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bean counters estimate that the total
It Is What It Is revenue from this year’s Super Bowl 9 Seconds to think watching that play
out? In that end, I guess it
will be around 1.3 billion dollars, so could be a parental moment
don’t feel bad for the NFL. Then there
By Peter Collins
was the half-time show, and all I’m if there needed to be one, but
going to say is that the performance the best answer would be to
wasn’t geared to my entertainment
profile. Never heard of Kendrick simply say the players cared
Lamar, but I was hoping to see Lamar By Thom Racine and were invested in playing
he world’s most over hyped Jackson? I don’t know who Zsa is, but
Tsporting event occurred a few hey, I did recognize Serena Williams. for their respective countries,
weeks ago, and for many of us it was Why was Mustard there with no sign and the hype around the game
a colossal let-down. Settling in with of Ketchup anywhere? Media sports
a couple of slices of pizza, a dozen experts have spent a lot of time in the and the current relations
chicken wings, and a bag of potato past few weeks analyzing and breaking between Canada and the US
chips and watching a few hours of down what happened to Mahomes and ow, just how gob just embellished the passion
exciting championship football is one the Chiefs. In my opinion, the post- Wsmacked were you when
of life’s great pleasures. Watching a mortem is quite simple. The Eagles you settled in to watch two that takes over when faced
one-sided error-filled mess of a game, defense took away Mahomes’ ability with defending ones honour.
not so much. great nations face off at the Bell
to pass by pressuring him on every And remember, these were not
I’m sure the sixty-five thousand play, which resulted in six sacks and Centre on February 15th. Then,
fans who paid big dollars to witness three turnovers. In short, they didn’t let within five minutes of the start, fourth line journeymen sent out
the event live in New Orleans would Mahomes be Mahomes. The Eagle’s only nine seconds had ticked to entertain the masses, they are
agree. Or how about the one-hundred offense, led efficiently by Jalen all first and second line stars on
and twenty-seven million people who Hurts, did what they needed to do, off the clock. It was old school,
tuned in to watch this dreadful display taking advantage of every opportunity it was ‘can’t look away’ stuff, their respective teams. I won’t
on their favourite network? While we presented to them. In the end Philly criticize you if you didn’t like
suffered through this spectacle, some made it look easy in The Big Easy! it was electric, it was without a
doubt unexpected, and it proved it, but for me it restored a piece
the players cared and wanted of my youth, when things were
the game badly. Then add the different. That part of my past

political climate surrounding all that some are trying to make me
of us and you had the makings (many of us) ashamed of. Nine
of what we got. Premeditated as Seconds, mere seconds in time
it seems it was, that didn’t seem for two teams, two countries

to matter to most of those who with a passion to play for keeps
covered the game and rehashed when it matters most. In the
it postmortem. I immediately end, the red and white shone

did think those nine seconds, through in a patriotic crescendo
would be followed by the heard around the continent.
tropes labeling it disgusting, What a tournament — bring the
not hockey, what are our kids Olympics!

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