… did we really need a pre-game show full flag-waving paens to “freedom-loving Americans everywhere,” complete with football players reciting (badly) quotations from famous Americans?<\/p>\n
Did Summerall and Madden need to have an American flag festooned behind them?<\/p>\n
Is the Super Bowl really a patriotic event? “Gotta wave your little flag around, or else the terrorists win.”<\/p>\n
Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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