Do you always watch the Super Bowl, no matter who's in it? (1 Viewer)

[Wingnut]

Well, do you?

The earliest SB I remember watching as a kid was Super Bowl X (PIT vs DAL) in 1976, and I watched every year til BAL vs SF in 2013. After that its been spotty.

Of the last ten Super Bowls, Ive watched six. The four I didn't watch because I had zero interest:

SEA vs DEN
PHI vs NE
NE vs LAR
KC vs PHI

Wouldn't have watched TB vs KC if I wasn't at the game (bought tix before the season)

Do you watch no matter who's in it? Do you NOT watch if you hate one or both teams?

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Always watch. It’s a party

I wish they’d move it to Saturday

 

[Pigskin Fanatic]

haven't missed a superbowl since the 90s. was a brady hater for most of his careers and in fact i watched more superbowls because of him so I can root against him. but i'd watch even if I hated both teams, it's a bbq anyway and degenerate needs action. so many sad endings to superbowls, eagles with TO, seattle with marshawn, atl with the worst coaches on the planet, and the happy ones, eagles with foles, both eli wins against brady were great.

 

[Terpman22]

Yes I do. I even watched that awesome Rams/Patriots one while I was in Jackson Hole on Vacation. Standing room only, but at least the wife gets me.

I had to do everything else she wanted the whole trip, but haha, all good by me!

 

[nirad3]

Always watch. It’s a party

I wish they’d move it to Saturday

Yup. Heck I even watched the 2004 Super Bowl from a hospital bed on a morphine drip after a bad car accident.

 

[Gally]

Until my kids started playing the commie sport of soccer that schedules their biggest club/allstar tournaments over SB weekend we had a Super Bowl Weekend extravaganza planned out for the weekend. It consisted of the following:

• Friday: Poker tournament at the local casino. Get as many guys as interested and go to the tourney. It's a 10am tourney with entry of about $40. Whoever lasted the longest gets lunch and drinks paid for by the other guys at the local brewery we went to after the tourney for lunch. Home poker game that night if we werent too hammered from lunch.
• Saturday: Golf tournament at the local club. Tried to make it a team event with a loose handicap for bragging rights.
• Saturday Night: Dinner at the steakhouse and we usually closed the place down at the bar afterwards. It was a tradition enough that they knew we were coming.
• Sunday: Game. Potluck at my house. I made a big vat of chilli and a buddy would deep fry a couple turkeys. Bounce house for the kids, lots of squares pools and other gambline opportunities. Maxed out at about 100 people at the party one year.
• Monday: More golf. Always took the day after SB off as a personal holiday.

We did this for 17 straight years and even had tee shirts made up at the 5 and 10 year events. Kids are done with soccer so maybe it's time to get this going again.

 

[-OZ-]

The NFL really should move the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Since football is my favorite sport it would be insane not to.

 

[Terpman22]

Until my kids started playing the commie sport of soccer that schedules their biggest club/allstar tournaments over SB weekend we had a Super Bowl Weekend extravaganza planned out for the weekend. It consisted of the following:

• Friday: Poker tournament at the local casino. Get as many guys as interested and go to the tourney. It's a 10am tourney with entry of about $40. Whoever lasted the longest gets lunch and drinks paid for by the other guys at the local brewery we went to after the tourney for lunch. Home poker game that night if we werent too hammered from lunch.
• Saturday: Golf tournament at the local club. Tried to make it a team event with a loose handicap for bragging rights.
• Saturday Night: Dinner at the steakhouse and we usually closed the place down at the bar afterwards. It was a tradition enough that they knew we were coming.
• Sunday: Game. Potluck at my house. I made a big vat of chilli and a buddy would deep fry a couple turkeys. Bounce house for the kids, lots of squares pools and other gambline opportunities. Maxed out at about 100 people at the party one year.
• Monday: More golf. Always took the day after SB off as a personal holiday.

We did this for 17 straight years and even had tee shirts made up at the 5 and 10 year events. Kids are done with soccer so maybe it's time to get this going again.

Good god man. That sounds ...hard to keep up with lol. Good stuff!

 

[efactor]

Always watch. It’s a party

I wish they’d move it to Saturday

Or make Monday a National Holiday where CEO's are imprisoned for life if their companies are doing any kind of business on Monday

 

[efactor]

Watch every year but did miss Seahawks/Broncos. Was in Cabo with a fairly new GF and had plans to watch the game at one of the outside bars. But overindulged on tequila. Managed to make it back to the resort OK, but passed out before the game started. Since I hate the Seahawks, it was for the best.

