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Super Bread Bowl and Silly Circus Share#4 P1&2 [13+]

Today is Super Bowl Sunday in a world far far away from Reality in the Land of Smiles and Stench (disclaimer: I do not work for the tourist bureau).

SB LVII will be start at 06:30 ICT. I'm sure that there will be a crowd of expats watching; however, I wont be one of them.

I do like both teams so I have no favorite. But... UStatians love to choose sides and fight fight fight.

It's a basic bread-and-circus extravaganza brought to you by America, Inc.

The players, no matter how talented, are overpaid. The advertisers spend a fortune ($7,000,000 for 30 seconds). Half-time cost $13,000,00 3 years ago. Tickets cost $66,000,000. Winning players will receive $157,000... each.

The numbers are astronomical.

This in a country that argues over minimum wage, whether the wealthy should be taxed, whether poor people are free loaders, whether health care is a basic universal right.

America has its priorities.

May it go the Way of Rome.

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P2. Superbowl - separate entry from Professional Sports - opinion

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