Football

Currently the Superbowl is going on. I'm not watching it.

I just don't really like sports all that much. Except for the purpose of examining them from a sociological perspective.

My dad and I went out to eat at about 6, and almost no one was outside. Normally, at 6 on a Sunday night there would be many people outside, and yet there were very few. It's almost eerie the effect that a simple sport can have on us. People go out and they buy fried food and chips and they have beer and soda, all in celebration of men who run around with a ball. As a culture, we seem to worship these men. Yes, I do understand that playing football is not easy (flashbacks to gym classes), but still. They get paid so much more (SO much more) than social workers or teachers. We dub sports players "heroes" of sorts.

Why? Why do we pay them millions of dollars for running around...?

(Side note: All I know of the game is coming from my news feed. Which is certainly another sociological experiment for another time... but it does amuse me to see what people are saying!)

 I much prefer to use my time to read, study interesting things about the world, and analyze Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

And wish I could catch up on Downton Abbey... which will happen at some point. (By catch up I mean actually watch it).

On another note, Happy February!