I’m probably in the minority here.
But, I have wondered how the Super Bowl evolved into an event with so much hype and activities unrelated to football.
When you get right down to it, The Super Bowl is simply the NFL championship game. Why is there so much other activity surrounding the game, and excitement about who the halftime performers will be and all that? Why so much hype and anticipation of the one of a kind TV commercials to be shown during the game????
Take a marketing course.
It is where the rich go to rub elbows…or companies rent boxes for there employees
When the NFL realized there was ton of money to be made by marketing to women.
I am sure we’ll soon be hearing about all the human trafficking at the Super Bowl. This is where they make the prostitutes the victims.
They’ll come up with some bizarre number 40,000 girls/women being brought to the town of the Super Bowl. I’ve seen them use numbers before that would require almost every male (regardless of age) that goes to the Super Bowl to have sex with one of them.
I found out later that it was some liberal woman lawyer from the northeast that was behind so much of it. She gets a lot of donations and government money. I guess that’s why she over-hypes the numbers.
I can see where the hoopla would offend some folks. Perhaps a milder word should have been used, but it is somewhat off-putting to some folks.
Let me suggest a different way to look at it.
It’s an all American event. It’s probably the biggest draw and periferal activity in the United States each year. The Rosebowl may compete when you toss in the Rose Parade, so it’s a big event.
It’s a heralding of Americana. It’s an amazing event that tens of thousands attend in person, the game or it’s surrounding activity.
It is watched by millions on the tube. The commercials are fascinating, even though they are just hawking merchandise.
The game is a great one. It’s two pseudo military forces seeking to take land and conquer the enemy. God how it drives the Left bat S crazy. Gotta love that as well.
Celebrate the big event. Sure it’s commercialized. This is a Capitalist free enterprise nation, and we should celebrate that.
Very cool on so many levels.
Civilization on parade...
All the other sports have best-of-seven Championship Series. I mean team sports. So the Super Bowl is the one instance where there’s one game that everyone is watching for a championship. Plus football just has higher ratings than the other sports.
All the other sports have best-of-seven Championship Series. I mean team sports. So the Super Bowl is the one instance where there’s one game that everyone is watching for a championship. Plus football just has higher ratings than the other sports.
The game is the steak and everything around it is the sizzle. No one knows if the game will be a good steak till the end. But all the sizzle is pegged to entertain you and sell to you until the very end.
The Super Bowl -- even the game itself -- is aimed at an audience of people that doesn't give a sh!t about football. That's how you end up with U2 (they aren't even American, for heaven's sake) doing a halftime performance, and Lady Gaga singing the national anthem.
“But, I have wondered how the Super Bowl evolved into an event with so much hype and activities unrelated to football.”
Follow the money!
I wonder if all this hoopla will go one when Green Bay gets its turn to host?..............
Why? Cause Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Grant, and especially Benjamin.
Because the NFL excels at spectacle. All NFL games have more pomp and celebration than they truly deserve. The commercials are really Apple’s fault, they’re the ones who put a commercial in the SB they never put anywhere else (except of course it gets played in any show about SB commercials) and turned it into a venue. Of course with those ratings advertisers do want to put their best foot forward, but Apple blew it up.
It is kinda funny. When they had the first Super Bowl in the Detroit area, Pontiac. Went for a late night service call for one of the downtiwn Pontiac banks. Usually a very boring trip. Well you would not believe the parade of cars driving down the main boulevard. And/or the woman sitting on them. Kept wondering to myself, do they even know where they are ?
I was in Superbowl City last weekend for business.
Someone would have to pay ME $1000 to go again.
IOW, follow the $$$.
It’s the last game of the season. Next is the combine, then the draft and then a bleak emptiness. Football fans go into withdrawal. It’s intensely painful, and nothing will assuage it until training camp.