Tonight on The Independents: Special Super Bowl Edition, Featuring Superstitions, Urban Legends, Weed, Hangover Cures, The League’s Katie Aselton, Plus a Live Guac-off!

Serious television. ||| theworldsbestever.comTonight’s episode of The
Independents
(9 pm ET, 6 pm PT on Fox Business Network,
repeats at midnight and throughout the weekend), provides the kind
of Super Bowl coverage that you can probably only find on…The
Independents!

For instance: Executive Director
Allen St. Pierre
of the National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws (NORML)
will talk about what the “Weed Bowl” matchup between two cities
from states where recreational marijuana is legal means to
anti-Drug War activists (as well as to the partiers in Denver and
Seattle). NFL.com analyst Dave Dameshek will describe some
of the bizarre superstitions and rituals practiced by football
players and fans alike. Comedian Sherrod Small and Fox
Business Network reporter
Sandra Smith
will play a game of Super Bowl Fact or Fiction,
with questions ranging from domestic violence to 9/11 to a bunch of
other stuff that’s actually funny.

Fantasy football. ||| EsquireActress Katie Aselton of the
raucous fantasy-football
FXX
show The
League
will relay what she’s learned about the world of
online sports and why smack-talking bro-dude shows like hers &
FXX’s
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
resonate with viewers.
We’ll also talk hangover cures, including footage from a Reason.tv
feature on a
hangover truck in Las Vegas
. And the show’s creme de la
avocado
will be an all-pro guacamole-making contest between
myself and the shouty
host-lady
.

If you haven’t seen it yet, make sure to check out our interview
with the thoughtful libertarian cornerback Chris Carr. And as
always, send your tweets out to @IndependentsFBN.

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