Good medicine

I was going to have a post about all the Super Bowl commercials, but really didn't have the time to get my anger juices flowing over them yet, maybe later in the week.

However if you missed the Office last night after the Super Bowl, you missed a treat. Here are the first 5 minutes of the episode in which Dwight sets up a fake fire to see if everyone knows what to do.



I really don't know what he wanted them to do; the doors were locked, the phone was disconnected. It does lead to some funny stuff. I love using the copier to break down a door, the overhead projector through the window,Kevin raiding the snack machine, and Oscar crawling in the drop ceiling.

Great lines: "Stanley, Barack is President. You are black Stanley." ~Michael
"The fire is shooting at us." ~Andy after Dwight lights some firecrackers.

Give NBC credit for this. The Office is a hilarious show, but its rating are just okay. They are trying to take the millions of people who were watching the Super Bowl and immediately show them how funny the show is. This episode started about 2 seconds after the post game. If you didn't have a chance to change the channel, you would quickly see a great scene that shows how funny The Office is. The great thing about the show is that you can just watch it, you don't have to know any back stories or anything. Just sit back and laugh

Super Bowl Commercials

While watching the Super Bowl last night I was thinking about having a posting about the commercials. I could have ranted all night how big of a waste of money they are. No evidence has ever been shown that paying so much more for a Super Bowl add over a regular commercial, actually increases sales any more. I could have posted my favorites, like every other blog out there is doing. Then in the 3rd quarter I saw an add for Salesgenie.com. First off I have never heard of SalesGenie, I have no idea what they do, nor do I care. Then they had this commercial that wasn't just midly racist like most commercials, it was just blatantly racist. I have no idea how they got away with this one.

MLK was miss quoted

ESPN.com is currently running an "article" comparing what Martin Luther King was fighting for towards and the Super Bowl. What MLK did has nothing to do with sports, there are still problems with race relations and equality in America that are not miracously erased because Dungy and Smith made it to the Super Bowl. I would love to live in a society where sports could resolve everything and was the great equalizer. Like relocating a team in a sport; if crime in Baltimore doesn't decrease in two years, we're going to shut it down and make everyone move somewhere else. If i do well one year at my job I can refuse to go to work until they pay me more. I can publicly go on tv or the newspaper and criticize my boss and call he names, and he gets fired. I can take illegal substances, lie to police and court, and declare myself "the victim" and make society feel bad for not being as good as me. Man, I would love living in that world.

Truth is, yes Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy deserve to be in the super bowl and it hurts to say it, so do the teams. Dungy has been a class act for years, and they pretty much screwed him over in Tampa. He deserves to be there, but not because he is black. How people will watch the Super Bowl and be happy that there are two African Americans in the Super Bowl, we really are making strides in America. These same people on Monday will still lock there doors when driving in certain neighborhoods, will still cross the street when a young black man is walking towards them, will still work their middle to upper-middle class job that has only one "token" minority in the office, and will still watch a television program wit 90% white characters? This changes nothing. Minorities are still fighting for every inch they get in society and have not equalized. What if the Seahawks hadn't choked and lost that game or Dungy would have been fired two years ago like he almost was? Would this super bowl miraculously not mean as much in terms of race relations? What if Parcells and Shottenheimer had made it (I know Shottenheimer will never win a playoff game) would ESPN write an article about how much growth old white men have made? "Finally after all these years what Ronald Reagan had been fighting for has been realized and Parcells and Shottenehimer made it to the Super Bowl?' SOunds stupid, but its the same thing.

MLK was an incredible person, one of the greatest Americans of all time. He was not fighting and did not give his life so that two black coaches could coach in the Super Bowl. Lets give our attention to real issues like income disparity, the literacy line, education, and something that holds many down while helps so many others glide through life. ESPN please stick to Sports.

My SuperBowl Predicition: WHo cares, baseball is 2 months away.