One way to understand a society is to see where it expends its resources to create monuments to be discovered by later generations of archeologists. Egypt built the pyramids. The Mayans built temples for human sacrifices. China built the Great Wall of China. Rome built acquaducts, Vatican City and the Coliseum. Asia built huge statues of Bhudda.
Today As we celebrate the annual haaj to the temples of Football, let’s just admit the truth and legally declare football a religion.
What would be some of the implications of doing this?
– ban governments from using money or bonding authority to fund the building of stadiums (spparation of church and state)
– make the price of game tickets tax deductible
– prohibit public schools from teaching the game or having teams
– privately owned stadiums would not be subject to property tax or pay taxes on their sales
– government could not get involved in interfering with the rules of the game and whether players use steroids
So what else would this mean? Do you like the idea?
Hmm, another lop-sided Stupor Bowl at halftime… only question now is, will somebody create another incident to keep the TV audience ‘in the game’ for adverti$ers’ ROI?
I really didn’t like either team in the ‘Big Game’ , but it kinda sucked. I went back to Armed American Radio with Mark Walters.
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I only checked the score out of curiosity, it’s a replay of last year.
Maybe this will be seen as the year the Game ‘jumped the shark’.
Something must have gone wrong – I could understand the lyrics for the half time show.
I didn’t see the halftime show, but that Bruno Mars is talented. There is a SNL skit of him doing all types of musical styles as a parody, and his talent comes through in each style despite them being parodies.
What, no youtube vid?
Got to toss a few to the competition. This is worth watching – it is funny, showcases talent, and makes fun of internet streaming radio… what more could an SRG user ask for in a video!?!? Enjoy
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82872039
It’s been a while since I last used pandora. What they seemed to be making fun of was SiriusXM which has discrete themed channels. Pandora is an algorithm that plays songs that it thinks you will like. Has Pandora changed that?
Football is already a religion.
More saves in Soccer than American football. 😉
Understood.
The question on the floor is whether to grant it equal legal status with those old fashioned religions
Its pretty much there- the old ones have exception for their property taxes, the new ones get their houses of worship paid for by the heavily lobbied politicians using our money.