What an amazing Superbowl
Yep, the Yanks have won the Superbowl once again and this bloke loved it:
Super Bowl turns America supersize
The New York Giants' famous victory will result in a truly Hegelian synthesis, with the American zeitgeist embracing both gigantism and patriotism
Steven Wells
February 5, 2008
The whole world - Americans and subject peoples alike - is still agog at the most amazing comeback in world sports history, when the arrogant philistines of the New England Patriots were toppled by the artfully wielded slingshots of the gutsy New York Giants.
The most famous victory ever seen in sports spoke to the underdog-loving American in all of us. It was like Custer's Last Stand or the Alamo. Only this time the white guys won.
For the XLII year in a row, both the teams facing off in the game that decides the world championship of American football were American. But they were more than that. They represented the two prime characteristics of Americanism: patriotism and gigantism.
It's a fact little known outside America that all American sports teams have names that represent one the many different strands of the American character. The Dallas Cowboys symbolise the tendency to form small, tight-knit communities of agricultural nomads with a penchant for yodeling, whisky, gun fights and strictly heterosexual man-on-man sex."
read more here:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/ ... super.html
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