I've never watched wrestling seriously or as a hoot but I'm told that there are people who >do< take it seriously. Acting as though it were a joke in some of these bars is asking for a serious demonstration of tv-evoked violence. Just because some of us don't take to beating our significant others doesn't mean that there are not folks out there who take out their frustrations in drunken rages against the nearest -- and weakest, most submissive, most degraded -- targets. That's what domestic violence is about. The notion that SuperBowl provokes more of this kind of frustration is not an idea that comes out of the blue. It doesn't have to be a ballgame to evoke this kind of response. Sometimes not having dinner on-time will do it. SuperBowl simply concentrates these responses. Just as it is a reasonable bet that there is more drunk-driving on New Year's Eve. And, likely, more DUI-evoked accidents. Cal Pryluck, Radio-Television-Film, Temple University, Philadelphia <[log in to unmask]> <PRYLUCK@TEMPLEVM>