Nicely, it is right here: Tremendous Bowl Sunday, America's most American vacation. The meals, the flyover, the halftime present – the spectacle of what Tremendous Bowl Sunday has change into makes excellent sense.
America turned Jesus' birthday right into a purchasing spree, Independence Day right into a BBQ, and Memorial Day right into a white sale, however in some way Tremendous Bowl Sunday has change into an actual reflection of who we're.
Right now's sport will function a mixture of blood-pumping patriotism, violence, and pageantry dressed up in good ol' gluttony and consumerism.
We are going to eat whereas we watch the sport. Is there something extra American than consuming when you watch different individuals be energetic, ontelevision?
And in contrast to a Thanksgiving turkey or a Christmas fruitcake, in the present day is about consuming issues we really take pleasure in. Nachos! Buffalo wings! Sub sandwiches! Pizza! Something you need. That is America's day!
It would not be Tremendous Bowl Sunday with out some incessant, unapologetic consumerism, the lifeblood of the American soul and economic system. The commercials that air through the sport might be not considered as interruptions, however embraced as infotainment which we'll instantly submit about on social media, turning the nation into an infinite involuntary focus group.
America wants this Tremendous Bowl Sunday. In my lifetime we have by no means been so divided. Not simply two completely different sides – two completely different realities. Individuals which are proper versus individuals which are proper.
We want a day to take a seat at house and root for a workforce. We have not had a possibility to try this in, like, an hour.
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Story produced by Julie Kracov. Editor: Lauren Barnello.