Keywords
Arete, Sport and Society, American Sport History, Economics, Super Bowl, NFL, Football, Thorstein Veblen, Excess, Waste, Money, Prostitution, Corporations, Parties, Masculinity
Subjects
Theory of the leisure class (Veblen, Thorstein); Economics; Super Bowl; National Football League; Gluttony; Indulgences; Rich people; Prostitution; Corporations; Parties; Christian life; Proselytizing
Introduction
From its modest beginnings in 1966 at the AFL-NFL Championship Game in Los Angeles down to Super Bowl XLIV, it has become increasingly apparent that Super Sunday has grown exponentially and in the process has become a bloated monster. Over the past quarter century or more Super Sunday has illustrated the ability of a sporting event to offer a distorted and exaggerated version of social reality and social values in America and the Super Bowl has done this on a grand, glorious, and obscene scale.
Publication Date
2-3-2010
Document Type
Commentary
Type
Text
Format
application/pdf
Source Title
Sport and Society for Arete
Language
English
Collection
Publication Version
Author's version
Copyright Status
Author retained
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
History
Creator (Linked Data)
Crepeau, Richard C., 1941- (VIAF)
Recommended Citation
Crepeau, Richard C., "Excesses of the Super Bowl" (2010). On Sport and Society. 790.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/onsportandsociety/790
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