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Article: Super Bowl Sunday plays to national unity.(Perspective)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 6, 2005
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Byline: MIKE BERLAND and DOUG SCHOEN
Today, Americans will celebrate this country's 11th national holiday _ Super Bowl Sunday. In a nation of highly polarized red states and blue states, what else do we all join together to celebrate? Only the Super Bowl can truly claim to be a uniter, not a divider. Think about it: The outrage over the Janet Jackson ``wardrobe malfunction'' at last year's halftime show was not so much about the partial nudity as about the desecration of what we all think is appropriate to this national celebration. According to a random sample survey of 1,735 Americans we conducted recently, Americans now treat Super Bowl Sunday the same way they treat ...