Are you into the Super Bowl, or not, or just as a vehicle for a party?

Neither one of the teams are my favorite teams. Nonetheless, any sport played at that level is entertaining. When you are watching the best in the world play you don’t need to be vested in the outcome but can still enjoy the games.

I will be watching. I’ll be rooting for the Patriots but I won’t be placing any bets.

I am completely indifferent but a good friend is coming over to watch it because his wife has severe environmental allergies and he cannot have a TV in his own home.

I am venturing outside, reluctantly, to prepare for tomorrow’s blizzard-of-the-day and more frigid weather. The sun will be out, it appears, on Feb, 10th.

I flee from the Super Bowl but will later watch the commercials on the Internet. I’ll either be at home reading or go to the movies.

Well, pffft. I’ll be watching. Also, told Rick yesterday that he needed to go get the ingredients for a proper 7 layer dip. He tried to jury rig one a few months ago, but had no idea what the recipe was and left out 4 of the 7 things. So, I’ll be making that today.

@Jaxk (How can it be the “Best in the world” when American’s are the only ones competing?)

^^ Simple, no one else is able to field a competitive team. It’s hardly our fault that the rest of the world is confused on how football is played.

I think we’re the ones who are confused! Football is a brutal, violent sport. The rest of the world plays futbol, which is more like a super athletic dance.

@Jaxk
No one else cares about your inferior version of Rugby.

I don’t follow sports on TV, so I don’t care much for the Super Bowl. I’m from New England and it doesn’t mean anything to me that the Patriots are in it. I’m going to someone’s house to watch it, but it’s really for the social aspect. A lot of other friends I know who are going don’t follow football either, but it’s more interesting when you’re watching it with other people.

It’s a party day, for sure.

I’m for the Seahawks because….MY COUSIN WHO WON $90 MILLION DOLLARS IS FROM SEATTLE!!

I don’t give a flying fig about sports. Period! There is too much emphasis on sports and the resulting competitive attitudes affect life in general, almost always in degrading degrees.

I could not care less about watching a bunch of guys wrecking their body and brains for money.
For me, Super Bowl = Super Bore.

So, that begs the question, @kritiper, which came first? The chicken or the egg? Are the guys who actually make pro the most innately competitive? Or are they “taught’ to be competitive?

I’m not very into it, but my husband will be watching. No party, just like a regular Sunday this time.

I’m sure my husband will call me for a great commercial if I’m out if the room. Thank goodness for DVR.

I am completely not into the Super Bowl, and have not been for decades. The Oakland – Philadelphia match up in 1980 was that last one I watched. Quite honestly, I simply do not miss it at all. In fact, for years I have referred to it as the “Stupor Bowl” because of all of the tiresome ads.

I can’t stand football or most other sports, with the exceptions of figure skating and gymnastics. I think it would be weird to get together with a group of friends and eat tons of food while watching figure skating, plus those sports are meant to be watched while being very quiet. It would be totally distracting to hear people talking and yelling and flailing their arms about during a skating competition.

I think I’ve only ever been to one Super Bowl party when I was about 18 and I only went because my boyfriend wanted to go. I recall it being horrible.

I do like the commercials, but I’d rather watch those after the fact, separately from the game.

My Dad and I do enjoy watching the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet. Today I’m busy sorting photos on my phone and computer. Can’t taste anything because of being sick, so I probably won’t eat much either.

I’ve been known to watch a few minutes here & there, only to rip the piss outta the pussies in pads/harseholes in helmets.
Every right minded non american knows that rugby is for real men & am/foot is for inferior weaklings.

I saw this thing where they got rugby players to play against American football players, but the American guys weren’t allowed any equipment, and they totally got their asses kicked by the rugby dudes lol.

I remember this interview with a “professional” “american football” player who went over to England to try out rugby.
On the first game he begged the coach to be taken out of the game, because he could not handle the physical demands.
running more than 5 minutes at a time? unheard of amongst “pussy rugby” players

Rugby is far tougher, far more athletic & far more tactically minded.
Passing the ball backwards, unless kicking, puts the expertise & skill on a much higher level.
Any daft fucker could chuck a ball a few yds & hit a teamate who doesn’t even have to ground the ball in the endzone. Field goals are always dead straight in front of the posts too, whereas in rugby, tight angled kicks are frequently taken & scored from.

