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Reporters never ask the right questions in the run-up to Super Bowl Sunday. What would happen if owners, sponsors, coaches, restaurants and players were asked questions like the following?
• How many penalty flags, concussions and surgeries will be occasioned by a Super Bowl 50 activity that presents more like a battlefield than a field of sport?
• How many drunken dads will beat wives and children in the aftermath of their team losing? How much looting will take place in the city of the winning team?
• How many heart attacks will happen due to the massive over-consumption of unhealthy foods during Super Bowl?
• How many billions in unnecessary family debt spending will take place as a result of sophisticated advertising projects aired for the first time during Super Bowl?
My pick for the game? Corporate America ... winners; the people ... losers.
Robert Kimball Shinkoskey
Woods Cross