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Salon.com > Football http://www.salon.com Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Can Tebow find salvation? http://www.salon.com/2012/03/21/can_tebow_find_salvation/ http://www.salon.com/2012/03/21/can_tebow_find_salvation/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12709151 [UPDATED BELOW]

You don't need to be an evangelical Christian to care about the future of Tim Tebow. I’m a lapsed atheist myself. But with the resurrection of quarterback Peyton Manning in Denver, I wonder most about the future of the spiritual scrambler, who led the Broncos to the playoffs last year.

The Broncos signing Manning to replace Tebow is a no-brainer. He may be diminished by age and injury, but he is also the best quarterback of our time, not because he is a brilliant coach’s puppet (Tom Brady) or an on-field, off-field brute (Ben Roethlisberger) but by virtue of a fierce work ethic and a concentrated intelligence that is contagious and inspirational. Whatever is left at age 35 of him will make the Broncos better.

Through 14 years and two Super Bowls with the Indianapolis Colts, there was something reassuringly manly about Manning, his cool leadership, his laconic but friendly demeanor, his thoughtful professionalism, that evoked my role models on the Encore Westerns channel like Marshal Dillon and Wagonmaster Flint. (Something went out of American life when the legend of the western hero was replaced by the myth of the sports idol.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/03/21/can_tebow_find_salvation/feed/ 43 The Super Bowl is not a job creator http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/the_super_bowl_is_not_a_job_creator/ http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/the_super_bowl_is_not_a_job_creator/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12277561 Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the National Football League, argued on "60 Minutes" last Sunday that the NFL is one professional organization designed to appeal to the economic interests of the little guy: Its revenue-sharing model, he said, gives a fighting chance to squads from Green Bay and Buffalo as well as to those from large media markets like New York, Los Angeles and Boston.

On the eve of the Super Bowl, Goodell was touting the familiar idea that the sport's biggest game is a boon to economic development. But with the cost of a ticket now averaging $3,982 and 30-second television spots selling for $3.5 million, the Super Bowl can appear to be more an occasion for ostentatious excess than an engine of development.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/the_super_bowl_is_not_a_job_creator/feed/ 10 Political lessons from this year’s Super Bowl http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/political_lessons_from_this_years_super_bowl/ http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/political_lessons_from_this_years_super_bowl/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:42:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12284271 Most Americans won’t need a justification to watch Sunday’s game, but if you’re a Salon reader you might think, even in passing, that celebrating the holiest day of violence, consumerism and class warfare on your couch is a betrayal of your values or a waste of your time. You might even imagine that it would be better to take a hike, read a book or meditate.

Not this Sunday, buster. It’s an election season. You need to watch this game to fully understand how jobs, religion, leadership and healthcare dominate every American contest.

1. Joe Hill will be playing: Where else will be you be able to watch more than 100 young men, most of them African-American, working for high wages in a totally unionized shop? True, their jobs are dangerous (more on that later) and relatively short-term (typically three or four years), but they are also high profile. They can lead to TV gigs, even political office. Buffalo Bills quarterback Jack Kemp became a Republican congressman and vice-presidential candidate. The former New England Patriots running back and ESPN analyst Craig James is currently running for the Republican nomination for Senator from Texas, although to less than universal acclaim.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/02/02/political_lessons_from_this_years_super_bowl/feed/ 6 Enjoy the game? For the true fan, it’s all about agony http://www.salon.com/2012/01/28/enjoy_the_game_for_the_true_fan_its_all_about_agony/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/28/enjoy_the_game_for_the_true_fan_its_all_about_agony/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12244721 “The truth is,” Nick Hornby wrote in “Fever Pitch,” his book about his obsession with Arsenal and British football, “for alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.”

That’s a wonderful sentence by one of my favorite writers, but if Hornby is only a moron for only large chunks of the average day, he is doing a lot better than I am. I can honestly report that for the last few months I have been an absolute idiot for all but very small portions of the day.

Some football (American football) fans mistakenly assume that the season goes in a straight line, starting in August with pre-season games (wherein five of your team’s 10 best players will suffer season-ending injuries) and ending in February with the Super Bowl. But the true fan, the addicted and obsessive, the kind friends and spouses ought to be worried sick about, knows that the season doesn’t end. There is no start, there is no finish. It just is, and, like life, it ends when you do. This is why, when the New York Giants beat the Green Bay Packers in the divisional playoff a few weeks ago in the Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field (it was colder in my Manhattan apartment that day than it was in Green Bay, Wis.) and qualified for the NFC Championship game (which they won … no, let me put that a better way: WHICH THEY WON!!!) my wife looked at me and said, “Hey, you can relax now. They won the game.”

