Super Bowl Locker Room
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The Super Bowl locker room exists only as an invoked analogy from Bartlet's memory — its halftime-strategy image supplies the emotional logic for changing a 'winning' approach mid-course and justifies tactical reversals.
Recalled as noisy, high-pressure, strategic — the smell of sweat and urgency implied in the anecdote.
Analogical space used to legitimize changing strategy despite recent success.
Symbolizes the courage to abandon familiar tactics when they no longer serve victory.
The Super Bowl locker room is invoked metaphorically by Bartlet's coach anecdote to explain the difficulty of changing a fortunate but failing strategy at halftime; it functions as a rhetorical location that clarifies his argument about risk and correction.
Not physically present; imagined as a noisy, pressure‑filled space where strategic decisions are wrenching.
Illustrative location used to persuade and contextualize strategic risk.
Represents the tension between sticking with a winning formula and the courage to change what's no longer working.
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