The clever and ever-so-simple message Julie Andrews conveyed in The Sound of Music – a classic if there ever was one – provided encouragement that thrilled a nation. We often chose to believe the obvious – that “just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down” – but it would have taken sugar fields much bigger than the “old cotton fields back home” to sweeten Super Bowl LV. It was--tied up and “ribboned” – a dud. The game and its always-ballyhooed TV commercials were “bad medicine” for the tens of millions of us who didn’t care who won, but had ...