So the Super Bowl is now over and as Saints’ fans celebrate, and the many, many Colts’ fans around the area grumble and make excuses, I gotta put in my two cents worth…it’s just a game; get over it! Yeah, it’s just a game and lest you doubt that, remember a place called Haiti? I know Haiti seems to be the distant past now that it’s out of the news spotlight, but people are still suffering over there. If you’re convinced we are doing all we can to help them, how do you justify this. The Super Bowl was estimated to generate over $400 million dollars (legally…only God knows what was generated illegally). Statistics also tell us that every five seconds a child in our world starves to death. If my math is correct, during that 3½ hour televised football game that the whole world watched, an estimated 2,520 children on our planet died from starvation. Sobering isn’t it, but why? Why are children starving (even here in the United States) while so much money is spent on a game? Don’t get me wrong, I love Capitalism and I like football, but without a moral conscience to temper our impulses, we easily spiral into depravity and injustice, all the while making excuses. I wonder how the King will respond when he tells the world, “When you fed these starving children you did it for me” and the world responds, “I could not feed them, I was watching the Super Bowl!” May God have mercy on us. Oh, in order to be fair, next month I’ll attack the Academy Awards!
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