#superbowlli

And Super Bowl LI

same ‘verse as last year

“Who are we rooting for this year?” Dean asked, handing you a beer as he sat down next to you, throwing his arm around your shoulder.

Sam followed behind, putting the snacks down on the table before sitting beside his brother.

You looked at Sam, silently communicating before you both agreed.

“Falcons.”

Dean looked at you, repeating his words from last year. “Want to make a bet?”

“Same stakes as last time?” you clarified. “Massage for massage?”

Dean nodded, and Sam cleared his throat.

Dean turned to his brother, raising his eyebrows.

“Got a problem, Sammy?”

“Falcons win, I get a dog,” he clarified. “Those were the rules last year.”

“Yeah, that’s the deal, Dean,” you agreed.

There was a pause, you and Sam practically holding your breath in anticipation.

“Sure,” Dean agreed. “Falcons win, Sam gets a dog, Y/N gets a massage.”

You both nodded in agreement before Dean continued.

“But if Patriots win, Y/N gives me the massage, and Sam gives us the bunker to ourselves for a whole weekend.”

Design for Sport

#tbt With SuperBowlLI on Sunday, we look back to MoMA’s first sports-related exhibition, 1962’s Design for Sport. From its inception, MoMA had been active in establishing an inclusive concept of modernist design: of this exhibition, Time magazine wrote that encountering sporting design at MoMA was no more or less surprising than seeing classic cars, Japanese houses, or geodesic domes. More than 100 examples of sports equipment, including a football, baseball bats, and hockey gloves, were assembled under a tent in the Museum’s Sculpture Garden. An essay in the catalogue noted that the canoes and tennis rackets were in fact not so out of place next to the bronze sculptures: for curator Arthur Drexler, not only were form and function ideally united in these objects, but their design is in harmony with the classical concept that passionately committed competition is a virtue far more important than winning.