Super Bowl Could Start With a Juggling Act

The Super Bowl is slowly but surely losing its attraction as a major sporting event and gaining more and more recognition as general entertainment. NFL championships used to be snow, blood, mud and beer. Now they are music videos, political advertisements, sushi and bathtub margaritas.

I admit this letter is in vain. So I suggest to keep the spirit, the people who run professional sports (ABC, NBC and CBS) add to their coverage by giving the majority of the audience (I dare not call them fans) what they truly want to see. Let’s start off with a juggling act, followed by a man on stilts, and some cheerleaders who swallow swords on the sidelines. Bob Costas could be the ringmaster. Jimmy the Wrong would get shot out of a cannon. Wouldn’t How-wud Cosell be a great barker?

Then, if we are really good and buy a lot of razor blades and mid-sized cars, maybe the networks would show us a hyped-up version of a football game played on artificial turf in a domed stadium with robots as players.

CHARLES OKONSKI

Canoga Park