KWhen the author of these lines offered to write a chapter This is America At 56e In the Super Bowl, the final of American football’s professional championship this Sunday for the Los Angeles Rams against the Cincinnati Bengals, the excitement is measured in writing. in days. Every first or second Sunday in February, when America cuts itself off from the world to spend five hours before this tournament, many French people are confused. – Spacing Schedule required, meeting Europeans takes place further in the heart of the night. as Punxsutawney’s Phil marmotThe Super Bowl, which delivers its immutable verdict this spring on February 2, seems a thoroughly American rite of passage, worthy of a mystical cult and incomprehensible to foreign eyes: something far simpler and more wonderful than these fifteen-on-fifteen phases we know. Twenty seconds, interspersed with intervals – Advertising to do America – Both teams of eleven players take turns to penetrate the opponent’s goal (and thus score a goal). Touch down) by advancing at least ten yards (in four attempts) on each line.
Nevertheless, it would never occur to any US president to miss this meeting. Joe Biden has already programmed it His pre-match interview With star NBC reporter Lester Holt. If the President of the United States has not yet taken the step of attending the Super Bowl, which is held annually at a neutral stadium – This Year, the Rams will play at home but their stadium is pre-designated by the National Football League (NFL). 2017 –, he has been addressing the United Nations before the tournament through an interview or recorded message since 2004. Later, around the match at the White House, he would partake in a friendly party, like his fellow citizens. It’s a chance for a head of state who, like Barack Obama, is sometimes criticized for his arrogant intellectualism to pretend to be a “regular guy” with his beer and crisps. I knew how to do it Since his first presidential Super Bowl in January 2009.
Barack and Michelle Obama watch the Super Bowl in 3D at the White House on February 2, 2009. – Photo by Rex Features/Ciba.
If the event is inevitable, the statistics are staggering. Since the first Super Bowl in January 1967, television ratings have made it the most-watched program of the year in the United States.
