Football and the Super Bowl

February 2, 2000 Sports Rhetoric Knowing I had this assignment to complete, I was planning on watching the Super Bowl … alone. Then I got invited to a Super Bowl party and I could not refuse the opportunity to go out and socialize with my friends. I was sick the past week and was starved for some human contact. I am not really a football fan, but this was Super Bowl Sunday, one of the biggest parties of …

…Super Bowl Sunday. (Fuller 171) This is not a very big surprise when one actually thinks about it. Drinking is synonymous with the Super Bowl. From my own observations I have found that men become more violent when they drink. When I say violent, I mean verbal and physical abuse. When you add this drinking to the violence and the anti-women message of football, it is not a big surprise that violence erupts in the home.