Super Bowl XL

[TheRaiRaiEatsBalloons]

It could go towards much more useful things.

Like sticking it up your nose?

Actually, I'd say sticking one dollar up my nose is far more useful than spending billions of dollars towards the hyping of watching people you don't know playing sports for hours on end.

Seriously, all the bullshit hype around football is one of the most enormously rediculous things about our culture.

[nickadeemus]

I don't say much about football so here's a link to someone who does:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=bayless/060205

[Kefit]

They're wasting time making enough money that they can retire at 33 and be set for life? Yeah, I sure would hate to be doing that with myself.

I'm saying it's a waste that that money is spent on them in the first place. It could go towards much more useful things.

Such as?

Several hundred million people watched this single piece of entertainment today. I think the effeciency demonstrated with that is far greater than any other good the money could have been put towards, especially considering the vast revenues this game brings to both the NFL and the advertisers that sponsered the game or were able to grab commercial slots.

Sports are huge because they MAKE MONEY. Futhermore, they provide ENTERTAINMENT, which people WILLINGLY pay for. People who PAID MONEY to watch this game would clearly rather have spent the time and money to watch the game than do something else.

[TheRaiRaiEatsBalloons]

I hate how fans pretend to be part of a sports team. They scream, "Yay! We scored!" Who is "we?" Last I checked, watching a game happening two thousand miles away does not qualify someone as a member of the Patriots. Now take something we're actually a part of - our country. All of a sudden it's a "they." "They banned gay marriage"... "They legalized medicinal marijuana." How are Super Bowl fans not a part of their country but are part of a sports team who they've never met or been remotely associated with?

America doesn't want us to feel like we're a part of the country. People in control want us to feel free but politically helpless. Ironically, our lives are controlled by the government. To support their agenda, the powers that be have created hypes like the Super Bowl to shroud us from what's important. It's a big slight-of-hand magic trick the government performs to distract us. In one hand they're flashing the fun and exciting Super Bowl excitement and superb commercial experience while their left hand is deciding how to further increase their power over us.

The big "fuck you" is, "C'mon Thilo, you think too much. Stop being an uptight conspiracy theorist and learn to have a little fun." That's exactly what they want us to do - shun anyone who tries to care about the big picture. "Just have fun and live your life!" This isn't conspiracy talk. It's common sense. Power will find a way to corrupt. Over time, the system has discovered a loophole in Democracy. Instead of controlling our populus by depriving us of a voice, they give us a voice, shroud it with static, then sell it back to us.

They pressure us to go out and party, chase girls, have fun, worship god (or Satan), watch funny commercials, and talk about it all with our friends. A buffet of priorities is layed out in front of us and we're given complete freedom of what we choose to care about. However, they manipulate our decision by covering the bullshit with sugar and adding puke food coloring to the things that matter.



This article is a great example. Nobody finds this stuff interesting. If you do, you're insane. I can't believe you've even made it this far. You must be really bored. I know that if I were reading this on a website, I'd have shooken my head and closed the window a long time ago. It's because I've been trained since birth that these concepts are bogus theories invented by nutcases.

Do you realize that ten times more people watched the Super Bowl than the State of the Union Address? Does that not scream out, "We're fucked?" More people care about a bunch of smelly men throwing around a ball than their own government. We're so fuckin' doomed.

[GuidoHunter]

Man, it must really suck to be Thilo.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[vashthestampede0987]

Rai, this is where you pop in all of a sudden and go "JK!!!! I <3 FOOTBALL"

[HansSky]

And you're wasting your own time watching and caring about it.

Why we could be doing other things like:

20.64 posts per day

[lightdarkness]

I won 300 bucks

k bye

[lord_carbo]

And you're wasting your own time watching and caring about it.

Why we could be doing other things like:

20.64 posts per day

I'd say HansSky won, but when I say people win they lose.

[NuclearShadow]

It's because I've been trained since birth that these concepts are bogus theories invented by nutcases.

Love is a bogus concept?

[locomotion]

im ok with football but im glad i won a total of 450so yes it can benefit you

--Lo--

[Kilgamayan]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/columns/story?columnist=smith_michael&id=2320683

Michael Smith is the man. I wish I could blow off work today to watch him on ATH.

[banditcom]

Dumb Seahawks. Good thing I didn't bet money. XD

lol @ you guys calling FFR failing at football. Get this, you're a part of FFR too, morons.
lol @ Rai for being mentally challenged.
ROFL @ Nuclear for completely owning Rai. I never say anyone "owns" someone. But that was just too good to ignore. I'll have to quote it here a few times:

It could go towards much more useful things.

Like sticking it up your nose?

It could go towards much more useful things.

Like sticking it up your nose?

[locomotion]

i have to agree with that

[FluorescentArmy]

Yay Steelers! That was a pretty f!cking good game. It had slow points but then it started to pick up.