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Super Bowl Xliii, Richard C. Crepeau
Super Bowl Xliii, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
It is time once again to enter the days of the Roman Numerals when excess becomes the norm, hyperbole is accepted as standard English, and the rich demonstrate in no uncertain terms that they are, and you are not. It is also the time when the middle class, those 85% of Americans who identify themselves as such, do their best to wallow in excess.