I have no dog in this fight so if I were a betting man (which I am NOT) I would take the Kansas City Chiefs and the 1 1/2 points. Who do you think will win the Super Bowl this year?
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I don’t know and I don’t really care. I’ll be watching with a group of people in my apt buildings activity room. Mostly for the commercials and avoiding halftime with Rhianna who I don’t care for.
Steve, I hope the Activity Room provides some pizza and wings for you!
I like both teams and will be happy no matter who wins! I’m mostly concerned about a good competitive game!
Bob, nothing is worse than a dud Super Bowl!
My heart wants the Chiefs, but head says the Eagles. What’s a gal to do? I may watch Rihanna, but I definitely won’t be watching those “Jesus: He Gets Us” commercials, funded by some ultra-right-wing Christo-fascist group (including the guy who owns Hobby Lobby). When I think of what all the millions they are spending to run those self-congratulatory ads could do to help poor/hungry/sick people in the world (ya know, like Jesus’s “great commission” told his followers to do), my chagrin is intolerable (as Henry James, in a different context, would put it).
/Dismounting soapbox now.
Deb, I’ll be watching the Super Bowl commercials. When I was teaching MARKETING, my class and I would review the now $7 million for 30 seconds commercials and rank them. USA TODAY also rates the Super Bowl commercials the day after the event and that would spark a lot of classroom debate. Yes, I’m afraid you’re right about those “Jesus: He Gets Us” propaganda ads likely to be part of the Super Bowl festivities. My chagrin is very annoyed…but not intolerable at this point.
I wish Deb would tell us how she really feels.
Apparently this is going to be the first year Anheuser-Busch doesn’t have a monopoly on Super Bowl sh!tty beer commercials, so expect to see even more alcohol ads (though AB will have the most). Yeah, those Jesus ads are bad, but much, much worse for me are all the “ask you doctor” ads and all the online gambling crap (“Do you have a gambling problem? Then you are the guy we want! Sit down, have a sh!tty AB beer and get out the old credit card.”)
Jeff, I’m with you on the gambling commercials. Billions of dollars will be wagered today and the losers will probably drown their sorrows in alcohol (or stronger substances) and go beat someone up. There will be a lot of No-Shows at work tomorrow!
I’m just a bit more worried about Alice, who’s out visiting a friend, coming home tonight around 8p, from Philadelphia, when rain is forecast and not a few who’ve already tied one (or a dozen) on might be on the roads prematurely, particularly if things go badly for the Eagles. (Illness in the friend’s family delayed a visit till now…I suspect things will be OK, but one never knows till one does.) People already seem to be rocketing along the roads near the house here in the Jersey ‘burb of Phil we reside in, perhaps to get home or elsewhere for festivities.
But, indeed, analysis of the ads would be about the only thing that might get me to pay attention to all that. I don’t usually find them terribly clever. Primetime network hours devoted to them, as recently, are duller than the games themselves to some of us (if a small sum of us).
Todd, my ophthalmologist had “The Talk” with me a few years ago. She told me: “I advise all of my patients who are 70 or older NOT to go out at night. Your vision and balance decline with age and the chances you’ll trip and fall increase.” So, Diane and I rarely go out at night anymore. One of our friends did go out at night to attend a Christmas Party at a restaurant. There was Black Ice in the parking lot and he fell on his head. He got a concussion and was paralyzed for weeks until a surgery returned some mobility to him…but he still needs a walker to move around.
I think it’ll be a good game and I’ll watch it, more or less hoping for a Chiefs win because I’m a Mahomes fan. For me, the Super Bowl is sorta like Christmas–I wish everyone would just STFU about it and get it over with. And stop playing that crappy music. Rhianna is just a name I’ve heard, which is more than I can say for her music. I’d guess the last time I cared about a halftime performer was around the same time I last cared who won a major Grammy, perhaps during the second Clinton administration.
Michael, Rhianna left the music scene for a few years and concentrated on her perfume and fashion businesses–and made hundreds of millions of dollars. Rhianna told an interviewer she’s finding it hard to compress 17 years of music into 13 minutes.
I am going to see NO BEARS, an Iranian film although I will probably be home by 6:30. What Deb said except the Eagles. Bad fans or not it’s my hometown.
