# The "I Am NOT Watching The Super Bowl" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2001, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179 "2001-01-28T23:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/21 "2001-01-29T00:14:16Z")
_ **Futurama** _ baby!! Bender is competing in Ultimate Robot Wrestling. šŸ†’ ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/22 "2001-01-29T00:14:53Z")
Iā€™m half watching it for the commercials, and half reading the board here. I was supposed to go to the Superbowl Dopefest, but microscopic creatures have entered the temple which is my body, and have turned it into a biological slum. A side effect of this invading disease army is me being left with six huge bags of various brand-name chip products, which was my duty to supply to the party. I suppose I could make a dent in them in between Nyquil daquirisā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/23 "2001-01-29T00:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > Nyquil daquirisā€¦ You really donā€™t want to go there, **Purd**. Iā€™m not watching it either, although Iā€™ll admit to having looked forward to the commercials in years past. ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/24 "2001-01-29T00:29:26Z")
Iā€™ve been watching Gone With The Wind since it came on. I donā€™t even know what channel the Superbowl is on, which is fine with me. Great minds think alike! ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/25 "2001-01-29T00:42:50Z")
Nope. No interest in the SponsorBowl. Got a meatloaf in the oven, having a friend over to work on a project together, then later tonight, The Sixth Sense on DVD. Life is good. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/26 "2001-01-29T02:01:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Purd Werfect \* > \*\*Iā€™m half watching it for the commercials, and half reading the board here. \*\* Me, too, Purd Werfect. Sorry youā€™re sick. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/27 "2001-01-29T02:10:11Z")
I just made a batch of cookies, and now itā€™s time to play with the internet. I just canā€™t get excited about the Superbowl. Iā€™m glad Iā€™m not the only one.šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![mackmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@mackmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mackmama)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/28 "2001-01-29T02:25:11Z")
Iā€™m at work too, but I work for a cable company so there are T.V.'s mounted everywhere. Each one is of course turned to the game. I look up every now and then when the commercials come on. Other than that, Iā€™m busily reading the SDMB and intermittently getting yelled at by the occasional customer. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/29 "2001-01-29T02:32:02Z")
Gone with the Windā€™s on??? Argh! I missed it! As for me, I did not watch it. I went to Rayā€™s house and watched To Kill a Mockingbird. His parents were upstairs watching Babe. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/30 "2001-01-29T02:32:53Z")
I just woke up from a really long nap. Iā€™ve got about 100 pages left of War & Peace, and I MUST finish it tonight. I need closure. I spent the day out with my roommate. Iā€™m a bit cranky right now, and I have sleepy seeds in my eyes. Iā€™m not adjusting to the Midwest all that well, am I. I mean, now that I live here, I should really be watching the Superbowl. But I hate that itā€™s on my birthday. Yā€™all should be paying attention to ME!!! ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/31 "2001-01-29T02:42:16Z")
Itā€™s not over yet, but once they broke the record for most punts in a Superbowl, I kind of lost interest. Even most of the commercials were pretty uninspired this year. Commercial spoilerā€¦ . . . . . . . . . . . (ā€œRunning of the squirrelsā€ for EDS was pretty good, however) ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/32 "2001-01-29T02:42:57Z")
Happy Birthday, **magdalene!** ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/33 "2001-01-29T03:01:36Z")
Does it count if I did watch the game and now wish I hadnā€™t? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/34 "2001-01-29T03:13:45Z")
Itā€™s **Magdaleneā€™s** birthdayā€“why should I waste it watching the Superbowl? Anyway, with Futurama, Simpsons, Malcolm and X-files on tonight, why would I want to watch some big dick-waving contest? Now, if it were the Southwestern Womenā€™s Jello Wrestling finalsā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/35 "2001-01-29T03:22:17Z")
Iā€™m not watching simply because I donā€™t care. I did pick the team I wanted to win, on the grounds that their team name came from Poe. ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/36 "2001-01-29T03:25:18Z")
Who was playing, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/37 "2001-01-29T04:20:15Z")
Happy Birthday, magdalene! I have another friend whoā€™s birthday falls very, very close to Super Bowl Sunday. She hates it. She hates it even more than anyone Iā€™ve known with a December 25th birthday. She hates it more than I hate the fact that my own birthday is July 2, when no one is actually home, because theyā€™re all out celebrating the 4th of July (my own _father_ hasnā€™t been home on my birthday in 15 years). Well, I made bread, flossed my teeth, and watched _GWTW._ Didnā€™t rebuild my address book. Iā€™ll do it tomorrow. After all, tomorrow is another day. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/38 "2001-01-29T04:51:05Z")
I spent the first part of the Super Bowl at a chinese restaurant and the rest of it at home collapsing cardboard boxes and taking out the trash. Iā€™ll catch the commercials on AdCritic later, when I get a chance. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/39 "2001-01-29T04:59:45Z")
The SuperWhat? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179/40 "2001-01-29T05:05:15Z")
Great plans, guys. From nine to ten I alternated between Millionaire, Gone With the Wind (Ashley just didnā€™t seem as hot as I thought heā€™d be), and Superbowl commercials, but i only saw about two. Still working on the deux chevaux essay, about to print it out. Unless i can cram one more piece of useless info in. Saw most of a funny ep of South Parkā€¦of course that was after the game was over, but still. Would have watched Futurama but Iā€™ve already seen Raging Bender. Twice. To whomever rented Gladiator- good call! šŸ†’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-i-am-not-watching-the-super-bowl-thread/52179.md?page=1)