So many questions after watching part of the Super Bowl with an Irish friend.
“Are any of the Kansas City Chiefs from the same tribe as Elizabeth Warren?” Turns out that this was already answered by the New York Times:
On Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs will play the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl. Chiefs fans will don headdresses and mark themselves with red paint to perform the “tomahawk chop,” a wordless chant complete with a swinging motion of the forearm, caricaturing what they believe is Native American culture.
A 2005 resolution by the American Psychological Association recognized research that found that Native American team mascots and symbols harm our children’s self-esteem. Racial stereotypes are harmful, no matter the intent.
How do multiple “chiefs” play together as a team? (No answer so far.)
Inevitably from a person accustomed to soccer: “Why is this game so f*cking slow?” (I timed the last 2.5 minutes of the game… more than 20 minutes.)
A minor question: Why couldn’t the 49ers concede with a few seconds left in the game? Why were the players collectively forced to run out the clock?
My own question: Fox and Fox News are owned by the same parent company. Watching the Super Bowl thus puts cash into the pockets of the Official Channel of the Deplorables. Why would people who proudly #resist and who claim that Fox News is responsible for the parlous state of our nation watch regular Fox at any time for any reason?
Readers: How can anyone who purports to be resisting Donald Trump tune into a Fox station?
Related:
- “Why do they allow shirt-pulling in soccer?” (chronicling my attempt at watching TV in Ireland)
Tomahawk chop racist- wouldn’t that depend on whether or not it is a pre-European stone head tomahawk or a European steel tomahawk head? Walking through the Indian reenactment village at Plymouth I wanted to ask the Indian actors if using European derived steel knives and axes was cultural appropriation. Pre-Europeans it sucked to have to cut things in America.