If my child's school has a parade in celebration of their school.....follow me here, everyone,, this is big.....................they will have their school flag Right Out Front, as they march singing their School Song!!!
Now you just tell us how the flags of the other schools in town would be appropriate in my Child's school parade. C'mon , tell us.how, if it was OK at SuperBowl, it would be OK in this parade????
Any answers?
I wrote this in answer to someone in a languishing SBowl question, but could not get an answer of any nature, except telling me to Buzz Off.
but, of course they did. as my granny would say.
@AverageJoe1 saidYa'll so obsessed with flags and other people's clothing decisions that you missed the rise of fascism in America.
If my child's school has a parade in celebration of their school.....follow me here, everyone,, this is big.....................they will have their school flag Right Out Front, as they march singing their School Song!!!
Now you just tell us how the flags of the other schools in town would be appropriate in my Child's school parade. C'mon , tell us.how, if it was OK at S ...[text shortened]... of any nature, except telling me to Buzz Off.
but, of course they did. as my granny would say.
@wildgrass saidThis post has nothing to do with flags per se..it is the message that is being sent by vague-color people , telegraphing their seeming intent to homogenize our country. The flags are symbols by which they do that. That is their purpose. To introduce In-Your-Face at our Super Bowl.
Ya'll so obsessed with flags and other people's clothing decisions that you missed the rise of fascism in America.
As to your second sentence, you fellers have never evidenced fascism rising in America. I said evidenced. You guys can hypothecate, but you have no evidence.
And you think you are cool to push that, but you will not acknowledge the Dems 'Rising Socialism' in the United States. Your presidential candidate Harris said that "at the end of the day, we all should end up in the same place".
Hey,,,,,THAT is evidence in and of its face.
@AverageJoe1 saidLike the pathetic adolescent you are, you think small. The NFL thinks big; by having one of the most well-known performers in the world do the halftime show, they anticipated building on the Super Bowl's global reach:
If my child's school has a parade in celebration of their school.....follow me here, everyone,, this is big.....................they will have their school flag Right Out Front, as they march singing their School Song!!!
Now you just tell us how the flags of the other schools in town would be appropriate in my Child's school parade. C'mon , tell us.how, if it was OK at S ...[text shortened]... of any nature, except telling me to Buzz Off.
but, of course they did. as my granny would say.
"In 2024, the NFL reported 62.5 million global viewers outside the U.S., a 10% increase from the previous year, with strong numbers in Mexico, Canada, UK, and Germany."
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/how-many-people-watch-super-bowl-tv-ratings-usa-world/f5235d1ff42a72980a4de32f
That's about one-third the total audience; when final figures come in for this year, it would be surprising if the non-US audience isn't significantly higher.
Xenophobia might make MAGA morons hard, but it's no way to run a global business.
@no1marauder saidYou are writing about Global Marketing, are you not!!?? Global marketing and National Symbolism are not the same thing. I am not arguing that the NFL should not market itself,... a business decision, have at it.
Like the pathetic adolescent you are, you think small. The NFL thinks big; by having one of the most well-known performers in the world do the halftime show, they anticipated building on the Super Bowl's global reach:
"In 2024, the NFL reported 62.5 million global viewers outside the U.S., a 10% increase from the previous year, with strong numbers in Mexico, Canada, UK ...[text shortened]... icantly higher.
Xenophobia might make MAGA morons hard, but it's no way to run a global business.
But MY point is about symboism, not revenue. The Super Bowl is not just a procuct, it is a cultural event tied to a national championship, a national anthem, and heavy patriotic framing. You however, have succeeded in changing the message from "this is America's championship, open to the world" to "national identity is secondary or interchangeable." Just because I disagree with you is certainly not xenophobia.
And for the record, global viewership does not require displaying foreign flags anymore than the Olympics might require every host country to downplay its own flag. You can welcome international audiences while still centering the host nation's symbols.
Why be contrarian about the wonderful USA? I don't get it.
@AverageJoe1
And you did not tell me if it would be appropriate if the other 8 high schools in town displayed THEIR flags in a parade about Ridgemont High. Why is that? Why do all of you just naturally avoid and breeze over uncomfortable questions?
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@AverageJoe1 saidDo you really need it pointed out that your scenario in the OP has no relationship to the Super Bowl?
