For some years, our family would go to our friend Lee’s house to watch. She had a cool basset hound. We didn’t have TV at home so any TV was fun. She also had a cool fireplace. I remember a treacherous snowy trip over there one year.
After she died we still didn’t have a TV but we would know it was Superbowl Sunday because the movies had special deals and we would go there. Now the only reason I notice is the quilt shop has a Superbowl Sale where you get money off for bringing in a remote control.
Some number of years ago, I would always plan to go skiing on Superbowl weekend. The slopes would be pretty empty.
Now, the only reason I notice it is to TIVO it – Not to watch the game, but just to see the new commercials they introduce during it. (It must look pretty funny to an outsider to see me fast forwarding through the game and watching all of the commercials.)
Mr. Stuff and I are paying attention to the extent that we plan to emulate WhyNot and go out to eat somewhere during the Superbowl.
I used to live in Indianapolis, and feel a vague affinity to the city and its sports teams, so I’ll be glad in a very low-key way if the Colts win. But I probably won’t find out whether they did for a day and a half.
When I did live in Indy, I followed the Pacers purely out of self-defense. I hated not being able to talk to anyone in the winter!
It’s a pretty big deal for Indy, so I can’t really ignore it this year. Were it not our team going, I wouldn’t care at all, but I might watch since it’s the Colts.
It’s at nighttime nowadays, isn’t it? If so, yes, a dinner out would be a good thing to do that day. When is it again?
It seems to me it used to be in the daytime, which is why we used to go to Costco or my boss would play golf. I bet they pushed it back to the evening so they would have the whole day leading up to it in which they could sell more beer.
I haven’t actually watched a game since 1981. I will turn on the TV for a minute just to say I’ve watched, but I’m not going to waste an entire evening over it.
If the Jets get in it again, I’ll probably watch, but until then, no. And since that’s not likely, I’ll just think about Joe Namath and do other things.
When the Rams made it a few years back, I got into it because it was fun to support the hometown team. And my aunt had a huge party for it and I won $20 playing Squares.*
If my Chicago friends have a Superbowl party this year, I’ll go and root for da Bears. But normally I forget about it. I like football but it’s hard when teams I don’t care about are playing.
*Squares is a game where you write the numbers 0-9 on a big piece of paper going down the left side and across the top, one for each team. You divide the paper into squares and pay a set amount of money to write your name in certain squares. It’s used to guess the score at the end of quarters or halves. If you picked the square that falls on 7 and 7, and those are the last numbers of the teams’ scores at the end of the quarter or half or game, you win the pot.
I normally don’t pay much attention and don’t watch the game but I live about half way between Indy and Chicago (one of the coaches suggested playing the SB in my town) so ignoring it this year will be impossible. I may even watch it.
I don’t know who is playing or where the game will be held. I have zero interest in the game and less interest in who wins it. It would not distress me if all professional sporting events were cancelled now and forever.
I like to watch sports, but pretty much only if one of my teams are playing (Cubs, Bears, Bulls, Illini)…I have to have a little emotional investment to really enjoy it. I ususally will have the Super Bowl on, or sometimes go to a party to watch it, but I don’t really care about it too much.
This year, however, I will probably have it on from the beginning of the coverage, and hopefully late into the night.
Over the past however many years this has been an event I’ve gone from watching and cheering to watching, to watching the half-time and second half, to watching the last quarter, to ignoring it for the past 15 years or so. I usually will buy into blind pools on the chance that I might hit (did once for about $400).
Mrs. Evil Captor and I never ignore the SuperBowl, it’s a regular Pluterday. Any non-sports restaurant will be realtively empty, the movies won’t be crowded, the streets will be relatively empty, too. We always take advantage of it in some way.
Yeah, I ignore it. I have to try to remember, though, so I don’t accidentally order a pizza or something. I do like to see the commercials, but they’ve gotten boring lately.
a pretty big deal? the entire state of indiana has gone stark raving nuts, and it’s not just because the franchise won its conference game.
indianapolis has been struggling for decades to overcome a second-rate (even third-rate) label, and quite honestly, it deserves it. hell, when i moved here as a teenager from northern new jersey - i cried for days. indianapolis was truly ‘indiana noplace:’ a cultural black hole of frightening proportions.
despite my punking, it’s a good place to live and things have improved some, but indianapolis has never been more than that city in the cornfield where those race cars show up a couple times a year - and frankly never will be.
now, that said, should the colts actually **WIN ** the superbowl :eek: , the city’s image may get one heck of an instant makeover. and that means major bucks invested in our little berg for the foreseeable future. gotta pay for those new sports facilities somehow…
i’m no more than a casual football fan, but this is one time i’m actually having friends over to watch the game. it’ll be tough because i AM a serious cubs fan and like the bears by default. i’ll probably just drink beer and let the chips fall where they may.
The last Super Bowl I watched was XXXV (2001,) Ravens vs. Giants. My friends and I went out to the yard and we played a pickup rugby match during halftime, lost track of time, and missed the rest of the game. We didn’t care.
the entire state of indiana has gone stark raving nuts, and it’s not just because the franchise won its conference game.