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NFL: The Nothing-but Filth League
Beyoncé was beyond the pale.
Maybe the culture really has been lost. Maybe it’s hopeless. Pop culture, at least, is so crass, so vile, so lacking decency or restraint, as to appear irredeemable. And the Super Bowl, the grand pageant of Emperor-with-no-clothes Roger Goodell, provided crowning evidence of the culture’s pungent rot.
It wasn’t the game itself that offended — the game was well played and thrilling — but rather the halftime show and the commercials and so much else of the trash that surrounded the game itself like a Superfund site bordering a family park. Indeed, this is the third straight year that the halftime show featured artists known for tastelessness or offensiveness performing hyper-sexualized songs while writhing in various stages of Bacchanalian undress.
Really, does the NFL need to be booming “Bootylicious” into the homes of 100 million people? (“I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly… ’cause my body’s too bootylicious for you, baby.”) In fact, the full lyrics for almost every song from Beyoncé’s set list are full of raw, over-the-top sex — lyrical soft porn, if you will — while the writhing on stage had little more decency than a Roman orgy.
The year before, it was Madonna on stage, fresh from years of outraging the Catholic Church with deliberate affronts the church considered blasphemy. If memory serves, she left little to the imagination in her halftime show. And the year before that, the Black-Eyed Peas sang from their decidedly R-rated songs that contain such lyrics (in the full song) as: “Niggas wanta hate on us/ niggas be envious…. Nobody got nuttin’ on us (no)/Girls be all on us. From London back down to the US/We rockin’ it (contagious), monkey business (outrageous)/ Just confess, your girl admits that we the sh**.”
Meanwhile, in the commercials, morning-after-sex scenes (complete with handcuffs) vied with guys handling women’s panties and Calvin Klein underwear leaving almost nothing to the imagination.
Look, there is such a thing as being cleverly risqué. And on the other side, there is a difference between prudishness and commonsensical decency. Nobody likes a prude, and most reasonable people don’t mind a little bit of sly suggestiveness. (The Kate Upton commercial about the car wash, if you saw it, accomplished the latter, very creatively.) But there are seven-year-olds aplenty watching the Super Bowl, and most of the game, after all, is in the “family hour” of a Sunday night. Is it really too much to ask the NFL not to accept ads that lead tykes to ask, “Daddy, what’s a ‘perv,’ and why is that guy feeling around that girl’s yellow underwear?”
Everywhere one looks, the former “family hours” are full of rot. Flipping through channels the other day, I happened upon a rerun from Cougar Town. Ya just gotta love it when a mother’s friend offers the mother to take the virginity of her 15 year-old son, who has been openly ogling the friend’s breasts holding up the two letters “O” in an “Ohio” t-shirt — and the mother declines only because her friend might just be too wild for her son’s first time.
The feeling was similar a few years back when I happened upon Two and a Half Men as a late-middle-aged woman bragged to her son about her plans to “get laid” that night, and then proceeded to urge her son to bed a married woman in order to break up the woman’s marriage so the mother (the “get laid” lady), a real-estate agent, could sell that other woman’s house.
And thank goodness I didn’t actually get to see the 30 Rock episode where a group of MILFs competed for the favor of 8th Grade boys.
State universities hold public forums on “The Female Orgasm”; pop tarts sing about all the other kids wanting to “If You Seek Amy” (phonetically: F-U-*-* me); and prime-time TV shows indiscriminately use words once considered vulgar and frequently refer to masturbation, orgasms, and private body parts. So maybe it is no wonder that sex is treated as such a cavalierly negotiable commodity that ever-growing percentages of those under 40 rate “faithfulness” as not among the most important factors for a successful marriage.
One need not be a prude to lament these trends. One can want homage paid to older standards — even if sometimes honored only in the breach — without wanting to interfere in any way in anybody else’s private lives. And one need not be a defeatist to worry that the cause of traditional decency may be doomed.
Of course, trends can change. They have before. Political party strength flows and ebbs; cultural indicators fall and rise; sometimes, pursuits that seemed edgy and exciting become passé. And while of course modern society will never see anything even approaching universal adherence to, say, Victorian standards (which themselves were breached almost as often as honored), it should not be too much for all of us to refuse to reward cultural rot with our money, our time, or our tacit acceptance.
Surely there are others still under 50, or maybe even under 40, who feel like old fogeys when listening to Beyoncé writhe half-dressed while singing something almost indecipherable about how her “texture is the best fur/I’m chinchilla” (huh?!?!?). Surely there are those who don’t want children absorbing this stuff. And surely, surely, a market correction will somehow create at least a semi-happy medium, in which the trash and filth isn’t quite so public — and in which it no longer enjoys the support of the NFL.
Photo: UPI
About the Author
Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.5.13 @ 6:51AM
Yeah, it looked pretty bad. Yet, the NFL embraces the chickificaton of America.
Frank Drackman| 2.5.13 @ 8:16AM
Whatever you can say about Ray Lewis, "Chick" doesn't even make the top 200...
Frank
Bob K| 2.5.13 @ 10:14AM
Hey Quin,
What do you have to say about the fans setting a record in Las Vegas by wagering $98.9 million bucks on the Super Bowl and then staying there to watch the show girls after the game was over and then getting a little bit on the side after all that?
Riff Raff| 2.5.13 @ 11:48AM
What you describe was not piped in to America's TV set's. The stuff described in the article WAS. That was the point of the article. Try re-reading it.
Bob K| 2.5.13 @ 1:02PM
What difference does it make? Football and gambling are connected. Las Vegas and television are both making money from it. One has a bigger opportunity to do so because it is part of the media. Neither one of them would make as much money on the game without the gambling that takes place around it and a lot fewer people would watch it too. You want to make the Super Bowl a PG event?
Riff Raff| 2.5.13 @ 2:23PM
It makes a difference because you are ostensibly responding to the article and the issues it raises. But in reality, you are changing the subject and then criticizing the article's author for not seeing things your way. You post is a non-sequitur.
