# Six hours of Super Bowl pre-game--anybody watch the whole thing? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [February 6, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450 "2011-02-06T23:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/1 "2011-02-06T23:16:41Z")
As usual, there were more than six hours of pre-game programming before the Super Bowl started. Did anybody watch all of that? ---
**Author:** ![srzss05](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@srzss05](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/srzss05)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/2 "2011-02-06T23:19:14Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > As usual, there were more than six hours of pre-game programming before the Super Bowl started. Did anybody watch all of that? I had the TV on since about 11 CST. I didn’t really “watch” it all though. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/3 "2011-02-06T23:33:06Z")
Nope, I usually ignore it. I tuned in right before the national anthem and they’re still dragging it out. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/4 "2017-02-05T02:24:54Z")
Old poll and thread bumped for tomorrow’s Superb Owl. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/5 "2017-02-05T02:41:59Z")
If you want to start your party early, it’s something you can put on the TV to have background noise. You’re probably not actively watching it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/6 "2017-02-05T03:20:36Z")
If you watched all six hours of the pre-game, you would be so burnt out on football by the time the game started. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/7 "2017-02-05T12:45:39Z")
I stopped watching football a few years back, so when I read the OP, referring to the pre-game programming in the past tense, I thought, “did they finally do the sensible thing and move it to Saturday?” Because a Superbowl party just ends too damn late when you’ve got to drag your butt into work the next morning. Then I noticed the date on the OP. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/8 "2017-02-05T13:01:38Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > If you want to start your party early, it’s something you can put on the TV to have background noise. You’re probably not actively watching it, though. This. When I was a kid and back when there had only been 25 or so Super Bowls played up to that point, I used to watch the Super Bowl marathon that would start at something like 6 in the morning and go all the until right before kickoff. But kinda hard to do with 50 games behind us. I miss the Sabols and NFL films. ---
**Author:** ![Vicsage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e68b1a/32.png) [@Vicsage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vicsage)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/9 "2017-02-05T15:10:43Z")
I barely tolerate the game anymore and unless the ads have dogs in them, I don’t care about them either. More and more the pre-game and half-time shows remind me of the Hunger Games. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/10 "2017-02-05T15:15:33Z")
> [@Vicsage](#): > > I barely tolerate the game anymore and unless the ads have dogs in them, I don’t care about them either. More and more the pre-game and half-time shows remind me of the Hunger Games. The game has become too much of a spectacle. I know I’m probably in the minority, but the playoffs and the NFL have been completely over-marketed and over-sold. It’s lost a lot of its real nostalgic appeal to fake nostalgia (throw back uniforms suck by the way) and marketing campaigns with pink cleats. Don’t get me wrong - breast cancer awareness is a good campaign but there’s just too much gimmickry these days. I also can’t stand Roger Goodell with his fake piety, going after athletes when they embarrass him somehow and then allowing franchises to screw over small to mid-sized markets like St Louis, Oakland, and San Diego. It’s becoming nothing but a corporate league. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/11 "2017-02-05T15:26:03Z")
There is footie on Telemundo…great match between Man City v Swansea with Man U v Leicester next. Then off to the other footie. What a great day of sport. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/12 "2017-02-05T16:06:49Z")
I’ll be watching the Puppy Bowl, it’s a lot more fun. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/13 "2017-02-05T20:18:27Z")
> [@Vicsage](#): > > I barely tolerate the game anymore and unless the ads have dogs in them, I don’t care about them either. More and more the pre-game and half-time shows remind me of the Hunger Games. May the refs be forever in your favor! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/14 "2017-02-05T20:40:22Z")
My wife woke me up at 3:00am for anal sex, so I’m napping on and off while the pregame is on. And my butt hurts. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/15 "2017-02-05T22:05:55Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > My wife woke me up at 3:00am for anal sex, so I’m napping on and off while the pregame is on. > > And my butt hurts. Brady you should be warming up buddy. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2017, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/16 "2017-02-05T23:56:40Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > My wife woke me up at 3:00am for anal sex, so I’m napping on and off while the pregame is on. > > And my butt hurts. I love people who give till it hurts. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-hours-of-super-bowl-pre-game-anybody-watch-the-whole-thing/570450/17 "2017-02-06T02:08:50Z")
I don’t watch the entire game let alone the entire pre-game. To many other things including both the Puppy and Kitten Bowls.