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This was a wonderful article. Very well written, I was able to clearly picture the zany scenes the author describes. It was wonderful to read something about the Super Bowl this year that was actually about football, rather than cultural decline.

I am another person who also rejected the idea of rejecting football, but my perspective is a little different from Mr. Simmons'. When I was growing up my dad watched football all weekend, this drove my mother nuts. What my mother failed to understand was that there was nothing else on TV that was worth watching. My mother never really understood TV, and it was pretty primitive back in the 1960s, I think she'd like it a lot more today. Well, being daddy's girl, of course, I took his side, and therefore I was never one of those women who "hate" football.

I never understood the game until a few years ago. My daughter was old enough to play outside by herself, and I found myself spending many Sunday afternoons with her dad, one eye on the football game, and one checking out the window. After three years spent this way I suddenly realized I understood football. It happened effortlessly, and unnoticed until comprehension was suddenly complete. It was such an amazing mental event that I actually remember the exact moment it happened, it seems to me it must be what Buddhist enlightenment is like.

p>So I would tell Mr. Simmons there is hope for his friends. Being there and being open, with that combination, amazing things can happen. br> -- Jessica O'Connor br> Bayonne, New Jersey /p> p> BETTER THAN AARON BROWN br> Re: Shawn Macomber's Nomentum :

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