But like all sports, it’s still boring as fuck :p

Snooker is riveting.

Since when was a fuck boring? You must be doing it wrong :D

Shipbuilding is riveting too.

@Symbeline Here’s a Sport that isn’t boring.

@Kardamom That is not a sport, it’s dancing in the cold & it’s as boring as watching cows fall asleep.

@ucme It’s definitely a sport. The training is rigorous and strenuous and precise. Plus they do what they do while sliding on quarter inch thick blades on slippery ice. I doubt those rugby footballers could do that.

You have to be in top physical shape to do This. I don’t think you can accurately say that these people are not athletes, even though you might find watching figure skating boring.

Stuff like figure skating or ballet, you have to be pretty damn fit to do that. Same for sports players, least most of them, but I’m thinking figure skating demands a lot more than football or hockey when it comes to physical prowess.

@Kardamom I liked Torvill & Dean doing Bolero & getting perfect sixes across the board to win Olympic gold back in the 80’s.
Only time I ever watched it, not my bag, we best agree to differ :)

Guess we’re having some barbque chicken too.

I’m not watching, but go Seahawks!

Well, I sort of am watching it.

I just watched 2 hackfrauds playing madden 15.
it was the most stupid and boring thing i have ever watched. a bloody pile up every 2 seconds and then 10 seconds of nothing happening.

I’ll be watching Downton Abbey. Everyone has fancy hats, it’s awesome. In one of the plotlines, a character discovers a letter from her mysteriously disappeared lover. (They also had a baby that nobody knows about). She tries to burn the letter, but, like, faints or something. The letter is half in the fire, half on the carpet. It starts a fire in the castle. The lord of the manor runs around trying to wake everyone up, and he discovers the handsome young butler dude in bed with an older rich lady who is visiting them. It’s like a telenovela, it’s so great.

I’ve been to too many superbowl parties to care anymore. This superbowl sunday, may the odds be ever in your favor.

It’s a ‘meh’ for me. I do enjoy the food. I like some of the commercials – even though I will likely end up seeing them on TV at a later date. But as far as the game and the players go I wouldn’t miss it if that part didn’t happen. I can’t sit and watch a game – any game.
So much money is spent on this spectacle. So… much… money… And for what?

I think I might have watched some of the half-time commercials once and one time I was at someone’s house for a while when the game was playing.

When I younger I loved watching golf on TV. I’ve never even been on a golf course.

Soccer is a great sport to watch on TV. Never seen pro-soccer in person, but I definitely would go.

I watched a few minutes and liked the blue uniforms better than the white ones; they didn’t show the dirt as much.

@Dutchess_III We are taught to be competitive. Too many sports, and their over emphasis does that. But only the best make the grade to be pros.

@Dutchess_III – OK, I retract my best in the world comment, at least in regard to the Seahawks. I loved watching them lose.

I don’t think so, @kritiper. I think it is instinct, not taught. In the wild we had to be competitive to survive. Some have it more than others.

Nyet, I do not like to watch football. Since selfish politics has taken over the NFL, I would join a boycott of all NFL games. These ignorant athletes have no right to force their uninformed opinions upon everyone.

They totally do have that right.

^^ I think we do have our Russian jelly now.

I have no interest in the teams but i will gladly enjoy food with people . The Superbowl is

Just as shrimp is a carrier for the cocktail sauce, and wavy potato chips are a carrier for awesome crab dip, the Super bowl is a carrier for socializing and eating cheese whiz on top of soft pretzel bread footballs.

I agree with Raggy. They totally do have the right to air their political opinions.

People watch football games for football, not for politics. Athletes have no right to force their naïve opinions about politics upon people who only want to see sports. If you ask all of them what they are protesting, they will give many different answers, many of which are incoherent and are contradictory. If they want to discuss politics, they should do it on their own time, rather than forcing it upon everyone who watches games.

Yes they do have that right @SimpatichnayaZhopa.