Tag: Super Bowl

Via State of the Nation

SUPER BOWL LVIII:
The Most Bet On Event In World History
&
How The Outcome Is Already Decided

Submitted by A Former British Bookie

Let’s make this short and simple so we can all get to tonight’s game—CON GAME, that is.

Does anyone really think the most bet-on sporting event in world history has not been fixed down to the exact score?

Why the exact score?  Because many of the most sophisticated and richest bettors are splitting hairs on this game where each hair translates to a tens of millions of dollars.

Look, the wealthy elites never miss an opportunity to effectuate enormous transfers of wealth from the working stiff to themselves.  And gambling has always been a primary means to do this.

Continue reading “SUPER BOWL LVIII: It’s all fixed. They’ve always been fixed!”

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

If the ads on the Superbowl each year are like a Rorschach test for the nation’s mental condition, then this year’s ad-roll was a cavalcade of frantic hallucinations suggesting a near-complete detachment from reality for an audience of ADD-disabled cell phone slaves locked into a Big Tech induced consensus trance. You could barely tell what these advertisers were trying to sell in their commercials, the psychotic dazzle of half-second jump-cuts was so ferocious. One interesting note, though: people of non-color (PONCs) seem to have been magically sucked out of the universe. There, that fixed things for everybody else.

Continue reading “Speed Wobble”

Guest Post by Kevin Lynn

With the Eagles going down in the playoffs, I was less than enthused about Superbowl 54 and last Sunday chose to skip it altogether. I awoke the next morning to several texts and DMs raving about the halftime show. What was the source of all the brouhaha? It certainly appeared to be much more than a wardrobe malfunction this time around.

I went to YouTube and watched it. Then I watched it again, and again, and again. Then I told two people to watch it; and they told two people, and they told two people … By now I am sure everyone in the world has watched it.

By any measure, it was a heck of a show that J. Lo and Shakira put on. The scantily clad, suggestive, brazen stars and cast danced, strutted and gyrated their way across the stage in what I gathered to be a cross between an old time Vegas stage show and a bacchanalian festival that invited the world to leave their seats and join in.

Continue reading “I Loved the Half Time Show, But I’m a Hedonist”

Guest Post by The Zman

The big Super Bowl extravaganza has come and gone. The television people will tell us that this one, like all the others, was the most watched event ever. They say that every year, but whether it is true or not is hard to know. Television ratings are like everything else about modern times. You have to assume they are a part of the endless fire hose of lies that come from the propaganda organs. Even so, most people watched it and are expected to talk about it the next day with coworkers.

Continue reading “Sports Bowl Thoughts”

Authored by Dave Zirin via The Nation,

The Super Bowl is like prom for the 1 percent. When the big game comes to town, it’s accompanied by private jets, parties, and nonstop bottle service. That should be enough, but it never is. The bacchanalia also comes festooned with public funds for the NFL, an overwhelming police presence, and the removal of the poor. It’s a world of fun on our TVs, but it’s a wrecking ball for local communities.

This year the game is in Miami, and the scams are starting to seep into public consciousness. As the Miami Herald is reporting, the NFL booked 1 million dollars’ worth of rooms at the J.W. Marriott Marquis hotel and Aventura’s Turnberry resort for the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers players and coaches—and sent the city the bill.

Continue reading “The Super Bowl Is A Grift Of Epic Proportions”

Guest Post by Bill Bonner

Well I hope that I don’t fall in love with you
‘Cause falling in love just makes me blue
Well, the music plays and you display your heart for me to see
I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me
And I hope that I don’t fall in love with you.

– Tom Waits, “I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You”

YOUGHAL, IRELAND – And here it is… tomorrow is already today.

And we’ll give it to you straight.

How come people care about fairies and Super Bowls and Brexits… and falling in love?

Continue reading “What the Super Bowl and the Crusades Have in Common…”

Guest Post by The Zman

Like every other normal person in American, I watched the big game on Sunday. This year I was busy with some projects so I did not attend a party. Instead, I planned to get some work done and then settle in at game time. Some people boycott the Super Bowl, believing it makes them virtuous, but those people are idiots. The game is often fun and the ridiculous hype around it is a nice weird American tradition. Plus, having a pseudo holiday the next day means people can have a party on Sunday in the dead of winter.

Continue reading “Things Are Looking Up”

Bread, circuses, and corporate ads – Amurica is #1