Essay on the Super Bowl for writing about sports. It is almost shocking the degree to which I have lost interest in baseball, college basketball and football, passions of my youth. Time, I guess, time. If only to have more of it. What do you think? Nathan Bell Super Bowl as Ritual Pizza, wings, beer, chips, hot dogs, burgers, commercials, football- these, the components of an American ritual. The Super Bowl is no game, it is a happening. It is a rare moment when America's gears grate to a halt. When the franticness and isolation that seem such a part of America pauses and a collective breath is taken. Granted, that inhale is heavy with grease and cheap beer. But in a land stripped of traditions, the Super bowl is a time when most people, fans
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