Last Year’s Super Bowl
Posted by TFG on February 6th, 2005
I just knew Jarvis would have a whiny post about all the freedoms we’ve lost since last year’s half-time show, and he doesn’t disappoint. Of course, he starts off with an outright lie:
: So it has been a year since Janet Jackson sort-of exposed her breast
There was no ’sort-of’ about it — the boob in question was exposed. That’s a fact. Very conveniently ignored and pranced around, but a pure fact.
Therefore, the rest of his self-aggrandizing, self-promoting, self-important, self-enriching words should be read with that in mind. Don’t forget that Jeff runs a freakin’ media company. The lowering of community standards, such as they are, will directly affect his pocket-book by continuing the death spiral to the lowest common denominator in all things broadcasting. He might very well be the passionate defender atop the ramparts of the First Amendment that he plays on his blog, but you will never in a million years convince me that it ain’t also about Jarvis and his mediot buddies and their bank accounts. And by the way, don’t miss his next appearance on the teevee, where he’ll use more swears to prove that we really be a hip and happening nation and we should have boinking on the tube for free, like they do over in Ye Olde Europe.
As far as community standards go, I sincerely could not care less what you watch on your teevee. I just want the sluts and hos and trash-mouths and boobies and weenies and so forth — out of my sports. I watch movies and I watch sports. Is it all possible to keep the former from bleeding over into the latter? Is it at all possible to keep the greedy, grasping, mindless, tentacles of hipster youth culture out of my one mindless escape from the gutter that is the media-driven real world? It doesn’t look like it. The earth rolls on, after all, and I’m just a dude typing away. But do yourself a favor and consider this from Jeffie the Media Mogul, who is oh-so-concerned about 1A:
And today we’re sure to see the dullest Super Bowl commercials and half-time show in history.
Such a crying damn shame that we have to play a damn football game today at all…
February 6th, 2005 at 1:00 pm
All right! GO FOOTBALL!
February 6th, 2005 at 6:55 pm
That was when I quit reading Jarvis. It was the “anyone who disagrees with me about Janet Jackson is a blahblahblah” part that did me in. I thought “Ah, there’s the stereotypical New York liberal that I can’t stand.”
February 7th, 2005 at 2:29 am
Maybe the ex-beatle will drop his pants and shoot the moon this year. Who gives a rats ass.
February 9th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
I like Paul McCartney well enough, but am I the only one who thinks it strange that he entertained us at halftime with 40 year old hit songs? Nothing wrong with that, in and of itself, but can you seriously imagine hearing some geezer crooning “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime,” at Super Bowl 4, or perhaps “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree With Anyone Else But Me,” at Super Bowl 15, being sung by the original (and not the modern Branson transvestite version) Andrews Sisters?
The R Man
February 9th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
I’d just as soon have marching bands as put up with another pile of the cowshit they’ve been throwing out there the last few decades. It’s a football game, and we don’t have any burning need to keep the ADDers watching. We make too much of the 30 minutes between halves.
February 10th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
Speaking of ADD-ers…my friend’s wife at our Super Bowl party told me she’d read somewhere that 80% of the people watching the Super Bowl were under 12 years of age-how the hell is *that* possible? I’m inclined not to believe that number. R