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Did you watch the Super Bowl?

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« on: February 09, 2016, 02:22:45 pm »


Mark Morford

Farewell and good riddance from San Francisco, Super Bowl

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist | 11:12AM PST - Monday, February 08, 2016

Sign most likely to be vandalized because it's terribly ugly anyway, Super Bowl edition.
Sign most likely to be vandalized because it's terribly ugly anyway, Super Bowl edition.

CAN WE say it now? Is it safe? Are all those Homeland Security bros and confused-looking U.S. Army personnel, with their assault rifles, bomb-sniffing dogs and nervous glares, on their way back to base? What about the military snipers, Blackhawk helicopters, nuclear radiation detectors, FBI investigators, additional surveillance cameras? Is NFL commissioner Roger Goodell back in his cryogenic deep freeze until the next time he's called upon to decimate some other city and/or defend brain damage?

Excellent. Let's go for it.

Farewell, and good riddance from San Francisco, Super Bowl. You will not be missed.

No reason to be delicate about this. Goodbye to your bloat and garishness. So long to your manufactured patriotism, your bogus Americana, your vulgar $4,500 tickets, your chauvinistic arrogance, your drug, rape, sexual abuse, spying and cheating scandals, your nauseating foodstuffs, your Tostitos and liquid cheese and your Pizza Hut Garlic Knots and your oceans upon oceans of pisswater Bud Light. Verily, Super Bowl, you passed through the Bay Area like a kidney stone.


Super Bowl City sure looks snazzy and well-attended in this artists' rendering. The reality was far uglier, tackier, and, let's just say it, embarrassing.
Super Bowl City sure looks snazzy and well-attended in this artists' rendering. The reality was far uglier, tackier,
and, let's just say it, embarrassing.


Cute. Like, your-5-year-old-daughter-will-love-this-ad, cute.
Cute. Like, your-5-year-old-daughter-will-love-this-ad, cute.

Spectacle is fun. Spectacle is uplifting and awesome. Except when it's all centered around violence and corporate sponsors and profiteering on brain damage. Good thing they had some mediocre fireworks! The game itself was stupendously boring and awful.
Spectacle is fun. Spectacle is uplifting and awesome. Except when it's all centered around violence and
corporate sponsors and profiteering on brain damage. Good thing they had some mediocre fireworks!
The game itself was stupendously boring and awful.


Metallica would have made the half-time show something altogether more epic and unforgettable. Ironic that the “manly” NFL is too wimpy to allow it.
Metallica would have made the half-time show something altogether more epic and unforgettable.
Ironic that the “manly” NFL is too wimpy to allow it.


Wait! Do not misunderstand. This is not anti-spectacle, or even anti-sport. Sporting events large and small can be marvelous and unifying; game days are as good excuse as any to gather friends and enjoy company and freely mock Coldplay's bright, vacuous flaccidness. We flourish with the World Series. We rock the San Francisco Marathon. Events like Outside Lands and Hardly Strictly? Grand and messy and wonderful. And so on. Also, Beyoncé is a total badass. I mean, clearly.

But the Super Bowl is a different beast entirely. Uglier, more sour and destructive and laughably, ruthlessly inelegant. The game is not about sportsmanship, or athleticism, or friendly rivalry. It's publicly sanctioned, heavily sponsored violence. It often represents the worst in televised American sports, not the best. And the game is frequently boring as mud.

I don't know all the exact logistics — because many have been kept intentionally murky and buried — but reports say San Francisco taxpayers were slammed for more than $5 million to host the Bowl, which is about what the NFL makes in nine seconds of broadcasting. Other reports say Super Bowl City was a disaster, poorly planned and under-attended, given how the game itself was fully 45 miles away, in a tiny town that suffered not a single indignity and made all its money back in advance. How many backroom massages did San Francisco mayor Ed Lee promise to Roger Goodell to host this lurid silliness? No idea.

Nevertheless, you, yourself, were watched, and closely. Did you know if were hanging around the Bay Area at all during Super Bowl week, you were tracked and recorded in any number of ways? Security in San Francisco was omnipresent and sinister. Did you remember to wear your ‘Allah is My Homeboy’ T-shirt?


I'd far rather watch this woman dominate a stadium for 4 hours. Adequate levels of cool.
LEFT: I'd far rather watch this woman dominate a stadium for 4 hours. | RIGHT: Adequate levels of cool.

Let's be fair: It's easy to criticize. Most people understand the NFL is a massive, insane scam, a multibillion-dollar machine run by rich white males, made of counterfeit jingoism wrapped in millions in brain-trauma litigation payouts. The league and its owners rake in billions even as taxpayers and cities line up to subsidize new stadiums. Few humans are actual fans of the titanic “non-profit” corporation that is Goodell's NFL.

