Oh boy. Where to start.
Macrocosm: do I believe that big corporations do as they please, and are quite content to screw over the little guy when it suits them? Of course.
Microcosm (and it's a pretty big microcosm): do I believe that the NFL instructed their referees to ensure a Pittsburgh victory in Superbowl XL? Of course.
This puts me in a bind. I don't really want to become obsessive about corruption in American sport, especially when there's so many more important things to worry about (don't get me started on the rights of a cartoonist to satirise whatever s/he feels like).
So ... do I roll over and change channels like they want? Or do I start my own holy crusade?
No issue.
You can start with this recent article from Foxsports. And here's another new one from Yahoo Sports.
Some earlier Superbowl articles were even more irate, like this one from a different Foxsports writer. Skip Bayless, a guy who dissed the Seahawks all season, also weighed in.
There's more. There's plenty more. And there's plenty more fighting to be done.
Do I want to dedicate so much time to this? No. But, if you're familiar with Bonfire of the Vanities, you might realise I have no choice.
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