Bill Maher: “100 million Americans will watch the Super Bowl - 40 million more than go to church on Christmas and 85 million more than watched the last game of the World Series. In that is an economic lesson. Football is built on a model of opportunity, and baseball is built where the rich always win and the poor have no chance. To put it another way, football is more like Democratic philosophy. Democrats don’t want to eliminate capitalism or competition, but they’d like if some kids didn’t have to go to a crummy school in a rotten neighborhood while others get to go to a great school. [In football,] they share wealth, through salary caps and revenue sharing from TV - they put all of it in a big commie pot and split it 32 ways. Because they don’t want anyone to fall too far behind.”