And yes, I would like to see the TV Boradcast of the Super Bowl be a PG event, something suitable for all family members who like football. There is no need to make the TV broadcast of the Super Bowl an "R" rated event and intentionally insult and offend the viewers. Note: most of the money that pays for the NFL comes from TV advertising, not gambling, and ultimately that means the TV viewers pay for it. Your post makes no sense in the context of this article.
Al Adab| 2.5.13 @ 2:58PM
Riff:
Not to mention having to explain to the eight year old grandkids during a football or baseball game what Cialis and Viagra are for.
Riff Raff| 2.5.13 @ 5:10PM
Exactly! I can't even watch a Home Improvement/Do-It-Yourself TV show without this crap. Being selective in programming really does not work. The crap is everywhere.
Bob K| 2.5.13 @ 8:29PM
Quin singled out one problem pro football has. I pointed out that it also had another and much more pervasive one and you are upset about it. I could have mentioned Steroids too.
The article wasn't about some Bimbo's gyrations at half time. It was about the NFL's contribution to the degradation of our culture. If Quin wanted to prove his point he missed plenty of evidence.
Riff Raff| 2.6.13 @ 11:21AM
Again, the article was about the NFL's contribution to the decline of culture via the Super Bowl and TV. You CHANGED the subject to gambling, which is NOT on TV and is localized to certain venues. How Vegas gambling can be considered to be "more pervasive" than a TV program the almost everyone watches, is beyond comprehension. Your original posting was a non-sequitur and your follow up postings make little sense.
Gambling has been around almost as long as sex, but a little decorum regarding both has always been in order. It is TV that undermines that decorum, with its ability to bring the lowest common denominator of human behavior in to everyone's home. The focus of the article is TV, this ability of TV, and the NFL's active participation in this process of undermining culture via TV.
Fundamentally, human society is, and has always been, based on a shared set of values and morals, without which, civilized human society is simply not possible. TV takes the lowest of the low and smothers everyone with it, effectively destroying any concept of shared values and morals.
Bob K| 2.6.13 @ 7:55PM
I'll make it simple for you since you agree with me on the the NFL's active participation with TV in undermining the Nation's culture. And gambling enables the NFL in this respect. As does the government which I also did not mention along with steroids.
If gambling on pro football was not winked at by the NFL and our government, with official betting lines and such coming out of Las Vegas, a great percentage of it's TV audience would not exist.
There is a gambling industry built around the NFL as you well know and because there is the NFL can sell it's product to the Media and increase both it's own profits and the Media's profits.
The government can and does control this betting on sports at the local level nearly everywhere by making it unlawful. But not everywhere! Not where the NFL, the Superbowl and Television is concerned!
Freedomfighter_99| 2.10.13 @ 11:44PM
Dear Dumbass: If the NFL DIDN'T put it's unofficial imprimatur on gambling, are you saying there'd be no porn at the half-time? Is THAT your contention? THERE IS NO CONNECTION BETWEEN GAMBLING AND THE HALFTIME SHOWS OTHER THAN AN OVER/UNDER OF THE FIRST "F"-BOMB. YOU'RE POINT IS STUPID!! DROP IT!!!!
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:17PM
Maybe he meant to say: Chicken Wings.
Peppermint Tea | 2.5.13 @ 11:45AM
Did you see the thighs on that woman?
Freedomfighter_99| 2.10.13 @ 11:46PM
Absolutely. As my wife was sitting next to me, and she happens to be a LADY, I instantly flipped the channel. Problem solved.
Rhoetus| 2.5.13 @ 9:16PM
I thought she was hot, don't you guys have any fun?
Joellen| 2.5.13 @ 6:59AM
The last half time I watched was the great Tom Petty and he was Terrific.
I refuse to watch the Leftist perform, if you can call it that, in anything now. Like many of you, I havent put a cent in Hollyweird since the Clinton years.
To me there is no such thing as a coincedence, Lights went out for some reason - this country is dark and how many signs do we need before the light clicks on - I'm just saying!
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 9:40AM
What's "Wrong" with the NFL and the NBA?
It's Black Culture.
Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap. 6 Kids with 6 Different Hos. Hats on backwards, Sneakers unlaced, and their Pants pulled down, Prison Style.
It's Black Culture.
Generational Welfare. Generational Single Parent Households. Generational Dropping out of School. Generational Gang Participation, Illegality and Incarceration.
It's Black Culture.
Apparently, it's also Black Cultute to be a Crooked Politician, as every day, it seems like one of'em is Perp Walking a Bribery Case, a Kickback Case or a Corruption Charge.
"Ray Nagin didn't do Nuthin! Marion Barry was a HERO to his people in the Hood. That's the way we do things around here. That's what we do around the Hood. It's a Black Thing."
"You Crackers don't get it!"
"Now, gets out my face, fore I mess you up!"
I trust the Truth is still honored around here?
The real sad thing is that I should be confident that my words will be left alone, and that I will remain a participating member of the group. But I'm not.
There are words that must Never Be Spoken. Facts, that must never be brought out in to the Light. Groups, who must Never be Held Accountable, lest the Accountor be Silenced, and his Name be Stricken from History.
And, that's why Chicago is a No Go City, and Detroit is disappearing under the Bulldozer's Blade.
If Daniel Payrick Moynihan was here? He'd say the same things I've said. And, they would come after him, as well.
Just like they used to.
aquanomics| 2.5.13 @ 10:32AM
Let me be the first to applaud your honesty. Amen.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:19PM
And, apparently, the last.
vikings4123| 2.10.13 @ 12:26AM
No, I also applaud it.
Peppermint Tea | 2.5.13 @ 11:45AM
Did you see the thighs on that woman? Her thighs were white.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:20PM
Did you see her Ass?
I'm just sayin.
Al Adab| 2.5.13 @ 2:59PM
Steatopygia
Grzmlyk| 2.5.13 @ 2:30PM
On this one, I am with you.
Our white guilt welcomes - no, CELEBRATES - the worst of black culture - and it seems to oudto itself every year - as somehow being "authentic," whereas anything that smacks of "white-bred" culture is somehow inauthentic and invalid.
And so thuggery is applauded; larceny is admired; indiscriminate sexual mores are emulated. Bullying is encouraged. Staring down any accusations with the threat of a charge of "racism" is all the argument that this culture needs anymore to exonerate cretins and acquiesce to anything and everything that blacks do. Father 11 children with 11 "ho's?" Y'all a stud with your own reality show.
