The Seattle Seahawks won Super Bowl XLVIII and the World Championship of the NFL with a dominate performance against the Denver Broncos. The Seahawks also finished with the best won-loss record for the season, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl for a sterling season. Their record includes 3 wins against two teams with the best two quarterbacks in the NFL. Two wins against the Saints and one win against the Broncos.
The fans in Louisiana were disappointed in the Bronco's loss because of the Manning factor. What this writer saw watching the game was a Seattle team that was ready to play, played with emotion, confidence, enthusiasm and played the game for 60 minutes. Denver did not and in fact gave this writer the impression they were not ready to play and appeared confused in many situations during the game.
The lopsided score of 43-8 was one of many Super Bowls that ended up in a walk for the winner. Those that follow the NFL know that as a fact. The Super Bowl is not a sports event, it is amedia event in disguise. The two week wait between the last playoff game and the Super Bowl is a killer. The first week is devoted to practice and game planning and the second week is devoted to news media interviews with the players. The second week breaks the continuity of the football mind and some teams are not prepared to handle that.
Readers of "politidose" know this writers thoughts about the playoff system and the way the Super Bowl is conducted. When news media hype becomes larger than the game itself, the GAME becomes diminished. Football fans will remember the Dallas-Green Bay championship game in frigid Green Bay long after Super Bowl XLVIII is history.
This commentary was written by John Lucia.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Republicans Must Be Taking "Politidose" To Heart
This writer for a number of years has pointed out the reason Republicans are always on the negative attack against Democrats, especially during elections and there fore never tell the voting public what policies they themselves would adopt and promote is a result of their inability to debate the real issues facing the country and its people. Romney's position during the 2012 election was simply to oppose Obamacare and everything the President had achieved and wanted to do in a second term.
Romney offered the standard "trickle down economics" of tax cuts that favored the most well off. He even failed to answer the "arithmetic question." He never articulated any clear policy statements of what he would do to move the country and its people forward. Republicans in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate said from the beginning of Obama's first term they would not work with him or help pass any of his agenda. They even wasted congress and the people's time by voting to defund the ACA 40 times and even shut the government down. They have yet to offer any legislation on the major issues facing the country.
Now we read that the Republicans in the U.S. House started a 3 day retreat and that the major topic will be to offer specific legislation on a number of issues instead of opposing every thing the President talks about. Its obvious the congressional elections coming up in November is heavy on their mind and with their dismal approval rating they are scrambling to be identified with some thing positive for a change. They have wasted the last five long years of doing nothing even though it was their party that gave the country and its people the second great Republican depression.
If they are really serious the most positive thing they could do when congress returns is to pass the President's jobs act to rebuild our infrastructure that they have been sitting on for over two years. The U.S. Senate passed that bill and it is fully paid for. It is this writers opinion that if the U. S. House had passed that bill like the Senate, the country would be at full employment.
Even Charles Krauthammer, the conservative commentator put his two cents in with a column published in the Times Picayune of 1/31/14 when he challenged the Republicans to challenge the Democrats on substance. On the women's issue he asks, what is it about women that causes leading Republicans to grow clumsy, if not stupid. Krauthammer has the elections on his mind also because his past views was a ditto head copy cat.
President Obama's state of the union addressed about by passing congress when they fail to act was late coming but a welcome sign for the future. It also pushed the Republican party to change its tune and gave conservative journalists an opportunity to join the real debate instead of being ditto heads.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
Romney offered the standard "trickle down economics" of tax cuts that favored the most well off. He even failed to answer the "arithmetic question." He never articulated any clear policy statements of what he would do to move the country and its people forward. Republicans in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate said from the beginning of Obama's first term they would not work with him or help pass any of his agenda. They even wasted congress and the people's time by voting to defund the ACA 40 times and even shut the government down. They have yet to offer any legislation on the major issues facing the country.
Now we read that the Republicans in the U.S. House started a 3 day retreat and that the major topic will be to offer specific legislation on a number of issues instead of opposing every thing the President talks about. Its obvious the congressional elections coming up in November is heavy on their mind and with their dismal approval rating they are scrambling to be identified with some thing positive for a change. They have wasted the last five long years of doing nothing even though it was their party that gave the country and its people the second great Republican depression.
If they are really serious the most positive thing they could do when congress returns is to pass the President's jobs act to rebuild our infrastructure that they have been sitting on for over two years. The U.S. Senate passed that bill and it is fully paid for. It is this writers opinion that if the U. S. House had passed that bill like the Senate, the country would be at full employment.
Even Charles Krauthammer, the conservative commentator put his two cents in with a column published in the Times Picayune of 1/31/14 when he challenged the Republicans to challenge the Democrats on substance. On the women's issue he asks, what is it about women that causes leading Republicans to grow clumsy, if not stupid. Krauthammer has the elections on his mind also because his past views was a ditto head copy cat.
President Obama's state of the union addressed about by passing congress when they fail to act was late coming but a welcome sign for the future. It also pushed the Republican party to change its tune and gave conservative journalists an opportunity to join the real debate instead of being ditto heads.
This commentary written by John Lucia.
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