On the Super Bowl and Winter Olympics
-Watched about half of the Super Bowl 56 yesterday. I don’t usually watch sports, but this is a cultural event each year.
-Slightly favored L.A. because I have been there a few times and love movies. So I am glad they won. The athleticism and coordination between quarterbacks and pass receivers and running backs is still interesting.
-The knee injury of one player disturbed me. It is a violent sport. In high school, a company tried to sell all football players knee-protecting devices. I was never good at U.S. football so just quit and joined “lone-wolf” sports. There was also a really disturbing video at the time of Washington Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann getting hit so hard in a sack that it basically crippled his leg.
-I had a grad school classmate who said she would never let her son play U.S. football because it was so violent. There was also a scene in the Tarantino movie Django Unchained with two men beating each other up while other men watched it as entertainment. It reminded me a bit of U.S. football games.
Also watched a few minutes of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, downhill skiing and ski jumps. You must have very strong nerves and good coordination for it. One of the skiers was named Eileen Goo. Sounds like a made-up name… I like goo or I like you.
It was also interesting to see the nuclear power silos in the distance beyond the ski slopes. I’m not opposed to nuclear power and had seen some nuclear facilities skiing myself when younger in the Northeast U.S.