For those of you who view the Super Bowl as an excuse for people to gather together to eat pizza rolls, little hot dogs in barbecue sauce, chips and salsa from football-shaped serving platters, and have nacho cheese sauce flowing from what ordinarily is used as a chocolate fountain (yes--I heard that one on the radio!);
For those of you who think that the Super Bowl is a prime example of how advertising and marketing executives have negatively influenced our culture by manipulating gullible Americans into believing they will somehow be "missing out" if they don't watch the game and purchase abovementioned products for a party;
For those of you who can't see how advertising is an art form and do see that "halftime entertainment" has come to be a euphemism for legalized, televised soft porn;
For those of you who know of others who haven't watched a professional football game all season long but will participate in Super Bowl Sunday as a national holiday~
Here are some Un-Super Bowl alternative activities:
*Go to your church's afternoon/evening service and recognize just how blessed you are that your minister is preaching the Gospel
*Eat baked brie, have a chocolate fondue with fruit, serve spinach dip and your favorite bakery's bread, and share a nice bottle of wine with the other grown-up(s)
*Watch a movie classic together as a family
*Read a book together as a family
*Listen to music together as a family
*Play games together as a family
*Talk together as a family
*Invite friends over and engage in any of the abovementioned activities
Snobby? Maybe. Cynical? Definitely. Clueless at the office on Monday? Absolutely! Missing out on an astounding life experience? Probably not...
10 comments:
Isn't this from a book in the Family Living section?
Can I come to you Un-Super Bowl Party?
Actually I'm working on something for Social Issues, Julia. That section gets so much more traffic!
Yes, Brenda, you can come--and bring a friend :)!
Good grief, Annette.
I just don't understand why people like watching guys in tights roll around on the ground with other guys wearing tights...
This is entertainment?
Feed my soul, any day.
Aaron~
Maybe as a male you could enlighten us all: Why is it that in any other circumstance, it would be entirely inappropriate for thus-clad males to slap each others' rear ends? But give them a football and thousands of cheering fans, and somehow now it's okay?
Ahh..you women-folk just don't understand the male bonding rituals that center around a football and 100yds of turf...perhaps you'd like it better if they had a knitting club ;>)
Yes, Jimmy, you know how I do love knitting and all domestic-type activities. Maybe when I've finished my sweater I'll make a football-shaped doily :)!
It was announced right before the call to worship in the AM service this past sunday that the evening service was cancelled due to the extreme cold. And we have several elderly people that are members. When I got home, I called another local URC church to see if they had services that evening. They did, and the minister was surprised we cancelled. (As an aside, a local CRC and churches from a farm area about 45 minutes away from me in Indiana also called off.) So, i went to the evening service at the local URC. When I got home, know what I did? I put on CourtTV and watched the "Forensic Files" marathon---and also fell asleep! lol I did turn on CBS at 8:45 Chicago time just to check a score---then turned back to "Forensic Files." I saw all of 10 seconds of the game! Even though I live in Chicago---I could care less about the game. And I was actually rooting for Indy. Why? Because I so chose. And it didn't matter to me either way who won.
Dave
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