Before you settle in for a night of basketball for this weekend’s Final Four, I want you to stop and think. Why is America so fat and lazy? Could it be related to sports and HDTV? At Bloomberg news, one man says YES, and these new 3-D TVs will make it worse:
What’s To Blame For Obesity? HDTV, Sports, And Bloomin’ Onions
↵↵High-definition, it turns out, was more evolutionary than revolutionary. Sports, you see, is often the driver of new technology. High-def brought La-Z-Boy-loving sports fans even closer to the game. It was almost like being there. You could see the pores on the pitcher’s face, the sweat dripping from the goaltender’s mask. Blades of green, green grass never looked so good.
↵It was mesmerizing. Still is. We can’t get enough. There’s always another most-important game. Perhaps that’s why, as a nation, our midsections are expanding like the deficit.
↵Now, coming to a living room near you, is 3-D TV, which has sports fans drooling.
↵↵For a split second before sanity sets in, it’s a compelling argument... Until you realize it’s completely ridiculous, ignoring about a million different factors that play a bigger role in our nation’s obesity crisis.
↵And rather than offer any serious rebuttals here, let’s just marvel at this paragraph:
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↵Football season has got to be the worst. Saturday and Sunday, just sitting there, game after game, grazing on chicken wings, hot dogs and maybe even an Outback Steakhouse Bloomin’ Onion, which packs more than 1,500 calories and 32 grams of saturated fat. They ought to call it the Bloomin’ bypass.
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↵It’s like the author got distracted halfway through his argument, and in the midst of calling Americans fat slobs, he... He just randomly attacked the Bloomin’ Onion! They ought to call it the Bloomin bypass?
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↵To review: HDTV has made us obese, 3-D TV will make it worse, and, uh... Bloomin onions.
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