 

[JohnnyU]

Watched all of them except 1 and 6.

 

[massraider]

Until my kids started playing the commie sport of soccer that schedules their biggest club/allstar tournaments over SB weekend

I am retroactively angry on your behalf.

 

[eighsse2]

Watch always, but lean smoo.

My attention to it varies greatly depending upon who's playing, but I always at least have it on.

 

[Lansdowne]

I find that I'll watch even if I really hate a team on there and don't want to see them win it (spoiler: they've always won it). The most I've managed to do was skip most of a game but ultimately I tune in towards the end with the score being close.

 

[themeistersinger]

I've watched every Super Bowl starting with Number I. Except if Tom Brady is playing in it.

 

[Lansdowne]

I've watched every Super Bowl starting with Number I. Except if Tom Brady is playing in it.

But those are some of the best ones entertainment value wise. Even Brady haters had to enjoy the ones he's lost at least.

 

[Gally]

I've watched every Super Bowl starting with Number I. Except if Tom Brady is playing in it.

So you have seen half of them

 

[Dizzy]

No, I don't always watch it. Missed several for business travel. Got home late for others and tuned in with little interest.

My real interest in football dies off dramatically after fantasy season wraps up.

 

[Gally]

My real interest in football dies off dramatically after fantasy season wraps up.

Which is why we do a playoff FF draft to keep it going through the SB

 

[gucci little piggy]

I skipped last year because I hate the Eagles and am super sick of the Chiefs. I think the only 2 others I didn't watch were the Harbaugh Bowl and Steelers-Packers

 

[Snoopy]

The NFL really should move the Super Bowl to Presidents’ Day weekend.

With the 17-game schedule, most of them will do that.

 

[JohnnyU]

They need to start the game earlier.

 

[Mojo56]

I owned a sports bar for 36 years and the only Sunday I worked all year was the SB. I can't say I 'watched' the game because I was usually busy bartending but I could follow the flow of the game and if it came down to a final play I would stop and watch. I've watched since SB I and the only one I missed was SB V because we were playing hockey.

 

[zamboni]

Given how active and involved fans we are here, I’m surprised if many don’t watch unless traveling or something.

 

[RenegadeRoy]

The salty Brady haters crack me up. There's plenty of athletes I don't like but if they're uber-talented I still like to watch them play (Kobe, Lebron, P. Manning, Mahomes, etc).

 

[Dizzy]

My real interest in football dies off dramatically after fantasy season wraps up.

Which is why we do a playoff FF draft to keep it going through the SB

Nah, I'm done. One season per season is enough for me.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

They need start the game earlier.

Like me you are probably old enough to remember way back when it was a 3 or 4 o'clock start. I liked it because there was less pregame and after the game there was more time to do other things if one wanted to.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

Of course. I can’t buy that many squares and not watch the game.

 

[Hot Sauce Guy]

My real interest in football dies off dramatically after fantasy season wraps up.

Which is why we do a playoff FF draft to keep it going through the SB

We have a local one here that we do at a pizza place. Folks from 3-4 leagues get together.

 

[Cowboysfan8]

They need start the game earlier.

This too

 

[Scoresman]

My fantasy league goes all the way to the Superbowl, so always.

 

[RenegadeRoy]

Of course. I can’t buy that many squares and not watch the game.

My gamblin group switched from squares to prop bets a couple years ago. Someone makes a big list of random prop bets that range from the goofy (what color gatorade on the winning coach, industry for first commercial after kickoff, etc) to more football related (will X player get a td, first team to score, etc) and whoever gets the most right wins the pot. We did both that and squares for a year but way more people wanted to get in on the prop bets pool. Makes the whole game pretty interesting.

 

[belljr]

Of course. I can’t buy that many squares and not watch the game.

My gamblin group switched from squares to prop bets a couple years ago. Someone makes a big list of random prop bets that range from the goofy (what color gatorade on the winning coach, industry for first commercial after kickoff, etc) to more football related (will X player get a td, first team to score, etc) and whoever gets the most right wins the pot. We did both that and squares for a year but way more people wanted to get in on the prop bets pool. Makes the whole game pretty interesting.

I always ran the prop bet but then got tired going through all the lists lol.

