"Are today's parents, who put crash helmets on tykes before they put the tykes on tricycles, going to allow these children to play football? Not likely."

George Will: The Super Bowl's 60 minutes of damage

"Today's game will be 60 minutes of football -- an adrenaline-and-testosterone bath stretched by commercial breaks (two of them called "two minute warnings"), replay challenges and other delays to about 200 minutes -- embedded in an all-day broadcast of manufactured frenzy. It would be nice, but probably fanciful, to think that even 1 percent of tonight's expected television audience of more than 110 million will have qualms about the ethics of their enjoyment.

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Are today's parents, who put crash helmets on tykes before they put the tykes on tricycles, going to allow these children to play football? Not likely. This game will be different, or much less popular -- or perhaps both -- when in 2066 the national campfire is lit for Super Bowl C."

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