INDIANAPOLIS — They’re going to ruin the Super Bowl. That’s their goal, anyway. They want to drag their political baggage to Lucas Oil Stadium and dump it there, making such a mess of Super Bowl XLVI that the rest of us have to shift our focus away from the game and onto the Statehouse four blocks away.
They want to Occupy the Super Bowl, and there’s not a damn thing you or I can do about it.
This is not a political column, at least not in the sense that I’m advocating for either side of the Occupy movement. I’m human, so I have thoughts on the matter, but they’re not relevant here.
This is, in fact, an apolitical column. Or anti-political. Whatever it is, it’s full of resentment that the Occupy movement would use our passion for the Super Bowl against us, infiltrating something we love so we have to focus on something they hate. And what they hate is the “right to work” legislation passed Wednesday by the Indiana senate, legislation that would make Indiana the first state in the Rust Belt to prohibit labor contracts that require workers to pay union dues.
If you’re not into politics, so be it. I’m not here to tell you what “right to work” legislation would mean to Indiana for two reasons: One, I don’t know. Two, I don’t care. Not here. Not this week. Not at the Super Bowl, the single greatest annual event — sports or otherwise — in this country.
