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A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football (2015 Edition)

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • January 29, 2015
Like an all-night rager in the apartment upstairs or a crying infant on a red-eye, the Super Bowl is one of those ineluctable public occurrences that’s seemingly impossible to stop and difficult to ignore.
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A Literature of Concussions

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 5, 2014
In the Super Bowl weekend, Rumpus author Sebastian Sockman writes a long essay on Los Angeles Review of Books about the controversial story of severe traumas within the NFL and all the…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #219

  • Ted Wilson
  • February 3, 2014
SUPER BOWL XLVIII ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Super Bowl XLVIII.
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“The Only Tamil Rapper”

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • November 8, 2013
NPR titled this interview “M.I.A. On Being Heard,” and they were not joking around. In it, the Sri Lankan-British rapper relates all the things she’s had to do over the…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • February 4, 2013
If you skipped the Rumpus this weekend to watch the Super Bowl (who wouldn’t after reading J. Ryan Stradal’s guide for people who don’t know about football?), here’s what you…
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A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football (2013 Edition)

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • January 30, 2013
If you’ve seen a Super Bowl before, everything you think you hate about the event is probably true and hasn’t changed.
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A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football (2012 Edition)

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • February 1, 2012
If Hollywood could cast the Super Bowl teams, it wouldn’t choose most of the guys who make up the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. It also couldn’t…
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A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football

  • J. Ryan Stradal
  • February 4, 2011
Once a year, an awful lot of people are forced to pretend to care about football.
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Different Sorts of Rubbish: Super Bowl Edition

  • Thomas Seely
  • January 29, 2009
George Orwell would not have liked the Super Bowl. In his 1945 essay “The Sporting Spirit” he writes, “Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound…
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