A Slightly Different Perspective On The Super Bowl

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Ahso!
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A Slightly Different Perspective On The Super Bowl

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I found this piece at Salon.com If you're interested in CT.

Douglas, who's been battling cancer for the last couple of years, lent his voice to "The Journey to Super Bowl XVL," a pre-game video montage that uneasily introduced the narrative of the evening: surviving. There were still images and news footage of average Americans bravely muddling through in difficult times (wars, the Great Depression) and rising to inspiring heights even as the world seemed to be going mad around them (JFK, Martin Luther King, the 9/11 first responders). It was typical Super Bowl mythological puffery; whatever hardships the players and coaching staff of the Packers and Steelers endured pale in comparison to what working-class Americans went through in the last few years, and let's not even get into the 1930s.


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