Close to Home by John McPherson for April 16, 2021

The remission obviously even predates Bleeb.

Well, of course — 1967 really needs to be watched again! Along with sooooo many others! So many games, so little time.

or intermission…

I’d rather read a book than watch some silly game where two teams of jocks chase a ball up and down a field. So much more stimulating. ;D

History class in Canada; Americans should be happy, our first history classes started in grade 7 and it was American history, grade 8 was Canadian history. They said US football was equivalent to Roman Coliseums and gladiators.

This is very true. The NFL has figured out how to keep football in front of the public’s eye twelve months out of the year, be it with the pre-season, the actual season, the post-season, or news stories about players, scandals and player scandals in what used to be quaintly called the “off-season.”

Football is not a religion, but then again, religion is not Football. It’s your Sunday. You decide.

1967 was indeed a season to remember. It was the first year the AFL and NFL played one another for the Pro Football championship [later renamed the Superbowl after the two leagues merged] and it was the year the New Orleans Saints played their inaugural season.

So many great players, so many sad endings to their lives with ruined brains.

and what about the players now…i hear they have issues as well..no so much just brain issues, but drinking and sexual assault and any other crimes that these players commit…the sad part is how they are GETTING away with it…we all need to be accounted for our actions…NO ONE is above the law…only GOD is

Where’s the little yellow guy?

Ice Bowl Cowboys vs. Packers. What a year!

Football is a game where 22 tired men in need of rest are watched by 1,000,000 people in need of exercise!

You mean re-transmission. Our cable channel has sports channels with games from years gone by…

“Sherman, set the Wayback machine to 1967, we’re going back to watch a football game between the AFL and NFL!”

“But Mr. Peabody… what the heck is an AFL… is that another failed football leagues?

“Not necessarily Sherman… the AFL successfully merged with the NFL and became the American Football Conference half of the NFL. You’re thinking of the:

AAF, AAFC, AFL*, CFL, FXL, IFL, IPFL, PIFL, PSFL, UFL, USFL, WFL, XFL

“Gosh Mr. Peabody… that looks like a mouse walked across the keyboard!”

(*Area Football League)

“Now let me familiarize you with the term Football Widow.”

You can tell if they are airing old games – the players are all respectful of the anthem and don’t have political slogans on the bottom of their shoes.

Somebody mentioned to me that between 1/4 and 1/2 billion smackers changes hands as a result of a Super Bowl: Salaries, gate take, advertising and broadcast rights, airlines and lodgings, food and drink, security. Not to mention gambling. And a bonanza for the local ‘working girls’ of the town hosting the game. None of it exchanged if there were no Super Bowl.

And cartoonists aggravate readers with it.

Is that fellow one of those remissionaries?