And of course white kids - and now "Hispanics" and even Asians - emulate this nihilistic, antisocial, mean-spirited, selfish, narcissistic behavior, and their parents institutionalize it at the marketplace. And so the pop culture moves ever further toward ghetto-glam. Bust a cap in a rival drug dealer's ass? Y'all a hero, dog. Y'all oughta get paid big $$$ for your animalistic behavior.
Grzmlyk| 2.5.13 @ 2:30PM
(continued from above)
And of course this destruction of the character of an entire race, and its mimicking by the rest of us, is all done to show everybody how we can't possibly be racists if we think that the worse the behavior of black youth, the better.
It's all good, y'all.
Tick tock. One needn't even look at the Stage 4 cancer that is our economy to know it's over. What was once our vibrant culture is an open sewer today - and that is exactly what we want.
vikings4123| 2.10.13 @ 12:28AM
Dang. You are good. Spot on.
Zeke in Oz| 2.6.13 @ 11:43PM
Great Post!
Capt G| 2.7.13 @ 12:02AM
well said
Jimbobogie| 2.13.13 @ 2:36PM
Interesting...unless I'm mistaken, the MVP of the Super Bowl was a member of the caucasion persuasion. I believe that Madonna is too.
Sorry TLP, your "true colours" are showing.
Appleby| 2.5.13 @ 7:10AM
I just avoided the entire event. I watch NCAA football where things are generally cleaner and there's a marching band at half time, not a screaming pole dance exhibition. After all, a league whose players are routinely arrested and jailed for behaving like gangland heavies, to the total shrug-off of those who are tasked with the overseeing of the rules can hardly be anything else. But as the cynics in hockey used to say, "If we let the players keep fighting, people will just watch more games." If there wasn't an audience, there wouldn't be a show.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:20PM
HOCKEY SUCKS!
Ronald54321| 2.5.13 @ 4:10PM
American culture is so low, I'm ashamed to be an American.
MelvinNC| 2.5.13 @ 7:11AM
The last time I watched a Super Bowel, it was when it had Micheal Jackson at half time. I used to watch the Super Bowl, when it was football. Like everything else when Madison Avenue, and Wall Street get involved in an American pastime they ruin it.
Same thing with NASCAR, it used to be enjoyable but when the Liberals took over and took Winston out of it, I have not watched another.
Who wants to watched one play of a game, and then suffer through thirty minutes of opinionated commentary of, "Well, Bob, the tight end was bent over a certain way and surely it means something." "Well, Rich you do have a point, especially when number 9 made those comments about homosexuality."
Vince Lombardi would be spinning in his grave, if he new what the state of American Football was in.
WRTolkas| 2.5.13 @ 12:23PM
Me too Melvin. That was the last Super Bowl for me.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:21PM
C'mon guys.
It was a Great Super Bowl.
PCC| 2.5.13 @ 7:13AM
I agree, Quin. I had to change the channel to protect my 12-year-old and 10-year-old from Beyonce's suggestive gyrations.
Stephie| 2.5.13 @ 7:19AM
I think the cat's out of the bag and there's no going back to good taste. That big mouthed woman who sang the National Anthem was horrible, many of the ads were offensive and of course the half time entertainment was like being at a stripper club. She just needed a pole to complete the event. Having my 86 yr old mother in the room while we watched this spectacle was embarrassing.
Alan| 2.5.13 @ 7:45AM
Why watch, just opt out.
Frank Drackman| 2.5.13 @ 8:15AM
Did you get one of those defective TVs with only one channel???
Frank Drackman| 2.5.13 @ 8:17AM
I feel your pain, parents can be embarassing.
Stephie| 2.5.13 @ 8:53AM
Actually, we did slip over to Downton Abby for a few during halftime and during lights out.
And Frank, you sound a tad nasty this morning.
Waccamaw| 2.5.13 @ 9:23AM
I am amused that Christians consider Super Bowl Sunday the most important Sabbath on the liturgical calendar. It looks to me like it now trumps Easter.
I agree with Mr. Hillyer: Popular culture is ". . . vile . . . lacking decency or restraint . . . and is irredeemable."
The U.S.A. is transitioning from a democracy into a pornocracy. And few culture critics are raising objections. Civility is losing its meaning, and now vulgarity is celebrated on teevee around the clock.
If Jesus Christ had appeared, hovering over the Superbowl's Half-Time Show, He would have been completely ignored. All eyes would have been on Beyonce's "bootylicious" body.
Waccamaw| 2.5.13 @ 9:31AM
The Super Bowl has striking similalarities to pagan entertainments similar to those held in Rome's Coliseum.
In much earlier times, in our Christian cultures the cathedrals of the cities were typically the largest and most magnificent buildings in tribute to Almighty God. What are usually the largest buildings in our cities today? They are our sports stadiums, and they are now the new cathedrals of pagan entertainments.
Waccamaw| 2.5.13 @ 9:37AM
The Left is not entirely responsible for our culture's "pungent rot," but they have been big contributors.
The majority of viewers of the horrifically offensive reality shows, such as Honey Boo Boo, are blue collar rightwingers.
And the words "crass and vile" can describe many of the responders on this site. They cannot post a comment without resorting to profanities and obscenities (TLP, for example).
Waccamaw| 2.5.13 @ 9:52AM
One last thing:
Few journalists commented on Michelle Obama's atrocious table manners at the Inaugural Luncheon. She had her elbow on the table, and she was hunched over her plate, shoveling the food in her mouth like it was gonna run away from her. Disgusting.
And Obama chewed gum throughout the parade. Chewed gum in public! Stop the world!
Why did hardly anyone find these behaviors offensive? Why?
Waccamaw| 2.5.13 @ 9:59AM
Sorry, I have one last pertinent comment:
The reason our popular culture is becoming more obscene is that YOUNG MALES ARE CONTROLLING THE ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS. Young males in their 20s are allowed to control our popular culture because they know that stupid vulgarity sells, and the Almight Dollar is everything. Aesthetics be damned.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:24PM
You're way over thinking this thing.
