Stupid Bowl Rant
Jan. 24th, 2003 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundWelcome to occupied San Diego. Where the city of SD has sold what little remains of it's developer-owned soul to the NFL for the annual high holy day of that pigskin religion, the Stupid, er, I mean Super Bowl.
Which means you can't swing a cat without finding some place selling Super Bowl crap. All offically licenced of-course, since SDPD is taking time from it's normal job of protecting the serfs that live in America's Finest Developer-Owned Spineless City. After all, have to protect the public from that bootleg Stupid Bowl stuff.
Nope, it's all offically licenced. Which means just walking a few blocks will get you offical NFL t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, jackets, underwear, books, posters, pictures, jerseys, footballs, ice cream, beer, lingerie, contraceptives, bondage gear, floggers and sex toys.
All lovingly protected by a city that can't support its infrastructure, can't build a new library, can't meet payroll for firefighters and police, can't even handle sewage properly, but can kowtow to professional baseball for a new downtown stadium, and more than likely will do the same for it's losing football team. (After all, the current stadium is just woefully out-of-date for the purpose of pigskin worship. Never mind it seems to be just fine and dandy for sunday's testosterone festival, the local team wants a new stadium or they're going to take their game elsewhere. Fine, let them go.)
Gak. One plus. The movie theatres and malls should be empty.
Which means you can't swing a cat without finding some place selling Super Bowl crap. All offically licenced of-course, since SDPD is taking time from it's normal job of protecting the serfs that live in America's Finest Developer-Owned Spineless City. After all, have to protect the public from that bootleg Stupid Bowl stuff.
Nope, it's all offically licenced. Which means just walking a few blocks will get you offical NFL t-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, jackets, underwear, books, posters, pictures, jerseys, footballs, ice cream, beer, lingerie, contraceptives, bondage gear, floggers and sex toys.
All lovingly protected by a city that can't support its infrastructure, can't build a new library, can't meet payroll for firefighters and police, can't even handle sewage properly, but can kowtow to professional baseball for a new downtown stadium, and more than likely will do the same for it's losing football team. (After all, the current stadium is just woefully out-of-date for the purpose of pigskin worship. Never mind it seems to be just fine and dandy for sunday's testosterone festival, the local team wants a new stadium or they're going to take their game elsewhere. Fine, let them go.)
Gak. One plus. The movie theatres and malls should be empty.
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Date: 2003-01-24 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-01-24 11:11 am (UTC)Hmm...perhaps I should have you pick up and ship me a set of "Official NFL Clover Clamps" (you know, the ones with the little "first down" flags on top).
Of course, since the East Bay Area's team-of-choice is in the game anyways, perhaps I can find all of that up here.
Not that I give 1/10th of 1% of a rat's ass about the game, mind you...I'm thinking of vacating the Bay Area entirely until the mess is over with, myself, just to avoid one of two possibilities:
1) The Raiders win (thousands of drunken, jubilant fans gleefully wrecking cars and buildings, rioting, setting fires, shooting guns into the air, and causing general mayhem)
2) The Raiders lose (thousands of drunken, despondent fans angrily wrecking cars and buildings, rioting, setting fires, shooting guns into the air (and at each other), and causing general mayhem)
Scylla and Charybdis, anyone?
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Date: 2003-01-24 11:50 am (UTC)Hmm...perhaps I should have you pick up and ship me a set of "Official NFL Clover Clamps" (you know, the ones with the little "first down" flags on top).
Not to mention the "End Zone passing"(tm) brand butt-plugs, and pigskin condoms.
Of course, since the East Bay Area's team-of-choice is in the game anyways, perhaps I can find all of that up here.
Or at least Black and Silver bondage gear... (Laugh) My lady's co-spouse lives in Tampa. He tends to refer to that team as the "Suckaneers"
Scylla and Charybdis, anyone?
Can we say "duck and fucking cover", boys and girls???