The only times I've ever seen any of a Superbowl game was when friends have had parties in the past & invited me over. There were always a number of us talking cars or music not paying attention to the TV until the ones watching would scream & cheer. Most of the time I don't even know who's playing until they pass around a pool at work.

I am not a football fan BUT..... I watched most of the game and the overtime. Two really well matched teams who don't like each other slugging it out on the field. It was a perfect example of if you screwed up you really paid for it. No, congratulations to the Chiefs.

Most of my life I didn`t really care about sports other than car racing. Now that i`m older and must less mobile I have sat down and watched them more and more. I enjoyed the game and wished they were all that good. I kinda wanted KC to win but it really didn`t matter to me.

Been following the Chiefs since '91 when I lived in Columbia MO.

Lots and lots of disappointing years losing to the broncos and patriots in the playoffs, it's really fun to finally have a good team to watch.

Almost as much fun as trolling the "iT's RiGgEd! ThE rEfS hAvE a ScRiPt! tAyLoR sWiFt Is A sEcReT aGeNt!" crowd. It's amazing what the tin-foil hat guys will come up with. I guess it's easier on your ego than simply admitting the other team won.

Yeah, It is amazing how many tin foil hat people are around.Got to be better things to do than dream up that stuff.

This contradicts the claims that no one cares about the Super Bowl.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39515554/super-bowl-lviii-sets-tv-ratings-record-1234m-viewers

I left home around 8 to fill up my car's tank and pick up my daughter, and there was hardly any traffic anywhere.

I think the mature people that have had enough of the bs and left the game are being replaced by ignorant numbskulls e.g. Gen Z, plus the whole Taylor Swift deal definitely increased viewers

I'm not in any way criticizing or making fun of people who don't watch, for whatever reason they choose not to watch. But there's a difference between "I don't watch" and "No one cares." The NFL has never been more popular than it is right now, and it dwarfs everything else. Until this year's SB, do you know what the most watched show ever was? Last year's SB.

Not a huge difference in fandom by age group either, though there is a little between younger/older vs. middle age.

You're right. I think when I say "nobody cares" I'm just wishing so, in order to penalize the league and players in order to stop the WOKE crap, bring ticket prices down as well as player's ridiculous salaries.

You live in the land of capitalism...Larry. No matter what you do, say, or think..professional sports players (ALL of them)..
are going to get paid insane amounts of money, to do what they do..."woke" or not.

Free market economy at work. They earn what they earn because so many people are willing to pay to watch them do what they do.

And that statement reminds me of what P.T. Barnum said so many years ago!

EDIT: Shoot, I just realized we are in general forum not unmoderated so I cannot comment further

Praying for the Super Bowl Parade Victims . Sad .

And the NFL poster boy Mahomes got game MVP.

Now way he should have received that.,, for 50 minutes of the game he got outplayed.

Butker , the kicker won that game. Not him.
Mixed in with a muffed punt off a receiving team members foot to set them up like giving candy to a baby

“Bread & Circuses”
was the Roman term

I am happy KC won.
The first time I ever visited the US I flew to to Kansas City back in 1995

Carsten

I'm 62 this year.

I have never watched a Superbowl....or any US pro/college football game for that matter. Only ever saw two Canadian Football league championship games because we were invited to friends homes for "Grey Cup" parties and it seemed rude to decline....

I've never watched an NHL hockey game all the way through either....insufferably boring.

Same deal with basketball...although I did attend a NBA game in Los Angeles 5 years ago while in town for meetings with one of our suppliers. They had arranged a box in the staples center as an evening out for our group and again, it would have been rude not to accept. Spent most of the evening at the bar talking business with a couple like - minded people.

Watched a fair amount of baseball on TV as child & teen during the '70s, because my grandfather was a rabid fan, and if you wanted to spend time with him, that's what you did. He and I also travelled to "Sports Days" (kind of a combination of a county fair & baseball tournament for local teams) to watch games as well, but I never really maintained interest in the game after his passing.

Just not my thing.....I was always more about music & motor-sports.