No, I didn't watch it

And managed to avoid finding out who won^[1] until 10:36 this morning, when I read this post^[2] at Althouse.

Which, at least according to some people^[3], means i’m doomed:

...a guy who can’t, or won’t, participate in that kind of sports banter among men--- is going to find himself, throughout life, on the periphery.

Isolated, decreased job prospects, diminished dating opportunities, rejected by the in-crowd, and near the bottom of the social circuit.

Sigh...

(Hint:  If you own the business, everybody chats about what you want to chat about.)

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^[1] Not that I made a special effort to avoid the football, but this year I had no interest in the contenders.  So last night I cooked dinner/washed up, watched Great Performances: Chuck Jones (and a couple of other features) from my recently-acquired Looney Tunes Vol.5 collection, then went to bed without watching the local news. This morning I woke up late, so only caught the 10 a.m. radio news, by which time they were through with the Superbowl and were spending all their time talking about Super Tuesday.

^[2] and ^[3] see below the break...

Aarrrggh! Ann's page layout is broken: The comments have individual permalinks, but the when the anchor tags are generated, a “c” gets added to the “name” attribute ahead of the comment number^[4].  This means that if you use the permalink, the browser winds up looking for a nonexistent anchor, can’t find it, and defaults to the top of the page. So, until it gets fixed, here are the comments I linked above, cut-n-pasted.

[2]

Trooper York said...

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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!

THE GIANTS WIN.

9:08 PM

[3]

Maxine Weiss said...

Mothers who don't encourage their sons to take an interest in sports, are denying those sons the chance to participate in larger culture.

When most men gather, they talk sports---football, basketball, baseball etc... a guy who cant, or won't, participate in that kind of sports banter among men--- is going to find himself, throughout life, on the periphery.

---Isolated, decreased job prospects, diminished dating opportunities, rejected by the in-crowd, and near the bottom of the social circuit.

My advice for a guy that wants to get ahead would be to, if nothing else, fake an interest in sports, and be able to hold up, somewhat, your end of a sports conversation..... so as to be at least moderately socially acceptable.

Just fake it, if you have to and simply feign an interest.

Listen, I don't make the rules.

But, mark my words, a guy who openly, and very publicly, eschews sports is going to have a tough time finding any other topics of conversation amongst his own gender.

Love,
Maxine

7:13 PM

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^[4] So, for example, if a comment permalink was, say,
“http://althouse.blogspot.com/2008/02/im-not-watching-superbowl.html#16”,
the “name” attribute in that post’s anchor tag should be “name="16"”.
Her site code makes it “name="c16"”, which breaks the rendering.

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