Does it help to imagine it's being read by John Oliver? There's a heavy dose of self-deprecating humor about Americans prizing university athletic performance

Does it help to imagine it's being read by John Oliver? There's a heavy dose of self-deprecating humor about Americans prizing university athletic performance over academics. "Yes, yes, 80 Nobel Prizes, blah blah, but congratulations to MIT on doing something that's finally important: winning at American football."