Twenty Wide Screens Per Person

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It's Super Bowl weekend. The local channels are bombarded with ads telling you that you can get a new 74" widescreen TV delivered in time for "the BIG GAME." (PS-the reason they call it "the big game" is that Super Bowl is copyrighted by the NFL and they won't allow you to use that phrase in advertising.) First, how do you even see that ad if you don't already have a TV? Secondly, and more importantly, aren't we 40 days removed from Christmas, when all of those widescreens that were sold for $298 during Black Friday door-buster blowout specials were given as presents? The way I look at it, between the TVs sold between Black Friday and this weekend there must be 20 widescreens per person in this country. And, mind you, this is repeated every year. Here's a Talking Heads song about TV life: