Taking Back the Super Bowl

The values are all there: teamwork; fairplay; a transparent and honest judiciary. By many counts, sports embody liberal values.

So why does it seem like pro sports -- and its apotheosis, last night's Superbowl -- are the domain of conservative thinking? Is it the martial posturing (although, despite the on-field pre-game presence of David Petraeus, the NFL does claim it's moving away from military metaphors? Is it the culture of excessive consumerism embodied in the ads? Is it the machismo that sometimes resembles an anti-woman ethos (and has led to Superbowl Sunday having a horrid reputation for spousal abuse)?

And yet, there's Bard for the Blue Collar, the Boss himself, at the halftime show...surely Liberals should think twice before giving this ground over to the other side.

Fortunately, some members of Drinking Liberally decided to take to the field -- our Philadelphia friends, despite the Eagles ouster, organized an outing...and even made a special logo for the occasion.

How did you mark yesterday? We know friends who had anti-Super Bowl outings to the movies, or nice dinners. But here in New York City, just as many liberals were finding ways to watch (grass-fed sliders, anyone?) and liberal reasons to root (Pennsylvania voted Obama, so Steelers were preferred; on the other hand, you gotta love the underdogs, so there was an argument for the Cardinals).

What was your reasoning?

We've reclaimed our bars...we've reclaimed our capital...now let's reclaim the NFL.