What the Super Bowl Looks Like to a Foreigner

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Let's start with the cheerleaders, because I'm constantly surprised by how little people mention them. For a foreign-born U.S. resident such as myself, cheerleaders are possibly the most American thing about football (which, in deference to my readers, I'm not going to call American football, but just know that I'm hearing that qualifying adjective in my head).


The sport itself? It's rugby with more armor, more celebratory dancing, and way more stoppage time. The commercials? Sorry, UK agencies have been making weirder, funnier, racier ads than this for decades — if not quite on the same budget or with this kind of frequency. The nationwide overindulgence, with too much fried food and competitive beer drinking? Yeah, I'm sure soccer fans know nothing about that Read more...


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