February 8, 1979

We live in a time when even the most innocent of events and actions are magnified, examined, and psychoanalyzed in an attempt to decipher ultimates amid the irrelevant.
Depression during the Christmas holidays is examined and reexamined in search of some grandiose anthropological truth. The movies we watch or don't watch supposedly reveal deep inner secrets. The kind of car we drive mirrors our psychological shortcomings.
Never was this psycho-phenomenon more apparent than after this year's Super Bowl. Columnists near and far wrote of the game not in terms of completions and fumbles but in the vernacular of eternal morality, ultimate truth, and societal implications.
The Hutch News editorialized the event as "looniness, an irrational event...mass hysteria with no evil motive...a dramatic reflection of the way we live, violence and committee meetings." Others in the news media referred to the "decadence" of the activities surrounding the game, saying it "exemplified the corruption in our culture." Others pondered it's "historical interpretations."
It's time to call a spade a little metal tool for digging. The Super Bowl is no doubt over-done; few of the games could have been called super, but who cares? It captures the imagination of the American people and it replaces Iran in the headlines for a week. What evil lurks in that?
Sure it's an irrational event; but why this sudden call for rationality? Life and death are irrational. The major events in our lives have little to do with logic. Why should our sporting events be bound to the mundanity of rationality?
Just give us the Super Bowl and let us watch it in peace. If ultimate truths about our society need to be found, why not search for them where cultural truth can best be deciphered -- on television commercials.... ~T.Stucky