N1EE wrote:
It took everything that was good about
the Superbowl, and made it dirty. This
is not the clean example we wanted to set
for the rest of the world. For that reason
I think it was particularly shameful. I
hope criminal charges are pressed against
all of them.

I think we should all boycott CBS and make
them pay where it hurts most, in their ad
revenues.

I already pretty much boycott CBS. I only watch about ten hours of TV
per year. In fact our TV was off for so long that one day when we turned
it on, our dog was terrified and barked furiously at it... he was not a
puppy and the TV had never been on in his lifetime!

Anyway, pro sports is all about decadence anyway. The NFL is our modern
equivalent of the Roman gladiators. So many of them are druggies and
hoodlums that to get upset about the display of a naked female breast
(albeit one that has enough added silicone to caulk a hundred bathtubs)
is going a little overboard IMHO.

One thing that upset me was all the uncalled personal fouls. In one
play, late in the game, a blocker was keeping a rusher out of the
backfield by putting an arm around his neck, from behind, and kidney
punching him. Is that allowed now? If kidney punching is allowed, are
you allowed to do it three times, as this player did? It was center
screen, all seven people watching the game with me saw it. And that is
just the most obvious of at least a dozen.

The refs can't call what they don't see, but to my mind that is not an
excuse for deliberately flouting the rules. This is a much bigger moral
issue than the display of a floppy teat.

Congrats again to the Patriots for playing an excellent game. I hope
that what I saw was a fluke and not the regular practices of either team.

Regards
Doug King