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On Sport and Society

2015

Arete, Sport and Society, American Sport History, Super Bowl, Football, NFL, Excess, Taxpayers, Corporate welfare, Monopolies, Consumption

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Super Bowl Xlix, Richard C. Crepeau Jan 2015

Super Bowl Xlix, Richard C. Crepeau

On Sport and Society

It is a 153 page document made public by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that begins with these awkward sentences: The day of the Super Bowl game (the “Game” or the “Super Bowl”) is America’s unofficial holiday, a day when the attention of an entire nation is focused on the Game in one region between the championship teams of the American and the National Football Conferences. The most highly anticipated annual sports event in North American sports is also a time for festive celebration and civic pride.”