“Give them bread and circus and they will never revolt.”
– Juvenal, Roman Poet
The Super Bowl is nothing but circus, and your ruffles potato chips nothing but bread, and while you sit idly being entertained by grown men running a piece of leather across some arbitrary white line the real problems persist. Sports were designed during the ancient times as a form of secular worship, something rulers quickly picked up on. Since then it has been routine of regimes to distract the masses with the shell games of the sports and entertainment industries. The Super Bowl is no exception and in fact is the reason for the rule. The cultural fascination with with this “game” is baffling to me. If the Patriots win, we get nothing, if the other team wins, we get nothing. Across the country millions of dollars will be spent on this one night to simply watch a game you easily could view at any elementary school during recess. The Super Bowl is nothing but a void of empty aspirations and vacant dreams distracting us from the sorrows of the world.
Quinn Proudler is a bi-weekly columnist for the Daily Olivian.
“Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
-Vince Lombardi, Second Greatest Coach of All Time
It’s cold hard facts. More than a third a country watches the big game, with that number increasing every year, how can you not think that the Super Bowl is amazing? This event brings many people together, every year you have your best group of friends and you guys sit down, eat a lot of food, and see who is going to hold that sweet Lombardi Trophy. It is just an added bonus that the Patriots are in it every year. If the Patriots win, we get a great parade, and another ring for the GOAT. Another day of rejoice. People who do not care about football or think it’s a barbaric sport with no meaning are just bashing a thing that brings all of America together for one night. One day a year, we get to watch what is usually the best game of the season as it is the two best teams going head to head. Stop thinking about it as just another football game, because it is not just another football game. It represents hard work, perseverance, and good qualities that all young people should have. It unites the masses, rooting for the team you want to win, no matter where you are in the country. It is beautiful. It is the Super Bowl.
Garret Wood is a bi-weekly columnist for the Daily Olivian.