No offense or judgement meant to anyone if that’s your thing (to each their own). That’s just how I see pretty much all professional sports - the super bowl is just the poster child for it.
I quit watching the NFL a few years ago because the amount of advertising crammed into a single game is completely obscene now. I’ll be mindful of your sanity and mood, and not break down how fucking over the top it is, but it’s pretty much a commercials show, with some football breaks.
I’m European so I have a bias but I never understood how Americans watch a sport that stops so many times for ads. It just feels like the ads are the show and the game is the second plan.
That’s actually why soccer never took off over here. The networks felt that there aren’t enough breaks for commercials, so they never marketed soccer as a good sport.
I’ve just started binging Schitt’s Creek. Couldn’t work out why the episodes are only 20 minutes long, then realised why the screen goes black for a second, every 5 minutes. WTF, these are ad breaks?!? That many?!?
Even had one literally a minute before the end.
I just simply wouldn’t watch a TV channel that had so many ad breaks. That shit just wouldn’t fly where I live; why do people put up with it?!?
(Also, the repeating pattern for series - episode 1&2 - funny and interesting. Episodes 3 to 12 - generic 1970s sitcom that’s 90% soap-opera filler rammed with ads, obviously. Episodes 13&14 - funny and interesting again to sell you the next series. Not worth watching after S03. This applies to every American series I’ve watched in the last 5 years )
why do people put up with it?!?
I ask myself this all the time, and about way more than just broadcast television. I think the reality is that there are billions of people who will put up with a great deal if they think that’s what they’re supposed to do, and corporations have figured this out now that they have accurate data to track every change they make. They used to have to keep things in the realm that they thought was tolerable, since they didn’t have a billion data points to check people’s reactions. A miscalculation could be very costly in multiple ways, including brand image damage. Now that they have that data, they’ve seen that there are enough people that will tolerate just about anything if there’s a shiny bow on it. They don’t care that they’ve lost the people who won’t tolerate it, because they’re making more money this way than they’ve ever made before.
I don’t understand why the ads are so absolutely boring and stupid. It’s also the same ad over and over again. I mean, make an ad which is a story line which you run throughout the game. At least make people laugh.
They’d rather just pound it into your subconscious, so when you need a widget in 6 months you pick their brand without even knowing why.
Too many blow outs because one team lacks a defense. Guess it depends on what they use to rank a defense. Interceptions, fumbles, sacks, turn overs, safeties or safetys, ha safety’s no one gets a fucking safety, you throw the ball away, some guy has got a concussion if he gets sacked for a safety, he couldn’t tell where he was at, but I guess it’s better than a turn over on downs. But I mean what I’m trying to say is if everyone plays the game perfect then it’s just blocking, tackling, and getting in the way. You can’t guarantee you’re gonna get interceptions or swat passes or get any fumbles, you just tackle when they run or after they catch the ball. Short and steady works in madden, you play as the shittiest team and beat the returning football champions, but it’s no easy win. Like if you’re playing as the 2006 patriots vs the lions (0- 16) lions, or one of those western football teams like the raiders, they had some bad years but, it’s winnable with them against the best on all madden, you gotta be really strong and stay focused, any unopen receiver pass is an interception, but most teams punt the ball on 4th down. We play this professionally or it’s some crazy childish game, you don’t do the hail Mary till ends of half’s if necessary, but even if your gonna lose you may want to narrow the score a bit or get on the board.
Anytime they go to throw the football or shoot the basketball your supposed to throw one of your hands in the hair like you’re gonna block it and it psychs the guy out some, like whoever’s about one on one or double teaming him. I never seen a guy make shot if I put my hand in the hair, no kidding, I never missed one, fade away!!.
So this year’s Super Bowl Chiefs - Lions, or maybe Bills. The bills will throw it if you let them in there. God damn does New York love losing championship games, either that or they gotta win with a perfect score.
Fuckin Bills, you pricks, if I wasn’t involved with Buffalo, we’d spank your Amazonian asses, that’s how you show your guests you give them a blizzard football game.
Yeah Amazon is based in Buffalo chase that bank boo ya. Someone asked what that place was and they took off north west expanding everything before the gates closed again, literally.
So I gotta own the lions, giants, patriots and the bills, and then they find out I’m some old mfl commissioner. Well that’s gonna look like fraud. Well is it fraud or was it simulations. Come on Sean Seidel tell us. You wanted me to buy the Chargers because I liked San Diego but if I’m in San Diego then so is Dale Ross, so it’s different down here when we’re in San Diego, someone has to pay all these people a settlement who moved there.
But the god damn chiefs, they rape everyone, I don’t know if we’d let the lions play chiefs, we got a good thing going here with pizzas and watching NFL football. The chiefs must all have their own tribe they lead. Different parts of the season are different. After thanksgiving everything changes and then Christmas football games.
We use to want two NFL teams in the same area so like you could get into one arena or play for it where you have to win to get into the league, but you may need two more teams or even a whole division. You start bitchin and complaining about stuff and no one says it but like they’d wanna see you try,
It gives the area a certain buzz, or it’s all this traffic going east and west, north and south, football and weed doing this. With baked cookies, icing and candy.
