Kierkegaard on the Super Bowl

In leiu of a normal journal entry, I'm going to do my impression of the famous Dutch Existential philosopher Soren Kierkegaard summarizing last night's Super Bowl. I'm doing this to allieviate some of the frustration I'm feeling trying to read his work in my Intro to Philosophy class. Not surprisingly, the following satire could easily be mistaken for an authentic Kierkegaard passage. But I'm not going to give up. I have challenged myself to understand his work and I will succeed. Nothing can stop me. Not even the fact that I'm starting to think that "Kierkegaard" is Dutch for "Monkeys jumping on typewriters to see what comes out."

Football happened last night, not among several interacting but seperate groups of individuals but between the individuals themselves. Indeed, this is the case for much of other such sporting events where the individual is in such a situation that the group as a whole is the preliminary factor for the individual himself (i.e. not the group). The Patriots are called a team (i.e. a football team, i.e. an organization, i.e. that which is not composed of a single individual acting in space and time) but their place on the football field (i.e. field of play) must not be disregarded as the pure interaction between the individual of the team and the individual that is what any rational mind would perceive as a group of individuals acting as such. The first half gone, the observer realizes that the said interaction is holding so only because the often violent contact between the individuals (i.e. not the group as a whole) allows them to score so many points (i.e. touchdown) and thus in turn allow one group of constituient individuals to have more points than the opposing consituient individuals. The observer must not forget that another complete half follows that which is often refered to as halftime (i.e. the period of space/time which is not concered with the playing of football). Anything can happen in such a situation, for in such situation one opposing team can score over the other opposing team. Indeed, what we saw last night was representative of the Patriots realizing the importance of the individual acting as a whole to score points and thus defeating any opposing team (i.e. groups of individuals) that happen to be present on the field (i.e. the field of play) at that time (i.e. during the game).