[...] “It is that national genius that has enabled an event without deep historic roots to become quite overpowering. The Super Bowl began only in 1967, when two competing leagues merged. At first the competition was lopsided, but in 1969 Joe Namath, the New York Jets quarterback, ‘guaranteed’ an upset victory over the Baltimore Colts and then delivered it, and so the legend began.”

So what if the Super Bowl tradition has no deep historic roots. Roots grow, they don’t just pop out of nowhere. Does Reporter Engel perhaps think that the vaunted traditions of the Sceptred Isle sprang from the sea along with the cliffs of Dover? Maybe God created the Earth with British traditions intact? Creationists have similar ideas about fossils.

The weird socialism that Reporter Engel whines about started in the 1990s to end the dull lopsided games that nearly killed the Super Bowl. Legends are born, thrive, and become traditions, unless they are those British planted-in-the-Earth-at-the-creation-to-freak-out-the-Darwinists-type traditions.

“Super Bowl XXXVII does look like a promising addition to the annals, partly because it pits the league's best offence (Oakland) against the best defence. Oakland are the favourites because irresistible force always seems more compelling in sport than the immovable object.’ "

Thank you, oh Wise One, for allowing we poor, violent, verbose Americans an excuse for why we are watching erotically exploited pom-pom girls. [...]