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Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care

By Last Night in Little Rock, Section Off Topic
Posted on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 11:40:31 PM EST
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by Last Night in Little Rock

Today is Super Bowl Sunday. This is Super Bowl XL. (Is that extra large or 40 in roman numerals? Will the Super Bowl in 2206 be 2XL?) I remember watching "the Super Bowl" in my college dorm in 1967. They hadn't yet had to number them.

This will be at least the 30th consecutive year I have not watched the Superbowl. It's always a good time to go to a movie and not worry about crowds.

I know: I'll miss the allegedly great commercials and Janet Jackson's boob. I can catch them on the Internet later.

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    Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care | 25 comments (25 topical)
    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#1)
    by squeaky on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 06:57:12 PM EST
    Me neither. I do have some gay friends who love it although they know nothing about the game.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 07:08:32 PM EST
    I never watch it. Although I will want to see the Stones at half-time.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#3)
    by squeaky on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 07:18:26 PM EST
    Sounds like fun. maybe I'll wander over to the pub at halftime. No tv.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 09:33:31 PM EST
    I cannot imagine any reason to watch a football game. Or a baseball game or a basketball game or . . .

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#5)
    by Linkmeister on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 09:51:19 PM EST
    For the 15th year in a row I'll be headed over to the same friend's house to watch the game. It's more about the "What have you been up to" chatter than it is football, and it gives me a chance to make my famous crab dip.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Feb 04, 2006 at 10:37:45 PM EST
    I have a ReplyTV (like Tivo only better). One of the features is that it (pretty reliably) will skip over commercials. One of the little known features is that you can invert that and skip over the program an only show commercials. I use that feature exactly once a year -- I record the game and only watch the commercials. :)

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#7)
    by Andreas on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 05:31:26 AM EST
    The WSWS comments:
    Detroit is the host city of this year's Super Bowl, the championship game of American professional football. The annual contest, which will be played this Sunday between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, has in recent years become something of a national phenomenon, almost a national rite. Proper obeisance must be paid to it. The mass media, as it does every year, has been informing the population for weeks that it can hardly wait until "Super Sunday," when "Super Parties" will break out everywhere. Detroit is a particularly inappropriate locale for a celebration. Largely a barracks for the automobile industry, the city rose and fell in the twentieth century, epitomizing in the sharpest manner the decline of American industry.
    The Super Bowl in Detroit: the manufacturing of a "national event" By David Walsh, 4 February 2006

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#8)
    by jen on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 06:47:27 AM EST
    Superbowl night! Time for the annual Non-Superbowl party: potluck, board games, and B-movies (the worse, the better)

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#9)
    by Edger on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 06:57:17 AM EST
    I use that feature exactly once a year -- I record the game and only watch the commercials. :) Wow, you ARE mad. What's in that brew, anyway? ;-)

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#10)
    by demohypocrates on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:01:26 AM EST
    I guess its trendy in circles like this to brag about how out of touch you are with mainstream America. And you wonder why you lose elections. Today, I'll be in front of the tube, PBR in hand, with pretzels, wings and a nice fat NY strip at the ready.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#11)
    by squeaky on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:08:33 AM EST
    One thing I worry about during every Superbowl it the tremendous potential for disaster that is looming during the commercial breaks and especially at the end of the second quarter of the game. I think it was Martha Rosler who brought it to my attention in her essay "The Birth and Death of the Viewer: On the Public Function of Art." I could be wrong about the attribution as I loaned my copy of the essay and never got it back, so I cannot check. She pointed out that the colossal power of all the toilets in America flushing at once (halftime) could cause our entire sewer system to collapse. Can't wait until the game is over so I can feel safe again, that is until next year.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#12)
    by squeaky on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:20:29 AM EST
    demo-
    Today, I'll be in front of the tube, PBR in hand, with pretzels, wings and a nice fat NY strip at the ready.
    Hate to break it to you but your wll be joined by other red-blooded Americans who are on the left as well as a good deal of red-blooded Americans who know nothing about football but like to see all those guys humping each other in skin tight uniforms. Those who are uninterested in football, myself included, are clearly a tiny minority and span all political and sexual leanings. Have fun, don't choke on the pretzel or whatever it is you are eating.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#13)
    by jen on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:30:08 AM EST
    Demo, The superbowl is nowhere NEAR as fun as the world cup. Now *thats* fun. A month of the world going bonkers and enjoying ourselves. Thats whats great about this country, a sport for every taste!

