Super Bowl Pledge of Allegiance

It was nice to see the patriotism, but I’m talking football.

Like most Americans, and especially wannabe and then naturalized Americans, I’ve watched the Super Bowl since I can remember. On the snow-laden schoolyard in Lindsay, Ontario, we would recreate the key plays the next morning at recess. In high school in Toronto, the guys who played sports—I was a jock at a small nerd school, so it was all relative—made …