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...barely sated, are already suffering proleptic pangs of withdrawal. And this year, cruelly, a false hope has been raised: the XFL. Right after the Super Bowl, Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation, in alliance with NBC, will kick off its brand of super-smash-mouth football. Vince and the WWF's think tank have come up with some rule changes to make the game more exciting, i.e., more violent. There will be no fair catches. No touchbacks on the kickoff. No "in the grasp" rule to protect the quarterback...
...goddess Thetis, that vanquishing Hector on the battlefield will precipitate his own demise, he unhesitatingly opts for the gusto. "I'll lie in peace once I've gone down to death," he exclaims. "But now for the moment, let me seize great glory!" (The Iliad is way WWF.) Vince, don't choke with The Game on the line. To paraphrase the late Barry Goldwater, the last major presidential candidate who wasn't afraid to lose big, "Xtremism in defense of football is no vice...
When I thought back upon it later the inability of John Rocker to keep the Sox from scoring, the pandemonium of the crowd when he was yanked, Rocker putting his head down in failure as he left the field it all seemed the stuff of WWF wrestling, a scripted moment of tension, failure, and the ensuing celebration of good triumphing over evil...
...American social psychology. Because he has come across publicly as a backward, bigoted, homophobic, fascist jerk, John Rocker is, par excellance, a politically correct villain. Everyone is allowed--and even welcomed--to hate him (check out www.rockersucks.com if you don't believe me). And yet, as opposed to the WWF, where hating our enemies is a guiltless pleasure, Rockers villainy begs us pause. John Rocker may be a character, but he isn't playing one. He is a real--if often absurd--person, and yet we still guiltlessly revel in the cathartic pleasure of our very public scorn...
...earn the association's seal. The system broke down in the 1970s, but for two decades it kept Batman from drinking blood and Wonder Woman dressed. What the politicians would prefer again is that the entertainment companies hold the line themselves. Of course, in a world where WWF Smackdown! qualifies as children's TV, nobody really knows where that line is supposed...