"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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"Sunday'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."