[USMA:28579] RE: Super Bowl sleeze

[Predrag Lezaic]

Please, don't make it sound like everyone in America agrees with what you are saying. At least not in the entirety. I personally thought that having Rap and hiphop and "bootielicious" style of MTV dacing was not exactly for the superbowl public. The only reason it ever showed up in the news overseas is because it is Janet Jackson and USA making lots of noise about nothing. We do that quite a bit over here.   Do you really think anyone outside US and maybe Canada even cares about superbowl? I live here and I don’t. But that is because I immigrated here about 10 years ago and didn't grow up with it. Most of the countries I've been to in Europe have no clue what superbowl is and when you say football they think you are speaking of soccer.   Showing a bare breast is really not that big of a deal other than in this country. You can see that example in my home country's newspaper:   http://www.vecernji-list.hr/2004/02/03/Pages/ZAN-NAJ.html   Leave it to media outside of this country for free and uncensored press :)   Still, this topic should have never made it to this list.   Predrag   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Hooper Sent: Friday, 06 February, 2004 19:43 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:28572] Super Bowl sleeze   Dear friends,   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