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My family and I hardly ever watch television anymore. We can’t get cable in Goldvein, of course, and we don’t have a satellite. The television fare that’s left to us doesn’t seem worth the trouble of turning the set on.
But yesterday was Super I Bowl Sunday, and that gave us an excuse to eat nachos and enjoy a good old American tradition.
On the radio that afternoon, we had heard President Bush talking about how he would be watching the Super Bowl too, with some of his buddies and their families. “I’m sure it’s going to be a good, close game,” he said. “But what do I know? I’m just the president.”
It has been some years since I bothered to watch the Super Bowl, but my family and I settled in front of the set, i naively expecting to see a football game.
What we saw, of course, was i a TV extravaganza interrupted i by scattered moments of really \ good football. ;
When I had last seen a ] Super Bowl, it had been high- t lighted by exceptionally clever 1 — albeit absurdly expensive — s commercials. This year, the r commercials were a hundred i
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