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/28/enjoy_the_game_for_the_true_fan_its_all_about_agony/feed/ 42 Small blunders kill Super Bowl dreams http://www.salon.com/2012/01/23/fatal_blunders_in_instant_replay/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/23/fatal_blunders_in_instant_replay/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:42:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12218151 Just when it looked like the NFC and AFC championship games were going to last until the Super Bowl, two fatal blunders brought them to an abrupt close. The stunning conclusions to two of the most tense, evenly matched conference championship games in recent memory were a painful reminder that although football is a team game, one miscue by a single player can wipe out thousands of hours of collective blood, sweat and tears.

It will be a sad and lonely night for Baltimore Ravens’ kicker Billy Cundiff, whose shanked chip-shot 32-yarder gave the AFC championship to the New England Patriots. Kickers must have strong mental constitutions: in a sport where bonds between teammates are cemented in blood and pain, they are not always regarded as full-fledged comrades to begin with, and so when they screw up, it’s even harder for them to deal with. The mantra “short memory,” which defensive backs are constantly shouting at each other, applies in spades to kickers. Cundiff could use a tall glass of Milk of Amnesia.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/23/fatal_blunders_in_instant_replay/feed/ 22 Reviled no more http://www.salon.com/2012/01/16/reviled_no_more/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/16/reviled_no_more/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:47:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12177211 Like campaigning as a right-wing loon in Iowa or taking hallucinatory drugs in preparation for the Bar exam, playoff football is all about peaking at the right time. And after this weekend’s division-round games, all four of the remaining teams in the NFL playoffs can legitimately feel that they have the best shot at winning Super Bowl 46. (Not “XLVI”: I refuse to honor the NFL’s grandiose insistence on using Roman numerals to denote its championship game for the same reason that I refuse to call a small Starbucks coffee a “tall.”)

My team, the San Francisco 49ers, are channeling the ghosts of Joe Montana and Dwight Clark after coming back not once but twice in the last four minutes to beat the unstoppable New Orleans Saints in one of the most thrilling playoff games ever played. (Gloating and hubristic reminder: in my previous piece I called the 49ers to win 30-28. The final score: 49ers 36, Saints 32.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/16/reviled_no_more/feed/ 26 NFL pre-game question: Does God exist? http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/nfl_pre_game_question_does_god_exist/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/nfl_pre_game_question_does_god_exist/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12164751 For football fans, the playoffs are always momentous. But one of this weekend’s games, between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots, is especially significant. For among the questions that will be answered will be one that has long puzzled mankind: Does God exist?

In an attempt to answer that question, the tortured French philosopher Blaise Pascal came up with something called “Pascal’s wager,” also known as “Bet on God.” Pascal’s argument went something like this: Man cannot know for sure whether or not God exists, but he has nothing to lose and everything to gain if God does exist, so he should “bet on God.”

It wasn’t exactly the most overpowering argument for the existence of a supreme being ever made, but it is one that millions of atheists, agnostics and other non-believers have been forced to take seriously since Tim Tebow pulled on a Denver Broncos’ uniform.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/nfl_pre_game_question_does_god_exist/feed/ 46 What if Tim Tebow were Muslim? http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/what_if_tim_tebow_were_muslim/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/what_if_tim_tebow_were_muslim/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12114821 Tim Tebow's profession of faith has thrust the mixture of sport and religion into the national spotlight in a way that few can remember.

Students have been suspended for "Tebowing" -- dropping to one knee to pray, even if you're the only one doing it -- in a school hallway in New York. Rick Perry claimed that he would be the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses. "Saturday Night Live" lampooned Tebow’s fan-boy love for Jesus. In response, Pat Robertson has claimed that the skit demonstrates “anti-Christian bigotry.” His supporters even called for a boycott of HBO after a Bill Maher tweet made fun of Tebow and his relationship to Jesus after his Denver Broncos lost to the Buffalo Bills.

