Is that shiny new stadium going to help your community? Is it worth public money? Al Jazeera, says no and no.<\/a> Sociology Lens reviewed the scholarship on the subject back in November.<\/a> <\/p>\n The Super Bowl is a festival of gendered marketing. What can sociology tells us about that?<\/a><\/p>\n We’ve all heard about the concerns about concussions in the NFL (if you haven’t seen Frontline on the subject<\/a> yet, you must). The Grey Lady’s Frank Bruni has done a great job following this issue<\/a> and connecting with larger concerns about violence, greed, and bloodlust<\/a>. But I was also very fond of the introspective contribution by ThickCulture’s own Jose Marichal<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No time for a think piece today — I have too many buffalo wings to eat, watery beers to drink, and hours of pre-game coverage to pass before my glazed eyes. But I thought I’d share some worthwhile readings for Super Bowl Sunday. Trying to decide who to root for? Perhaps the political contributions of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4595\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"football\"](\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/files\/imagecache\/node-detail\/news_article\/super-bowl-ad-tracker-hed-2013.jpg\"){kind=tracking}
\nIs the NFL ruining football with an ever-more complex rulebook? Yes. Is it to make more money? Most likely.<\/a><\/p>\n