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 I've never once watched a super bowl for the sport. I generally hate football. I always watched for the commercials. Even today, I don't care about the game. I look forward to hanging out with family, friends, eating, drinking, having a party, and seeing what hilarious or crazy commercials are released. 
 so it's actually a marketing frenzy over a football event 
 It's a marketing frenzy because it's the most watched football event of the year. Or any TV show for that matter. 
 oh i meant that in a good way

but i could never enjoy the sports played like that 
 There’s maybe 20 minutes of actual football. It’s a marketing skeet show 😂 
 okay wait - this is not sarcastic??  
 ye same

i am so bearish

ppl actually excited to watch ads with family 
 i am buffled and flooged, flabbersplodged - cat caught my toung even 
 i never knew  
 i am still surprised people even have a cable network contract these days 
 cabal tv

demoralised people want someone to tell them what to believe 
 i too am confused, every year again, why i still habnt cut off the cable contract

no joke i should cancel it i dont use it even  
 do it 
 set up a monthly sats purchase instead 
 internet only. no tv. 
 i only so smashbuys tbh

butt tv is only 1/6th of my payment i make for internet and tv, it's not much.. but still should cancel bc fuck them   
 dis gud

gonna smesh my boy 
 i stream and/or totally legally obtain everything i need. 
 daughter just came down 2 mins ago and asked me to totally legally obtain a movie for her. 
 "dad could you torrent it?" sounds cuter tho 
 she doesn't know that word, it's just dad can you please get me xyz 
 i haven't had cable tv in 14 years :) 
 TV went wireless before it was cool 😂 
 truetrue 
 Don’t need cable to watch the Super Bowl. We just use Hulu streaming. 
 and still have ads? 
 For the Super Bowl, yes. 
 The Super Bowl is by far the highest advertisement cost $/second of any event each year.  Companies spend insane amounts of money producing and running these ads, often new products are announced, etc.

It is stupid, but it’s not unusual for Americans to particularly care about ads on this one day per year. 
 giving me idiocracy vibes 
 It just is what it is.  IMO it’s much less stupid than watching brain numbing sitcoms like “Big Bang Theory” or “Modern Family” every day.

As Derek noted, it’s usually just an excuse to have a big party with family & friends. 
 (re: the commercials part)  
 no. commercials are the best part of the super bowl. always have been.  
 today i learnnnnned 
 The Budweiser commercials were always the most memorable as a kid 😂 Like this one from 1996

https://youtu.be/ZNqtNBMfa0E 
 Not anymore. All they do is take a celebrity who was famous 30 years ago and stick him in a commercial and it’s the peak of hilarity for some reason. Irony has ruined humor 
 This is also me. Working in advertising agencies for years, we mostly just talked about the commercials.