The NFL Did Something Stupid

Since I've been writing in my blog and at MexicoMaxim.com, I've pointed out some stupid stuff that people have done.

Some of that stupidity has been displayed on the Internet, some of that stupidity has been displayed by people in the national news and some of that stupidity has been displayed by our local media and by people here in Mexico, Missouri.

A couple of years back the NFL did something stupid.

They made people stop using the term "Super Bowl" unless they paid licensing fees to the NFL.

You used to hear about Joes's TV and Appliance having a Super Bowl Sale, or Eat at Joe's Restaurant having a Super Bowl Buffet Special.

We had Super Bowl Diamond Sales at Joe's Jewelry Store, and Super Bowl Car Sales at Joe's New and Used Autos.

All of that "superbowl-dom" helped to promote the "Big Game".

People had fun with Super Bowl Sales.

Radio stations had Super Bowl Parties.

Bars had Super Bowl Viewing Parties.

But then the NFL decided the term "Super Bowl" was copyrighted, by them, and nobody could use the term "Super Bowl" unless it was approved and licensed by the NFL.

That was stupid.

So now we have sales that say "Join us for the big game sale", and Sunday food specials that say they're timed for the "Big Game"

Bars say come watch the "Big Game" at Joe's Bar.

We know what the big game is. The NFL knows what the big game is.

And where people used to have fun  with Super Bowl this or Super Bowl that, now we just have to get by with big game this and big game that.

It just isn't the same.

And the NFL took something that people everywhere used to have fun with and put it away in a closet so only the very rich can run Super Bowl commercials or have Super Bowl sales.

Because they're the only one's that can afford to run a :30 ad IN the Super Bowl. Last year CBS got between $2.5 million and $2.8 million per :30 second commercial.

People still watch the Super Bowl. People still talk about Super Bowl commercials.

But the average business person in this great nation can't have a Super Bowl Sale.

And if the Super Bowl cops are watching the Internet closely, this blog will receive a cease and desist notice from the NFL, because I'm not supposed to be using the term "Super Bowl" either.

So we'll all have fun watching the Super Bowl this Sunday and all those silly Super Bowl Commercials.

But now you know why you don't hear about Super Bowl this or Super Bowl that like you used to "in the good old days" before the NFL did something stupid.

So it goes.