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#14)
    by Linkmeister on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:40:50 AM EST
    Squeaky, I'm duty bound to point out that the "toilets flushing at halftime" legend is false. See the first item at Snopes.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#15)
    by Edger on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:41:02 AM EST
    the colossal power of all the toilets in America flushing at once (halftime) could cause our entire sewer system to collapse... Can't wait until the game is over so I can feel safe again Awww, Squeaky! Jeeze... Now they know. When does the War on Toilets start? Depends?

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:45:09 AM EST
    We'll be watching it. I'm a lefty, and a woman, and an English professor, but still. My dad is a big sports fan and I always watched sports on TV with him as a kid. And I grew up in Detroit, so the game being there is interesting, too--problematic, but interesting. I was one of few girls in my high school who actually understood the rules and plays called at sporting events. In fact, I was a cheerleader in junior high, and I was the only one who could tell if we were on offense or defense during a football game. When I was in college, my smart, smug friends used to denigrate sports, and for awhile I stopped watching, thinking it was something that cultured, educated people didn't do, but as a grownup I came to realize that I enjoyed it, so who the hell cared if it was cool or uncool or whatever? While I see the problems associated with professional sports, and they are legion, for whatever reason I enjoy some sports, football in particular. I don't see that it's one of those things to get all worked up about, either way. Certainly not important in the face of all the world's serious issues.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#17)
    by demohypocrates on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:48:39 AM EST
    Squeaky, I know you are right. Just wanted to get a rise out of the gang. Jen, Can't say that I agree with you about the World Cup thing. Its about as exciting to me as watching my cat sleep. But, so likes the world, so hate I,

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#18)
    by demohypocrates on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 11:51:12 AM EST
    Blue, Glad to see you outed yourself as a high school cheerleader ;) I hope you aren't a Lions fan, or life must be tough.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#19)
    by desertswine on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 12:44:37 PM EST
    Superbowl... schmuperbowl... I'll watch it when the Jets play.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#20)
    by squeaky on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 01:06:39 PM EST
    Linkmeister-thanks for the link, I can get out of my wet suit and put the snorkel away. But wait....now that we have our guard down..... the terrists may find out and unleash a MOAF. On second thought I am keeping the wet suit on and snorkel within reach.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#21)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 04:17:55 PM EST
    12 minutes left in the 2nd Quarter, Seattle 3 Pittsburg 0

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#22)
    by squeaky on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 04:25:38 PM EST
    che- How many minutes does that translate in real time? I want to see the Stones and will wander over to the pub for halftime.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#23)
    by Che's Lounge on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 05:15:17 PM EST
    Godd**n those boys are shakin that whole dome! Now THAT's a halftime show.

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#24)
    by squeaky on Sun Feb 05, 2006 at 08:42:38 PM EST
    TheMadBrewer-I do understand your madness. The superbowl is like the oscars for commercials. I just found a site via robot wisdom that has all the commercials posed in case your machine did not work. link

    Re: Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care (none / 0) (#25)
    by kdog on Mon Feb 06, 2006 at 10:49:31 AM EST
    I'll watch it when the Jets play
    dwine, you bleed kelly green too? Good man. I have promised myself to drop everything and attend the Super Bowl if the Jets ever make it back. I just hope I get the chance in my lifetime to keep that promise. It's not looking to promising. Congrats to Pittsburgh...and to the superior AFC conference for bringing the trophy home.

    Super Bowl Sunday, and I Don't Care | 25 comments (25 topical)