It's a Football Game.
Is it like the Gladiatorial Games of Ancient Rome?
Yeah.
So what.
It was a Great Game.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:26PM
And, if Ray Nagen didn't try to steal the Copper Wiring of the Super Dome?
It would've been a Raven Blowout.
Peppermint Tea | 2.5.13 @ 11:44AM
Did you see the thighs on that woman?
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 9:28AM
Steph,
This morning?
kj_ca| 2.5.13 @ 2:32PM
"no going back."
Sadly, I think you're correct.
I had not watched the SuperBowl in about 15 years, until last Sunday. Pro football is not that interesting to me, but I don't despise it (or I didn't). I was appalled at the half-time show.
I will never view that disgusting spectacle again. As for those in our nation who actually seek out and welcome such filth in the public arena, they did not grow up in the country I did.
Far as I can tell, I am now a stranger in a strange land.
Kitty | 2.5.13 @ 7:25AM
I think the Kate Upton car wash ad was reminiscent of the car wash scene in COOL HAND LUKE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnY_Jb9bmCg
The difference being in 1967 you had to be of a certain age to get into the theater to watch the movie.
Doctor_X| 2.5.13 @ 7:25AM
I think the last time I actually watched a half-time show the Buffalo Bills were playing in the Super Bowl. The ads by Go-Daddy and Calvin Kline also hit a new low. Why should we be surprised? Have any of you been to the mall lately? There are stores with window displays that my stepson is embarrassed to walk by. What about all the other garbage on TV like Two and Half Men? Any HAM radio or Shortwave listeners reading this tune to 14.313 Mhz and take a listen.
Where is Riley Hollingsworth when you need him !!!!!!!!!!!
Alan| 2.5.13 @ 7:45AM
I have not watched a Superbowl Halftime show in 30 years, let alone any commercials. I watch the game and when commercials appear I switch to something else without commercials. American Pop culture sank faster than the HMS Hood.
X, what time on the 14.313? I'll spin my NRD-535D knob and take a listen.
D
Doctor_X| 2.5.13 @ 10:21AM
try later afternoon or early evening...that is where all the wacko lid's hang out and make rants and drop the F-bomb like it was nothing.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:29PM
It WAS Nothing.
Stop being a Girl, for crying out loud.
Zeke in Oz| 2.6.13 @ 11:56PM
1415 good young men died when the HMS Hood was sunk by the Bismark in May 1941. You do yourself a dis-service by being disrespectful mate.
JmsA| 2.5.13 @ 7:47AM
I did not watch the half-time show, but I heard part of it as I tended to the barbecue, and it sounded just like overwrought wailing.
Peppermint Tea | 2.5.13 @ 11:46AM
Were you BBQing thighs?
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:29PM
Only the White ones.
Nancy in NC| 2.5.13 @ 7:56AM
How dare you all slander obama's friend. Are you racist?
Sarcasm off. If the woman has any talent you couldn't prove it by me. I'm glad Quin enlightened me as to some of the lyrics as I had no idea what any of the so called songs said. It just sounded like noise to me.
Does anyone see the correlation to the fall of Rome or is it just me?
Al Adab| 2.5.13 @ 8:19AM
In her biographical novel about Cicero, Pillar of Iron, Taylor Caldwell wrote, "Any resemblance between the late Roman republic and the United States of America is purely historical."
The words that came to mind as I watched, or rather suffered through, the halftime show were trashy and salacious. It is a mark of the nature of the popular culture that this entertains the needs and wishes of the people. One must ask, what comes next? It's a short road to the arena.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:31PM
What comes next?
Jenna Jameson and Ron Jeremy.
Bandido| 2.5.13 @ 2:43PM
Or Johnny W. Holmes and Linda Lovelace, from that big porn studio in the sky.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:45PM
No Fritos for you!
SUBVET| 2.5.13 @ 10:00AM
Babylon.........comes to mind.
Teflon93 | 2.5.13 @ 7:57AM
American culture is rotten to the bone. How could it not be? It's dominated by liberals and liberals have never had any taste.
Quartermaster| 2.5.13 @ 8:00AM
I went without broadcast TV over 10 years ago. No Cable, No dish. I let my grandkids watch DVDs that we have preapproved and nothing else. TV is simply broadcast depravity and not worth the cost of the electricity to run the thing.
Nancy, there is no correlation to the fall of Rome. Correlation is something otehr than what you think it means. The same trash that caused the fall of Rome, the lack of moral restraint, is causaing our fall. There is no future for a country whose culture is saturated with immorality.
Alan| 2.5.13 @ 8:08AM
Q, I think its past immoral and graduated to amoral quite a while back. I relish when some pop culture icons face is broadcast for some reason and I don't have the slightest idea who they are. Rot culture made its turn to the south in the late 70's and early 80's.
Al Adab| 2.5.13 @ 8:20AM
This is the path down which we travel when moral relativism becomes the ruling philosophy.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:32PM
I don't get it.
kj_ca| 2.5.13 @ 2:38PM
And therein lies the tale.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:48PM
I don't get it.
kj_ca| 2.6.13 @ 1:03PM
:-)
Al Adab| 2.5.13 @ 8:20AM
This is the path down which we travel when moral relativism becomes the ruling philosophy.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:32PM
I don't get it.
Occam's Tool| 2.5.13 @ 1:40PM
QM: on this we agree. Saves me $1000.00/yr NOT to get Cable.
My kids can watch films they want to watch on NetFlix; we watch silly stuff like "The Mole People" from our MST3K collection; or they watch documentaries on whatever they are studying in homeschool.
But we have gotten rid of crap like the "doodypops." (I think it's the "diddly bops," actually.) My kids read and think, and we talk about issues. For example, yesterday in the checkout line at Wal-Mart, the kids and my wife and I were discussing Da Vinci's "The Last Supper" and preservation problems with it.
They read, and do schoolwork, and play in the snow, and ride their Appaloosa, and pogo-stick, and go to Division I hockey games with mom and dad. In short, they have a life---and they get to see plenty of their friends who have parents with weird parenting styles.