After an overtime upset of the Pittsburgh Steelers last weekend, Tebow's Broncos play the top-seeded New England Patriots on Saturday. For at least one more media cycle, there will appear to be no way to separate Tim Tebow – the person, the quarterback, the Christian – from his religion.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/12/what_if_tim_tebow_were_muslim/feed/ 287 How football saved my relationship with Dad http://www.salon.com/2012/01/08/how_football_saved_my_relationship_with_dad/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/08/how_football_saved_my_relationship_with_dad/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=11971231 As a kid I watched football with my dad, an inveterate Texan and incorrigible Oilers fan. I collected football cards and put them in a wicker knitting basket that said on the front in needlepoint, “Enough is better than too much.” Ignoring this, I crammed it with cards for players I hardly knew, teams I had no particular interest in; I collected to collect. I would sit with my father in our basement, the ironing board behind us, our feet up on a coffee table, and organize my football cards by team or position or color while this game I hardly understood unspooled on the screen, yelling when my father yelled, cheering when he cheered.

I’m not a sports fan, as a rule. My progressive high school required that girls learn to play football, and my main memory from those gym classes is that I could throw a football with no more accuracy than I could throw anything else. I haven’t learned much in the intervening years. I remain unclear on what “intentional grounding” is. I am unsure what a neutral zone infraction consists of, and how that differs from encroachment. I don’t know who’s in what division, including my own home team, the Rams, although I do know enough to lament them, generally.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/08/how_football_saved_my_relationship_with_dad/feed/ 6 The voice of Monday night http://www.salon.com/2012/01/06/the_voice_of_monday_night/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/06/the_voice_of_monday_night/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=11870991 For Americans of a certain generation, just the name Howard Cosell instantly summons into memory's ear the brash, nasal yammer of the voice, one that blared from American TVs and radios for three decades, demanding to be recognized, whether it was spinning verbiage around some of sports' heaviest moments -- such as when Palestinian terrorists kidnapped and eventually murdered 11 Israeli Olympians in 1972 -- or its lightest ("Battle of the Network Stars," anyone?).

Cosell was the King of Sports, for a time at least, because he asked questions that other people wouldn't and wasn't worried about ruffling feathers. What did concern him, though, was what everybody thought of this tough-talking lawyer out of Brooklyn, N.Y.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/01/06/the_voice_of_monday_night/feed/ 6 Don’t fall for Tebow http://www.salon.com/2011/12/13/dont_fall_for_tebow/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/13/dont_fall_for_tebow/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10316085 For a guy who has only started 11 games as a pro, Tim Tebow has already touched off more sour, unwinnable arguments to last a career. Is the Denver Broncos quarterback a pro-life religious zealot who needs to keep his fervor off the football field and out of the locker room? Is he destroying smashmouth football with his cutesy option play? It's a debate that consumes both sports radio and even the "Today" show -- and with Gingrich-esque momentum, the argument is going Tebow's way.

On Fox News, Tebow's 7-1 record this year is just the latest reason to attack a liberal straw man. "Tim Tebow's success as the quarterback of the Denver Broncos has done little to silence his critics, who believe that his faith in Jesus Christ has no business on the football field," writes Todd Starnes. "It doesn't matter how many touchdown passes he throws or how many games he wins because Tebow will always be a lightning rod for anti-Christian bigots."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/13/dont_fall_for_tebow/feed/ 168 Hallelujah! The liberal case for Tim Tebow http://www.salon.com/2011/12/10/the_agony_and_the_ecstasy_of_tim_tebow/ http://www.salon.com/2011/12/10/the_agony_and_the_ecstasy_of_tim_tebow/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10305896 In the third quarter of last Sunday's NFL game between the Denver Broncos and Minnesota Vikings, Tim Tebow takes a snap while standing in the shotgun position. He fakes a handoff to the running back, and then looks downfield to pass. But his receivers are all covered. He starts rolling out to his left. Viking tacklers converge at him from every direction. All hope for a productive play seems lost -- his only obvious option is to tuck the ball in, put his head down and try to bull forward for a yard or two. Which is not an altogether unreasonable choice: At 6 foot 3, 240 pounds, Tim Tebow is a load. But this play is still going nowhere.