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And you did not tell me if it would be appropriate if the other 8 high schools in town displayed THEIR flags in a parade about Ridgemont High. Why is that? Why do all of you just naturally avoid and breeze over uncomfortable questions?
The NFL hired someone to do entertainment at halftime, it was Bad Bunny's decision as to what flags would be flown (there was a very large US flag right behind him at the end BTW). IF a local school hired someone for their parade and that entertainer felt like it would be a good idea to fly some other local schools flags as well, would you idiot right wingers stomp your feet and make a nothingburger out of that, too?
@AverageJoe1 saidThis was stupid the first five times.
If my child's school has a parade in celebration of their school.....follow me here, everyone,, this is big.....................they will have their school flag Right Out Front, as they march singing their School Song!!!
Now you just tell us how the flags of the other schools in town would be appropriate in my Child's school parade. C'mon , tell us.how, if it was OK at S ...[text shortened]... of any nature, except telling me to Buzz Off.
but, of course they did. as my granny would say.
Someone has an embarassingly inflated sense of their own intelligence, which, in reality, is far below the dumbest of the dumb here, and that, is quite a stretch.
@wildgrass saidTo be fair, the Wizard told them to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Ya'll so obsessed with flags and other people's clothing decisions that you missed the rise of fascism in America.
@no1marauder saidWe clearly disagree on whether our national identity should be emphasized, MIINmized, or treated as interchangeable in moments like this. That’s the core disagreement.
Do you really need it pointed out that your scenario in the OP has no relationship to the Super Bowl?
The NFL hired someone to do entertainment at halftime, it was Bad Bunny's decision as to what flags would be flown (there was a very large US flag right behind him at the end BTW). IF a local school hired someone for their parade and that entertainer felt like it would ...[text shortened]... gs as well, would you idiot right wingers stomp your feet and make a nothingburger out of that, too?
The analogy does relate, because it’s about context and symbolism, not who physically chose which props. Outsourcing a decision doesn’t remove responsibility for the message conveyed at a nationally framed event.
You’re treating halftime like a random private concert. It isn’t. It’s embedded inside a U.S. national championship. Notice the framing: the event opens with the American national anthem, military flyovers, and explicit patriotic imagery. That context matters—whether you personally value it or not.
Your revised school example actually proves my point. If a school celebration is explicitly about that school, and an entertainer decided to spotlight other schools’ flags during it, people would reasonably ask why the focus shifted…….from U!S!A! to other random nations. whaaaaatt??
This isn’t about fear of outsiders or global marketing. It’s about whether America should be centered at its own flagship event.
And laughable that you suggest that an ‘entertainer’ Felt Like, ….made important decisions affecting so much….I could really do an analogy on his “Felt Likes”!
@Suzianne saidPlease write a meaningful post on this subject. It is a good one, Marauder and i are in the thick of it, I wish you would say at least SOMETHING on the issue, get your feet wet!!! Give us something to add a bit of color!
This was stupid the first five times.
Someone has an embarassingly inflated sense of their own intelligence, which, in reality, is far below the dumbest of the dumb here, and that, is quite a stretch.
eg do you think this single entertainer should have been given the authority to dicate what was going to 'go down' at this widely viewed event?
@wildgrass saidhey WG,come back around, got a good one going. Or, you can parlay w shouse
Ya'll so obsessed with flags and other people's clothing decisions that you missed the rise of fascism in America.
@AverageJoe1 saidYou're an ignorant fool who is all over this guy because he refuses to be white in White America.
Please write a meaningful post on this subject. It is a good one, Marauder and i are in the thick of it, I wish you would say at least SOMETHING on the issue, get your feet wet!!! Give us something to add a bit of color!
eg do you think this single entertainer should have been given the authority to dicate what was going to 'go down' at this widely viewed event?
@AverageJoe1 saidIt's a football game put on by a private profit making organization, not a Fourth of July parade by the government.
We clearly disagree on whether our national identity should be emphasized, MIINmized, or treated as interchangeable in moments like this. That’s the core disagreement.
The analogy does relate, because it’s about context and symbolism, not who physically chose which props. Outsourcing a decision doesn’t remove responsibility for the message conveyed at a nationally fram ...[text shortened]... ike, ….made important decisions affecting so much….I could really do an analogy on his “Felt Likes”!
They do what they think will help grow their business and own no obligation to right wing ideas that the event must reflect some "national identity".
Don't like it use your remote or go for a walk or do something else; no one's putting a gun to your head.