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 (After all, the current stadium is just woefully out-of-date for the purpose of pigskin worship.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.
