Is it just me or have you noticed that the Super Bowl has become more than a championship game and has evolved into an over-hyped vulgarity having more in common with a bacchanalia like the reality of today’s Mardi Gras? In addition, one of this year’s entrants is the team from San Francisco, a place poisoned by its embrace of a counter-culture – one that is also the dominant mental software of the commanding heights of our national culture (Hollywood, academia, cosmopolitan America, etc.). So, we’ll have brought together in Hard Rock Stadium the orgy and the team representative of the city who embodies the fiercest assault on our traditions.
I’ve given this much thought: How could I allow my social views to influence my sports loyalties? I was a 49er fan since the onset of my memory. Slowly, in my later years, I began to notice the disconnect between my team loyalties and the city that has come to represent much that is seriously wrong in our society. Say “San Francisco” and you’ll bring to mind social and moral dysfunction, more so than any other place. I can’t get past this realization.
It’s about the city that the team represents; it’s not about the team’s accomplishments or its players and organization. In my view, given the season’s worth of work, they should be the odds-on favorite. Congratulations to them for a job well done. Still, the city has become such an affront to decency that it is impossible to carry on as a fan.
Bottom line: Go Chiefs!
RogerG