I know it sucks Ren ever since Joe Louis arena flooded it’s been all down hill for us, no one wanted to invest millions of dollars into some area with big muscular teenagers talking about dropping out of school and not playing no prosports. What do you mean Ren your doing more steroids than Arnold Swarzennegger, wait a minute you guys are wrestlers.
We can’t paint the metal and Jerry rig it, we’ll get sued if something happens and you’re supposed to pump oxygen up top there for the people watching and suck all the co2 and methane out the ceiling.
Stadiums become a nest for breeding bacteria and viruses. Joe Louis arena was somewhat solid tungsten. And that’s why no one liked it or wanted it used that currently played or watched hockey. The palace was sanitized or it was too dirty to operate.
I didn’t want 4 stadiums in the same square mile, an opera theater, a boardwalk riverfront, the pistons left auburn hills, man that palace was something else, you get a certain buzz in there. They play basketball and hockey in the same place. We probably should watch basketball and some hoops but it became some getting high thing. We don’t lie about the disease thing as people that’s why we just kept getting high till they stop talking like a bunch of looneys. We smoked crack because you all were saying stuff that usually crack heads would say, so where is the rock that you were smokin man.
Then why didn’t you guys bring it up, that I commit fraud by posting flyers in public and then it not going on, well I thought we were all getting arrested because fighting is illegal and we’re doing this in public, and it’s some kind of dictatorship, we did call that the Detroit police department once before Mexico or whoever this guy is with big bales and last name not Guzman moved in back in 04. With wrestling it was a bit harder to organize local wrestling, with the nfl you just set up a table in a field or on a hill somewhere and you do NFL stuff. That’s how the league was pre 2009. After that it became more like madden till 2014.
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I think its about the lack of tribalism being shown
I think it’s because we are disgusted by the owners but appreciate the players. There is nothing wrong with sports at the game level. Kids playing and enjoying it. Appreciation of the dramatic storytelling unfolding in front of us is fun. But add in the corporations and commercials and it sucks a little. But that takes away from the kids on the field doing what they love and making a living doing it. I just cant fault them.
green bay owners in shambles (greenbay doesnt have a billionaire owner, its owned by a collection of people who own shares in it)
And then the NFL banned any future teams from going for the same ownership model so it’s the only publicly owned NFL team
I don’t remember a ball or ads but I did find out the best owl.
I’d argue that it also leads to an enormous amount of food being tossed out and wasted. Granted the only reason that’s in mind is because I’m going to be going dumpster diving lately to try and capitalize.
It’s a distraction served to the working class by the ruling class so we dont spend time thinking about how badly theyre robbing us and how badly theyre destroying the planet and how soft and fleshy their necks are.
I hate this mentality, this weird “THEY WANT IS DISTRACTED” mentality. In reality, it’s a product that they make money on. It’s a business. It’s not some arm of a conspiracy or secret society designed to subjugate the masses. It’s just entertainment. While it might serve as a distraction as an outcome, its not like its the point, this type of dialouge is pointless
“Paid for by the emperor, the games were used to keep the poor and unemployed entertained and occupied. The emperor hoped to distract the poor from their poverty in the hopes that they would not revolt.”
There are very similar undertones when compared to the Colosseum games in Rome.
Lemmy keeps me distracted. It is therefore part of the conspiracy.
But the emperor isn’t paying for this circus. The plebs are. The Superbowl is not a loss-leader to keep the poors from rising up, it’s a profitable enterprise that keeps generating wealth. The money is what keeps it going, not some plan to keep people down.
I fucking wish it were bread and circuses. Except instead of bread I’ll accept healthcare, and instead of circuses we get cable news.
And it was a great distraction for israel to start bombing Rafah while they played their superbowl genocide brainwashing advertisement.
Yep! The Super Bowl Sunday Massacre. Grotesque.
There were side bets if someone would end up throwing up gang signs like tua
Silver lining: There won’t be very many more Superbowls!!
They didn’t get any of my money. I watched the game for free and got away with it.
Did you watch any ads though?
I’ve never cared much about football and it’s almost impossible to live in the US without constantly having to hear about it. I have to admit I’ve enjoyed the fact the Taylor Swift is now being shoe horned into football and people are mad cause they don’t want to hear about her. If either fell off the face of the earth I wouldn’t lose a second of sleep but oh the sweet sweet irony of listening to football fans whine about having to see and hear something they don’t care about shoved in their face, Oh I’m so sorry that’s happening to you, whats that like? Please tell me all about it.
Huntin’ deer, chasin’ trout
A bud light with the logo facin’ out
It’s true.
At some point, though, you just let it go. It’s just easier that way. Watch it, don’t, like it, don’t, none of that changes what it is. And, presuming CTEs still wipe out 90% of players in the future, it won’t be around forever.
Life is nothing more than sleeping, shitting and dying.
