A stupid poll

What are your Super Bowl plans?

  • I'm watching the Super Bowl primarily for the football.

    Votes: 7 30.4%

  • I'm watching the Super Bowl primarily for the commercials.

    Votes: 5 21.7%

  • I'm not watching the Super Bowl.

    Votes: 11 47.8%
  • Total voters
    23
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    So I'm a very "sports illiterate" person. I'm not very interested in sports in general, though I do understand a couple of them at a basic level.

    With that said, I am aware that the Super Bowl is coming up. I'm genuinely curious how the people here classify themselves with regards to watching it.

    Do you watch the game for the game? Do you watch it for the commercials? Or are you like me and won't watch it at all?
     
    Id put it on display 2 if it wasn't difficult to access. I tried watching an NFL game in October for eagles vs giants but I was aggravated by all the flags and questionable replay footage. It seems like the refs will punish a team for doing anything but throwing a pass to the sidelines
     
    I follow the three American major team sports leagues closer than I will ever let on. I know more about playing, coaching, and management strategy for professional basketball, baseball, and football than the average fan can recite, but I hate how ESPN has dumbed it down for everyone with idiotic hot takes, so I don't really like talking about sports with most people because the average fan is excruciatingly ignorant or dogmatic. Think $47.88. I also played basketball in organized rec leagues from elementary through high school, so it's not all just spectator experience either.

    I stopped watching full games years ago, even when my teams are involved, because I almost always have a better way to spend 2-3 hours of my day or evening. If they won, I can watch the highlights to my heart's content later. If they lost, I saved myself 2-3 hours of being in a foul mood and hopefully I was even able to spend that time doing something fulfilling instead. Sports are just background noise for me now, and not even in a literal sense. I only care because I still want one of them to win a championship.

    I used to have standing invitations to a handful of different Super Bowl parties hosted by different friends, but I stopped attending all of them. I always had to watch the commercials on YouTube the day after because I'd at least miss something with the audio while at a party, so that doesn't change. As for the football, back when I did watch the Super Bowl, I'm not sure when was the last time I wasn't hate-watching the damn game, so I haven't watched at all for the last several years. Fucking Patriots. Fuck the Patriots.
     
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    I used to instinctively do option 2 but the fun of the commercials aren’t what they used to be so meh. There’s been games I’ve casually put on in the background as I doom scroll my phone because the team(s) I have some vague connection to from friends or family but I literally can’t place the patriots on a map and I didn’t even know the Seahawks were a team until last week! I don’t bet on sports so I’ll probably just watch Dirty Mary Crazy Larry or something again 😆

    Only sport I actually genuinely enjoy is baseball but I sit through an entire game at best twice a season(and often not the World Series, because the White Sox are shit lol)
     
    theterminator93 said:
    So I'm a very "sports illiterate" person. I'm not very interested in sports in general,
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    Same!

    Having grown up in Germany, football (as in Fußball) is huge as it is in most of the world, but even that never interested me much. I remember attending two games, one German federal league, the other Germany vs. France.

    Germans through football are conditioned to have certain expectations of sports, notably the long fights over the ball and difficulty to score. American football with its quick scoring and constant interruptions doesn't excite me at all. In Germany, American football, rugby, and the like are extremely niche sports with a small audience.

    I do like the players though. Does that count?
     
    I second the common voice here, I used to watch the Winnipeg Jets Hockey games with my brother when I was young, but that was more a way to stay up past my bedtime. Now I'm lucky if I go to bed earlier than midnight sigh. school takes up my days so if I get any time to myself, you can bet I won't waste it sitting watching guys who get paid millions of dollars to catch a ball, I'm gonna work on something, clean something or try to better myself in some way. I have nothing against people who like sports, I just get bored quick. And highlights exist
     
    I'm sure I'll turn the channel to it a couple times, in hours of a funny commercial. But since there's only a couple decent ones anymore, I won't care if I miss it.

    I miss the days of zero political posturing and just football and funny commercials. I watched for entertainment, not a scolding.
     