We always did pass the cup. Premise, draw the order. Everyone antes one dollar into the cup. Whomever starts with cup puts extra dollar in. Change of possession, pass cup to next person where they put dollar in. If holding cup FG you win half the cup then pass, TD you win all the money an everyone re antes. Etc etc. .. sometimes we would re antes on fg

 

[massraider]

Many years I don't care about the game, but as an all day party, with food and football and sick commercials and a half time show to fight about........why would I give that up?

No way. All day cooking plans really work with a Super Bowl. Gambling: when I lived in Vegas we started pulling all the prop bets from Caesar's, and everyone would pick the same 12 props. Whoever hit the most won the whole kitty. My favorite Super Bowl party we had $1200 on the kitty, watching a blowout to see who got the last catch, someone's girlfriend won, and she burst into tears. $50 a head? That's a lot of entertainment for $50, I must say

As a TV event, NFL games are brutal for the short attention span (aka "AMERICANS"), so when we finally get a game with commercials and halftime worth watching (grading on a scale here, old timer )I'm going to participate.

I live in the northeast. No one is doing anything better that Sunday in February, I promise.

 

[RenegadeRoy]

We always did pass the cup.

This sounds like a blast.

 

[FarFromHome]

I will always watch it. Was a huge baseball fan at one point, but don't even follow it anymore. Huge NBA Blazer fan and I'll box score surf daily, but haven't watched an NBA game in years. I watch Sundays games with redzone. I'll catch bits and pieces of NFL evening games. The Super bowl is the one sports game I'll watch from beginning to end.

First super bowl I remember was the Riggins bowl in 1983.

 

[FarFromHome]

We always did pass the cup.

This sounds like a blast.

I glanced at this and saw 2 girls 1 cup. So bad.

 

[Bri]

There have been times that a female or alcohol altered my plans

 

[TheWinz]

Always watch it, and now I start with hours of The Puppy Bowl!

 

[JohnnyU]

There have been times that a female or alcohol altered my plans

I this.

 

[Wrigley]

Always watch. It’s a party

I wish they’d move it to Saturday

I really like the sound of Super Bowl Saturday

 

[Alex P Keaton]

Well, do you?

The earliest SB I remember watching as a kid was Super Bowl X (PIT vs DAL) in 1976, and I watched every year til BAL vs SF in 2013. After that its been spotty.

Of the last ten Super Bowls, Ive watched six. The four I didn't watch because I had zero interest:

SEA vs DEN
PHI vs NE
NE vs LAR
KC vs PHI

Wouldn't have watched TB vs KC if I wasn't at the game (bought tix before the season)

Do you watch no matter who's in it? Do you NOT watch if you hate one or both teams?

Typically? Yes. Generally don’t care who is playing, I’ll watch the game.

Only caveat: I stopped watching Super Bowls with dink and dunk cheater Tom Brady. Couldn’t stand all the phantom penalties on the D or the basic awareness that cheating was happening somewhere behind the scenes.

 

[belljr]

I don't go anywhere anymore though, usually just me and the wife in the theater room

 

[Alex P Keaton]

I don't go anywhere anymore though, usually just me and the wife in the theater room

“Theater room”

 

[belljr]

I don't go anywhere anymore though, usually just me and the wife in the theater room

“Theater room”

Man cave/basement whatever....my basement is setup with projector and big surround.....that's all that's down there

 

[Ray_T]

Mostly yes. usually I invite some friends over and we watch the game.

there have been a couple of years where I didnt invite anyone and watched at home and if the game wasnt good, like any game I'd change the channel.

but when you have people over, its an excuse to have some drinks and thats fine even if the game sucks.

 

[Deamon]

I feel it would be pretty weird for a big NFL fan to not watch the SB. What else are you gonna do that day?

 

[dmac37]

I was born in 1961, I'm not 100% sure if I watched the first 2 that the Packers won. I think I did having older brothers but my first for sure memory is the Jets super Bowl win. The first Super Bowl event was the 1971 Colts Cowboys, my oldest brother had a party and I remember some family members wondering why this was a party event.

 

[Todem]

My first Super Bowl was also Super Bowl X in 1976 and have never ever missed one since.

Got to go to the Super Bowl. 1978 in the Orange Bowl...Dallas vs Pittsburgh. Epic game. I was only 8 and still remember so many moments from that game.

Ticket price? $28 a piece.