The Military Bowl
Given Northrop Grumman’s generous sponsorship arrangement, it’s disappointing this isn’t called The Military Industrial Complex Bowl.
Anyway, it’s about time that a football game paid a little bit of attention to the men and women of our armed services. For one thing, I’m sick and tired of the NFL’s and the NCAA’s constant hyping of the works of Susan Sontag and the Mark Rothko. We get it — intellectuals and artists are the true heroes of contemporary life. Now stop shoving that message down our throats and give a little bit of credit to the people who keep us free to enjoy neurotic self-referential literature and paintings that don’t look like anything recognizable.