Super Sunday 2015
Wouldn't Super Bowl Sunday be a great day to make a clean break from the NFL? Football is the cock-fighting of human sports, and a corporate institution more arrogant than the NFL may not exist anywhere. In fact, the league is so arrogant that it claims a non-profit mission. The Rams are headed to Los Angeles after next season. That fact is crystal clear. And why do fans always wait for their teams to dump them? I deserve better.The St. Louis Rams have only existed for two decades, but for those two decades, their owners have been nothing but a financial drag on their home city. First, it was an expensive dome at taxpayer expense, and now they want another stadium when the one they have is perfectly fine. The team plays only eight home games a year-- two or more that conflict with Cardinals home games-- and they draw virtually no fans to the downtown area from outside the metro. The money that gets spent on the team by the locals is just money that gets shifted from elsewhere. Every economic study confirms this. The sport really just exists as a television product.
The conventional wisdom is that the "bad year" the NFL has had is based on the commissioner's underwhelming reaction to instances of domestic violence, and the hypocrisy of the league's rules for players versus the rules for the commissioner and for team executives. But the item that troubles my conscience is the item that always has-- who gets rich and who gets taken to the cleaners.
What comes next is some deep soul-searching.
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Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin can get an excessive celebration penalty for tossing the ball away in a spin-like fashion onto the end zone turf after a touchdown catch, but Packers players can make a celebratory jump into the end zone stands any time they want.
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What will make me watch the Super Bowl next year? Only one thing I can think of: Charlie Wilson performing at half-time. Uncle Charlie would destroy it. The two teams would probably refuse to take the field in the second half for fear of following his act.
posted by CM @ 8:02 PM
1 Comments:
I agree that the celebration rules are not consistent. However, Baldwin did more than just spin the ball. Most assuredly you've now seen his full pantomime on Deadspin.
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