CMST 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show, Super Bowl, Boston Pops Orchestra
29 Mar 2017
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Politics & war games, courtesy of the red, white, & blue (& black) Relationship between football, the nfl, the american military & american patriotism is complicated and ever-evolving. Some kinds of patriotism & politics are more acceptable at certain times than others: beyonc caused some drama in 2016. Oriard: the evolving relationship between the nfl & politics. Football in the 1960s became political, not just warlike. An ardent fan of the game, president richard. Nixon also used football see his calculated attendance at 1969"s game of the century" between. Arkansas and texas to identify with his silent majority" against his enemies. Pregame and halftime at the orange bowl (and soon the super bowl) became showcases for elaborate patriotic displays. Over time, football fans came to take this football-related patriotism a brand of flag-waving more like superpatriotism for granted, as if it were embedded in long tradition, perhaps even in the very nature of the game.
