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Will you watch the Super Bowl? (1 Viewer)

Will you watch SB 59?

  • Yes

    Votes: 94 72.3%
  • No

    Votes: 31 23.8%
  • Haven't decided

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • Total voters
    130
  • Poll closed .
And is that what other folks here are saying who aren't watching? If your team isn't in, you're not interested?

I'd have to assume nearly every person in the Shark Pool is a football fan, right?

I'm a huge fan of fantasy football, yes. Season ended weeks ago, along with my interest. Not really a big "team" fan anymore... just give me the stats.

Last Super Bowl I watched was PHI vs NEP (daughter was in town... big Eagles fan). Not really sure why... its just became a hard "sport" for me to watch. All the replays and HD camera stuff has sucked a lot of life out of it for sure. And this love affair the NFL has with gambling is very cringe-worthy as well.

FWIW - I don't watch professional wrestling anymore either.

Thanks. That's super interesting. What do you love most about fantasy football?

Competing against my friends. One league, same guys since 1993, play for little money. At this point we've grown up together. Fantasy football keeps us connected. We go about our lives with little contact... until August... then we're busting chops and chatting all the time.

That's awesome. So for you and your league, would you say it's more about the community and connection than it is about the NFL?

Absolutely. It would be interesting to see if I watched any NFL games at all should our league dissolve for some reason. I basically won't watch a game now unless it has fantasy relevance in our league.

Today was a productive day though... 9 Rainbows and 8 Browns in the net... beautiful winter day in the Wasatch backcountry... then came home to a Super Bowl blowout and just in time to miss the halftime show. (y)
 
So the cheapest get-in Super Bowl ticket prices have plummeted to around $4500, the lowest price in years, and outside of the 2 fan bases, there doesn't seem to be much excitement about it.

I have zero interest in this Super Bowl and haven't watched a single minute of coverage since Championship Sunday.

A lot of people online and on social media are saying they're not gonna watch, so I'm wondering what percentage of people on a football forum are skipping it.

Soooo, you watching or nah?
I watched.
 
Not waking up at 1/2am to watch the Chiefs rig another one.
Meh, even if you told me Eagles were gonna pull one out, I still wouldn't.

I care so much more about fantasy than the actual game now.

Awesome. Like I asked @Dizzy, For you and your league, would you say it's more about the community and connection than it is about the NFL?

Our 2 leagues are the same group of buddies from 35+yrs ago. League 20+yrs deep. We all still talk, hang out (when possible) and such. So ya, it's about keeping tradition alive.
Sports betting and fantasy the only real reasons we watch nowadays.
 
Not waking up at 1/2am to watch the Chiefs rig another one.
Meh, even if you told me Eagles were gonna pull one out, I still wouldn't.

I care so much more about fantasy than the actual game now.

Awesome. Like I asked @Dizzy, For you and your league, would you say it's more about the community and connection than it is about the NFL?

Our 2 leagues are the same group of buddies from 35+yrs ago. League 20+yrs deep. We all still talk, hang out (when possible) and such. So ya, it's about keeping tradition alive.
Sports betting and fantasy the only real reasons we watch nowadays.

Thanks. Can totally see that.
 
I really just want to hear Kendrick Lamar sing Auntie Diaries.
Who is Kendrick Lamar and what is Auntie Diaries?
google: Halftime entertainment playing a different song than this. Auntie Diaries is about a transgender relative.
Gee, I'm so interested.
Shocker. WT
I hear he sucked
Don't feel bad. Kendrick's brilliance flew way over most people's heads.
 
I really just want to hear Kendrick Lamar sing Auntie Diaries.
Who is Kendrick Lamar and what is Auntie Diaries?
google: Halftime entertainment playing a different song than this. Auntie Diaries is about a transgender relative.
Gee, I'm so interested.
Shocker. WT
I hear he sucked
Don't feel bad. Kendrick's brilliance flew way over most people's heads.
Feel bad?? That supposed brilliance flew over his head too. He did suck.
 
The boycott that wasn't really a boycott didn't work.

In before the neilsen experts arrive: ratings are imperfect but all we have to go by. And even ignoring proposed increases in viewership brought up in the article; the fact is despite the wide spread opinion that this was a bad matchup with two teams no one likes and that large amounts of people said they weren't going to watch; the masses still did. At the very least ratings were just as high as any previous Super Bowl. They likely would have peaked even higher if the Chiefs could have kept it competitive instead of getting crushed by Eagles immediately.

On the other hand, they almost lost my viewership with that horrid score bug that looked like an intern slapped it together an hour before kickoff haha.
 
The boycott that wasn't really a boycott didn't work.

In before the neilsen experts arrive: ratings are imperfect but all we have to go by. And even ignoring proposed increases in viewership brought up in the article; the fact is despite the wide spread opinion that this was a bad matchup with two teams no one likes and that large amounts of people said they weren't going to watch; the masses still did. At the very least ratings were just as high as any previous Super Bowl. They likely would have peaked even higher if the Chiefs could have kept it competitive instead of getting crushed by Eagles immediately.

On the other hand, they almost lost my viewership with that horrid score bug that looked like an intern slapped it together an hour before kickoff haha.

I thought the score thing was great. It kept adding points to the Eagles side but not the Chiefs.
 

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