No offense or judgement meant to anyone if that’s your thing (to each their own). That’s just how I see pretty much all professional sports - the super bowl is just the poster child for it.
The players on the field have more in common than us than the billionaires who own the teams. Don’t confuse them for the actual rich class. Over an average NFL career most players make less money than most people will over their career, and they leave football with severely damaged bodies and minds.
They are workers just like us, many of them go on to live in poverty, just like us. The players aren’t your enemy, the owners are.
Something about Dallas Cowboys owner being in a crowd protesting integration.
Dude…Travis Kelce owned most of Cholula at one point.
This is the most Lemmy ass thread imaginable.
A bunch of wannabe hipsters thinking that they’re so enlightened. Because being against the grain is the height of personality.
but only one of those groups has a massive backing from the worlds biggest corporations. our safe space doesn’t come with private jets filled with hookers and cocaine.
but go head, they need you to defend them here, someone has to.
Imagine thinking that’s a valid response to what I said.
you expect to much, from your own first comment.
but only one of those groups
What groups? Not everything is an “us Vs them” scenario. What did I say that’ll make you think that?
has a massive backing from the worlds biggest corporations.
How is this relevant. Except for proving my point that’s your a bunch of wannabe hipsters circlejerking each other about how against the grain you are.
our safe space doesn’t come with private jets filled with hookers and cocaine.
What?
but go head, they need you to defend them here, someone has to.
And how am I defending them? Whoever “they” are. Because you haven’t said that.
I can only imagine your brain is so rotted by the constant “us Vs them” thinking, that anyone who doesn’t fall neatly into your camp, must obviously be supporting the other side.
Apparently it takes a real personality to stop watching advertisements. To even know it’s possible let alone how to.
Complaining about advertising. Another one for the bingo sheet.
(Apologies for advertising bingo)
I’m not complaining because I usually don’t have to except in a rare occasion I have to watch YouTube for something and even then…
…and even then I’m griping about the false concept of a soul of google for which, sure, that’s a facet but just a minor such for the absolute worst thing to ever to exist as the will of the ignorant billions of people lurching through their choice of slavery not even aware of it existing to their worst kind of exploitation of of them and their real soul.
And no one can genuinely dislike popular shit just because it doesn’t appeal to them or anything. No one ever thinks for themselves.
There’s a difference between disliking something because it doesn’t appeal to you. And actively having disdain for something that doesn’t appeal to you.
Personally, I have disdain against the super bowl because it costs us taxes that could be going to much more productive things for society. I think it would be fine if we didn’t spend so much money on it, and I have nothing against people who enjoy it.
You could argue the revenue brought in from hosting the super bowl replaces the tax money spent on it by the host city, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The NFL pockets most of the revenue, and the host city, itself, often loses the tax money it invested.
I don’t think tax money should be involved. The NFL should cover the costs, as they make an insane amount of profit from it.
No, there literally is not. You can grumble all you want, the rest of us have more important things to worry about than the Super Bowl.
Clearly not if you’re here.
Two facts:
- I’m about to head out to a Super Bowl party.
- I agree with you.
Nothing wrong with that. SB parties are fun, and I usually never turn them down (even if I don’t know / care who’s playing).
Except this one where I did turn down an invite so I could stay home, drink in peace, and binge watch Succession (just started season 2).
Lol. I never used to really participate in superbowl get togethers. But this year I was invited with my wife to her friends gathering. I guess it depends on how much you buy into it or if it’s just a way to hang out with friends.
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I LOVE the Super Bowl. I just got my Costco run done in 45 minutes, not 2 hours!!
Also best time to go snowboarding or visit a national park
Aw, snap. Didn’t even think of that. Silver lining for sure.
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We went today too! We specifically planned for today knowing that most people will be at home. I do miss the parties, but such is life when you move across the country in middle age.
Hah, my wife and I just finished our Costco chicken!
Also, the NFL is a shit company.
Remember how they fucked over Kaepernick because he had the NERVE to kneel & stand up to injustice?
Also, remember how they formed a PARTNERSHIP with Musk’s twitter AFTER he had shown everyone what a fascist white supremacist he is & promoted the worst people/“views”?
Fuck supporting that shit.
