- Sep 22, 2013
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Can sports-marketing inspire 'American Dream metaphysics' in this age of consumerism-slang?
This parable (referencing the Eagles win in Super Bowl 52) was inspired by Any Given Sunday!
Cheers,
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America was a land of sports, media, marketing, and of course merchandise. Capitalism overflowed in the streets of American cities, leaving the aspirations of other 'budding' capitalism-hopeful cities such as Moscow, Russia in the dust! Americans made sports-media films like Jerry Maguire, Blue Chips, and Any Given Sunday. The New England Patriots (NFL) boasted a real hotshot QB (with a maddening quick-gun release) named Drew Bledsoe. Bledsoe's 'underling' was an aspiring and studious QB named Tom Brady. Bledsoe would never win a Super Bowl, but Brady would win a whopping 5 titles, while Bledsoe quietly retired. This was real drama...
Americans were shockingly bored with Brady's Patriots winning so much and basically everything. Brady was looking for his 6th Super Bowl title in the first year of the Trump Administration. Donald Trump was the first celebrity-president since Ronald Reagan, and like in Reagan's time (the 'Big '80s'), the New Millennium offered 'TrumpUSA' ample opportunities to embrace media-confetti, Wall Street flair, media-marketing IQ, and therefore 'Trumponomics.' Trump was a media-lover, and he was intrigued by the news that Brady's Patriots would win their 6th Super Bowl in 2018 [Super Bowl 52]. However, the upstart-underdog Philadelphia Eagles, led by phenom-QB Carson Wentz and underling-QB Nick Foles reached the Super Bowl. However, it was not all because of Wentz' incredible play; Wentz was out with a season-ending injury (torn-ACL), leaving backup-QB Foles to pick up the reins.
Foles pulled off the 'miracle.' He took the reins of the team that was really 'owned' by Carson Wentz and managed incredible late-season victories over the tough Rams, the gritty Raiders, the ambitious Falcons, and even the mighty Vikings before reaching Super Bowl 52 to face Brady's Patriots. Foles then carried his team with elegant and efficient play and helped the Eagles soar to their first-ever Super Bowl victory. Brady's dream of a 6th title was squashed, and even Drew Bledsoe (the original 'Patriots hotshot QB') was in awe. Foles' Eagles were not the Wentz' Eagles, so now everyone was asking, "Will Foles replace Wentz the way Brady replaced Bledsoe?" This was yet another...American drama. Was media and consumerism creating all kinds of 'social intrigue flames' of democratic storytelling? What would George Washington say?
Ancient Rome saw the great gladiator-fights in the Colosseum, but now it was the fanfare and media splendour of the magnificent Super Bowl and the profit-generating 'machine' of Super Bowl ads and endorsements. Would the Eagles' mighty underdog victory make Nick Foles a pedestrian superhero? Would the City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia) become a 'lighthouse' for meritocracy-based merchandising-allure? President Trump was going to move on policies that reflected the general market-savvy populism-oriented media-centric politics of this 'Era of Champagne' that highlighted American capitalism! Was Nick Foles the new Joe Namath?
American film-maker Wes Anderson wanted to capitalize on these developments with a new comics-parody film titled Foles: The Ant-Man. The film was a reference to Marvel Comics' Ant-Man, a fictional superhuman who could shrink down to the size of a tiny ant and infiltrate all kinds of evil dominions using speed and wits. Anderson's film was going to be a spotlight on both the media-glitter of 'TrumpUSA' and how the Eagles' miraculous win under the leadership of backup-QB Nick Foles created a modernism image of the American Dream(!). Jude Law was going to portray Nick Foles in the film, and Melania Trump was touting the film as a potential 'anti-censorship achievement.' Everything seemed...American.
Americans know that all good things come with a grain of salt. The New Millennium brought us the tragedy of 9/11. Hollywood glamour brought us countless celebrity-scandals. Excellence in the computer (Apple/Microsoft), toys (Fisher-Price/Mattel), consumer-electronics batteries (Energizer/Duracell), and fast food industries (Burger King/McDonald's) was tainted by reports of Wall Street corruption (Enron scandal). What would this strange and exciting Foles-Eagles underdog NFL story bring to American media? If the Eagles worked out a more team-oriented ethic with Foles and Wentz, then sports-writers would suggest, "History does not have to repeat itself...we don't want another 'Brady-Godzilla' because we want an Eagles psalm!"
