Didn’t watch much of the Superbowl. And I’m not one of those people who watches the commercials either. I figure sooner or later I’ll see the commercials again. (What company spends all that money on a Superbowl commercial and doesn’t bother recycling it during regular tv?). Talking about the Super Bowl commercials is the type of inane discussion that goes on morning talk radio. Which ad did you like the best? Well, none of them. They’ll all be forgotten in 3 months.
The Raiders, for the most part, played terribly. The Raiders fans treated the Titans fans pretty bad during the AFC Championship game. So we were all hoping the Bucs would set them in their place. And Oakland’s fans rioted anyways. Would anybody mind telling Oakland that they’re actually a suburb of the glitzier San Francisco? No one goes to Oakland for vacation, unless they’re going to an A’s game.
And I kept hearing about how there’s a city of Tampa, yet the Bucs are forever linked to Tampa Bay. From what I understand Tampa Bay also includes St. Petersburg in this broader community. Kinda like how the Carolina Panthers are not the “North Carolina Panthers” as if to half heartedly include South Carolina as the “home crowd.” Sure they might play an exhibition game away from their home North Carolina stadium (Where do they play anyways?). South Carolinans are fooling themselves into thinking they “own” the Panthers.
Besides, both California and Florida have too many sports teams anyways. Florida by itself has 3 NFL teams. Remember when it was just the Dolphins? And I’m not going to bother counting California teams. When was the last time you heard of Alabama having a pro sports team? Sure, they signed up for the WLAF and XFL, but only because they had to. I’m just saying that the pro-teams of all the sports need to be geographically redestributed. Don’t have 2 teams in the same city. Move them elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the Tennessean has too much time on its hands. An actual graphic showing a dog shooting? Did the public demand this? Analysis of the audio from it? I guarantee you there’s a child going hungry in Cookeville right now. Bigger problems in this world.