    I voted commercials, but honestly I watch it mostly out of tradition at this point. The commercials were pretty terrible for a while, but I feel like they’ve gotten better in the last couple years, so hopefully that trend continues. While I am completely missing whatever part of the brain makes people care about sports in general or like one team over another, I do enjoy a good football game, but good in my mind means exciting and unpredictable, and unfortunately it is kind of hit or miss whether the superbowl delivers on that.

    So I guess all this to say, you left out the option of “I’m just here for the food!”
     
    MadMikeyL said:
    I voted commercials, but honestly I watch it mostly out of tradition at this point. The commercials were pretty terrible for a while, but I feel like they’ve gotten better in the last couple years, so hopefully that trend continues. While I am completely missing whatever part of the brain makes people care about sports in general or like one team over another, I do enjoy a good football game, but good in my mind means exciting and unpredictable, and unfortunately it is kind of hit or miss whether the superbowl delivers on that.

    So I guess all this to say, you left out the option of “I’m just here for the food!”
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    The Super Bowl in the modern era isn't about a good game because all the other theatrics that surround it detract from the experience if you're a football purist. It just happens to be the NFL's championship game, so of course it's the ultimate goal each season. The last good football games in the season are more often the AFC and NFC (conference) championship games.
     
    I've seen every Superbowl since it started. I'll watch, while I work on something else too.
    If I can wrestle a teksid block and stand into my living room, it'll be that,lol.
     
    theterminator93 said:
    So I'm a very "sports illiterate" person. I'm not very interested in sports in general,
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    Same here!

    I have so many better things to do with my time than sit on a couch and watch a bunch of guys chase balls.

    I find it hilarious that people let it dictate their entire mood for the week, yelling and screaming at a bunch of overpaid millionaires.

    When the guys at work start talking about sports at the end of the day, I just leave. Lol.
     
    1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
    I'm surprised there's no option saying I'm watching for the halftime show. That used to be a huge draw in the past.
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    When they leaned more towards nostalgic acts I think it was more of a thing. Does Bad Bunny have any English songs? I understand the NFL wanting to grow the fan base, but abandoning the base that built the NFL seems odd.

    **I'm in my 40's so you can't call me a Boomer**😆
     
    Bad Bunny was to trigger certain people to get them talking and raging for free publicity. As for those that don't watch the game, thats ok too.
    There is always the lingerie or the puppy bowl. Because Nascar changed the date of the Daytona 500 because of the conflict.
     
    I can’t think of an entity short of Santa Claus that gets more free publicity as is than the SuperBall. 🤷‍♂️
     
    XR7-4.6 said:
    I can’t think of an entity short of Santa Claus that gets more free publicity as is than the SuperBall. 🤷‍♂️
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    I think you meant to say "the big game" right? Don't make me send a link of this thread to Roger Goodell.

    I don't remember the last time I sat down to watch a sporting event. When our son was born we kind of just stopped altogether. The last "the big game" I recall watching was when a coworker invited some people over to watch. I don't remember who was playing. All I remember was Anthony Keidis of Red Hot Chili Peppers at the halftime show running around with no shirt on when he probably should have had a shirt on.

    I still casually follow some of my teams which is to say I read about them, but I'm just not that emotionally invested in any of it. Outside of my teams, I'd have a hard time naming players from other teams unless they were overly popular/famous.
     
    I don't watch sports, unless there's a party involved. I keep up with univ of tn football, due to not wanting to get disowned.
     
    FYI it is the best time of year to buy a big TV or recliner. Lots of sale prices.
     
    Kidd-7 said:
    My favorite superbowl commercial
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    That was a throwback. I vaguely remember those Mr. K (Nissan USA's first president Yutaka Katayama portayed by Dale Ishimoto) Enjoy the Ride commercials.


    Nissan really went from that to subprime credit poverty cars in the span of a decade and a half.
     
    Nissan was badass in the late 90s, this was my fav, introduced me to Van Halen.

     
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