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America’s national holiday: Supe Sunday!!
Let’s face it, kids: While many Americans may think of our country as a Christian nation that holds Christmas or Easter close as the main and most important holidays that draw us all together, they are wrong.
And while others may say that the best and most self-defining holidays in the USA are those that are more patriotically based, such as the the Fourth of July or Thanksgiving (look it up; Lincoln started it during the Civil War to perk up folks in the Union, when things weren’t going well…), they would also be off the mark about that.
We all know what the True National Holiday in the United States is: Yep, it’s today.
Super Bowl Sunday has become the national day of rest, the celebration of all the things that speak to our lives in contemporary America: Major-league sports, glitter, partying, drinking, overeating, hanging out with your friends, not having to work, watching TV, being exposed to television advertising, brand worship, bean dip and shredded cheese, Bud Light, public vulgarity, ridiculously spent piles of money, short attention spans, shameful waste of electricity, halftime shows that appeal mostly to baby-boomer classic-rockers, pornified cheerleaders, car advertising, ultra-fast video editing, armchair quarterbacking, interminable pregame shows that mostly exist to provide more advertising time, and games that nobody really cares that much about anyway.
And we love it. Deplore it we might, but there’s no escaping it. You can’t escape your culture. It is, after all, yours, and you helped create it … whether you meant to, or not. Pass the chips, willya?
Have fun today hanging out with your friends, and remember: If you call in “sick” tomorrow, the Boss won’t care…. He’s playing hooky, too!
Go, Colts!
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