And every night they get hugged and kissed by their dad, who says adopting them was the finest decision of his life, and that they are the best kids in the world. (By the way, their California Achievement Tests each year are 99th percentile)
Occam's Tool| 2.5.13 @ 1:42PM
Incidentally, who won? I didn't watch it. I saw a score on MSN that had the Ravens up by 5 in the 3rd quarter while I was looking for something else.
Waste of time crap.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:49PM
You missed a good one.
philippic| 2.7.13 @ 2:03PM
true.
but he may have been doing something better.
Ronald54321| 2.5.13 @ 4:33PM
There was a book published in 1976 called "Rated X The Moral Case Against Television." Every foul thing about TV was in full bloom that long ago. The culture has been rotten for a long time. Thank God for the Internet.
Frank Drackman| 2.5.13 @ 8:14AM
You shout it Brutha!!!!!!!
I remember walking out on Superbowl VII at halftime for the same reason, those "Up with People" hippies with their subluminal lyrics...
OK, it was really to go watch Pornos at my friend Brian's house, you remember how hard it was to get good porn in 1973??? Some Thangs have gotten better with technology...
Frank
JP| 2.5.13 @ 8:39AM
I suppose that's progress. The Super Bowl has become a Near Occaison of Sin (to cite my rusty memory of my old Catholic Baltimore Catechism).
However, you do make one point. The porn industry has led the way in many recent technological innovations, according an article from Znet. From the standardization of the VHS format, credit card ordering systems, to online e-transactions porn has blazed the way. Yippie!!!
Hardcard| 2.5.13 @ 8:21AM
ms.bouncey reminds me of the prostitutes on ho-walk in the apple circa 1970's and 80's ( P.G.) thats pre-Guilliani, same whig, same shoes,same clothes,same booty shake, she's turning big tricks now for pimpin' j.z. with a giant trick-pad and lots of johns.
kj_ca| 2.5.13 @ 2:40PM
A P-R-O by any other name. :-)
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 8:44AM
What's "Wrong" with the NFL and the NBA?
It's Black Culture.
Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap. 6 Kids with 6 Different Hos. Hats on backwards, Sneakers unlaced, and their Pants pulled down, Prison Style.
It's Black Culture.
Generational Welfare. Generational Single Parent Households. Generational Dropping out of School. Generational Gang Participation, Illegality and Incarceration.
It's Black Culture.
Apparently, it's also Black Cultute to be a Crooked Politician, as every day, it seems like one of'em is Perp Walking a Bribery Case, a Kickback Case or a Corruption Charge.
"Ray Nagin didn't do Nuthin! Marion Barry was a HERO to his people in the Hood. That's the way we do things around here. That's what we do around the Hood. It's a Black Thing."
"You Crackers don't get it!"
"Now, gets out my face, fore I mess you up!"
I trust the Truth is still honored around here?
The real sad thing is that I should be confident that my words will be left alone, and that I will remain a participating member of the group. But I'm not.
There are words that must Never Be Spoken. Facts, that must never be brought out in to the Light. Groups, who must Never be Held Accountable, lest the Accountor be Silenced, and his Name be Stricken from History.
And, that's why Chicago is a No Go City, and Detroit is disappearing under the Bulldozer's Blade.
If Daniel Payrick Moynihan was here? He'd say the same things I've said. And, they would come after him, as well.
Just like they used to.
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 9:12AM
TLP,
For evidence to what you've posted, you should watch Detroit city council meetings some time.
It's simultaneously depressing, shocking, and amusing....and a glimpse into the future of most of our large cities. You will see shocking displays of corruption, incompetence, and anger/frustration among it's citizens. Most of it a result of cultural decay.
Detroit is months, perhaps weeks from declaring bankruptcy, thus forcing the state to take over it's finances. The cuts in payments will be brutal. And when that happens, all hell will break loose.
Pecos Pete| 2.5.13 @ 9:32AM
Take a look at current pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki today, then look at current pictures of Detroit. Only a communist/marxist/liberal/progressive/moderate would think Detroit will survive their bomb.
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 10:38AM
I swear, look at pics of Detroit and it's beginning to look like a Planet of the Apes movie. No, I'm not talking about THAT, but, how vegetation has taken over entire buildings...entire blocks. Nature is winning the Battle of Detroit because the city cannot perform it's most basic responsibilities. Very post-apocalyptic.
There are architecturally significant buildings left abandoned because the city cannot afford to level them and no outside investors in their right mind are willing to spend a penny re-gentrifying that area.
Did you know one of the few bright spots in Detroit is a cottage industry called "ghetto tours"? Tourists from other countries - mostly Asian - travel to Detroit to visit the ruins.
Disgraceful!
Anthony| 2.5.13 @ 1:21PM
Bob, If the folks who I see when I watch Hard Core Pawn are typical of the denizens of Detroit, then I would welcome a return to nature.
I don't know if this show is staged, I pray it is, because, if the vulgar language, obscene gestures and just plain basic lack of humanity is real, then Detroit is better off if it returns to praire then remain a city. I'd rather see herds of buffalo than herds of the lowest form of human nature.
I watch these people and I am awed as to how low humanity has sunk.
Truly 60 years of leftism has created this rot, and if we don't stop these leftists, all of America will become, as you say, a "ghetto tour".
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:43PM
So, what are you saying?
You're watching Black Porn?
Cause, that's what it sounds like.
Alan| 2.5.13 @ 6:30PM
I was born and lived in Detroit, it was a great city before the 67 riots. People really don't understand how abandoned and gutted this city is, its stunning if you have never been there and gone through it. Miles and miles of abandoned factories, stores, houses, stripped and looted. The salvagers who strip this city in a way are doing some good, at least they are tearing down and reusing materials and in effect are creating what the city can't do which is return it to nature.
It really is like a Charleton Heston Planet of the Apes movie set.
The house I grew up in is now the only inhabited house on that block. The area my grandparents lived had nothing but grass and the sidewalks are so grown over that you can't even see the concrete anymore. Take a tour on Bing maps or google earth and get down close, start on the eastside and work west, it is total devastation.
CJW| 2.5.13 @ 5:12PM
Bob
Are you from Deeetroit? I thought you are in Dallas.