Cue the Hallelujah choir. At the last possible second, just before he is knocked out of bounds, Tebow spots a receiver hanging around just 10 yards away and dumps the ball to him The play-by-play announcer is suddenly hollering in excitement: TOUCHDOWN BRONCOS! A few minutes later, as the camera catches Tebow on the sideline, his eyes blazing with the righteous intensity of an Old Testament avenging angel, the color analyst, former Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick, finally surrenders.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/12/10/the_agony_and_the_ecstasy_of_tim_tebow/feed/ 124 Why college football is better than the pros http://www.salon.com/2011/11/04/game_of_century/ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/04/game_of_century/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:10:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10161697 It wasn’t easy explaining to my father’s family in New Jersey what it was like to be in Alabama on the weekend of a big game, like when Alabama played Louisiana State -- as they will this Saturday night -- or when the Crimson Tide battled Tennessee or Auburn. During an Auburn game, as Geoffrey Norman wrote in his book "Alabama Showdown," “One or two people every year die of a heart attack right there in Legion Field. The better the game, the more people who die.”

People from Texas understood what he meant; it was like when the University of Texas played Texas A&M or Oklahoma. To Oklahomans, it was like when their Sooners play Texas or Nebraska. People from Michigan and Ohio understood -- it was like when Michigan played Ohio State, and they had to pass out fliers to fans of the visiting team advising “Wear jackets over your team colors and don’t take them off until seated.” (The same flier suggested driving across the state line in a rental car with neutral-state license plates.)

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/11/04/game_of_century/feed/ 63 Mississippi's Colonel Reb: Gone but not forgotten http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/colonel_reb_and_lee_habeeb/ http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/colonel_reb_and_lee_habeeb/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:02:00 +0000 Like most liberal Berkeley, Calif. residents, I am an avid follower of Southeastern Conference college football, which means I often find myself spending my lunch hour catching up on the latest news about tree poisonings in Auburn or Lane "Lame" Kiffen's cheating escapades at Tennessee. But it's just not every day that my consideration of LSU's awesome defensive line is interrupted by new revelations about the intersection of Deep South college football and the conservative right-wing campaign to demonize Barack Obama as the Socialist Bringer-of-Death.

But hey, everything's connected, right? Race, the Confederacy, conservative talk radio, the rise of the Republican South, health care, Jeremiah Wright, and college football? Of course it is.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/09/30/colonel_reb_and_lee_habeeb/feed/ 22 Today’s must-see viral videos http://www.salon.com/2011/07/07/viral_videos_pawlenty_lady_gaga/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/07/viral_videos_pawlenty_lady_gaga/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:08:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/07/07/viral_videos_pawlenty_lady_gaga 1. Once you go Black

Everyone is saying this Lexi St. George kid is the new Rebecca Black. Some are even saying that her song "Dancing to the Rhythm" is a better Ark Music Factory production than "Friday," which must be such a proud moment for her and her family.

2. Tim Pawlenty was just born this way

You know, leaving aside his feelings on Lady Gaga's talent (which starts at 1:50), can we just discuss what it says about the GOP candidate that he is agreeing to interviews with a site called Glittarazi?

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/07/viral_videos_pawlenty_lady_gaga/feed/ 3 Why is Michael Vick shilling for Nike? http://www.salon.com/2011/07/06/michael_vick_nike_deal/ http://www.salon.com/2011/07/06/michael_vick_nike_deal/#comments Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/07/05/michael_vick_nike_deal Michael Vick's rocky road to public redemption goes on. The quarterback, who served nearly two years in prison for his role in a dog fighting ring, has, since signing with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009, grown into the kind of player that legendary games are made of and become an advocate for the Humane Society. But is America ready to accept him again as a sneaker pitchman? Nike, which dropped Vick's endorsement deal and halted the release of a signature Zoom Vick V shoe shortly after he pleaded guilty to federal felony charges in August 2007, has signed him back up. The deal is reported to be the first time a company has brought back a celebrity it previously dropped.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/07/06/michael_vick_nike_deal/feed/ 60 “Friday Night Lights” life lessons: You are going to fail http://www.salon.com/2011/06/29/friday_night_lights_teaches_failure/ http://www.salon.com/2011/06/29/friday_night_lights_teaches_failure/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/06/29/friday_night_lights_teaches_failure While not the biggest fan of sports culture, I was hooked on the show "Friday Night Lights" from its premiere episode. The soaring music that crescendoed when a ball was mid-air was somehow just as mesmerizing as watching Taylor Kitsch take off his shirt.

