I know this is not metric, but the issue has been raised on this list so please bear with me as I reply on this list.
Pat Naughtin wrote (in a thread about football yardage):
Most of the recent news about football that finds its way across the pacific Ocean seems to refer to naked breasts -- tee hee!
I share my fellow Americans chagrin and embarrassment over the tawdry and vulgar half-time show at this year's Super Bowl. The raunchiness pervaded the entire show and was not limited to the breast baring incident at the end. (Would you believe that one of the main performers had the audacity to refer to it as "a costume malfunction"?) On behalf of all decent Americans, I apologize to you and all the other viewers around the world who were offended. That show was not typical of American culture.
I live in a suburb of Jacksonville, Florida, where next year's Super Bowl is to be played. The immediate hue and cry here, from the general public, newspaper editorials and letters-to-the-editor and even city council resolutions, is to demand that the half-time show at "our" Super Bowl next year be wholesome and entertaining and not filled with the kind of sleeze we saw from Houston, Texas.
I fell sorry for the people in Houston who I am sure are as embarrassed as I am. The football league was responsible for arranging for the show and they contracted it out to MTV which is solely responsible for the offensive result. The people of Houston should not be blamed.
With sincere regrets, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA
