Welcome to hell. Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images Sometimes the Super Bowl is good, and sometimes the Super Bowl is bad, but the Super Bowl is always everything. In a nation that has been ruled by television for 50 years, the eight most-watched programs have all been Super Bowls, and 16 of the top 18. It’s the game where presidents make sure to speak beforehand, where a halftime nipple (not Adam Levine’s) can scandalize an entire populace, where unpleasant news stories are stealthily dropped minutes before kickoff. The nation stops for the Super Bowl. Which was why it was so fascinating, during the dreary, relentlessly dull Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta last night, how many far more interesting things seemed to be happening elsewhere. Embattled Virginia governor Ralph Northam gathered his staff together for an “urgent” meeting that may have actually been more pleasant to be in than watching the Rams and the Patriots exchange punts for three hours. New Orleans, still angry about the botched call two weeks ago that cost them a spot in this game, staged a thousands-strong boycott/protest/party. LeBron James seemed to be engaged in the great American tradition of drunk tweeting. Every gathering felt more fun than… Read full this story
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