In other news, the Chiefs beat the 49ers.
Is it possible for the NFL to get too big? If you asked commissioner Roger Goodell that question, he’d give you and your socialist leanings a death stare. It’d be like asking Dwayne “The Rock’’ Johnson if there’s such a thing as too many muscles.
But I do worry about us. I worry about overstimulated, overfed, over-everything-ed us. I’m convinced that Super Bowl XOXO, featuring Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift, was all we could take. Anything more would have been too much. Anything more would have been the Chiefs tight end proposing to the singer on the field after the game. Communal hysterical blindness is funny until it happens to you.
Think about what we had Sunday: the queen of pop stardom coupling with the NFL, the TV ratings king, in Las Vegas for the Super Bowl. Two massive fan bases. Sin City. A romantic relationship that some Republicans view as a liberal plot against the country.
And, oh, yeah, a football game between the Chiefs and the 49ers.
This was massive hype swallowing radioactive material and becoming Godzilla.
Never say never to how high the NFL’s popularity can go, but it’s hard to see it getting any more popular than it was Sunday, when Swift’s legions of fans watched football and the NFL’s legions of fans watched Swift cheer on her man many, many times, thanks to CBS’ cameras. Somehow, no one died from shock to the system. I’d argue that there’s nowhere else for us to go, glitz-wise, wow factor-wise and avert your eyes-wise, as humans.