Speaking of Detroit, where is Nick? We have not heard from him since he went to fix a furnace or something for a "neighbor" or so he said.
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 7:13PM
"We have not heard from him since he went to fix a furnace or something for a "neighbor"
---That sounds like a beginning to a 48 hours episode. I hope he's OK.
Nick, I'm from Dallas but spent a little time in Detroit. I have a few family members who live just outside of the city and I've been on several tours. I didn't go to Iraq but it was dangerous enough for me. I fully expected to hear gunfire. No kidding. It's both rundown and eerilly abandoned. And we're talking just a few blocks from the busy part of downtown. I was expecting to see Charleton Heston walking down the middle of a street with a piece in his hand.
I've also been to Dearborn a few times on company business.
CJW| 2.5.13 @ 8:38PM
I also have relatives in "suburban" Detroit, and have spent some time there. You have to see it to believe it. It is the first American city to go from 2 million to 700,000 in population. In 1985 I drove on Gratiot from Cadillac/Kennedy Square downtown to 8 Mile and saw bldgs boarded up from the 67 riots.
I was in Dallas once for business, nothing stands out, but did like the show Dallas.
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 8:54PM
The difference between Dallas and Detroit is you have pockets of bad areas in Dallas; you have pockets of good areas in Detroit.
CJW| 2.5.13 @ 10:33PM
Bob
Good description. Had an overpriced dinner at Mansion on Turtle something. All I remember was driving on a 6 lane from hotel to convention center, and visiting where JFK got shot.
SUBVET| 2.5.13 @ 10:10AM
Tim......you chose your words wisely grasshopper....
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:44PM
Hai!
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 8:53AM
Good article Quin.
Anyone but me notice the creepy collectivist vibe that now pervades NFL games?
And why must obama give a pregame interview before every.stinking.Super Bowl game?
Is this now some government mandate?
This year's game might very well be the last one I watch. I get no joy from watching them so why bother?
Pecos Pete| 2.5.13 @ 9:39AM
I watched the Super Bowl using the Internet and, thankfully, didn't have to watch the expensive advertising broadcast over the cable or public air.
However, for the halftime show I clicked over to TAS and enjoyed the Contest. I couldn't imagine watching Beyonce bounce.
BTW, how about that "journalist" university person who complained about the military presence, the singing of the National Anthem, the presenting of the American Flag. I guess it goes along with displaying astonishingly poor taste with half-time shows ... and commercials.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:55PM
"I went to The Contest."
You are a Great American.
I mean that.
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 2:57PM
Why watch the SuperBowl when there's TBAGN?
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 3:00PM
Wiser Words have never been Spoken.
God Bless You, Bob Grant.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 3:01PM
How was Arnie's Abortion, by the way?
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 3:42PM
On the way, I took a detour through Detroit and let me say it worked out beautifully. He's now just part of their World famous statistic.
My car was beat to hell, though.
PolishKnight| 2.5.13 @ 10:10AM
Here's news for you folks: The leftist definition of pervosity is a two parent, married heterosexual family. EVERYTHING else is "normal" (they even have a show "the new normal"). When the left talks of "inclusiveness", they mean special privileges/entitlements for the everyone BUT a targeted group. So they just relabel discrimination and exclusivity by not mentioning the group they're targeting directly.
In THEIR view, a father and wife watching the game with their kids are a bunch of pervs. Of course, that demographic is still probably the norm (I imagine the left's typical demographic is probably watching The Real Housewives on Bravo.) So just as with the mainstream news media, it's target demographic increasingly has little reason to tune in other than HABIT. People watch the superbowl as a tradition (like going to church) so the left tries to take it over and subvert it that way.
Want to shock the left? Have a country music singer perform at the superbowl and sing about a happy father coming home to his wife. That'll drive every leftist crazy.
Peppermint Tea | 2.5.13 @ 11:48AM
I'd chose George Strait over a pair of thighs.
Rich D| 2.5.13 @ 10:15AM
Super Bowl? I went to a gun show.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:52PM
Gay.
C Smith | 2.5.13 @ 10:16AM
Just a matter of time:
"And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.... And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth" (Genesis 6:5-13).
Al Adab| 2.5.13 @ 1:29PM
"If my people, who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, then will I hear from heaven and restore their land." Fight like it depends on us and pray like it depends (as it does) on Him.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:59PM
"Woe be it to any man, who does not post at least 5 Entries at The Contest."
rjh| 2.5.13 @ 10:19AM
I missed the halftime show. After the past few years' shows, I pretty much knew what to expect. I got up and made my dinner instead.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:52PM
Real Men NEVER watch the Halftime Show.
They go to the Bathroom.
rjh| 2.5.13 @ 3:28PM
Did that too.
sickofit5| 2.5.13 @ 10:20AM
I have often thought that if I were an alien, space not mexican, and suddenly landed in front of TV in the US I would, if so inclined, come to the conclusion that earth was primarily inhabited by black men with blondes attached to their arms. The remaining population were white dudes that talked with a lisp. TLP, it is the black culture and woe be unto any black person that is critical of the modern black gang banger culture that dominates. Immediately, they are attacked as being an Uncle Tom or Oreo although Beyonce and the rest of Destiny's Child all sported straight caucasian hair and not a word will be mentioned. We send our kids to the same schools and ours come out acting like gang bangers, droopy jeans and all.
We are in the 21st century and we are no further along with blacks and whites melting together than we were in the 1800's. We are more balkanized now more than ever and the guy in the WH is doing everything he can to make it worse.
Peppermint Tea | 2.5.13 @ 11:48AM
I would think the Earth's inhabitants worship thighs.
Bandido| 2.5.13 @ 12:08PM
You must own at least a dozen Thighmasters.
fmm| 2.5.13 @ 12:17PM
With your fixation, would the word thunder relate to yours?
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 2:57PM
What about Thigh Master?
Does that mean anything to you?
Cause, I'm thinking that it does.
