Super Bull: A Celebration of the NFL 0
The San Jose Mercury-News lists why the Super Bowl is special. A nugget:
Reason No. 1: It’s not soccer.
American exceptionalism is alive and thriving on Super Bowl Sunday. National Football League franchises are overwhelmingly owned, managed and manned by American citizens. Even as other major sports have growing numbers of Latin American, Asian and Eastern European players, professional football remains ours alone. Neither immigration nor foreign capital has made a perceptible dent in the game.
And you and I have proudly subsidized all this. American taxpayers have built many NFL stadiums, and American universities, with their government grants, have shaped the sport. Multimillion-dollar college football programs (which, despite claims to the contrary, are rarely profitable) train the players, and sports management departments train the front-office personnel.
