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Line 1: − '''''There is more predictability in NFL playoff games than even in rigged professional wrestling'''''. The best football players are rarely showcased on [[Super Bowl Sunday]], in contrast with a generation ago. The Super Bowl also features a half-time show that is increasingly [[liberal]] and sometimes even pro-[[homosexual]]. The game as become a tool of the [[liberal media]] to bully states into rejecting [[conservative]] legislation, lest the states be stricken from potential host locations. − − The outcome in Super Bowls is increasingly the result of play-calling by non-athletic coaches, who use extensive business-like approaches to the game. Genuine athleticism has become less important to this game, and is even viewed with disdain by some. '''''The NFL is distorted so badly that almost none of its top athletes ever play in the Super Bowl now.''''' − − The economic benefits of hosting a Super Bowl are marginal, perhaps even negative: − *In 2020, Miami taxpayers were required by the NFL to spend a million dollars paying for millionaire players to stay in luxury hotels. − *The mayor of Glendale, [[Arizona]], expected his city to lose money from hosting the 2015 Super Bowl: "I totally believe we will lose money on this," mayor Jerry Weiers told [[ESPN]].<ref>SI Wire (January 20, 2015). [http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/01/20/super-bowl-xlix-glendale-mayor-lose-money "Mayor of Glendale, Arizona, says city will lose money hosting Super Bowl"]. ''Sports Illustrated'' website.</ref> − *The NFL was so harmful to local businesses and taxpayers of New Jersey in 2014 that 55% of business leaders who were surveyed afterwards said they did not want New Jersey to host the game again.<ref name="NJ">http://archive.northjersey.com/news/n-j-s-7m-super-bowl-tax-rebate-to-nfl-stirs-anger-1.1012503?page=all</ref> Part of the NFL's bilking of taxpayers was its demand for a $7.5 million rebate on sales taxes.<ref name="NJ"/> − Despite this, and how independent economists have shown that the benefit to a Super Bowl host city is zero or nearly so, the taxpayer-supported NFL absurdly claims that a city receives benefits of $500 million just for hosting the Super Bowl. − − Super Bowls are the most watched television broadcasts in history, but much of the audience simply uses the game as background noise during parties. Super Bowl XLVIII was the highest rated broadcast in history, with an average viewership of 112 million.<ref>O'Connell, Michael (February 3, 2014). [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-super-bowl-xlviii-676651 "TV ratings: Super Bowl XLVIII is most watched in history with 112.2 million viewers"]. The Hollywood Reporter website.</ref> For years the number of viewers of the Super Bowl in the key demographic of 18 to 49 years old has declined, and Super Bowl LV (2021) had its lowest ratings in 15 years; even though the matchup featured two smaller-market teams, it featured the defending Super Bowl champions attempting the first repeat in almost two decades, against a team playing the first ever Super Bowl in its own home stadium led by a quarterback seeking a record seventh Super Bowl win (more than any individual franchise). The media has been criticized for over-hyping the audience.<ref>http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/02/09/super-bowl-50-rating-gets-embellished/</ref> − Not only has viewership decreased, so has live attendance: the total attendance for Super Bowl LIV--held in the warm weather climate of South Florida--was the second-lowest on record at the time (behind only the first Super Bowl, which at that time was called the "NFL-AFL Championship Game" and was nowhere near as popular as in modern times).<ref>It was, however, a sellout; Hard Rock Stadium was recently renovated and reconfigured to '''''lower''''' seating capacity.</ref><ref>Super Bowl LV would later set the record as the least-attended; however, this was due to COVID-19 restrictions on fan attendance.</ref> Line 35:
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The '''Super Bowl''' — derisively called the "Super Subsidy" because taxpayers foot much of the expense, or the "Super Fleece" because the prices are such a ripoff — is the championship game at the end of each [[National Football League]] (NFL) season. The same players and coaches are in the Super Bowl every year, because the process does not really reward the finest athletic achievement.
The '''Super Bowl''' — derisively called the "Super Subsidy" because taxpayers foot much of the expense, or the "Super Fleece" because the prices are such a ripoff — is the championship game at the end of each [[National Football League]] (NFL) season. The same players and coaches are in the Super Bowl every year, because the process does not really reward the finest athletic achievement.
