New Superbowl Tradition--National Day of Fitness! (rant war

rosebarnalice

Just when did Superbowl Sunday get added to the ranks of national pigout days in America?? It's not a personal celebration like your birthday; it's not a familyfoodfantasia like Christmas or Thanksgiving; it's not a national holiday like 4th of July.

It is a professional football game. A game played by people who get paid very well to do it. A game played for the very commercial purpose of making money for the owners and advertisers and sponsors. And none of that--not the game, not the players, and not the commercial outcomes--has ANYTHING to do with what I eat.

NEWS FLASH: these football game thingies happen quite regularly from September to January, you know--multiple times a week, in fact. Yet as a society, do we do we become a bunch of food delinquents during the entire NFL season???

I find it somewhat ironic that the way we venerate these professional athletes--who are as close to pinnacles of nutrition and fitness as our society gets (with the possible exception of Jillian Michaels)--is by drinking too much weak American lager beer and eating C-R-A-P!

So I say, let's start a NEW SUPERBOWL SUNDAY TRADITION: A NATIONAL DAY OF FITNESS! Let's use it as a day to commit to running around the block; taking our kids outside and tossing a ball; horsing around like weekend quarterbacks with a few flag-football scrimmages on the front lawn. And then sit back for kickoff with a 22-oz bottle of water, some crispy veggies and hummus, popcorn, and lean and spicy baked chicken fingers, and cheer our national fitness heroes!

WHO'S WITH ME?!