You can attach that pessimism to anything… But in reality, the Superbowl is a celebration and something millions of people to look forward to. It brings a large group of people excitement and half of them happiness
Why take that away?
Why?
How about: Taxpayers paying to build stadiums that they cannot afford to buy seats in just so an already disgustingly profitable private company can have a huge subsidy?
Bread and circuses.
Ayyy that’s a good fucking reply.
If circuses weren’t important people wouldn’t be complaining about the Netflix crackdown.
At no point in my post was I disparaging anyone who enjoyed it. You do you, friend. I was just giving my unpopular opinion on why I don’t care for it.
oh yeah, I’m just responding to it?
but, when you cut down shit to something like “Star Trek is just a bunch of rich people role playing for nerds” or something… I do think there is subtle disparagement, right? Doesn’t mean it’s wrong to have an opinion.
You’re right. He is disparaging the Superbowl by using the words “nothing more than”. It implies that the Superbowl is low, base, and common (which is generally true). But it also implies that he’s above that; he’s better and more intelligent because he doesn’t watch it.
“Pro athletes are richer than the average person” isn’t an unpopular opinion. “Championship ads are expensive” isn’t unpopular either. His real opinion is “I don’t like the Superbowl and that makes me special.” That’s not unpopular, it’s just boring and false.
maybe OP is a lions fan and is pissed they choked in the playoffs
There’s a pretty long list of reasons why professional sports, and especially the NFL, shouldn’t exist. All I can do is not contribute. If trogs want to waste their money muh teeem, I guess I don’t give a shit anymore.
You know what they say about opinions…
Do you believe entertainment shouldn’t exist?
Would be cool if it wasn’t any rapists. Would be cool if there weren’t brain injuries on live TV every season. Would be cool if the 750 mil public subsity Vegas spent on the sb stadium went to a more underserved community.
Some of those catches are fire, though. Worth it.
Next you’re gonna tell me that the Marvel movies are nothing but watching rich people pretend to be fighting each other while poorer people pay to go watch. And WWE wrestling is…well actually the same description.
They are rich because we pay (with money or ads) to watch them. We pay because they entertain us.
Yeah yeah it is all a fake conflict between millionaires orchestrated by billionaires. I still enjoy the MCU.
I don’t mind people not liking sports the same way I’m happy if someone enjoys Post Malone music or Woody Allen movies even though they’re terrible to me. I do get annoyed with people who make not liking sports a huge part of their personality though. Those who hear a conversation between others who are interested in a game and just have roll their eyes and make a comment involving the word, “sports ball”.
How is it any different that grown men with obligations standing around at work, not working, regurgitating stats they heard on Sports Center that morning and arguing over which guy they like on the team, as if they have any stake whatsoever in either team?
Some people like things, some people don’t. It’s just petty and frankly childish to have that “my team can beat your team” mentality because let’s face it, it’s just a grown up version of “my daddy can beat up your daddy.”
I’ll discuss the latest Rick and Morty with my friends. At least sports are “real”. Who won was actually played by real people that affects their lives (the players are rich but they gain fame and a cash bonus for winning).
Meanwhile Rick Sanchez finding the alternate Rick who killed his wife was scripted to be entertaining.
I’ve pointed out to people before that being super into sports statistics is a socially acceptable form of an autism style hyper fixation, and it angers everyone.
You’re not wrong.
OMG you are totally right!!!
Gym fixation too, have a pet theory on that
some like things, some don’t
The replies about the stats goes so well with my thought on this.
If I was to talk about some other topic as much as people talk about sports ball stuff, I’d get crap for it.
If I don’t want to talk about sports ball crap, I get crap for it.
It’s a weird double standard sometimes. Maybe because sports are so prevalent and common?
It’s because in this country, toxic masculinity dictates that the only acceptable way to relate to another guy is by talking about sports. Imagine having such a fragile ego that the only way you know how to talk to another man is to take turns reciting what you heard on ESPN. Otherwise you might get called gay, which to them is some kind of insult to their masculinity.
Meanwhile, they’re getting an attitude with each other about a game where the guys pat each other on the ass after a good play.
How would you constructively mentor someone who you think was rased that way? Assuming you had the kind of relationship that allowed it?
I’ve had these kind of talks with people before. You ever made progress with giving someone more options?
guys pat each other on the ass after a good play
But it’s such a masculine pat, not even a pat, a hit, a slap! A hard, masculine manly slap.
There’s a Key and Peele skip coming to mind…
Found it. Slap-Ass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-uIwpo0dCU)
Edit, and yes, I agree to an extent. I don’t think previous generations of men were taught healthy ideas about emotions, feeling, etc. Anger is generally accepted, sadness, hurt, etc are not. They are just translated to anger to be accepted. I think the general problem is starting to be acknowledged. Maybe not fixed, but there’s a start maybe.
All sports, all awards shows, all reality TV (though sometimes starting poor people (working for rich people)).
Don’t forget the bullshit showings of patriotism and military recruiting.
Pretty much.