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This parable (referencing the Eagles win in Super Bowl 52) was inspired by Any Given Sunday!
Cheers,
====
America was a land of sports, media, marketing, and of course merchandise. Capitalism overflowed in the streets of American cities, leaving the aspirations of other 'budding' capitalism-hopeful cities such as Moscow, Russia in the dust! Americans made sports-media films like Jerry Maguire, Blue Chips, and Any Given Sunday. The New England Patriots (NFL) boasted a real hotshot QB (with a maddening quick-gun release) named Drew Bledsoe. Bledsoe's 'underling' was an aspiring and studious QB named Tom Brady. Bledsoe would never win a Super Bowl, but Brady would win a whopping 5 titles, while Bledsoe quietly retired. This was real drama...
Americans were shockingly bored with Brady's Patriots winning so much and basically everything. Brady was looking for his 6th Super Bowl title in the first year of the Trump Administration. Donald Trump was the first celebrity-president since Ronald Reagan, and like in Reagan's time (the 'Big '80s'), the New Millennium offered 'TrumpUSA' ample opportunities to embrace media-confetti, Wall Street flair, media-marketing IQ, and therefore 'Trumponomics.' Trump was a media-lover, and he was intrigued by the news that Brady's Patriots would win their 6th Super Bowl in 2018 [Super Bowl 52]. However, the upstart-underdog Philadelphia Eagles, led by phenom-QB Carson Wentz and underling-QB Nick Foles reached the Super Bowl. However, it was not all because of Wentz' incredible play; Wentz was out with a season-ending injury (torn-ACL), leaving backup-QB Foles to pick up the reins.
Foles pulled off the 'miracle.' He took the reins of the team that was really 'owned' by Carson Wentz and managed incredible late-season victories over the tough Rams, the gritty Raiders, the ambitious Falcons, and even the mighty Vikings before reaching Super Bowl 52 to face Brady's Patriots. Foles then carried his team with elegant and efficient play and helped the Eagles soar to their first-ever Super Bowl victory. Brady's dream of a 6th title was squashed, and even Drew Bledsoe (the original 'Patriots hotshot QB') was in awe. Foles' Eagles were not the Wentz' Eagles, so now everyone was asking, "Will Foles replace Wentz the way Brady replaced Bledsoe?" This was yet another...American drama. Was media and consumerism creating all kinds of 'social intrigue flames' of democratic storytelling? What would George Washington say?
Ancient Rome saw the great gladiator-fights in the Colosseum, but now it was the fanfare and media splendour of the magnificent Super Bowl and the profit-generating 'machine' of Super Bowl ads and endorsements. Would the Eagles' mighty underdog victory make Nick Foles a pedestrian superhero? Would the City of Brotherly Love (Philadelphia) become a 'lighthouse' for meritocracy-based merchandising-allure? President Trump was going to move on policies that reflected the general market-savvy populism-oriented media-centric politics of this 'Era of Champagne' that highlighted American capitalism! Was Nick Foles the new Joe Namath?
American film-maker Wes Anderson wanted to capitalize on these developments with a new comics-parody film titled Foles: The Ant-Man. The film was a reference to Marvel Comics' Ant-Man, a fictional superhuman who could shrink down to the size of a tiny ant and infiltrate all kinds of evil dominions using speed and wits. Anderson's film was going to be a spotlight on both the media-glitter of 'TrumpUSA' and how the Eagles' miraculous win under the leadership of backup-QB Nick Foles created a modernism image of the American Dream(!). Jude Law was going to portray Nick Foles in the film, and Melania Trump was touting the film as a potential 'anti-censorship achievement.' Everything seemed...American.
Americans know that all good things come with a grain of salt. The New Millennium brought us the tragedy of 9/11. Hollywood glamour brought us countless celebrity-scandals. Excellence in the computer (Apple/Microsoft), toys (Fisher-Price/Mattel), consumer-electronics batteries (Energizer/Duracell), and fast food industries (Burger King/McDonald's) was tainted by reports of Wall Street corruption (Enron scandal). What would this strange and exciting Foles-Eagles underdog NFL story bring to American media? If the Eagles worked out a more team-oriented ethic with Foles and Wentz, then sports-writers would suggest, "History does not have to repeat itself...we don't want another 'Brady-Godzilla' because we want an Eagles psalm!"
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