Bread and circuses

Football, Beer, and above all, Gambling filled up the horizon of their minds, To keep them in control was not difficult! - George Orwell 1984

Thats how they have tamed us over here. The morons sure love football. They will fight over it infact. But just dont ask them to fight over there raped kin...

I didn't watch a second, who won the Springfield Spermwhales or the Allentown Anklesox?

Truth... Except he got the part about the games *probably* being rigged. They are absolutely rigged. Why wouldn't they be? They're classified as entertainment, which gives them the legal leeway to do so.

All forms of entertainment are a distraction from what's truly important, just as Caesar held games in the colosseum as a means of distraction from the failing empire and his tyrannical rule over Rome. Further, allowing him to arrest and enslave anyone he wished, especially dissidents while the people ignorantly cheered on their deaths, total power trip right in the open, all while the end result would come home to roost at the peoples doorsteps.

What's old is new again.

Old news. Everything is a distraction fake and scripted.