You are correct: a football game is just a football game and that is why I won’t be watching.
Maybe you are not a sports fan, and that's okay. But I can definitely see the point of the initial posting. Families bond through their shared passion of something. For some, it's camping, or movies, or some other human endeavor. For many, it's the release of sports, cheering on the home team, or turning Super Bowl Sunday into a family gathering like Christmas, Thanksgiving or other holidays.
I can still vividly recall sharing Adam Vinitieri's SB winner in 2002 with my father, though we were on opposite sides of the country. Same in 2004 when the Red Sox finally won the World Series. It was something we shared from the time I was old enough to understand what was happening.
Since he passed in September 2007, the championships of these two teams have caused me as much longing and introspection as joy, wishing I could call him or hug him and celebrate the win as a family.
For me, sports is as much about the family and friends gatherings as the games themselves.
And that is why I WILL be watching the game today.
Try it sometime! Lord knows we have enough stress and strife between the Islamists that want to kill us and our way of life and the Leftists who think that anyone who doesn't agree with them is on par with some of the worst mass murderers in history.
Watch it streaming on a bootleg server out of europe. NFL doesn’t get a dime.