I don't have to get drunk to do that. Monday morning I will be hating everyone for my inability to say no to queso, pizza and wings.
It'd work a lot better for us Aussies as well. Although I don't work Mondays anyway, so I'll be doing the SuperBowl with 10am beers and hotdogs.
My dad spent the Superbowl in Auckland one year, had a great time. Said the guys in the bar were throwing glasses at the TV and just in general having a drunken good time. Its easy to forget that the Superbowl is at least watched, if not totally understood, across the world. I think one of my dads English colleagues once asked why the stop playing every few seconds and then start again And in honor of the Superbowl some cheerleaders...
I can't believe I'm admitting this, and I want to emphasize THIS IS NOT A SHOW I SEEK OUT, however if I'm browsing the guide and see it's on, I will, in fact, watch The Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. Again, I DON'T WATCH THIS REGULARLY, but I can say, with about 99.9% confidence, that not one of those girls would make the squad, as they are all too fat (MAYBE the one in the middle doing the 'Y' with her arms has a shot). Not just anyone can wear the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader uniform and they must be in the best shape for the calendar, trips, fundraisers, etc. I would also like to mention that if anyone here is aspiring to be a DCC (Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader for you plebes) do NOT send naked pictures to your boyfriend and then break up with him so that he will then post them on social media. You will get kicked out of camp. #thatwasasadday I was clear I don't watch this regularly right? But I find it highly humorous. The drama! The tears! Edge of your seat TV watching right there. Why can't Britney get this routine down? I don't know, let's keep watching to see if she makes it!
I think I'm in the minority when I say that I usually find the superbowl to be anticlimatic and boring. Especially this year, with the Packers/Hawks game being the roller coaster it was.
I'm in the same boat. I actually agreed to take a shift on Sunday at the hockey store I work at because I give so few fucks about that game.
I'll be honest. I don't give half a shit about this year's game. I think the last Super Bowl I enjoyed watching was the Steelers/Cardinals game. I'm glad the Giants beat the Patriots twice, but I'd be lying if I claimed I watched more than half of either of those games.
There are Pats and Seahawks fans on this board, so I can see why they would get revved up, but Id agree, I don't care all that much. Ive never gotten obliterated for the game, but then again, Ive never been much of a Sunday Funday sort of person. I like people getting together and having a party with solid food, but I'm never super hyphy about the game. I sure as hell don't dread the next day.
I like football, I really do. Unfortunately, I find it almost unwatchable during the regular season due to the ungodly amount of commercials. Over the past decade, it feels like the Championship games and the Superbowl are so chocked full of crap that I can't watch it. The announcing is usually terrible (as it is for most professional sports today), the commercials and breaks are never ending, and the games - other than the Packers/Seahawks game - are largely boring. Then you jam some stupid halftime show in, and usually by the 4th quarter it's pretty clear who's going to win so it becomes the announcers blowing the winning team for an hour. It's a shame because I think by and large the NFL is one of the best run sport's businesses, but the playoffs/Superbowl has turned it into a parody of itself.
I was right there, too. But, now I have RedZone (and DVR). On Thursday, Sunday Night and Monday nights, I pause the live game and watch something else. Then, when I start watching live, I can just jump over the commercials. (The absolutely WORST is those sequences where a team scores, they go to commercial, they come back to show the team kicking off, and then go right back to commercial. Just awful.) On Sundays, when watching "my team" play (the Falcons, shut up), I do the same pause scenario. During the other segment, when the Falcons are on a bye, or all already getting blown out, I watch RedZone. (All football, no commercials, yes please!) I think the Super Bowl is going to be fun. Hang out with friends, snacks, beverages and the football contest ought to be a good one. By the way, I know the NFL gets in a huff about their trademark if you advertise you are having a Super Bowl Party, or if restaurants feature a Super Bowl Sandwich. I get that, because it's their name. But, is it an infringement when a bar or organization instead of saying "Super Bowl Party," they say, "We're having a Party! Come watch the Super Bowl with us!" I think they've done such a tough job of cracking down (like suing that church a few years ago), that they're actually cutting down the brand power. DJ's and commercials are all using "The Big Game" or "That Sunday Night Game" - doesn't that water down the brand instead of protect it?
