But the Superbowl is not just another football game; it is an annual event. It's an excuse to have a party, it is still one of the few mass audience TV shows that can generate water cooler talk the next day. It's a show, not a game insofar as TV is concerned.
Regardless of whether any team of interest participates or not, there are people who watch the Super Bowl for the commercials.
Agreed, BUT nowadays there are countless websites, bloggers, YouTubers and the like who will have reviews of the best Super Bowl commercials posted just after the game ends, or certainly by early the next morning. Those primarily interested in the commercials (which have been legendary some years and completely lackluster for others) no longer need to sit through a 4 hour game to view them, all while trying to "shush" everyone else in the room so they can hear the audio.
If that were the case, advertisers won't fork out $6 million for a Super Bowl ad.
True, but Super Bowl viewership averages around 100 million in the US alone. Can't be all geriatrics watching!
It's an excuse to have a party on a Sunday night.
I'm one of those. And in fact, TiVo has a feature that lets you skip over the commercials once a recorded show ends. For the Super Bowl, they have that capability in reverse.
This matchup is seceretly a win for the USA because most of us were so done with Kansas City, San Francisco, and Tom Brady being in the super bowl. We have a fresh and upcoming QB in Joe Burrow ready to show his potential as a next gen hero, whilst Matt Stafford, Odell Beckham, and Von Miller has a chance to prove that a changed environment was what they needed, and that they are not washed up. Not to mention, Chase will debut as the favorite wide-reciever of the AFC. Finally, these teams are spaced apart so far that each half of America feels like they are represented well. Sure, the average American will not recognize any of these players (besides Miller and Beckham) so you don't get the flashiness, bit that might be a good thing because it will be good traditional ball played by entire teams, and with dirt instead of bling. Having it in SoFi stadium though, will gove it Modern context, and I can't wait to see what improvements are made broadcast wise.
I wouldn't count out the Bengals right now. They're on a roll.
"Someday" will be a couple of decades after the Cubs win their next World Series. We're talking about the year 2525 (if man is still alive).
The same way they'll handle it if the Giants and Jets ever make it to their Conference Championships. Depends on seeding. If that ever happens. 😆
It alternates between NFC and AFC, so the Rams are officially the visiting team, despite playing in their home stadium.
It's somewhat akin to golf fans talking about how much they enjoyed the telecasts immediately after Tiger was sidelined a few years ago. While viewers didn't necessarily dislike Woods, for the first time in a long time, people were able to tune in to a golf match and see special interest stories and coverage of the other, lesser-known golfers, rather than seeing non-stop coverage of Woods, with brief mentions of the others
this is the same Skip Bayless who worked for the Dallas Morning News & Dallas Times Herald (before the Morning News put it out of business) and helped launched KTCK The Ticket in Dallas as well in 1994.Skip Bayless jinxed Chiefs, tried to backtrack in unhinged tweetstorm as Bengals capture AFC championship
