Super bowl attacked from the Left

[Cocoa]

well, a critique appearing in a lefty publication at least.

http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin02052007.html

Last night's Super Bowl was a Roman Vomitorium of odious spew. This wasn't the good, the bad, and the ugly. It was the dreary, the vile, and the insipid made only palatable by the thought of Mike Ditka in a dark bar drinking whiskey shots, chased with the salty discharge humans call tears.

The game itself, even more than most Super Bowls, ill-served a thrilling NFL season. Despite an electric Devin Hester 92 yard kick off return to open the came, the game quickly devolved into sloppy boredom as the ball and steady rain combined to create something closer to the Poseidon Adventure than a football game.

Color Commentator Phil Simms told us early on that the "weather wouldn't be a factor." Not since we were told the "insurgency is in its last throes" has my dear, innocent television emitted such idiocy. At the NFL's recommendation--perhaps on advice from the geniuses at Halliburton?--the field was left uncovered all day. As a result, there were eight turnovers in the game, with five first half fumbles. Even worse, despite CBS's investment in 47 High Definition cameras, the lenses were continuously fogged. It was like Cujo was attacking the screen, trying to slobber all over my pretzels.

Yes, the game was close, but when the graphic came on screen that the Colts had 20 first downs to the Bears' four, it only confirmed my impression of what was really happening: a dingy mismatch.

As often occurs in Super Bowls, the Bears got desperate in the second half, which meant their hapless quarterback, Rex Grossman, started winging his famous dying quails all over the field. He threw so many of these lame ducks, he's lucky Dick Cheney didn't emerge from the stands to shoot him in the face. At that point, there wasn't a bookie in Reno who would have let you bet that Rex would throw a disastrous game changing interception, which is exactly what happened when Kelvin Hayden with 11:44 left in the game, returned one for a score.

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[scarletwoman]

1. "...he's lucky Dick Cheney didn't emerge from the stands to shoot him in the face."

Oh lordy! That's hilarious! :rofl:

[Scooter24]

2. LOL!!

:rofl:

[FtWayneBlue]

3. "Of course, clean living and being on the side

of GOD is what won it for the Colts." I am ashamed to live in Indiana.
Vomitorium indeed.

[BlueJazz]

4. God did it...I have Proof !!