Bloomington is the real capital of Indiana. 
I don’t even know when it happens. 
If I happen to notice that it’s on, I might try to watch the half-time show. (As we did in time to see The Jackson Breast Incident.) The sheer size of the stadium and all those people in the stands astonishes me. It’s all just such an enormous spectacle.
Then I wonder how they all leave when the game is over. It must be quite the traffic jam.
I’ll be at a volleyball tournament that day, but I probably wouldn’t be watching the Superbowl anyway. My son will be somewhere with friends, watching, cheering, drinking beer, making a big deal of it. I’m glad he’s moved out, so we don’t have the ongoing discussion about the relative importance of the game.
The only reason I know who’s in it (well, at least the Bears; I didn’t know about Indy until I read this thread) is that people have been buying all the Bears fabric we have or can get in stock at my job.
The only Superbowl I ever watched was the Broncos/Cowboys in the seventies, the first one Denver played. I lived out there at the time and we got caught up in Bronco fever. Mostly that was for that team. I’ve never been a Bronco fan, or any kind of football fan since.
When my son was three, my husband invited his parents over to watch the game with him. I went to my parents’, and asked the boy if he wanted to come along. He opted to stay and watch the game with Daddy and the grandparents. When I got home that evening, I asked him how things went. His answer? “I shoulda goed with you.”
The what?
I’m not a big sports fan at all, and I don’t particularly like watching team sports, so I don’t pay much attention to the big events (I don’t even know when football season is). No Superbowl, no Stanley Cup, no World Series. The only event I pay any attention to is the Olympics.
that’s what the dive master says.
i wouldn’t know. i graduated from ball state.
I love Superbowl Sunday, because it’s the only weekend day at the beginning of the year when the gym is not chock-full of New-Year’s-resolutioners. It’s bliss. Well, other than having to dodge the tranced-out weightroom attendants who’re glued to the TV sets.
I know when it happens, of course – it’s as impossible to ignore as an earthquake. But I never watch the game, and rarely even the halftime. I’m not a sports spectator at all – even of sports I myself participate in. I don’t even watch the Olympics.
We usually plan something else that day, and take advantage of the general emptiness of restaurants and the like. This past Sunday, with the Patriots playing, we noticed that the Museum of Scienmce started emptying early, and we had a lot of space to ourselves.
I can’t really believe/understand people who are unaware of it. . .unless you’re just totally removed from society. Much less, that you’re surprised that other people are into it. At least if you live in America.
The ads for things for “The Big Game” are everywhere. It happens the same time of year, every year, and 50-60 million people watch it.
I mean . . .I don’t follow politics, but I know when the elections are. I knew the “State of the Union” was coming on last night.
I don’t follow dog shows, but I know when Westminster is.
I know when new seasons of Survivor and Big Brother start, and I couldn’t give a shit about that.
I even know when new video games are released, and I don’t ever play games.
Sounds like you need to stop watching so many ads!
Seriously, we DVR everything, even things we watch close to “live”, we start 15 minutes into a show, so we can FF through commercials (except Mac commercials. We stop and rewind to see those in their entirety!)
I don’t hang out with people who like sports or recreate with sports. Nothing personal, it’s not like it’s on my Application for Friendship or anything, just the luck of the draw, I guess.
I don’t have a job where I have to make small talk or schmooz with anyone about inconsequential events or the weather. There is no water cooler in my life.
I get most of my news from yahoo news (Now With More Dead Soldiers!) and BBC (Americans are Wankers!) and here. I haven’t watched the nightly news since 1991 or so.
I don’t read women’s magazines anymore or watch daytime television EVER, so I don’t have to deal with “10 Fantastic Superbowl Party Tips!” or similar nonsense.
So yes, I guess you could say I’m somewhat insulated. And y’know, I’m okay with that.
When it comes to blow out end of the season let’s crown a champ of the world games, Superbowl is the ONLY one I watch. I don’t watch world series, stanley cups, baketball championships, or the Olympics (I REALLY hate the Olympics). Oh, and I watch stakes races. I only have two sports, I guess.
I’m aware of it–all the TV stores run “There’s still time to go into debt and buy that 2000-inch plasma TV, Frank!” ads–but quite frankly, the commercials* are a lot more interesting to me than the game.
I’m not a spectator-sports fanatic; like many people, I feel that sports are something you do, rather than watch. Which is why I may spend game time at the gym. As soon as I find out when it is (other than “Sunday”).
[sub]*If we got them on Canadian cable, that is; CRTC rules require subbing in Canadian commericals if the US program is being broadcast on a Canadian channel. I think somehow they extended this to sub in Canadian commercials on US channels carried on Canadian cable or satellite, but I could be wrong. So I go looking for the commercials on the net afterwards, if I remember.[/sub]
The superbowl is dead to me.
I am not a football fan, but if it’s on NBC I might watch a little because that’s the only channel I get in high-def over my little indoor antenna, and the Sunday night football games look really good.
Otherwise I’d rather play a football video game or play actual football. I do go to high school football games. The NFL is too money-hungry and commercial for my taste. Do you know they don’t even let businesses mention the phrase “Super Bowl”? If you listen to ads, they’ll say “the big game” or “the game on Sunday.” Advertisers are also forbidden from mentioning the team names. See this article for more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/30/AR2006013001654.html
Sorry – it’s on CBS this year.
Over the years I’ve become aware that it happens sometime in January, but couldn’t tell you anything more specific beyond that. I really don’t remember seeing any advertising for it this year but then I don’t really pay attention to most commercials, the TV is usually just on for background noise anyway. I couldn’t even begin to guess when Westminster happens, survivor and big brother…no clue unless I happen to see a thread in here about them. Video games, I’m a huge gamer and even I only know when the games I want are coming out.
I can say in all honesty, I was probably a teenager before I had ever even heard of the Superbowl. It had that little impact on my life growing up. You may not believe that, but for a lot of people it is true. Not all of us pay that much attention to advertising.
Super…Bowl…?
what is that, some form of pottery-based superhero, or maybe an oversized food storage device?
I watch every year. Most years I don’t really care who wins, but enjoy the spectacle and usually pick a team to root for.