Highway Deaths Spike After Super Bowl - Study

Reuters Health via Yahoo ^ | 1-23-03 | Gene Emery

[Pharmboy]

Maybe, JUST MAYBE, more people are driving on Supe Sunday?

[Revolting cat!]

Oh no, we're all gonna die!

[Semper Paratus]

This study may have a bit more relevance than women beaten on Super Bowl Sunday.

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[camle]

why am I skeptical? I remember other studies that claimed that the super bowl was when wife beating spiked too.

[bigfootbob]

"This study may have a bit more relevance than women beaten on Super Bowl Sunday."

I think not. Just a different "spin" on the Superbowl Week activities to promote an agenda.

[dfwgator]

Just as water consumption spikes at halftime as everyone goes to the bathroom at the same time.

Also a new study concludes that the Super Bowl leads to sucky halftime shows.

[Pharmboy]

Yep--the "Football is EVIL crowd; can't we just play chess and all get along?

[Revolting cat!]

Another study I read proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that Super Bowl leads viewers to a dangerous delusion that the winner of the game achieves "World" Championship, where in fact the sport is played in only one country.

[ErnBatavia]

drive more carefully on the way home from Sunday's Super Bowl party, especially if you live in the state that fields the losing team.

Hey! California's roads are dangerous enough as it is! :) Go Bucs! Win it for the memory of McKay!

[Revolting cat!]

[Inspectorette]

Yep--the "Football is EVIL crowd; can't we just play chess and all get along?

Yeah, and a lot of those football fans are probably driving those EEEEVIL SUV's, too!

[tom paine 2]

Yes, these drunk, testosterone filled, angry white males after pounding their wives to a bloody pulp, hop into their SUVs and go out and commit road rage. It's all in the handbook.

[Pharmboy]

Nothing is super about those things on a hot, humid, August day. Yecchhhh...

[Pharmboy]

But wait--if all the women are left bleeding on the floor at home and not driving--wouldn't the accident rate go DOWN?

(Just joshing here--I know that women have better highway stats than men)

[Revolting cat!]

Seriously though, I'd advise anyone to stay out of Oakland, CA and the towns south of there on Sunday, regardless of the outcome! Visit the Castro Street district in nearby San Francisco instead, if you absolutely have to go out. You'll find a kinder, uhm, gentler crowd there!

[Tall_Texan]

Also a new study concludes that the Super Bowl leads to sucky halftime shows.

The NFL has spread the "Sucky Halftime Show" disease to Thanksgiving and the conference championships. Like I really want to see a bunch of gyrating topless hip hoppers yelling and gesturing to some numbing rythyms.

Not that Up With People or Mary J. Bilge makes one pine for the old days. My all-time Super Bowl halftime highlight was when Stevie Wonder attempted to do a short dance on a stairstepped stage a few years ago. I'm sure every ambulance chaser around the globe got a woody watching that!

[Deguello]

There needs to be a new indictor of Super Bowl influence. A suggestion for if Oakland wins, is to tell all the Mexicans to shoot their guns in the air. Nasty, top of the head wounds would do the trick. Kalerneeia always leads the nation in new trends.

[L.N. Smithee]

Yeah, I believe the study. It's those SUV-driving macho husbands who are beating their wives with one hand and steering with the other. </sarcasm>

[tom paine 2]

All of these claims are anecdotal evidence. The Demonrats would not be in business if it weren't for anecdotal evidence.