Patti, the pre-game TV cameras show an almost equal number of Eagles fans and Chiefs fans outside the Super Bowl venue. Like Cap’n Bob, I’m hoping for a Good Game.
The only significance the Super Bowl ever had for me was that it used to be a great day to go to the movies and avoid crowds. That was back when people went to theaters and theaters still showed films I could care about.
I guess it would be a good time to go grocery shopping.
Byron, four Regal Theaters (including our only IMAX theater) here in Western NY have just closed. We’re down to two AMC Theaters.
I seem to be the sole person supporting the theaters. Get out there people or they will all be gone. You have more chance of picking up Covid at the grocery store.
Patti, Diane and I will be going to our local AMC Theater on Thursday to see Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania at a sold-out performance. I don’t have a problem going to movie theaters. I just wear my N95 mask and I’m fine. But, there’s little in the movie pipe-line that interests me.
It’s hard for me to pick as I don’t like either team. Never liked the Chiefs (going back to Hank Stram days), but as a major rival of the Giants, I am not a fan of the Eagles either. But as an NFC East guy, I will root for the Eagles. (Had it been the Cowboys, I have rooted for Satan first.) I just don’t want another of those terrible boring games like we had with New England 13, LA Rams 3.
Oh, I turn the game on at the opening kickoff (sum total of pregame minutes watched: 0) and off at halftime. The last halftime show I watched was…none, ever.
Jeff, the Half-Time show always gets hyped to the max…and tends to fall flat.
I am hoping for a chiefs win. I used to write down the commercials with my ranking of them, but gave that up a few years ago. I”m going to have to tape it, because Larry’s flight gets in at 5:20, so I’ll miss the end. I’ve been staying at his house for 2 weeks dog sitting, and stupidly didn’t ask how to record on his system. I have been watching just netflix mostly. I’m caught up on Grace and Frankie, but need to go back to the earlier ones as I’ve missed a few.
The older dog (mother to the other, yellow labs) “selects” a shoe every night that she uses as a pillow. I got honored occasionally, but now that I’m the primary care giver, it’s been mine most nights. She likes my slippers the best.
Maggie, you’re a true friend to dog sit! Diane and I hope the Chiefs win, but we respect the Eagles, too.
Hope you all enjoy the game, Rhianna’s performance and the ads.
I couldn’t watch “Football” games because they have nothing to do with what we call football in Europe. I didn’t understand the rules and it was so boring …
Wolf, the National Football League continues to offer NFL games in England, Mexico, and not long ago…Canada. They’re trying to make American football as popular as your football (aka, soccer).
Wolf, there’s also Celtic Football, Australian Football, and rugby…I take it none of them, all relatively similar games to US and nearly identical (notably, different-sized fields) Canadian football, have made many inroads as yet to central Europe. Footie does seem a less dangerous sport, except in the stands, and occasionally spilling out into the fields.
On Twitter, late this morning (definitely still a fan of EB):
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My halftime analysis: good game, terrible commercials. It would be hard to single out the worst, as I didn’t see a single one that I ever want to see again, but WTF was the Bradley Cooper phone commercial with his mother supposed to be? He cracked up because his mother was in front of him. The rest of us were going, sorry Bradley, just not even a tiny bit funny.
Puff Daddy? Please. I didn’t recognize many of the people I assume are supposed to be famous. I can’t stand Kevin Hart. Alicia Silverstone looks great at 46, but I didn’t have a clue what she was selling.
These people are paying many millions to get their ads on, right? Just pathetic for the most part.
Jeff, I’m with you on the terrible commercials. Bradley Cooper and his mother were not funny…only lame. Most of the companies spending $7 million for a Super Bowl ad wasted their money!
I see reviewers liked the Bradley Cooper ad.
I don’t.
Good game; I’m sorry the officials called that weak defensive holding penalty near the end, which pretty much awarded the game to the Chiefs. I was rooting for Kansas City, but I didn’t like that.
I spent too much time during the commercials wondering who the celebrities were. My favorite was probably the Bud Light dancing on hold one, but I don’t know who they were, either.
I’ve never listened to Rihanna in my life (that I know of, anyway), but I appreciated her halftime show. It was a real cohesive act, well performed. I liked it a lot.
Jeff, I found Rhianna’s Half-Time show…uplifting!
Just read complaints that Rihanna (or is it Rhianna) did “bad” lip synching – some people cant be happy!