This is unofficially The Week Of Silly Super Bowl Stories, and what better way to open the floodgates with a Bloomberg BusinessWeek piece telling us that the SUPER BOWL CAN ACTUALLY END YOUR LIFE!
“If you look at a lot of data from a lot of different sports, there is a spectator risk,” said Dr. Stephen Siegel, a cardiologist at New York University Langone Medical Center.
The best way to avoid this unhappy consequence is, “don’t take it so seriously. Don’t get so excited about it,” he said. “Enjoy the game, have fun with it, but don’t spend your life savings on betting on it and don’t have your life invested in the outcome.”
Don’t have your life invested in the outcome is NOT what you need to be telling Steelers fans or Packers fans. These are responsible, grown adults spending hard-earned money on hand towels and foam hats. And frankly, if we took a few of these, uh, passionate folks off the face of the earth, who would miss them?
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“These are responsible, grown adults spending hard-earned money on hand towels and foam hats.”
The fact they are spending money on foam hats and hand towels is proof that they are not responsible.
Wait, hasn’t the Never Miss a Super Bowl Club been telling us that the Super Bowl would make you live forever? If we skip the birth of our own children and instead slavishly worship the Super Bowl, we’ll have everlasting life? We won’t get old, or sick, and we’ll never die, right?
Or am I getting those old geezers confused with the ones in the movie Cocoon?
Dr. Stephen Seigel will beat you to death…above the law
My self-esteem and my worldly knowledge are tied to withleather. I happily invest in whatever reasoned and wholly intelligent discourse the comments here give me. Has Upstate Underdog posted? Check. Has Enrico chimed in? Check. SEC Rebal telling me the haps on the street. Check.
Much healthier than listing to Dr. Shithead.
Ok, so to stay healthy for the SB:
- ‘Have fun with it’ check
- ‘Don’t spend your life savings on betting on it’ check
- ‘Don’t have your life invested in the outcome’ check
Ok, I feel better about myself. Somebody please pass me the Chili’s Smokehouse Bacon Triple Cheese Big Mouth Burger with Jalapeño Ranch Dressing.
If all the Steelers and Packer fans died, I would be OK with Obamacare. We could break even!
From the look in Mike Tonlin’s eyes, he’s the real heartbreaker.
C’mon you guys, he’s serious.
Since we’re talking to Dr. State the Fucking Obvious, I’d like to add that you also shouldn’t fuck a roll of sandpaper (during the Super Bowl) unless it turns you on to have a dick that looks like pulled pork….It’s just not worth it.