OP-ED: Super Tuesday’s Just Tuesday

[Op-Ed by Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer (D-San Antonio) & Roberto Alonzo (D-Dallas)]

Just a few weekends ago, the greatest spectacle in sports took place. Millions of viewers tuned in to watch two of the best football teams of 2006-2007 square off in what can only be described as a majestic setting - Super Bowl XLI. Given its grandeur, the game is appropriately named the Super Bowl. It is not the “Also Ran Bowl” or the “Slightly Above Average Bowl”; or even, the “Good but leaves you wanting Bowl”. It’s the Super Bowl, one of the most-watched and advertisement-flooded sports events in the world. In this context, the word “super” means best or most important. Some may disagree, but we feel that this adjective should be reserved only for those events that truly warrant that most superlative of monikers, “Super”.

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