For Immediate Release:
Dateline: East Greenwich,
RI
Friday, February 14, 2025
Having thought about the Super Bowl and solicited others’ opinions, sometimes contrary to mine, I’ve arrived at this retrospective: - The game was awful, mostly because the Chiefs’ coaching staff effectively shut down Saquon Barkley but seemed to have forgotten about defending against the pass or protecting their quarterback. Andy Reid looked confused. They made no halftime adjustments. The offensive line was non-existent, perhaps thinking about retirement.
- The ads were pathetic, no originality, little humor, highly derivative. Eight million for 30 seconds plus the creative costs? Where have all the bright advertising people gone, and who approved this stuff? Perhaps they took off with the Chiefs’ offensive line.
- Kendrick Lamar was ridiculous. He was unintelligible, and if you take the time to try to understand the lyrics (which is not the point after watching a live performance), who cares about two multi-million dollar performers having a public fight, or a hundred people marching around, or Serena Williams trying to dance?
In The Emperor Has No Clothes, everyone pretended that he did, except for a child not interested in trying to “fit in.” Normative pressure can distort reality.
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