Armageddon with a halftime show

TODAY'S SUPER BOWL offers Americans the increasingly rare opportunity to witness the triumph of absolute good over unadulterated evil. This is what pro sports used to be about, when teams were concentrated in the industrial colossi of the nation, when the Brooklyn Dodgers symbolized the downtrodden proletariat courageously battling the wicked ruling class — as embodied by the charismatic but satanic New York Yankees.

By Joe Queenan

February 4, 2007