Super Bowl? Eh....Whatever.

[Jazzman]

Personally I think it's partly such a big deal because it's a de facto holiday created by the public themselves and not some archaic "recognized" holiday whose meanings and reason for importance are so vague, murky or false that nobody really even knows why it's celebrated anyway. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Fourth of July, etc are all great but really, who of us was around or had anything to do with their creation and so to who of us are they really real? Super Bowl, on the other hand, is very real. Whether it means watching the big game, the big gathering, the food, the goofy commercials or whatever, Super Bowl's meaning and importance are real and tangible and therefore, in my humble opinion, more exciting in some ways. Banks aren't closed, Macy's isn't having a sale, nobody is marching around harping about any "reason for the season." It's just a good old annual excuse to eat, drink and be merry with the added bonus of there actually being an event to have it all around. I think that's why it's spread so much and become so popular. It's common ground and it's fun, which makes it accessible to anyone and so everyone gravitates to it.

Now, if the Giants can knock off the Patriots then I'd say it's worthy of National Holiday status, but we'll see.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Jazzman

...Banks aren't closed, Macy's isn't having a sale, nobody is marching around harping about any "reason for the season." ....

Give it time....

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Unsurprisingly, when most people are doing something on a specific day, and you are not, you seem different. That only makes sense. I am not into football but I did small-talk ask my coworkers if they were watching the game this weekend. When they said "no" or "yes" it's not like I judged them. I was making small talk.

It's more than that. Several times, when I've told people I don't watch the Super Bowl, I get the same kind of confused, incredulous look I get from conservative Christians when I tell them that I don't believe in the Bible. They just don't seem to grasp that someone wouldn't be as obsessed with it as they are.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Would that be a bad thing? I don't see why social acceptance of the SuperBowl is such a bad thing.

Please show me where I said that.

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

...Believe me, if you're miffed that the SuperBowl is a socially acceptable event, try being a Jew your whole life. It's not just the baggers you have to ward off.

I'm not miffed; I could really couldn't care less (well... maybe a little less).

Nowhere in my original or subsequent posts did I say that the Super Bowl Holiday was a bad thing, or that people are wrong for celebrating it. Others put those words into my mouth... er... keyboard. I was simply pointing out my observations that we, as a society have granted holiday status to the Super Bowl. Some of the responses I've received in this thread have only proven my point. I hit a nerve, obviously.

Happy Super Bowl, everyone!

[LSPoorEeyorick]

Originally Posted by JWBear

I was simply pointing out my observations that we, as a society have granted holiday status to the Super Bowl.

Ehh, only a sector of a society. I never watch, and no one has ever looked at me funny. (About this, at least.)