I quit watching the NFL a few years ago because the amount of advertising crammed into a single game is completely obscene now. I’ll be mindful of your sanity and mood, and not break down how fucking over the top it is, but it’s pretty much a commercials show, with some football breaks.
I’m European so I have a bias but I never understood how Americans watch a sport that stops so many times for ads. It just feels like the ads are the show and the game is the second plan.
That’s actually why soccer never took off over here. The networks felt that there aren’t enough breaks for commercials, so they never marketed soccer as a good sport.
I don’t understand why the ads are so absolutely boring and stupid. It’s also the same ad over and over again. I mean, make an ad which is a story line which you run throughout the game. At least make people laugh.
They’d rather just pound it into your subconscious, so when you need a widget in 6 months you pick their brand without even knowing why.
Not really an unpopular opinion is it…
Yeah, even my friends who were really into sports barely watch any anymore, the superbowl generally being the first they stopped watching. Number one complaint? It’s more ads than game now.
See to me and my family the ads are one of the best part, not because we want to buy any of the crap or support the companies, but some of the ads are legitimately funny, and often some new movie or show trailer is shown as well which interests us if it’s something appealing.
Edit: tbf this years ads being full of “He gets us” pandering, RFK Jr bullshit, and a local Injury Attorney wearing maga bullshit, makes the ads far less enjoyable, fuck this religious and political bullshit.
So says everyone who watches the superbowl but isn’t big into football. See also the half-time show watchers. The people I am talking about are there for the sport.
Yeah I’m not big interested football, I only played until college, play fantasy football every season for almost two decades, once had a blog about my team, but sure I’m not that big into football at all. /s
I don’t understand why you have to make assumptions about me based on your personal biases? Especially when you’re wrong. Also not sure why people can’t just enjoy non-football things while watching football.
Not liking the commercials or the halftime show doesn’t make you more of a fan than somebody else, it just makes you sound like an elitist douche buzzkill, let people like things without being a prick about it.
I haven’t watched a single superbowl, so I don’t care about whatever elitism you read into that. I also have never met a single person who feels that the commercials are an important part of the entertainment who are really into football. First time for everything. Assuming you didn’t just make up shit to back an argument, you decided to have with someone about their elitism, around a subject they don’t care enough about to have elitist, or gatekeeping, sentiments about.
Maybe what I said came off in a different tone to you than it did for me.
I mean you’re judging me based on finding a little bit of entertainment from commercials during a game, how else am I supposed to take it? Also don’t turn this around on me, you’re being the judgemental prick here about something dumb AF.
Also a pretty weird stance to take considering how you’re saying you’re not a fan, like who are you to judge my fandom especially when apparently you are not a fan?
Again, this all goes back to how about not being a judgemental prick and letting people enjoy what they enjoy?
Wasn’t a judgemental statement as far as I am concerned. Unless you think someone assuming you don’t prioritize the sport of the game you are watching because of your statement on the commercials is somehow a judgement on your character. I was bringing up that the people I know who stopped are there for the football, not the extras.
I’ve noticed over the last few years of watching football that they don’t even care about missing actual action anymore. It used to be “Here’s something cool that happened, let’s take a break”.
Now it’s “Welcome back from the break, here’s what happened while you were consuming ads, and it’s time for another break”
Yes, this and the crazy stupid region, provider, service restriction nonsense, the, often large, mark-ups for sports packages, and the fact that cable was the only place you could get most games, for so long, when so few of the people my age even had cable anymore.
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Heh, we’ll see, I guess. I fully expected a flurry of downvotes right out of the gate, but I’m also thinking the timing may be skewing the results a bit.
It’s just funny because this was up yesterday from in here
Trust me, this is not that. lol. I honest to gods thought I was going to get ripped a new one for daring to say anything bad about the Superbowl.
Around here? Doubtful.
Fair point. That’s on me. I was treating it as “General Unpopular Opinion” and not “Unpopular Opinion on Lemmy”. I agree there is a difference. lol
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I’m not into sports and I have no plans to watch the Superb Owl today, but I do have a big appreciation for humans being awesome, and for that I can usually appreciate watching even if I don’t care who wins.
