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Humor Series: Super Bowl
History of the Super Bowl
A Humorous Look at the Religious Holiday
7 min readFeb 6, 2025
The Super Bowl™ is a territory acquisition athletic contest played on a fixed agrarian grid using — as a token — an inflated porcine prolate spheroid.
Some will say it is the most important holiday of the year in America. While it is ostensibly a secular holiday, others argue it is truly a religious holiday. And there are several reasons why. Super Bowl has:
- A liturgy
- Multiple prayers
- Special foods
- Formal rituals that have developed throughout history
- Hundreds of millions of celebrants in front of their TV for worship
It used to be that commercials were the part of the worship service intended for taking a bio break, but not recently. The commercials are now the service’s most influential part (for at least 22% of viewers); indeed, some (like me) watch the Super Bowl specifically for the advertisements.
