It’s another Super Bowl Party again—crass consumerism

By SJ Otto

Once again it is Super Bowl Sunday. That is a day that is celebrated as if it were a real holiday, like Thanksgiving. It is like Black Friday in that it is not a real holiday, but it is treated as one. I wanted to just repost last year’s comments about today’s stupidity, but then I realized how out dated the article would be. This year we have the Kansas City Chiefs vs. the San Francisco 49ers. Obviously the teams this year are different from last year. I live about a four hour drive from Kansas City and I used to live in Lawrence which is just a one hour drive away. So here in the Mid-west we take great pride in the Chiefs. This is what I wrote last year:

“It’s Super Bowl (last year’s) Sunday. This day is like an unofficial holiday. People get together and throw Super Bowl Parties. This is a lot like Black Friday. It is a chance for companies to sell a lot of food and liquor. It is also a prim time to advertize. As with Black Friday, the event is an orgy of crass consumerism and capitalist commercialism—to the max. The advertizing is so pervasive that many news outlets post their favorite Super Bowl commercials, either before the event airs or after.”

To update this; from The New York Times:

Super Bowl 2020: Chiefs vs. 49ers Live Coverage

Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes leads an electric offense against San Francisco’s balanced attack, with an N.F.L. championship on the line.

By Benjamin Hoffman

RIGHT NOW

Waiting for the Super Bowl to begin? Times reporters and photographers will provide live updates, news and things to watch until kickoff.

For the rest click here.

I am going to use last year’s picture. What could be more Super Bowl that a picture of beer bottles playing foot ball?