Rockabilly| 2.5.13 @ 10:29AM
We ARE now almost Europe. Long has most of Europe treated human sex as a pass time, a commodity, and our "intellectual" betters here lamented the up tight prudishness of America. I hope they are happy now with the profusion of not just sex, but every fetish known to man and beast is now in every aspect of our lives. The Romans never had it so good and would envy the decadent, hedonistic, shallow, and self indulgent society we have become. We are a society that treats abortion lightly, and glorifies sexual promiscuity. We watch sex, text it, send sex pics, saturate music with graphic sex, and generally abase human dignity buy abusing human sexuality and divorcing it from love. Are we all just "Johns" seeking physical release as a service? It truly is sad.
PolishKnight| 2.5.13 @ 10:34AM
It's ironic that one of the few places that's not sexed up is the American workplace which is as more prude than during Victorian times. European men that come to the states remark that American women are unfeminine.
Sex isn't the only way that Americans are unhealthily prudish but also alcohol. Largely only in the states and Muslim countries are teens under 21 but over 18 find it difficult to get a drink and feel pressure to engage in binge drinking either among other teens or the day they turn 21. You can thank conservatives for the 21 age limit laws. Big government helping you via controlling your life.
fmm| 2.5.13 @ 12:20PM
Maybe we should start putting alcohol in baby formula?
Peppermint Tea | 2.5.13 @ 11:50AM
I'll have a burger with a side of thighs.
Bandido| 2.5.13 @ 12:20PM
Funny stuff, my brother.
Bandido| 2.5.13 @ 11:07AM
Culturally, we are getting what we asked for. People wanted Obama and he was reelected. The culture (and a new/old lament should now be, When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver) has not yet hit rock bottom, but that time is coming. The only thing that can stop the descent would be a massive shock to teach perspective, like a world war or great famine or a collapsed economy a la Weimar Germany. Absent that, as a nation we will continue to roll in the reek and cess. The people want it, and the cultural elites will oblige them.
Jack London| 2.5.13 @ 11:56AM
Bring back the Andrews Sisters, I say. Plus a good barber shop quartet. That would have been much better.
Anthony| 2.5.13 @ 1:44PM
Clever troll. Since it appears America's collapse will occur while I am still fairly mobile, the good news is that I'll get to kick some lefty ass for real.
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 7:45PM
Actually, Destiny's Child wouldn't be worthy of performing a microphone check for the Andrew Sisters. Come to think of it, They wouldn't know HOW to perform a microphone check because that would require singing into a microphone, something foreign to the 'children'.
Solo| 2.5.13 @ 12:10PM
Each year it seems, the NFL tries to out-do the vulgar displays of the previous year. If the Super Bowl survives that long, our grandchildren will be watching live sex shows during half-time. And why not? We practically are now what with the writhing around in lingerie and squawking obscenities while flashing lights entertain the masses.
And then, of course, there is the obligatory butchering of our National Anthem to endure each year. And this year....an added "treat" as the Sandy Hook Elementary school choir sings "America The Beautiful--So Long As There Are No Guns" (in case you missed the underlying message of THAT little performance).
The whole thing has become a freak show with short intermissions to watch football.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 3:03PM
Please go to my Comment, at the top.
That should give you the explanation that you seek.
Pecos Pete| 2.5.13 @ 5:43PM
To seek is only to seek that which is seek, or healthy. Yeah, I know, it is a seek joke.
fmm| 2.5.13 @ 12:23PM
Since the super bowl is usually a boring anti-climax to the season, maybe they are trying to make up for that with the halftime show.
Stan Redmond| 2.5.13 @ 12:53PM
There is an article (my apologies I can't find the source right now) pointing out the decline of the white family to soon be on par with the destroyed black family. In otherwords. The brave new world of racial equality is coming to fruition thanks to generations of progressive policies. It is a slow insidious process that aspires all Americans, save for the lucky few elites, to become as the black family exists in Chicago and Detroit. The superbowl is part of that media onslaught. The most powerful ally the progressives have created is the internal sense of keeping yourself and others down without having to do anything. Stalin used starvation and a ruthless armed force to keep his people in check. Castro used execution and terror squads. the democrat progressive party uses Obamaphones and food stamps as bread and the superbowl is the biggest circus of all.
Seek| 2.5.13 @ 1:17PM
Quin Hillyer's jeremiad moves me to paraphrase Macaulay: "We know no spectacle so ridiculous as American cultural conservatives in one of their periodic fits of morality." I, like tens of millions of others, saw the same halftime display of "filth," "garbage" and "sludge" (choose your own "eeeeeeewwwww" word, if you must) by Beyonce and her band. Pardon my manners, but I found the show highly entertaining. The music, choreography, graphics and set design were superb. Somehow I failed to notice any outbreaks of rape or murder afterward.
Those Deeply Offended, like our friend Hillyer, should have averted thine eyes. They would have spared the rest of us their usual moral tsk-tsk, ever and always possessed of the delusion that observing "sin" triggers its outbreak within ourselves. Let's hope TAS doesn't go the way of Savonarola.
Anthony| 2.5.13 @ 2:03PM
They're were many such trolls like Seek who watched these high-tech choreographed pyrotechnics, with their child like awe ,without a conscious acknowledgment of the actual rot on display.
You, like your fellow leftists, are blinded by the rot, the delusion of progressiveism.
Seek| 2.5.13 @ 2:53PM
Has it ever occurred to you, as your stone-faced dogmatism would have it, that I'm a libertarian, not a "Leftist?" I happen to enjoy a wide range of popular music. If that makes me guilty of something, so be it. I'd rather enjoy Beyonce for the r&b populism she represents than wallow in whatever afflicts you.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 3:05PM
That's why you're an Idiot.
Seek| 2.5.13 @ 7:06PM
"Idiot?" Is that the best you can do, TLP? Let's see some of that Bloomsbury wit.
In case you missed my point, I was expressing an aesthetic view, not a political one. Personally, I'm a libertarian conservative. But my politics are irrelevant in this case. The show was enjoyable. These aren't the last days of the Roman Empire. Unfortunately, people like yourself never seem fulfilled unless you project political motive onto someone else so as to arrest our Shocking Cultural Collapse.
Now go to your room.
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 8:18PM
I see you're still Seeking a clue.
