On Super Bowl Sunday, Americans give thanks for all they still have, meagre though it may be, and for all the Super Bowls yet to come
The game is the event, but the halftime show is the attraction. On some lizard-brain level, all of America understands that this is the last way in which the country broadcasts its dominion to the rest of us.With those two advertisements for the United States losing traction, what does America have left? Bad movies. Tremulous artists. Silicon Valley in disarray. A humbled military. Nobody wants its cars.
I was at the blackout Super Bowl in New Orleans in 2013. It happened right after the third-quarter restart. I was sitting up in the second tier with a bunch of semi-rich, extremely drunk yahoos . For a minute after the lights dimmed, I expected anarchy. That’s usually what you get when you add together a great deal of liquor, impossibly high expectations and a low tolerance for boredom. But no one fussed. People waited happily for things to resume.
If the Super Bowl has become a secular religious experience for those watching at home, then it is a pilgrimage for the wealthy and well-connected few who get to go. If you are American and successful and haven’t gone to at least one Super Bowl then, really, what was the point? You were too busy working? Working at what? Becoming a Communist?
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