But then again, some certainly are. Furious football supporters have let me know it's downright un-American to hate on the Super Bowl, that it's an “honor” for any city to host the NFL's colossal circus. “If you don't like the game, don't watch it,” they argue, derailing the point entirely.

It's at least partially true; the NFL has spent billions to shut down critics and forcibly enshrine itself as the all-American, righteously nationalistic proto-sport. The Blue Angels! The Budweiser horses! Military ceremonies! Doritos and Chevy and a bunch of creepy pharmaceutical commercials promoting drugs for diarrhea and irritable bowel! Who are you to question it?

Don't forget rampant sexism, barely veiled rape culture and of course, the epidemic of degenerative brain disease that has officially afflicted hundreds of players — if not pretty much all of them — from high school football on up.


Coldplay needed some help, apparently.
Coldplay needed some help, apparently.

How lovely! No really. A sweet rainbow message to counter the game's — and the league's — shameless reliance on brutal violence, bodily harm, steroid injections, sexual abuse coverups, and so on.
How lovely! No really. A sweet rainbow message to counter the game's — and the league's — shameless
reliance on brutal violence, bodily harm, steroid injections, sexual abuse coverups, and so on.


Pop lite.
Pop lite.

He's just excited for Beyonce to come out and make the show far more badass and amazing.
He's just excited for Beyonce to come out and make the show far more badass and amazing.

Have you read Joe Montana's comments lately? What about the recent death of Ken Stabler, the famed Raiders QB? According to researchers at Boston University, “Stabler had high Stage 3 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head.”

This much you know: When the President of the United States declares unequivocally that he would not let his own sons (if he had any sons) play football due to the undeniable risk of permanent brain damage, and yet the NFL juggernaut plows along bigger and louder than ever, something's amiss.

But let's keep it in frame: the Super Bowl did not serve San Francisco at all well. And if all reports are accurate, San Francisco did not serve the event well, either. We were, apparently, a lousy host; the City failed in numerous ways to make space for all the ridiculousness the NFL's cavalcade of orchestrated brutality hurls forth.

Which, for most of us, is fantastic news indeed. We didn't much care for you, and you fit us like the Mormon church taking over Folsom Street Fair. Let us part ways amicably, and never try this again. Deal?


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« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2016, 04:51:48 pm »

Could it be? One of our resident bigots posting his anti American crap again.
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« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2016, 05:27:28 pm »


Errrrrrr.....merely posting a column written by an American.

If you think it is anti-American crap, may I suggest you take it up with the American columnist who wrote it.

A clickable link to his email address is at the bottom of the article.

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« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2016, 06:26:56 pm »

...haha..yeah..its the american .....anti american Shocked...wonder why he still lives there and does not move to utopia in russia Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2016, 06:56:27 pm »


'cause he does live in his utopia....it's called San Francisco.

It's just a pity it is attached to the middle bit of the country and in the south where all the fucked-in-the-head, bible-bashing, gun-toting, rightie weirdos reside.

Californians have the good sense to keep those rightie retards (Republicans) out of controlling state government in their state.

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« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2016, 07:01:31 pm »

"'cause he does live in his utopia....it's called San Francisco."

...oh...so there are no guns, or righties, or corporations or fast food outlets there...great..must be really nice Tongue
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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2016, 08:08:18 pm »


Errrrrrr.....merely posting a column written by an American.

If you think it is anti-American crap, may I suggest you take it up with the American columnist who wrote it.

A clickable link to his email address is at the bottom of the article.



Your constant Mark Mokford anti American posts are no different to Realitys constant anti left Slater posts. Both of you are about as bigoted as each other. Must be brothers.
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« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2016, 05:29:59 am »

Attn Ali:


"Your constant Mark Mokford anti American posts are no different to Realitys constant anti left Slater posts."
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« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2016, 07:08:01 am »

Pull your head out of the sand Reality. I have made it very clear in several posts that you are BOTH as bad as each other.
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« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2016, 01:48:24 pm »

San Francisco is the mutant utopia of the queers

http://www.sdgln.com/entertainment/2011/01/22/san-francisco-mutant-utopia-queers#sthash.MOZ0Vnnk.dpbs

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« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2016, 04:11:37 pm »


The national song?  ! Hurt my ears. !

I waited until tonight's News to see the wee love-tickle feelie


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« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2016, 05:27:36 pm »

"If you aren't living life on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

...as they say😳
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