==History==
==History==
Among individual accomplishments, [[Tom Brady]] holds the most individual Super Bowl wins (seven, more than any team has won) and appearances (ten); he and [[Peyton Manning]] are the only quarterbacks to lead two different teams to a Super Bowl win. Brady also holds the record for most Super Bowl MVP trophies with five and the only one to win the award as a member of two different teams; among the major American sports leagues only [[Michael Jordan]] has more championship MVP's (he has six). Only one time has the losing team had the MVP selected from it, and only one time has a team had co-MVP's; both times Dallas was that team.
Among individual accomplishments, [[Tom Brady]] holds the most individual Super Bowl wins (seven, more than any team has won) and appearances (ten); he and [[Peyton Manning]] are the only quarterbacks to lead two different teams to a Super Bowl win. Brady also holds the record for most Super Bowl MVP trophies with five and the only one to win the award as a member of two different teams; among the major American sports leagues only [[Michael Jordan]] has more championship MVP's (he has six). Only one time has the losing team had the MVP selected from it, and only one time has a team had co-MVP's; both times Dallas was that team.
==Controversies==
'''''There is more predictability in NFL playoff games than even in rigged professional wrestling'''''. The best football players are rarely showcased on [[Super Bowl Sunday]], in contrast with a generation ago. The Super Bowl also features a half-time show that is increasingly [[liberal]] and sometimes even pro-[[homosexual]]. The game as become a tool of the [[liberal media]] to bully states into rejecting [[conservative]] legislation, lest the states be stricken from potential host locations.
The outcome in Super Bowls is increasingly the result of play-calling by non-athletic coaches, who use extensive business-like approaches to the game. Genuine athleticism has become less important to this game, and is even viewed with disdain by some. '''''The NFL is distorted so badly that almost none of its top athletes ever play in the Super Bowl now.'''''
The economic benefits of hosting a Super Bowl are marginal, perhaps even negative:
*In 2020, Miami taxpayers were required by the NFL to spend a million dollars paying for millionaire players to stay in luxury hotels.
*The mayor of Glendale, [[Arizona]], expected his city to lose money from hosting the 2015 Super Bowl: "I totally believe we will lose money on this," mayor Jerry Weiers told [[ESPN]].<ref>SI Wire (January 20, 2015). [http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/01/20/super-bowl-xlix-glendale-mayor-lose-money "Mayor of Glendale, Arizona, says city will lose money hosting Super Bowl"]. ''Sports Illustrated'' website.</ref>
*The NFL was so harmful to local businesses and taxpayers of New Jersey in 2014 that 55% of business leaders who were surveyed afterwards said they did not want New Jersey to host the game again.<ref name="NJ">http://archive.northjersey.com/news/n-j-s-7m-super-bowl-tax-rebate-to-nfl-stirs-anger-1.1012503?page=all</ref> Part of the NFL's bilking of taxpayers was its demand for a $7.5 million rebate on sales taxes.<ref name="NJ"/>
Despite this, and how independent economists have shown that the benefit to a Super Bowl host city is zero or nearly so, the taxpayer-supported NFL absurdly claims that a city receives benefits of $500 million just for hosting the Super Bowl.
Super Bowls are the most watched television broadcasts in history, but much of the audience simply uses the game as background noise during parties. Super Bowl XLVIII was the highest rated broadcast in history, with an average viewership of 112 million.<ref>O'Connell, Michael (February 3, 2014). [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-super-bowl-xlviii-676651 "TV ratings: Super Bowl XLVIII is most watched in history with 112.2 million viewers"]. The Hollywood Reporter website.</ref> For years the number of viewers of the Super Bowl in the key demographic of 18 to 49 years old has declined, and Super Bowl LV (2021) had its lowest ratings in 15 years; even though the matchup featured two smaller-market teams, it featured the defending Super Bowl champions attempting the first repeat in almost two decades, against a team playing the first ever Super Bowl in its own home stadium led by a quarterback seeking a record seventh Super Bowl win (more than any individual franchise). The media has been criticized for over-hyping the audience.<ref>http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/02/09/super-bowl-50-rating-gets-embellished/</ref>
Not only has viewership decreased, so has live attendance: the total attendance for Super Bowl LIV--held in the warm weather climate of South Florida--was the second-lowest on record at the time (behind only the first Super Bowl, which at that time was called the "NFL-AFL Championship Game" and was nowhere near as popular as in modern times).<ref>It was, however, a sellout; Hard Rock Stadium was recently renovated and reconfigured to '''''lower''''' seating capacity.</ref><ref>Super Bowl LV would later set the record as the least-attended; however, this was due to COVID-19 restrictions on fan attendance.</ref>
==References==
==References==