Yeah. I watched it. You almost have to, since it will be the talk of the nation the next day, and since it is America’s most watched game or event. I watched all four hours of it, while it poured rain in Miami. The half time show was stupid, and I never likes Prince 25 years ago. There were the usual injuries, but none serious. The first 15 seconds were incredible, I will admit to that! Rain soaked field and wet ball made everything prone to slipping and fumbling. Budweiser seemed to have the best commercials, and they cost them a bundle. I am not so sure that CBS made any money on the game, since there were so many in house commercials for their shows. Does this mean they failed to sell a lot of this expensive time? It cost millions, I am sure, for the half time show alone, and probably there were dozens of cameras placed about the field so as to catch every move, tackle of off sides. Baseball could learn a lot from the Super Bowl, and I wish they would. If there is a question about a call or play at the Super Bowl, the referees look at the film to see just what happened. I’ve seen hundreds of bad calls in baseball, and the umpire’s word sticks, no matter how bad the call. Why not have instant replays in baseball?
Baseball I really do like, I must admit. No one is tackling and trying to injure, and it is played on nice days in the summer. It’s easy to see what’s happening in baseball, and who is skilled. In football, the hero is always the quarterback, and the rest are muscle bound heavyweights who can tackle and bring down the opposite teams’ guys. In baseball, the hero can be anyone. A pitcher, fielder, batter, or any other player who exhibits skill when the ball comes his way or leaves him. No one catches pneumonia at a baseball game!
In the mean time, the violence increases hourly in Baghdad, and they shot down four helicopters last week. A thousand a week are now dying in Iraq. Think of it. A thousand a week, and we are going to allow Dubya to send more? McCain says it will send a bad message to the troops if we don’t. I don’t think so. I think it will tell them that we have made a horrible mistake, we’re going to get you guys home pronto, and thanks for your valiant efforts. Let’s support the troops for sure. Tell them they’re wonderful, brave, and we’re sorry they ever got into this Congressional-Presidential caused mess which we didn’t vote for, nor have any say. Tell them to stay out of danger if they can, and we love them, but hate those who sent them there.
The war will cost a trillion bucks before it’s over, if it ever is. Think of the disability pensions injury care, fuel, materials, transit, planes, tanks and other vehicles. Just try to imagine the actual cost after its over. Costs that will continue for the life of the troops. Think of the actual taxatiuon on all of us with inflated printing press dollars. Prices at the end of WW II were about twice what they had been 3 1/2 years before, so expensive was that war. Printing press dollars paid for that war, Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq. Everyone pays for wars, whether they fought, stayed home, or are injured. Prices go up during wars, and we all pay, thanks to the almighty printing press which pays for them. It’s gotten so expensive now, that our foreign bailers out are abandoning our bankrupt ship. How’s that for a price to pay?