For reasons wholly apart from football, I hope NBC doesn't show the speech, but the game. And I hope that if they do, that the American people finally show a little brains and go to NBC in droves, because football IS more important than anything that a pinhead "national politician/candidate" is going to say in such a speech. I guarantee that if you take away the content-less soundbite quotations from BO's speech (and from whatever bo Republican "response" follows it), you'll find zero value in it.
But I don't think it's going to happen:
1. I don't think NBC will have the balls to say, "sorry, BO, you're just not that important anymore."
and even if they did,
2. I don't think enough Americans have the balls, or the collective savvy, to say it by tuning in to the game intentionally to drive the ratings up and make the point. So even if NBC had the guts they don't have, the ratings wouldn't show a major move. Because, by itself, football isn't that important to pull just because Obama has pushed them away. People won't go from BO to the NFL. They'll go elsewhere, spend the time screwing their mistresses or playing Nintendo instead.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)