Security. This is how bullies act, whether in a football stadium or in the White House.
I remember that once the Dallas Cowboys were called “America's Team,” then the San Francisco 49ers rose to the top and now it is the New England Patriots. Something very strange is happening in America. It's called the beauty of Blue.
Sixth, the ads this year were actually tolerable. That is, the focus returned to the football game, and turned away from the sleazy peddlers of crappy products and 3rd rate tit-illation. On the other hand, the Ford ad was very interesting: “We don’t just make our trucks tough, we make you tough.” And throughout the South and the Midwest, good-old-boys suddenly had faith in themselves again.
Seventh, the Super Bowl winner is actually the league’s most well known team for acting and thinking like a real team, and not just a collection of egotistical individuals. The New England Patriots is imbued with the good old Yankee virtues of teamwork and communal achievement. The myth of radical individualism -- normally propagated by those spoon-fed with privilege and those living off insider government contracts -- was the loser in this Super Bowl. Not even Karl Rove can rewrite this script and make Red phony individualism the winner.
Finally, the Most Valuable Player was, well, not really the most valuable player. Since the award cannot be given to an entire team, or to an entire line, it must be given to someone and that someone -- actually, I can’t even remember his name. It doesn't matter. But we do need to remember that the Super Bowl winners are precariously close to, well, old fashion socialism: it’s the team, the whole team, and nothing but the team, that wins the Super Bowl. This will confuse South. To the point where it might be in the nation's interest to dump our most dimwitted region on Mexico since they do seem to have a lot of failure in common.
“This football team [New England Patriots] is not flashy, not glamorous and their poise is derived from preparation,” Howie Long, the Fox Television commentator, said in a rare moment of lucidness. Right, Howie. And it is a Blue team. A Blue team that has won nine consecutive playoff games, tying the record, a Blue team that has now won three out of the last four Super Bowls. Howie, maybe being obsessed with hot dogging and glamour status ain’t the best way to play football, nor is the South -- the most backward, hateful region of America -- the best political vanguard for America.
Sure there are lots of retarded Southerners and Midwestern flakes on the New England Patriots, which just goes to show you the power of genuine American culture. It has overcomed confused desperation repackaged as hee-haw culture. When quality is given a chance in America, which it seldom is today, then quality brings home the trophy.
To be honest, I don’t think the New England Patriots are kicking butt only because they are Yankee, not only because they are a product of what's best about America. Sure that is a big reason -- standing for something more than the dollar and utilizing your brains does still works in America, when given that chance -- but it is not the only reason. It seems to me that God is watching our country, and watching it closely. And God is fuming mad at America.
Considering American Red "culture," I can’t image a more potent way for God to express his outrage towards Bush’s America than to have Massachusetts win the Super Bowl. Can you? As for George Bush, the idiot is so confused and scared he stole the team's name for his Patriot Act -- probably the most unpatriotic act ever passed in America. But God knows who the winner is and what the enslaver is. God doesn't drive pickup truck.
By the way, who was it that won baseball's Word Series? Who were baseball's champs last year? Yes, something very strange is going on in America.
For all you atheists out there, I suggest you pause and reconsider the existence of a divine being, which, it seems to me -- like all cognitive functioning humans on this planet -- is sick and tired of these dimwitted redneck morons screwing our country. And let's face it, us Blues do need a little help to get rid of those stealing America.
More than half of all Americans remain too stupid to understand that a Texas swagger doesn’t mean anything on the football field, just like it doesn’t mean anything on a battlefield. They can't see the politics in this Super Bowl; they can’t see why we will not make the Middle East a democracy. And they can not see why the winner is from the land of the solid Blue. Not just the winner, the Yankee Patriots of Massachusetts have been the winners for the third time in four years.
Stewart Nusbaumer is editor of Intervention Magazine. You can email Stewart, as long as you are not an outraged loser, at Stewart@interventionmag.com
Posted Monday, February 7, 2005ave
Seething hate as usual.
I say, pi$$ on em and don't worry about this puke.
Now that's what I call a Barf alert.
LOL! Classic....
Did you see the source? "Intervention" magazine..nuff said..obvious the author's intervention failed..he relapsed..consumed more Kool-Aid..
Bet the Busch "Thank you" ad really fried the author's bacon.
He wrote this , hoping to get a reaction..Why bother? He's just another DU clone.
Its hard to ignore. This Socialist fired me up.
Translation: I, Stewart Nusbaumer, (aka God) am fuming mad at America.
I'm tempted to make a lame joke about the appropriateness of his surname. But I refrain.
Oh yeah without a doubt. After all I am sure he views us as occupiers and not liberators.
Same old BS. I'm so smart. Everybody who disagrees with me is dumb. And I lack any facts to back up what I say, just opinions.
The so-called "progressives" are always accusing conservatives of being haters, but it's evident who the haters are. I doubt they'll ever forgive the country for not agreeing with them.
Don't worry, it will be another 80+ years before the Red Sox win another World Series.
This guy's got some serious reality issues to work out.
LOL!
Too bad one of those non-political F-22's that did the flyby can't drop a non-political smart bomb down that guys chimney.
This is for the loser who wrote that article:
What a Stewart!
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