As I understand it (as they say, I Am Not A Lawyer - I refuse to use the acronym because it makes me giggle), trademark law actually requires the active protection and enforcement of the trademark, or else you risk losing it. It's not really just a vindictive, "it's ours, you can't use it" - it's actually a requirement of the trademark process. I just fucking love watching football. I don't care what teams are involved, or if there are too many commercials, or whatever. I love watching the game. I'm excited every year for the Superbowl, and this year is no exception. Some friends and I used to throw ridiculous parties but the last several years have been tame, just enjoying some time with friends or family and watching football. This year, we'll be at my girlfriend's family's house, cooking up a bunch of chili & wings, got a bunch of microbrews, should be a good time.
Astroglide Ah, that makes more sense. And, now, every time I see somebody say they are not a lawyer, I'm going to think I ANAL. So, thanks for that.
Yup, one of the cases we studied in law school was the Xerox case. They went on a big ad campaign in the 70's and 80's to stop people from using the word 'Xerox' instead of 'copy' in order to show they were trying to protect their trademark.
Sorry for the double post (and by 'sorry' I mean 'get bent') but just curious what you folks think about this trend: The use of 'tweets' on News Channels and Internet News as source material, I know it's been happening for a while, but recently it seems to form an intrinsic part of news stories. Love to hear the takes on this.
My girlfriend likes that show too. Years ago a now-DCC "friended" me on Facebook, which has been awesome because she and her friends are so, so hot and post a ton of bikini pics. Spoiler Before my freshman year of college, a bunch of people randomly friended me on Facebook after we got assigned to the same dorm. She was one of them. I've since deleted pretty much all of the randoms but will make exceptions for her. If your sources aren't fully vetted, it's shitty stupid journalism. Look at how some major news networks have had to redact and change their reports as events unfold and look like dumbasses as a result because they were just dying to be first to report something and didn't do their homework first. Yes one of the great benefits to the internet and social media in my opinion is how quickly news and information can be broadcasted worldwide, but obviously just because it's on the internet doesn't mean it's true.
As technology changes, so does the medium. One of the first things you learn in journalism class is Marshall McLuhan's quote, "The medium is the message." News outlets would be stupid not to utilize every avenue to reach as many people as possible. Especially the youth audience, which responds to new technologies more than the typical, older, news reader/watcher. The problem isn't the tweet. Hell, wasn't twitter invented for journalists? It first gained notoriety when one was imprisoned in Egypt and used twitter to call for assistance. No, the problem is the ineptness of the major news outlets. They're filling a 24 hour news cycle, descending further and further into yellow journalism and info-tainment. Instead of reporting news, which can be just as weird and entertaining as any fiction, and doing their due diligence, they rely more on gotcha!-style reporting, shaming stories, or drumming up melodramatics on non-issues. Of course they're going to fuck it up with incorrect tweets. Which is also why people are getting fed up, choosing to rely on other sources. The ratings show that trend. So keep fucking that chicken, guys. That 65-above demographic you depend upon won't be around forever.
Bikini Team On first read, I just read your post and not the funball quote, and I thought you meant this Dcc here at TiB and I was confused. And, by confused, I meant, I wanted to see all the hot bikini pics. Now that I know you mean something different, why in the world aren't you encouraging them to sign up at TiB?! Or does "friends" on Facebox not mean you can actually interact with them. I don't have a Bookface account.
I think you've got the cause and effect backwards. The masses want that stuff and are going elsewhere to get it. The news programs are trying their best to give those people what they want. The millenials don't want Walter Cronkite telling them what happened. They want to "do their own research" and will keep looking until they find a source that matches whatever nonsense they built their worldview on.