Wowzer, what a bunch of football games.

As I watched the Niners game (man, what an ending), I couldn't help notice the oh-so-typical shots of San Francisco coming out of a commercial break. They always do something like that during the game, even if it's held in St. Louis or Houston where there's pretty much not a single thing to show (what would they show of Houston, an air-conditioning unit?). The shot was the oh-so-typical shot of Fisherman's Wharf. Everytime there's a game in SF, it's either Fisherman's Wharf or Cable Cars. Yawn.

I know, I know, it's Postcard San Francisco, the San Francisco everyone always thinks is San Francisco. We who live here, however, know that that San Francisco barely exists. Nobody in SF ever goes near Fisherman's Wharf and most locals know it's too freaking cold to ever go on a Cable Car.

What they should do, if they want to truly show the San Francisco Flavor, is show real San Francisco.

I propose that for the next game, they show-

1) Hairy fat guys in a Leather Bar somewhere off Folsom
2) Ratty looking skate punkers with dirty clothes and bad complexion trying to sell everyone buds and doses
3) Bunch of pierced and tatooed people in a coffee shop somewhere in the Mission talking about how football is merely a representation of the masculine, Heterosexual Paradigm and that it only perpetuates the Patriarchial Global-Industrial Corporatazation of the World and is just a distraction created by the Military Industrial Complex to keep people from thinking for themselves. Not to mention freeing Mumia.
4) All the empty offices near South Park, done in by the dot.com crash
5) Homeless people, Homeless people, and more homeless people!