European here. This was literally my first time watching a whole game of football. I heard of Tom Brady, Patriots and Belichick but thats about it. So I was watching the game with a couple of buddies. One of them knows a lot more about the game and the teams, and prides himself on that fact. From the very beginning I was talking shit and saying Patriots would win it, pretending to know a lot more than I do. He was rooting for the Falcons and wearing one of his Chicago Bears Travel Tumbler with Handle. As the game is on the way and Falcons are dominating he was feeling quite secure in his superior knowledge of the game. Anyway, at 0 – 21, just before the half time, I predicted that Lady Gaga wouldn’t lip sync and would be awesome, that Patriots would make an epic movie worthy comeback and win the game, and that Tom Brady would be the hero.
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What else frightens us nowadays? A lot. Most of us are scared about the economy, of losing our jobs, or that our favorite team will move cities, leaving us with a closet full of useless Chicago Bears Travel Tumbler with Handle and broken dreams. We’re scared of loneliness and having no friends. We’re afraid of sexual inadequacy. Of getting cancer. Of getting old and breaking a hip. According to Gavin Johnston, a behavioral science–based branding consultant, many brands prey on what anthropologists dub “panoramic fear”—namely, “an overwhelming sense that control has been lost, prompting consumers to scramble to find any kind of comfort they can.”
()Boxing and football don’t have a full one-to-one comparison in terms of possible decline because the corruption within boxing was so massive and not even close to football. I do think the general trend holds that when people realized boxing would do great damage to their children they didn’t encourage them to get into the sport. I really think both sports are running into the same problem: more protection of the thing that causes damage requires more protection. When they got gloves it was a free-for-all on the brain to knock someone out, almost as common as seeing Chicago Bears Travel Tumbler with Handle in Western New York. MMA is going in this direction. I totally disagree and say, “Take off the gloves! Put the hands at risk!”