# . . . ain't watchin' the Super Bowl. Who's with me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2018, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193 "2018-02-05T00:43:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/21 "2018-02-05T05:30:31Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/22 "2018-02-05T06:27:20Z")
I didn’t because my Steelers weren’t in it. That being said, I’m thrilled that the Patriots lost. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/23 "2018-02-05T07:17:12Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > I just couldn’t care less about the “Big Game.” Ain’t that “big” to me. Who’s with me? I’m with you. There was something on the news or at any rate something droning on in the background on TV about the Super Bowl the other day, and my thought was how challenging it would be to think of something I cared LESS about. Maybe the outcome of the municipal elections in Zhezkazgan. > [@Tripler](#): > > My high holy season comes with Lord Stanley’s Cup. Well, I understand the sentiment, and I used to be like that, too, but now I find it hard to care much even about that, though Saturday night hockey TV is still sort of a tradition and I do watch the playoffs. Your heart is in the right place. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/24 "2018-02-05T10:49:22Z")
I rarely watch football, so the only reason to watch the Super bowl in the past was the clever commercials. Last year the ads went full-on SJW and it seemed more like diversity training than a sports event. We shut it off 2nd quarter last year and haven’t revisited the NFL since. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/25 "2018-02-05T11:03:52Z")
Not a fan. Didn’t even know who was playing in it. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/26 "2018-02-05T11:36:23Z")
It was Netflix night for me. Like QtM I’ll watch if the Packers are in. (I MIGHT have watched if the Vikings made it in) Some movie trailers I’m interested in, but they are available online. Brian ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/27 "2018-02-05T12:19:05Z")
I was out geocaching and stuck my head in an old abandoned barn. I managed to disturb a barn owl who then flew around for a short while. It was a superb owl, so I watched it. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/28 "2018-02-05T12:23:00Z")
I don’t care about football, but my husband watches, so the game was on while I was reading. I looked up at a couple of replays that drew comments from him, and I kinda saw a couple of commercials, but I was too interested in finding out who the killer was in my book to pay much attention to the game. And I went to bed before it was over. Go team. rah. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/29 "2018-02-05T14:12:18Z")
It’s been six years since I watched a Super Bowl, and more than five years since the last time I watched a pro football game. Watching people cause major, irreversible damage to each other’s brains just isn’t entertaining for me, now that I know that’s what’s happening. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/30 "2018-02-05T14:14:46Z")
I stayed with it when I discovered that Joe Buck was not doing the PbP. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/31 "2018-02-05T20:08:47Z")
I haven’t watched the Super Bowl in probably twenty years. NHL hockey is my spectator sport of choice. That, and the Olympics. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/32 "2018-02-05T20:14:56Z")
We did not watch at all. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/33 "2018-02-05T20:21:56Z")
In a way, I wanted to watch because it was in my state. Thought maybe there would be some cool facts or whatever about Minnesota. But since I have no interest in football I didn’t watch. Tuned in for about 30 seconds to see the half-time show but it was so boring that I turned the channel. Watched Victoria instead. If we were to watch any sport it would be hockey, but not much anymore. We watched a lot of amateur (kid) and high school hockey when our son played. It’s no fun to watch if I don’t know anyone playing! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/34 "2018-02-05T21:17:52Z")
I watched some of it, read thru some of it (a collection of stories from the old pulp magazines), and slept thru some of it. I don’t hate football, but I don’t care about it much either. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2018, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/35 "2018-02-05T22:49:01Z")
I used to go to a large super bowl party and their always 2-3 people who would go into another room and do something else. Usually a spouse of someone. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/36 "2018-02-06T00:25:25Z")
I went to downtown Toronto to visit friends. > [@wolfpup](#): > > …to think of something I cared LESS about. Maybe the outcome of the municipal elections in Zhezkazgan. Hey! My mom was from Zhezkazgan! And the municipal politics there is spellbinding. No wait, sorry, she was from Saskatchewan. But the politics is still interesting. The new Premier is about to [go up against the federal government](http://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/no-carbon-tax-in-sask-s-climate-change-plan) on the subject of carbon taxes, claiming that they fall among provincial powers. Separation of powers has never been so interesting. (Re: the Superb Owl… Is there any other program where the commercials are more interesting than the actual program?) ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/37 "2018-02-06T00:51:13Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I went to downtown Toronto to visit friends. Hey! My mom was from Zhezkazgan! And the municipal politics there is spellbinding. > > No wait, sorry, she was from Saskatchewan. But the politics is still interesting. The new Premier is about to [go up against the federal government](http://leaderpost.com/news/saskatchewan/no-carbon-tax-in-sask-s-climate-change-plan) on the subject of carbon taxes, claiming that they fall among provincial powers. Separation of powers has never been so interesting. > > (Re: the Superb Owl… Is there any other program where the commercials are more interesting than the actual program?) Zhezkazgan, which is in Kazakhstan, should never be confused with Saskatchewan, which is in the North Pole. At least in winter it is. I was there once in January or February with only a light spring overcoat and I almost died, although if I had, at least I would automatically have been cryogenically preserved. But I’ve never claimed that Saskatchewan politics isn’t interesting. Saskatchewan gave us Tommy Douglas, “the greatest Canadian”, who brought single-payer health care to Canada. The expansion of the Saskatchewan hospitalization plan to a full-fledged single payer system was a particularly non-boring time. All the doctors went on strike, and the AMA and the American insurance lobby came up to support them. It was a real rip-roarin’ western-style shootout, and in effect the future of the entire country’s health care system was at stake. Saskatchewan politics isn’t boring. The Superb Owl is boring. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/38 "2018-02-06T01:09:51Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Not a fan. Didn’t even know who was playing in it. Apparently it was some ornithological afficionados from a city on the Delaware river, and some right-wing militia members from one of the New England states. I don’t know why representatives of the Eastern Seaboard had to haul all the way up to the Great White North (or thereabouts) to host the contest, but meh. Tripler I had more productive time cleaning out my shower stall with a power drill. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/39 "2018-02-06T05:39:26Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > Zhezkazgan, which is in Kazakhstan, should never be confused with Saskatchewan, which is in the North Pole. At least in winter it is. I was there once in January or February with only a light spring overcoat and I almost died, although if I had, at least I would automatically have been cryogenically preserved. But I’ve never claimed that Saskatchewan politics isn’t interesting. Saskatchewan gave us Tommy Douglas, “the greatest Canadian”, who brought single-payer health care to Canada. The expansion of the Saskatchewan hospitalization plan to a full-fledged single payer system was a particularly non-boring time. All the doctors went on strike, and the AMA and the American insurance lobby came up to support them. It was a real rip-roarin’ western-style shootout, and in effect the future of the entire country’s health care system was at stake. Saskatchewan politics isn’t boring. The Superb Owl is boring. I was in Saskatoon once in January. Didn’t get light in the morning until about m10:30. Saw a Snow Yowl. It was a Superb Owl. ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2018, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193/40 "2018-02-06T08:12:30Z")
You missed a hell of a game, but if you don’t care at all about sports it doesn’t matter. I rarely watched any regular season or playoff NFL this year. Sometimes I had games on in the background. I slept through most of the first half, but I was on the edge of my seat the rest of the night (I skipped Timberlake, though). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aint-watchin-the-super-bowl-whos-with-me/808193.md?page=3)