Friday “V”: What you hate about Super Bowl

[cyclones500]

Super Bowl is a major tradition in our pop/sports culture. It has positives and memorable moments. But what do you dislike most about the spectacle?

List your top 5 dislikes, ranked or unranked. It can encompass the game itself, media coverage, telecast format … anything connected to the event. Elaborate as you wish.

Use Roman numerals when possible!

I’ll post my list in a while. (I have to visit the damned grocery store first.)

Go!

 

[Fitzy]

I - It always seems to include the Patriots.
II - It's on Sunday and not Saturday.
III - The halftime show can be really hit-or-miss.
IV - The never-ending decision of whether or not to go get more food during commercials or the game since you might miss a really good commercial.
V - Auto companies that make disingenuous commercials about unrelated societal issues in order to sell cars.

 

[CYdTracked]

Not sure I can come up with 5 but I don't get nearly as excited about the event as I used to

- The over-hyping of the event itself by the media. Many years the game itself never lives up to the hype
- The ridiculous amount of money spent on ads, many of which disappoint because they are so stupid and bad. The ads used to be the best part of watching but last few years have not been that good and some of the companies just post them online before the game anyways so by the time the game is played you've already seen several of the ads that air
- Half time show: another over-hyped part of the event and thanks to Timberlake and Janet Jackson we've had some clunkers since then too

 

[DeereClone]

I just don't like how commercial it has gotten and how the game is almost an after-thought to the whole production.

The other playoff weekends are my favorite NFL games - more games to keep up with and more focus on football.

 

[mywayorcyway]

I - That the focus of the event isn't the game. The game shouldn't take 45 minutes longer.

 

[cmjh10]

The fact that Monday isnt a national holiday

 

[mywayorcyway]

I just don't like how commercial it has gotten and how the game is almost an after-thought to the whole production.

The other playoff weekends are my favorite NFL games - more games to keep up with and more focus on football.

Ya beat me....

 

[mywayorcyway]

The fact that Monday isnt a national holiday

When I used to drink more, this was a big gripe of mine. Now I don't care.

 

[Cyclonepride]

I just never got the music connection to football, so the big lead-in acts and halftime shows, etc, really seem out of place to me. I want to watch football, and that's it.

 

[jbindm]

- It's on a Sunday evening. Move it to Saturday.
- The extra week between the conference championship games and the actual Super Bowl. We don't need two weeks of build-up. Play the damn thing.
- The six hour or whatever it is pregame show. Who watches that? By that point how much is there to talk about?
- Tom Brady. **** him.
- Bill Belichick. Double **** him.

 

[laminak]

My only gripe is that it starts around 5-5:30 PM on Sunday night. It could make for a later night for all of the commercials/half time show, regardless if one is at the bars, party, or at home.

 

[cyclones500]

A few of you overlapped my list, so there's a little reiteration.

My V. No specific order:

I. 2-week gap between conference championships and Super Bowl. By the time Super Sunday arrives, I’ve almost forgotten what happened in the playoffs (let alone the regular season). Play it a week after the conference championship games.

II. Game lasts forever. Player introductions, 8-minute coin-toss ceremony, commercial breaks, halftime show … a 3.5-hour game stretched to 5 1/2 hours.

III. Hype for commercials. The first couple of ad breaks, I’m curious. By the second quarter, it bores me.

IV. Related to (II) -- kickoff time is too late in the day. Move it back to, let’s say, 4 p.m. EST. That’s a good mix of afternoon and prime time.

V. Trivial gripe: I rarely win Super Bowl squares. We have a pool almost every year at work. I think I’ve won money in one quarter in roughly 12 years. This time, I got the coveted 2-5 and 2-0 slots. Woo-hooo!

 

[madguy30]

The fact that it's not treated as a playoff game where both teams are just doing what they can to win and viewers who don't understand that.

The year the Harbaughs faced off, I had friends who got pissed when the Ravens took a safety in their own end zone on a 4th down/punt instead of kicking it. This is something anyone would do to avoid giving the opponent a short field late unless they don't like having a coaching job.

My friends thought it was stupid that the players/coaches made it such a 'boring' end. One even quipped that it's the teams jobs' to entertain us.

Pretty sure that was the last time I watched the Super Bowl with a big group.

Otherwise the halftime show is usually just stupid and looks like something from a Simpsons episode that's mocking the Super Bowl halftime show.

 

[amishclone]

I hate when the Patriots lose

 

[dtISU]

- Tom Brady. **** him.
- Bill Belichick. Double **** him.

Ding ding ding. Can't stand 'em.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

I. I'm a Vikings fan
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[Sigmapolis]

I. The ******* Patriots win it too often.

II. Soon as the Rams leave St. Louis and I stop caring, they make one.

III. The game lasts approximately five hours.

IV. Reminds me how college football is gone basically forever.

V. Not that college football is "clean," but the speed and the violence of the pro game is noticeably higher in the NFL, as are the size and meanness of the players.

 

[cyhiphopp]

I just never got the music connection to football, so the big lead-in acts and halftime shows, etc, really seem out of place to me. I want to watch football, and that's it.

It's generally targeted at the wives and girlfriends of football fans. Same with commercials. They know a good portion of the female demographic isn't watching for the game, they are watching for commercials and the other stuff.

 

[SCyclone]

I - Game should kickoff at noon. This is the NFL's standard, why in the hell did they ever decide there was a need to change?
II - Media exposure leading up to the game is suffocating. Do I really care that Gronk's favorite snack is PB&J with the crusts cut off?
III - Fireworks at halftime. Really? REALLY? Do they think we WANT to watch the rest of the game through a fog? The quality of the TV picture is better than it's ever been, why do they have to **** it up?
IV - Halftime is 20 minutes too long.
V - I would guess 75% of the tickets go to corporate sponsors, thereby keeping the real fans out. That's totally wrong, IMO.

 

[VeloClone]

I. So many people want you to come to their Super Bowl parties but would rather talk than, you know, actually watch the game. I don't mind a little chit-chat, but I don't want to talk about how much you hate your boss when it is 3rd and goal from the 2.

II. Two weeks is too long between the conference championship games and the big game. One week of hype is more than enough.

III. A simple halftime act is more than enough. I don't want to have to wait for nearly an hour for the game to resume and I don't want to have to watch the first few minutes of the second half through a thick cloud of fireworks smoke.

IV. It is such a huge event now that actual die hard fans of the teams have to practically take out a second mortgage to go to the game.

V. Suddenly everyone thinks they are a football expert when the game comes around. They know nothing about NFL rules or the teams playing but they have all the answers and know what calls were blown and what the teams should have done differently.


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