"Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered." - Al Capp

Checking for crack.

Since the only way the Cardinals are ever getting back to the Super Bowl is by buying tickets when it's played here next year I'm an enthusiastic Seahawks supporter. Today I'm also a very pleased Seahawks supporter. Nobody expected that! I'm not a fan of Peyton Manning, though he seems like a nice enough guy. Today I feel sorry for him. There were more passes falling to the earth (and into the hands of the blue & green) than on any episode of Duck Dynasty. Fun game for a Seattle fan to watch.

We went to Josh & Aubri's house to watch the game. Steve & Michelle were there, too. So it was as much about family as football, and three grandchildren added an air of energy to the room. That explains why I went on line in the wee hours of this morning and listened to the national anthem in the quiet of my recliner. Outstanding! Can we get her to sing it at every sporting event? 

None of the commercials that I saw were blockbusters, IMO. The Radio Shack targeted my demographic, as did the car ad (can't remember which car) that played off The Matrix. 

I liked the Coke ad that featured various people singing America the Beautiful in their native tongue. And I'm bothered by the people who are bothered by it. In the press and on Facebook (in some cases from my friends) I've read people who've written some form of, "This is America. Do it in English!" as though it were somehow unpatriotic to sing it in any other language. 

BO-GUS!

• Is it unChristian to read the Bible in something other than Hebrew and Greek?
• Are we just going to ignore our nation's history, and a time when the factories, slaughterhouses, and rural farms were filled with people speaking Dutch, Scandinavian, Italian, and German? Were those, our ancestors less than patriotic?
• When someone gaming the system and suckling at the welfare teat sings that song in English are they more American, more patriotic, than the first generation immigrant who works two jobs and can't stop telling people how wonderful this free country is? 
• Do you know the word xenophobia?

I couldn't care less about those singers' language, I want to know their heart. I watched that commercial and saw people from a variety of countries and cultures singing about their love for the United States of America. I don't know if they were (or represented) citizens, and I don't care. If they sang those lyrics sincerely while living under oppression on the other side of the world, all the better! Freedom's light is shining! If they were singing it in their mother tongue from a community somewhere within our borders, and assuming they meant what they were singing, we are fortunate to have them here. Chances are they're humble, grateful, and accepting of others different from themselves, even those they can't understand.