Watching a 300lb man accelerate like a freight train or someone jump several feet into the air, twist over backwards, catch a ball and land where they meant to is definitely something I enjoy, because they do work their asses off to get that good and I can appreciate anybody’s passion at that level.
That said, totally agree on the money side, it taints so many things (looking at you IOC).
but I do have a big appreciation for humans being awesome, and for that I can usually appreciate watching even if I don’t care who wins.
Agreed. I just wish it were possible to observe that kind of spectacle without every sense being exploited to sell me crap I don’t need. lol.
I dislike so many “normal” things simply because they’re so over-commercialized. Sports, Christmas, Olympics, most of the internet now, etc. The old joke “well, just go live in the woods then” is starting to sound pretty appealing.
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You are 100% correct, I could not have used a more incorrect turn of phrase if I tried, hahaha. I fully admit not thinking that through at all.
Take my shamefilled upvote.
I’m not into sports and I have no plans to watch the Superb Owl today
That’s really too bad because there’s been some hot competition between two teams going on over in !superbowl@lemmy.world and you could have been enjoying it!
Players aren’t even that rich
The superstars are, but most of the players are destroying their bodies for 2-3 year careers.
A shocking amount of them don’t know how to manage that amount of money either. Most end up broke within 10 years, most are destitute by retirement. Many get caught up in the lifestyle, blow the money never thinking about once they’re done, and then their careers end all of a sudden without any fanfare.
First thing I’d do if I were hired? Talk to an accountant.
If someone gave me millions at 22 I would also mismanage it.
Whenever I get signed for anything over 50k I’m talking to an accountant, or banker at the very least.
N ot F or L ong
Even the players seem to embrace this as a motto around the NFL.
The career span of an NFL player is crazy short, and you’re one hundred percent right, these guys are often permanently damaged from decades playing football just to get to the NFL.
Life is nothing more than sleeping, shitting and dying.
You can attach that pessimism to anything… But in reality, the Superbowl is a celebration and something millions of people to look forward to. It brings a large group of people excitement and half of them happiness
Why take that away?
Why?
How about: Taxpayers paying to build stadiums that they cannot afford to buy seats in just so an already disgustingly profitable private company can have a huge subsidy?
At no point in my post was I disparaging anyone who enjoyed it. You do you, friend. I was just giving my unpopular opinion on why I don’t care for it.
oh yeah, I’m just responding to it?
but, when you cut down shit to something like “Star Trek is just a bunch of rich people role playing for nerds” or something… I do think there is subtle disparagement, right? Doesn’t mean it’s wrong to have an opinion.
You’re right. He is disparaging the Superbowl by using the words “nothing more than”. It implies that the Superbowl is low, base, and common (which is generally true). But it also implies that he’s above that; he’s better and more intelligent because he doesn’t watch it.
“Pro athletes are richer than the average person” isn’t an unpopular opinion. “Championship ads are expensive” isn’t unpopular either. His real opinion is “I don’t like the Superbowl and that makes me special.” That’s not unpopular, it’s just boring and false.
maybe OP is a lions fan and is pissed they choked in the playoffs
bad post, clearly a popular opinion
I’m downvoting because I agree completely.
Grown men chasing a ball bitching about how much they’re paid to chase the ball.
Close. They are. They’re.
I blame autocorrect
Next you’re gonna tell me that the Marvel movies are nothing but watching rich people pretend to be fighting each other while poorer people pay to go watch. And WWE wrestling is…well actually the same description.
They are rich because we pay (with money or ads) to watch them. We pay because they entertain us.
Yeah yeah it is all a fake conflict between millionaires orchestrated by billionaires. I still enjoy the MCU.
Bread & Circuses
I’ve never cared much about football and it’s almost impossible to live in the US without constantly having to hear about it. I have to admit I’ve enjoyed the fact the Taylor Swift is now being shoe horned into football and people are mad cause they don’t want to hear about her. If either fell off the face of the earth I wouldn’t lose a second of sleep but oh the sweet sweet irony of listening to football fans whine about having to see and hear something they don’t care about shoved in their face, Oh I’m so sorry that’s happening to you, whats that like? Please tell me all about it.
Huntin’ deer, chasin’ trout
A bud light with the logo facin’ out