Answer me this Seeker. In your mind, what constitutes family viewing, or do you even believe in the concept of the entire family gathering to watch a show together?... Do you have kids between the ages of say, 7 to 13? ...Do you have older family members or acquaintances who might have felt, understandably, offended by the halftime show? ...or do you even care?
Because if you truly believe in Family Viewing, there should be standards for what is acceptable FOR ALL Viewers.
Is "is my body too bootylicious for ya" really acceptable for younger children or the elderly who might be slightly offended?
And don't bother giving me the standard "just change the channel" answer.
Mnestheus| 2.5.13 @ 10:48PM
As the Superbowl's competitor in the cultural vulgarity sweepstakes, TAS own standard of bootyliciousness is the wonder of the anti-intellectual age.
Kudos to Quinn's dubious achievement!
Bob Grant| 2.5.13 @ 11:14PM
"standard of bootyliciousness is the wonder..."
What, prey tell, does that even mean? Pure gibberish.
Put the crack pipe down and go back to your cell. I'm sure your work release officer is wondering where you are.
philippic| 2.7.13 @ 2:14PM
your getting close. his post was ABOUT HIM.
Jack London| 2.5.13 @ 3:55PM
Seek - these guys remind me of the character in Good Morning Vietnam who tried to get Robin William's character to stop playing James Brown.
vikings4123| 2.10.13 @ 12:57AM
Nobody held a gun to your head forcing you to read Quin's article. So, your comments are a non-sequitor. Nobody really gives a rat's **s 'bout how you are moved.
MTB| 2.5.13 @ 1:17PM
The only way programming will change is when people cancel their cable/dish subscriptions. But that's not going to happen, so we and our children and grandchildren will continue to be bombarded with this filth labeled as entertainment. And yes I, myself, have canceled all television input (cable/dish/antenna) and have never been happier. I don't miss it.
Zeppo| 2.5.13 @ 4:36PM
Not mine. If I did one thing right as a parent, it is that I brought my kids up without TV. I didn't ban it--it just wasn't on their list of ways to spend time because we never watched it.
Louis Jenkins| 2.5.13 @ 1:34PM
The Katrina crowd and the SB half time crowd/show about summed it up for me. A bunch of Wannabees, half wiggers. Couldn't understand the words to the songs, only paid half attention anyway, and my spouse loudly stated, "That woman should be ashamed."
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 3:04PM
The Left has no Shame.
I thought you knew that.
Dimitry_Aleksandrovich| 2.5.13 @ 2:38PM
What you saw is the end result of the 60's sexual revolution combined with Gordon Gekko "Greed is Good" capitalism. Sex sells Quinn. Beyonce is probably one of the least offensive pop-artists in the grand scheme of things.
philippic| 2.7.13 @ 2:16PM
yes...but...someone gets to practice a little redistribution with her kids one day. what's wrong with that?
Commander Kelly | 2.5.13 @ 2:53PM
Well said Quin! See my post "Tale of Two Superbowl Ads" only here...
http://americanconservativeinl.....pot.co.uk/
Controse| 2.5.13 @ 2:55PM
Political cowardliness, cultural debauchery, dissolving self-discipline, is this generation really any different from any that have gone before? Somehow humanity muddles through to a better tomorrow.
TLP| 2.5.13 @ 3:06PM
Again: I don't get it.
Ronald54321| 2.5.13 @ 4:05PM
The public has never known anything but porn. Anything decent would be alien and warped to over 90% of the public.
geronl| 2.7.13 @ 2:39AM
Normalizing paedophilia is the next big crusade for the pervs in this country, you see it all over TV and movies.
Mistral| 2.8.13 @ 3:13PM
Not only that but also bestiality, incest, any form of rape and other as yet unthinkable outrageous perversion they can imagine.
No one will ever be safe again. The state has assumed such control of family life through all this that eventually everyone will be potential abuse victims except that the law will no longer protect anybody. Expect social anarchy.
Mistral| 2.8.13 @ 3:07PM
Intelligent parents who respect each other and truly love their children would never expose their children or one other to such obscene garbage. Those who do are irresponsible morons who should not be given parental status. It demonstrates the mindless stupidity of the mass of Americans that attend these functions. Who cares about sport when children are going to be instantly corrupted by the peripherals which frankly are more central to the event than most people think? They know who is performing and they know what to expect. There is no excuse. Indeed, the organisers know that most people who go do not think because they know the fans have no discernment and actually enjoy low grade bilge.
It appears almost as though some types of parents actually hate their children in making them sit in front of all this filthy and obscene junk. They seem to want their corruption as a perverse self-justification.
avafromtexas| 2.8.13 @ 4:06PM
Our society is rotting from the inside out. Think of Rome.
God help us.
Kevin Gutzman | 2.9.13 @ 9:58AM
As an avid supporter of President Reagan, I have to admit that he seems to have erred in eliminating the historic TV decency rules.
vikings4123| 2.10.13 @ 12:19AM
Well written, Quin. "Cultural rot" is exactly capturing the sentiment I felt as I witnessed her "show". That was not entertainment. It was self-aggrandizement on steroids. Each year the "artists" seem to have as their only goal, an objective to outdo the prior year in raw, gutter-level displays of self-indulgent displays of barely-contained sexually promiscuous acts on a world stage. I could not even understand what few words she sang other than "halo". How ironic. The word "halo" used in that "performance".
Marc Jeric| 2.10.13 @ 2:57AM
That half-time "show" was so painfully stupid, in addition of being pornographic in a most primitive and demeaning way. Then again those ad guys perhaps know well that they are dealing with a nation of uneducated idiots and creeps.
Freedomfighter_99| 2.10.13 @ 11:36PM
Well, look who they elected President!
Freedomfighter_99| 2.10.13 @ 11:36PM
I watched about 10 seconds of Beyonces performance. I was sitting with my wife and I found it immediately offensive. I gallantly flipped the channel and did not come back until I thought it was safe. The Lord rewarded my discretion and when I flipped back, they were lining up for the second-half kickoff. This SB half-time porn is really getting old.
Jimbobogie| 2.13.13 @ 2:45PM
Mr. Hillyer-the Super Bowl is one of the biggest tributes to free enterprise and the spirit of capitalism in the history of the world-and you would want to restrict it?
...sounds like a socialist...