Bears quarterback Jay Cutler calls Microsoft Surface a 'knockoff iPad'

The NFL is not a sports league; it's an advertisement periodically interrupted by bouts of football.

It is a temple to our basest capitalist tendencies. It's a place where Bose forces players to place small squares of tape over their Beats Studios that render them utterly unrecognizable.

It's a #brandscape unrivaled.

Jay Cutler, best known as the husband of television personality Kristin Cavallari, doesn't care about the #brandscape. He just wants to play football — at least enough football to finish third in the NFC North, perhaps more if he's feeling inspired. But sometimes the #brandscape gets in the way, like when Microsoft pays nearly half a billion dollars to shower teams and announcers with Surfaces.

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