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Lockjaw · 01-31-2005, 08:17 AM

Wasn't sure if this belonged in the Sports section but I felt that I wouldn't get the answers I was seeking if I put it in the section where the sports fans gathered.

I mainly just want to know why people who could care nothing about the game of football 364 other days of the year get all excited when the Super Bowl rolls around? Now I know the NFL has fostered a lot of this by turning the Super Bowl into more of a media thing instead of concentrating on the GAME but this just confuses and bothers me. I mean just 12 years ago the Super Bowl was still kind of more football than anything but now it's nothing more than what commercials were shown,and what controversy was raised during halftime.
Nothing is more annoying to me than sitting next to the person who knows nothing about football during the game yammering their freakin heads off about the last commercial or about the latest fashion or something.
WHY?!
I mean it would be like me going to a Tonies watching party and yaking about a 3-4 defense the entire night. I don't go because I couldn't care less about the stuff. Yet amongst my friend's its almost required that you bring along one or two or fifteen talking heads who aren't interested in the game to the party. These people then eat up all the food,drink all the drinks,block the TV and talk over the sound in the main room so much that the football fans end up watching the game in the other room on an ity bity TV only to have our fun spoiled by the interlopers crowding into our last bastion asking what we are yelling about while the same thing just happened in the other room on the TV with color.

/rant

01-31-2005, 08:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
Lockjaw Junkie	Why do you watch the Super Bowl if you don't like football? Wasn't sure if this belonged in the Sports section but I felt that I wouldn't get the answers I was seeking if I put it in the section where the sports fans gathered. I mainly just want to know why people who could care nothing about the game of football 364 other days of the year get all excited when the Super Bowl rolls around? Now I know the NFL has fostered a lot of this by turning the Super Bowl into more of a media thing instead of concentrating on the GAME but this just confuses and bothers me. I mean just 12 years ago the Super Bowl was still kind of more football than anything but now it's nothing more than what commercials were shown,and what controversy was raised during halftime. Nothing is more annoying to me than sitting next to the person who knows nothing about football during the game yammering their freakin heads off about the last commercial or about the latest fashion or something. WHY?! I mean it would be like me going to a Tonies watching party and yaking about a 3-4 defense the entire night. I don't go because I couldn't care less about the stuff. Yet amongst my friend's its almost required that you bring along one or two or fifteen talking heads who aren't interested in the game to the party. These people then eat up all the food,drink all the drinks,block the TV and talk over the sound in the main room so much that the football fans end up watching the game in the other room on an ity bity TV only to have our fun spoiled by the interlopers crowding into our last bastion asking what we are yelling about while the same thing just happened in the other room on the TV with color. /rant Last edited by Lockjaw; 01-31-2005 at 08:21 AM..