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Il presidente che salvò il football americano

Res publica   05.02.12  

Nel giorno del Super Bowl Bob Greene racconta di come il presidente Theodore Roosevelt riuscì, nel 1905, a salvare il football americano costringendo i delegati delle università e delle accademie militari a modificare il regolamento di gioco, introducendo nuove regole volte a scongiurare l'alto numero di morti tra gli atleti.

If Super Bowl Sunday is a day you look forward to with great anticipation each year, if it is a day that you equate with excitement and good times, there's something you should know:

You may have a politician to thank for your happy feelings.

On the other hand, if Super Bowl Sunday is a day you dread each year, if you are dismayed by the notion that the day has turned into a lockstep secular holiday during which most of the nation seems hypnotized for hours on end, there's something you should know:

You may have a politician to blame for your grumpy feelings.

In both cases, it's the same politician:

President Theodore Roosevelt.

A persuasive argument can be made that, were it not for what Roosevelt did during a meeting in the White House toward the end of 1905, football as we know it today would not be a part of American life. There never would have been a National Football League -- at least not the wildly popular NFL that has become such a sports, business and cultural institution -- and Americans would almost certainly be spending Super Bowl Sunday in a completely different way.

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Il XLVI Super Bowl su Twitter

Res publica   24.01.12  

Uno dei più grandi eventi sportivi dell'anno raccontato e analizzato su Twitter.

The New York Giants. The New England Patriots. Super Bowl XLVI. The matchup is set, and the world’s biggest annual sporting event is upon us.

After 17 weeks of regular season games, three weeks of playoff dogfights and more dramatic moments than we can count, Eli Manning and his G-Men from New York will collide with Tom Brady and his perennially contending Pats. But the ad-heavy Big Game doesn’t actually kick off until 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Feb. 5. That leaves two weeks of hype, hoopla and histrionics to endure.

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