I never watch football, so I am always surprised when people can’t make plans and act like I’m stupid for suggesting things on supersunday.
(I also never remember that there are big games over the holidays, which must have names also but I don’t know them)
So, anyone else just not remember it’s there?
Yes. But it’s very easy to do that here.
We’re Americans and yes, we completely ignore it. It’s a good time to go to otherwise crowded places like Costco or something, because everyone will be home watching the game. An ex-boss of mine used to go and play golf at his favorite course because he’d get a great tee-time on that day.
Drawing on equivalents that might turn on Canadians as much as the Superbowl turns on Americans, no I don’t watch the Grey Cup or Stanley Cup since I have negligible interest in sports. I usually swear at my TV a lot on those days because the programs I want to watch are pre-empted.
I pay no attention to it, and I’m in Chicago!
In fact, this past Sunday, I did know there was a game on, because my sister-in-law mentioned it and I vaguely understood it was something important to people who care about such things. I decided it might be a good night to try the Brazilian grill I’ve been wanting to check out, so I took WhyKid there for his birthday. Just the two of us, we’re the carnivores in the family.
There was no one there.
Literally,* no *other diners. I felt very strange, with this parade of servers bringing these huge skewers down from the kitchen with two or three little bits of meat on each for just us.
I knew it wouldn’t be crowded, but I didn’t expect it would be deserted! And this was AFTER the game had ended! Although I guess the other important game was still going on, or something? I dunno.
I left a very good tip (bill was $71, I left $100 in cash) because I felt so bad for making them fire up their grills for only two of us, and they gave me a free drink and a 15% off our next visit coupon because they felt bad that we were the only ones there! So hopefully we all ended up happy in the end. (And, ohmigod, amazing food. We will be back to use that coupon. But we’ll bring some more people with us!)
So, yeah, I’m with you. Superbowl? That’s coming up soon, right?
I would have no idea it even existed were it not for my rabid football fan coworkers.
Are they having that again this year?
My usual response to questions about football: “Professional sports? That’s where you sit in your living room and watch a bunch of other guys play a game? It’s just a fad; it’ll never catch on.”
The what?
I’ve never been a football fan, and professional football strikes me as a pointless spectacle.
I often don’t know when it is. I don’t watch TV news, and I only read the sections of the paper that interest me (dead-tree and online), which doesn’t include the sports section, so I don’t hear much about sports. I have a Tivo, don’t watch live TV (and always fast-forward through commercials, except for the ones that amuse me), and generally only watch Discovery, PBS, Food Network, Animal Planet, and Science Channel, so I don’t even notice it in the upcoming programs on the Tivo. I work with geeks who are, AFAIK, not rabid football fans (one is an Ohio State fan, but that seems to be the limit of sports fanship at my work). We’re more likely to discuss the latest Mythbusters than the results of any sporting event. I don’t generally make a lot of plans for any given weekend- I’m tired out from commuting and working, and I usually just want to stay home and relax. I’d generally rather play computer games at home than go out, anyway.
I’m quite likely to pick up the paper on Monday morning, see the results, and say, “Oh, I guess the Super Bowl was yesterday”.
If I do remember when it is, it is a good time to go to places that are normally crowded. It’s a bad time to look for on-street parking or be out walking or driving around afterward, though.
No, I don’t ignore it. I like football. I like most pro sports when played at the championship level. The commercials are usually pretty good too.
Go Bears!
I have no idea when it even is, or did it already happen? Next week maybe?
If I hate the teams that are playing I will skip it. I’ll skip this year for sure.
Foot-ball? There is actually a sport with this silly name? 
My wife and I got married on Superbowl Sunday. We were weeks into the planning before a more football-savvy relative pointed out what we had done.
We’d been wondering why the (normally overscheduled) hotel wasn’t booked that weekend … . :smack:
Our relatives cared enough about us to show up anyway. But there was some grousing and a few hasty departures from the reception.
Now we celebrate Superbowl Sunday as our secondary anniversary! And we still totally ignore the game.
OTOH, plan the trip carefully if you’re thinking of going to your regular grocery store that day - during the game will be fine, but right before it and at halftime, the place will be over-run with guys in a panic to get more munchies and beer and get back home in time.
I forget all about it until I see the newspaper ads for bigscreen TVs saying there’s still time to buy one and have it delivered in time for The Big Game. Speaking of which, I don’t know yet what will be on my 50" plasma, but it won’t be football.
I never notice it, and hadn’t until I saw this thread. I have lots of interests, but sports isn’t one of them.
There were lots of mentions of it last weekend while I was channel surfing, so it must be last weekend or this coming one. They really ought to keep it at the same time every year, for those of us who don’t care. I never did understand American sports with lots of padding. Doesn’t that shout “head injury”?
I don’t notice the superbowl, either. I don’t follow sports at all, except that I can be persuaded to watch the Iron Bowl (Auburn vs Alabama).
To expand a little on my thought, it’s not that I ignore it. To me that would sound like I intentionally avoid it. For me, it’s more that the superbowl just doesn’t really cross my radar. I grew up in a family where sports were just not a topic that came up. My dad didn’t watch any televised sports, I don’t recall any family friends that were big into sports, so I just never got into it.
So it isn’t a matter of ignoring, just that it doesn’t impact my life in any way.
To clue in those who weren’t sure:
Last weekend was the Conference Championships. The two teams who won their respective conference (Bears and Colts) will meet in the Super Bowl on February 4th (there is a two week break between the Conference Championships and the Super Bowl, purely for BS hype reasons).
I’m a rabid football fan, so obviously, yes, I’ll be watching. However, I grew up loathing all sports, and used to make it a personal challenge to see how long I could go without knowing who was in any particular sports championship.