Our football team is going to the Super Bowl! Sixty thousand + people,many with painted faces are dancing in the streets. I think it is great that our team has done so well. I love a movie,good book,etc. but I don't claim I had anything to do with our team winning. Seattle has "the twelfth Man". Our crowds make more noise than anywhere
else in the Country and the other team gets flustered.
Is it okay to be defined by a sports team? Seattle media will talk about little else
the next two weeks. Reality has been altered,"we" won the big game. We were on that field,"we" are Gods now. Even when I was younger,I would make enemies asking
a fan if THEY" played inthe special game? If the answer was no,then"they" did not win the game: the players did.
Our society worships people who play games well,movie stars who pretend to be other people are called "Actors". I love movies and the theatre. A good performance can
move you to tears or anger. I just understand I am watching a good performance.
A ticket to the Seattle game cost as much as $1,300, bad seats still would have cost hundreds for one ticket. Over 60,000 people have plenty of money. What bad economy
are you talking about?
Everyone,including me, needs to escape reality once in awhile. The world can be a depressing place. It"s not okay to hurt your wife if your team looses. Cops tell me
the Superbowl is a very violent time with marriages,fights,shootings etc. All because
of a game.
Put sports and movies in perspective. Your life will be the same,win or loose. More people go to movies in India because reality for some is terrible. We need to change right now. We need sixty thousand people to come together and end homeless
problems and hunger problems. Imagine the money that was spent on a 3 hour game
today in Seatle. Imagine if the players and fans gave 50% of the money to chairty.
One of the players on our team makes 7million dollars a year. I understand he is a REALLY good player. Imagine paying teachers,nurses,firemen,that kind of money.We
could change so much with half the enthusiasm and money that was in downtown Seattle today.
Pretend a visitor came from another planet,and you are explaining what is important
and who makes more in one year than you will in your lifetime. Yes,I know some do make that money. I am talking about those of us who don't.Your visitor might say those are childrens games. Yes, but grownups play the game really well.
Millions in our Country don't vote. Food banks never have enough food. A woman will be raped, and a child has died drinking dirty water while I have been writing this. You
would never get 60,000 people together in an afternoon to come up with a plan to
fix some evil in our society. Ten bucks says most in the crowd at the game today
has no idea of what the name of the person is who represents them in the State
legislature.
Maybe,generations from now, All people will have homes,plenty to eat,and the headlines everywhere will talk about nothing other than Sports, Movie Stars, and
new diets .
So I am happy for the folks in Denver and Seattle tonight.You are going to the Superbowl! I love makebelieve as much as the next person. I am 25,rich, and have
hair on my head. My mind has no clue about reality because I AM AT A FOOTBALL
GAME! for some,that event is reality:I wish it was mine.