Sports is Tank McNamara’s beat, his livelihood. A former professional football player who’s now a TV sportscaster, Tank McNamara reports on the breaking sports stories of the day: the hot players and angry coaches, the pending lawsuits and drawn-out strikes, the constant roar and ever-increasing hype that make organized sports one of the world’s most lucrative businesses.
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Zuhlamon said, 3 months ago
It’s Uncle Daddy!
Linguist said, 3 months ago
A quick canvas of the Dome’s Corporate suites tonight will find many of these types of “football” fans. They may not know who Flacco, Lewis or Kaepernick are, but they sure know Blahnik, Choo, and Louboutin !
Tucci said, 3 months ago
“A quick canvas of the Dome’s corporate suites” will find you a buncha males (I hesitate to use the word “men”) who don’t know what the hell is going on down below.
They’re present for the status of being there, high above hoi polloi, in conspicuous consumption.
The ladies’ ignorance is – perhaps – excusable. Such willful stupidity on the part of anyone with a measurable testosterone level, however….
gmartin997
said, 3 months ago
The feminist movement might consider that interview as degrading to women, Tank. Women are very sensitive about that sort of thing, and they could say you purposely sought out women and ignored the possibility that a man wouldn’t know about the Super Bowl. You have to tread lightly these days, especially with females, unless you’re attacking a politician. . Big ears are listening, and they can strike from anywhere, even from across the room.
Guard SGT said, 3 months ago
I am more interested in the Puppy Bowl.
RedRock2512 said, 3 months ago
Your mistake is assuming people listen to the hype.
Bill Hinds
said, 3 months ago
This is far too sexist. I meant this to be a rare find for Tank, certainly not a suggestion that women are ditzy and clueless about sports, or anything. Their husbands would be just as uninterested in the game, they just wouldn’t be willing to talk to Tank. My bad.
vtcwvet said, 3 months ago
How do we know that the CEO isn’t only there just to be seen and could care less about the game. The Giants aren’t in it so I’m not watching. They don’t even have anybody I want to see at halftime. Lip sync or not!
Godfreydaniel said, 3 months ago
Actually I wasn’t thinking this was sexist, just satirical. It might’ve been a good idea to show their clueless husbands although I don’t think it would’ve been necessary. (Of course, these seem to be trophy wives, and their husbands are very likely much older, and on their third or fourth wives…having them appear like that might’ve been interesting!)
A.Ficionada said, 3 months ago
Nice that the male readers and author came to the defense of those of us who know who is playing, the QB’s, and even some finer points of the game. No hard feelings, at least IMO. The foibles of men (athletes, et al) get lampooned enough in this strip. Probably far more often than women, and on deeper failings than being clueless about the Superbowl. (SJOY is usually, if not always a man, right? And the runner up, too.) So there’s a fair balance on the whole.
Bill Hinds
said, 3 months ago
It has been reported that those fancy Super Bowl suites are charging $325 per person for catering. Now you have a budget to work with for your own game-time snacks.
edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago
When I watch football my wife grudgingly watches if nothing else is on her channels (no cable). She knows the teams,only if she can see the helmets. She doesn’t usually care who wins. “I just root for whoever has the ball” is her usual comment. But I agree with the point of the ‘toon: the REAL fans can’t afford/can’t get a ticket, and are reduced to increasing corporate profits by watching the game and driving up the ratings for the commercials.
water_moon said, 3 months ago
Huh, funny, my mom makes more noise than ANY one else in our house for teams if she cares for even a little. And I ASSURE you she knows and cares far more about the Superbowl than my hubby. Me, I had to be reminded it was this weekend (seems late) but as I had no real reason to turn on the TV I never saw it. I might have for one of my 3 or 4 favorite teams.
AmyGrantfan51774 said, 3 months ago
my team the San Francisco 49ers lost to the Baltimore Ravens 34-31 :‘’’(
Zuhlamon said, 3 months ago
@AmyGrantfan51774
My (surrogate AFC) team, the Baltimore Ravens, beat the San Francisco 49ers.