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Peter Tunon's avatar

Great story as always and a great illustration. The only reason I would watch the Super Bowl instead of turning my TV to HGTV is if the players promise to take a knee during the national anthem!!! Wouldn't that be sweet? Where is Kaepernick when you need him?

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

THAT would be the best. Tho too with “Choose Love”, they could paint these in the end zones:🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Since I’m doubting it on either, I won’t bother.

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Richard's avatar

Quite a diverse crowd in the opposing stands. A lot of celebrities. Also, nice ear "bandage".

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Jill Dennison's avatar

Another one caves. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr ... Good thing I wasn't planning to watch the game anyway. As re Travis Kelce ... I would dearly love for him to say just that ... but he won't. Great cartoon, Clay ... I just wish ... just wish people would learn to be human, learn to put humanity ahead of wealth and power. But then ... you'd be out of a job, right? Keep up the good work ... we need you more than ever! (I enjoyed seeing Pizza Rat in the stands!)

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Karyn Milos's avatar

"Learn to put humanity ahead of wealth and power." YES. I like to say that "Business is People." At its best, business is a mutual meeting of needs via the exchange of goods, services, and money. Healthy business defines success as meeting needs of everyone engaged in the business, rather than seeing employees and customers as "resources" to bleed dry in order to make a very few people extremely wealthy.

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Ruth Blau's avatar

So: you thought we wouldn't find Pizza Rat hanging out there in the stands, right?

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Clay Jones's avatar

I was just hoping to make you search.

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Karyn Milos's avatar

You could add a line of "Where's Pizza Rat?" books and puzzles to your online shop.

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NPG BELL's avatar

I want to know how Pizza Rat scored such a good seat. He needs to be careful though because that pigskin, those players and the throng of media with their equipment could harm him. Be safe Pizza Rat! Go somewhere safer like the VIP boxes and make sure that you, your rodent and fly friends sample EVERY morsel in the VIP boxes while eyes are glued to the field.

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Kathleen Reilly Mannix's avatar

"Choose love" is close to a Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde message. PS: DJT is so unloving and unlovable that someone may need to explain that end zone to him.

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Kathleen Reilly Mannix's avatar

I hope it was fun to draw the fans. Loved every bit!

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Clay Jones's avatar

No. It was work.

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Karyn Milos's avatar

Last night, drinking from a mug with the same slogan, I was reminded that "Choose Love" is also an ideal promoted by Penzeys Spices. It is a good ideal to embrace. Let's not allow its misappropriation to diminish that.

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Susan Johnson's avatar

Saints stats are worse than the Cowboys, just saying...excellent toon and blog, horrible week in reality.

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Clay Jones's avatar

Yeah, but at least the Saints beat the Cowboys last season.

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COD's avatar

They could have saved themselves some work and made the message more accurate by just changing the first word, so that End Racism becomes Choose Racism.

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Joan Eisenstodt's avatar

I shouldn’t have laughed. I did. It would be more accurate as ‘Chose Racism’ or ‘Chose Racist’.

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Karyn Milos's avatar

Not really caring which team wins, I was already leaning towards skipping this year's Super Bowl. The presence of El Diablo Anaranjado sealed the deal. I'll be spending my Sunday binge watching all of the Minions movies: the GOOD Minions. 🤓

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FrostedDonut's avatar

I'm starting to get worried about Laura--she's not responding. I hope she's okay...

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Judy the Lazy Gardener's avatar

I was thinking the same thing or maybe she's on vacation and away from the Internet?

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Clay Jones's avatar

I thought I'd have heard from her by now.

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Paul Davis's avatar

Sick. We're all sick.

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Peter Lauridsen's avatar

I see the Buchanan contingent showed up, nice touch.

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Melissa Perry's avatar

Taylor is better looking than George

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Clay Jones's avatar

OK.

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Melissa Perry's avatar

I mean if you were going to choose a insanely rich person to date.....

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Scott's avatar

"Choose Love" is also a slogan sometimes used by anti abortionists. https://www.facebook.com/ChooseLoveChooseLife/

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Dave Puskala's avatar

The sippy cup is just for kicks. Nice.

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