Ah, you gotta love artists: Sometimes the only way people feel powerful is to bind together and wear the silver and black -- and that makes them feel like they have power... Football and fan-dom in general, he said, discourage creativity. Creative people tend to shape their own world rather than use other people's worlds as surrogates. If the world had more creative individuals, this would be a less dualistic world where this side wins and this side loses. So true...
Other than that lovely quote, I completely agree with the sentiment that yesterday was rather quiet and blissful for those of us who could care less about major national sports crap, but I can't believe they actually quoted someone saying that it was similar to 9/11. Bizarre.