He said
To get to the bottom of what is good about the Super Bowl, we must go through a painstaking and arduous process of elimination of everything that is not so good about the Super Bowl.
Hopefully at the end we aren't left with commercials. The six to eight hours of coverage leading up to the game is definitely out. Watching a panel of two ex-players, an ex-coach and a generic TV personality to keep everything on schedule can give good analysis for about 15 minutes. The rest of the time it's Toby Keith singing about America and sob stories about players from earlier this season, growing up in an underprivileged home or how they helped out after Hurricane Katrina. Often those stories are well done, but it's become very predictable.
Media Day looks fun, but as everyone knows, interviewing athletes is like taking the train: there is one set of tracks, and you will be carried away down one path. There is no room to veer off course and take the scenic route. One can only hope to find a colourful coach. The Super Bowl needs a Ryan.
The half-time show is just terrible. Ever since that one that coined the term wardrobe malfunction, these shows have been on a tight leash by the networks and their advertisers. Madonna is performing this year and apparently she thinks she will be charged with the setting up the stage and taking it down, asking in an article I read, "How do you do that?" All you have to worry about Madonna is pretending to sing a couple of your songs, look like you want to be there and make sure all your clothes are in working order.
Though every now and then the actual game turns into a classic, it's far too hit-and-miss to really celebrate the physical competition that all the hullabaloo is supposed to be about.
What does that leave us with? Commercials? No. The best part about the Super Bowl cannot be the commercialization of sport.
It's got to be Super Bowl chili. It's the same as chili at any other time throughout the year, but this time, it will be the best part of your day.
She said
The Super Bowl is great. It is an awesome time for athletes to show the world just how tough and cool they are. It's also entertaining because spectators get to watch highly paid professionals cave and crumble under pressure. It makes us all feel a little bit better about ourselves, because even famous people can really suck.
The Super Bowl is also great because it's an excuse to eat all kinds of fattening food, and possibly have a few drinks. One can spend time with friends and just enjoy one another's company. It also gives people a chance to watch their friends get drunk and embarrass themselves. This is even better when you don't necessarily like all of your friends.
The commercials during the Super Bowl are another fan favourite. Companies spend millions of dollars to advertise during the game, and often enlist the help of celebrities. The plots are sometimes a little racier than typically allowed on TV, as the intention is sometimes to get people talking about the product.
But the very best part of the Super Bowl is that when I leave the house during the game, there will be fewer people on the road, in Walmart and just out and about in general. Seriously, I have absolutely no interest in watching the Super Bowl, so while every sports fanatic in the city is watching men in tight pants crash into one another, I will be getting my groceries, wandering around the mall or maybe just running red lights downtown. As for those commercials, I can catch them the next day online. And by the time they hit the Internet, someone else will have already weeded out the stupid ones.
