As a non-American, cheeseburger football sure is baffling. Trumpets, marching bands, advertisements, words from sponsors, analysis of team make up, talking heads for half an hour, lots of zooming in and out graphics and animated player cards with stats... Finally the game! Lots of build up, here comes the action.... men run forward a little under 2 meters and fall over. Now everyone is walking off the field and a whole new team comes on to do the same, but in reverse. Except first we go through the ads and the trumpets and the sponsors and what not. Time elapsed: 45 minutes. Game time: 45 seconds.
It's such a slow game! How does it keep people's interest for what seems like half a day to see so little action??
The SuperBowl is more akin to a televised national religious holiday than a sporting event, brought to you by the best and most moral kind of social institution: Absurdly huge and wealthy corporations.
EDIT: If you tell an average American man you are not interested in the Superbowl... not that you dont watch football in general, but that you do not even care about the /Superbowl/?
They are likely to basically mock you for the rest of your life for reasons they will make up.
Football is very similar to a religion in America, in many ways.
Agreed. I'm a soccer/hockey/volleyball fan myself, and really struggled to pay attention for the 4.5 hour event. 115 minute soccer games (once you include halftime and stoppage) are much more my speed.
I came here for this comment. First thing I thought of- cheers. The woman needs no advertisement but I'm sure some people were watching just to see if she'd get that screen time.