The Last Super Bowl Game Analysis

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The Last Super Bowl Game is written by George R.R. Martin and is about a dystopian future where commercialization has overtaken the American culture.. The story flips between the official last Super Bowl and the lead up to the downfall of American sports. The lead up to the downfall depicts a world where sports video games take over the sports entertainment because why would anyone go to a game between normal teams “... when they could much better matches, of their own selections, on Sportsmaster hookups” (1023). The story unfolds with audiences wanting to watch their favorite teams from the team’s best years of play battle each other. They wanted to program if there was injuries, penalties, how close the game’s score would be before a victor was announced, not wait and hope at home on the couch or in the stadiums if it was going to be a good game or a horrible one. Alongside the accession of the ‘Sportsmaster’ and ‘Home Matchmakers’ is the decline of professional sports, the NBA, MBA, and lastly the NFL. …show more content…

This last hurrah of the NFL is attended by “... 832 aging fans, 12 sportswriters, a Boy Scout troop, and the commissioner of the National Football League” (1013). This game is predicted to be won by the Packers and so when they pull ahead a lot of people go home. The halftime show is attended by no one as they all go for food and the Boy Scouts are coerced into getting autographs from the Packers by their troop leader. The game ends with a one last ditch effort from the Jets “.The ball snapped. Lancer took it…. And something rose up from the ground and hit him. Hard and low. It was the last touchdown drive, the last ever. And it was brilliant and it wa poetic and they should have scored. They should have. But they didn’t”

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