Now that the show is in its final season on NBC (though technically the finale played back in February on DIRECTV), there's no denying that the tragically under-awarded series has been held together by some amazing performances. In particular, Kyle Chandler as the stoic Coach Eric Taylor has imparted five years of wisdom, not all of it about football. What has Coach T. really taught us? He taught us all how to fail, and how to fail well.

Here are some "Friday Night Light" tips for when you lose at life.

1. Get rid of that pride, boy

In the "devil town" of Dillon, everyone must eventually answer for their sins. Whether its conning your church out of money to buy steroids, making an off-handed racist remark to the press, or screwing your crippled best friend's girlfriend -- and hey, we're still in season one! – there is no moral or ethical slip that goes unpunished on "Friday Night Lights."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/06/29/friday_night_lights_teaches_failure/feed/ 11 Why an NFL-less season would be good for America http://www.salon.com/2011/05/10/nfl_strike_good_for_america/ http://www.salon.com/2011/05/10/nfl_strike_good_for_america/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/politics//war_room/2011/05/10/nfl_strike_good_for_america There's nothing like a little dust-up between millionaires and billionaires to start us thousandaires yawning. And when the upcoming pro football season is in danger of being cancelled because of it, we're likely to say: a plague on both your mansions.

Too bad, because the current struggle between labor and management in the National Football League not only reflects the current attacks on unions across the country but conjures up, even if in cartoon fashion, some crucial American issues: racism, classism, sexism, recreational violence, and the health-care gap. No wonder football seems to have replaced baseball as the national pastime.

While the legalities of, and mathematics behind, the issues at the heart of the NFL dispute may be complex, the basic issues are not. The league's owners cry economic woe, while refusing to open their books. They insist on adding two games to the present regular season of 16 games and at the same time are trying to reduce the players' share of revenues. Moreover, they have been remarkably unwilling to guarantee long-term health benefits to the players, even as evidence mounts that dementia and early death are linked to the sort of brain trauma commonly suffered in football collisions.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/05/10/nfl_strike_good_for_america/feed/ 32 The NFL “slave” comment that won’t go away http://www.salon.com/2011/03/16/adrian_peterson_modern_day_slavery/ http://www.salon.com/2011/03/16/adrian_peterson_modern_day_slavery/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:30:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/feature/2011/03/16/adrian_peterson_modern_day_slavery Adrian Peterson didn't really mean it when he compared his $10.72 million-a-year career with the NFL to "modern-day slavery," but don't let that stop one boneheaded remark from spurring outrage and haunting him for a long time to come.

In a Tuesday interview for Yahoo Sports with Doug Farrar, just fifteen minutes after the owners locked out players, the Minnesota Vikings running back may not have been his most quick-witted when he vented his frustration regarding the NFL's labor dispute with an unfortunate, over the top comparison. Peterson was already aware he was in danger of misspeaking when he told Farrar, "The players are getting robbed. They are. The owners are making so much money off of us to begin with. I don't know that I want to quote myself on that …" but he pressed on. "It's modern-day slavery, you know?" he said. "People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2011/03/16/adrian_peterson_modern_day_slavery/feed/ 36 Super Bust: The big game flops http://www.salon.com/2011/02/08/fbn_super_bowl_texas_bust/ http://www.salon.com/2011/02/08/fbn_super_bowl_texas_bust/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:40:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/02/07/fbn_super_bowl_texas_bust Roads froze and airports closed. Falling ice sent six people to the hospital. Finally, seats to the big game vanished hours before kickoff. Super Bowl week in Texas was not always so super.

Annoyance over difficult driving conditions and altered travel plans early in the week turned to anger Sunday for hundreds of fans with tickets who were forced to watch Green Bay beat Pittsburgh on TV at $1.3 billion Cowboys Stadium in suburban Arlington because their temporary seats weren't ready.

Visitors left Dallas-Fort Worth en masse Monday, many wondering whether the region had been prepared to host an event of such magnitude.

"Logistics are a major, major problem here," said John Boyle, a 53-year-old Packers fan who was waiting at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport for a flight home to Minnesota. "And I think everyone would say the same thing."

North Texas wasn't at fault for the seating problem -- the NFL officially took the blame Monday, and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones chimed in to say his team shared it.

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