Bill Maher Compares the NFL and MLB to the Republicans and Democrats
Sometimes I wish I knew more about sports-
MAHER: So it's no surprise that some 100 million Americans will watch the Super Bowl next week. That's forty million more than go to church on Christmas. Suck on that Jesus! It's also 85 million more than watched the last game of the World Series and in that is an economic lesson for America, because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity. And baseball is built on a model with the rich always winning and the poor usually have no chance.
The World Series is like the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills; you have to be a rich ***** just to play. Where as the Superbowl is like Tila Tequilla, anyone can get in. Or to put it another way, football is more like the Democratic philosophy. Democrats don't want to eliminate capitalism or competition, but they would like it if some kids didn't have to go to a crummy school in a rotten neighborhood, while others get to go to a great school, and their dad gets them into Harvard. Because when that happens, achieving the American dream is easy for some and just a fantasy for others.
That's why the NFL literally shares the wealth. TV is their biggest source of revenue and they put it all in a big Commie pot and split if thirty two ways. Because they don't want anyone to fall too far behind. That's why the team that wins the Superbowl in the next draft, picks last, or what the Republicans would call “punishing success.”
Baseball... baseball on the other hand is exactly like the Republicans. And I don't just mean it's incredibly boring. I mean their economic theory is every man for himself. The small market Pittsburgh Steelers go to the Superbowl more than anybody. But the Pittsburgh Pirates? Levi Johnston has sperm that will not grow up and live long enough to see the Pirates in a World Series. Their payroll is forty million. The Yankees is two hundred and six million. The Pirates have about as much chance of getting to the playoffs as a poor black teenager from Newark has of becoming the CEO of Halliburton.
That's why people stop going to Pirate games in May. Because if you're not in the game, you become indifferent to the fate of the game and maybe even get bitter. That's what's happening to the middle class in America. It's also how Marie Antoinette lost her head. So you kind of have to laugh that the same angry white males who hate Obama because he's “redistributing wealth” just love football; a sport that succeeds because it does just that.
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Re: Bill Maher Compares the NFL and MLB to the Republicans and Democrats
That was a dumb comparison on his part, because it was just an obvious joke and nothing more.
The World Series is best 4 out of 7; the Super Bowl is one game, once a year. It also has a more fitting name, because most of the world isn't into baseball. And many people who aren't even into football watch it for the commercials alone, its also an unofficial American holiday.
My youngest brother who's currently an officer stationed in Iraq tells me that there's only two days a year that they're allowed to drink and party on-base: Marine Corps Birthday and the Super Bowl. So its become a special day in American cultre.
Maybe if pro basketball, baseball and hockey limited their championships to only one game, they might earn the cult following that the Super Bowl has.
that's clever, and i didn't realize that all of the NFL teams shared the television revenue, but i'm pretty sure americans upgraded from watching baseball to football for the simple fact that football is more violent, more entertaining and less demanding to follow. baseball is 162 games for each team. 162 games of this:
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until Maher can actually get out there and throw a football or throw a baseball, maybe even run a 4/40 in the 40 yard dash or hit a homerun without the benefit of steroids than maybe i will believe what he is saying
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It was a decent analogy IMO. Whether what he said was clever or not, it's still true. I don't know what your tangent about the popularity of the Super Bowl was about so I shall just ignore it. That's completely illogical. Did you even read the quotation? Maher did not mention anything about his own athletic skill.
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I cry foul. It wasn't a dumb comparison, you simply decide to over analyze it to death because you're one of those 100 million Americans who drool over the game. And that's fine, but maybe you never realized the socialist aspect of the game. I also call foul that in order to validate your opinion on the joke, you have to bring up both your child and your child's service in the military, in a war zone. I honestly mean you no offense, but you did say it in a way that makes me think it isn't the first time you've made mention of your son being in Iraq as a means of disallowing anyone from arguing with your opinion.
You completely missed the point. It has nothing to do with believing what he is saying. You may be one of those people he was talking about in the joke.
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I'm actually a dual US-Mexican citizen, and I won't be drooling over this game because my team isn't playing in it. But I'll still watch it for the commercials (which is what the game is mostly for), and because I hate the Steelers...and I like I said, the game has become a special day of partying and socializing in American culture. There's no "socialist aspect" to it at all, he was making a political joke, which is what Maher has always done for a living. Also, what "child" Did I bring up? I mentioned my brother, and something he told me that shows how the Super Bowl has become an unoffical US holiday. Argue all you want with my opinion. Nada malo, guey.
Maher is not saying that the Super Bowl uses a policy similar to socialism. He's saying that the entire sport of football and especially the draft rules share policies with socialism. I you actually managed to read the quotation, you would have realized that the Super Bowl was hardly even mentioned. So, to make sure that I understand, you don't believe anything Bill Maher says because he's not athletic and you don't like him, right?
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