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quislibetSo J. turned on the TV last night just before dinner was ready out of idle curiosity concerning the Superbowl score, just in time for the half-time show. Well, we thought, let's eat in the living room and surely we'll see these fabulous commercials everyone is always on about! Instead, all of the commercials we saw seemed to be for "CSI," so we felt a bit cheated. Still, before we switched over to catch a few minutes of Cary Grant and Myrna Loy trying to build their dream house (and before, ultimately, getting back to work), we saw Janet's breast and the Riverdance streaker guy, so there was our requisite dose of football-related nudity for the weekend, and just in time, too.
Apparently the Patriots won. This news strikes me much as would the information that a friend of a friend had just been promoted at work, or that someone I know only slightly has gone and got engaged to someone I don't know at all. "Good for them!" I would think, perhaps even going so far as to follow that with "Let the next sip of this drink I was drinking anyway be in celebration."
(Flattening people with my Ford Explorer in celebration, however, would not occur to me, but I guess it works for some. Go Pats!)
Now, J., whose feelings about the Patriots are on par with mine, contends that any real New England sports fan (at least those that live on this side of New Haven, I suspect, and out of the Big Apple Hegemonic Region) would gladly trade last night's apparently thrilling last-minute victory for a Red Sox win (recently retroactive or future). Certainly I would, and I watch only about one baseball game every three years. You'd think the my fondest wishes would go to the Pats as the only Boston-area sports team that doesn't affect my subway commute between Kenmore and the Fleet Center,(*) but there it is.
But let us open this up: What do you think? Do two Superbowl wins in three years constitute an unfair hoarding of New England Sports Good Karma?
(I'd set up a poll, but I'd have to open a different browser for that, and I can't be bothered.)
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(*) I hadn't remembered the existence of The Revolution when I wrote that sentence, but I can hardly be faulted for that.
Apparently the Patriots won. This news strikes me much as would the information that a friend of a friend had just been promoted at work, or that someone I know only slightly has gone and got engaged to someone I don't know at all. "Good for them!" I would think, perhaps even going so far as to follow that with "Let the next sip of this drink I was drinking anyway be in celebration."
(Flattening people with my Ford Explorer in celebration, however, would not occur to me, but I guess it works for some. Go Pats!)
Now, J., whose feelings about the Patriots are on par with mine, contends that any real New England sports fan (at least those that live on this side of New Haven, I suspect, and out of the Big Apple Hegemonic Region) would gladly trade last night's apparently thrilling last-minute victory for a Red Sox win (recently retroactive or future). Certainly I would, and I watch only about one baseball game every three years. You'd think the my fondest wishes would go to the Pats as the only Boston-area sports team that doesn't affect my subway commute between Kenmore and the Fleet Center,(*) but there it is.
But let us open this up: What do you think? Do two Superbowl wins in three years constitute an unfair hoarding of New England Sports Good Karma?
(I'd set up a poll, but I'd have to open a different browser for that, and I can't be bothered.)
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(*) I hadn't remembered the existence of The Revolution when I wrote that sentence, but I can hardly be faulted for that.
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