How the Mighty Have Fallen – The NFL Does Not Want Britney…

I love the sport of baseball, but as an American and also a consumer of popular culture, I like to the span the globe to see what's going on in the world.

Today's topic: Britney and the NFL. Wow, how the mighty have fallen.

Keven Federline finds his way via the Super Bowl thanks to Nationwide Insurance, and according to a report by MSNBC, The NFL has rejected Britney Spears' request to be in a Super Bowl commercial to promote the NFL Network. To put it bluntly, a spokesperson for the NFL said from the Daily News, "She's too much of a train wreck. Besides, we already have Paris Hilton."

What?

It’s bad when Ms. Spears, who does have some discernible talent, gets rejected in favor of Paris Hilton, who I think has zero talent, but has a famous last name, friends and crazy escapades - not much else.

In America, infamy sells. Too bad it does not go hand in hand with the NFL, or at least it would seem. It would make sense the NFL, probably the strictest of all sports when it comes to image (it once threatened Bronco's QB Jake Plummer when he wrote Pat Tillman's number on his helmet) to reject Britney Spears because, well she's no longer hot and is seen as an embarrassment.

But Paris Hilton, who is known for, um, nevermind.

Well, Britney is surely in a down trend to say in the least.

In actuality, Britney not done much in the last several years except start a family, and her star had lost its luster. Now in 2007, it’s in the trash.

I remember in years past, she was the face of Pepsi and the hottest thing going. Now she’s almost a has-been. Kids used to look up to her; corporate America paid her big bucks to make even bigger bucks, and she used to be all over the TV.

Until Kevin.

After the marriage with Kevin Federline started to look like a mistake, she divorced him; started partying and then the wheels fell of the car. She's now paying dearly for giving Kevin the golden ticket to riches and fame, while she suffers. Ok, she's still rich, but I have empathy for her.

It’s funny in a cruel way, but also kind of sad what’s happening to her. I never did like her music, but I did like the song, “I Got The Boom Boom” and “Toxic”, but she seemed like she was the great American success story, talented and pretty, but I guess her immaturity and the crazy events while living in a fishbowl got to her. My sister used to be her biggest fan and read InTouch and whatever other celeb rag out there just to see what she was up to.

It seems like she’s a genuinely nice person and just got caught up in her life and the celebrity machine.

I’m hoping that she at least gets her life back on track.

Epilogue: If Kevin Federline looked like the way he does above before we found out he was who he was, he might have gotten further in his psuedo-career (on any given day, it could be a rapper, an actor then next a wrestler). He actually looks dceent in this picture with the threads on, almost like a skinnier and rougher version of Christian Bale (star of Batman Returns and actually has talent).