Or would you rather die?

I don't care about football in the slightest, but I always feel sort of out of the loop when I can't name the Super Bowl winner from the previous year. Hell, I never even recognize the names of the expansion teams. (The Jaguars? Huh?)

How about you? Are you a sports fan? Do you make an exception for this one game?

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Answers

I don't care about football either, but I always watch the Superbowl, for the ads if nothing else. I also have this weird need to keep in touch with it.

We'll be away from home visiting relatives this year. He wants to leave at halftime. I want to leave earlier than that. We plan to tape it so I can see the ads.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Oh, are they having that again this year? Huh.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

I stopped drinking this past year. I believe this means that I am now Constitutionally barred from watching the Super Bowl.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

This Sunday I am off to our first big dog show of the year...too bad SuperBowl! (But, in truth, I didn't enter the dogs til the Redskins were out of contention as the BF is a HUGE 'skins fan)

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

I don't have a choice. Stuart is The Sports Fan. I even know who is playing. I try really hard to NOT know that kind of thing.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate televised sports?

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

I started hosting a pot-luck Super Bowl party several years ago so my husband could watch the game with people who cared, and I could visit with my friends (who didn't really care about the game), snack on fun party food, and watch the ads. I am actually interested this year because I live in Nashville and our team is going to the Super Bowl. That said, our news media has become "All Titans, All the Time," and I might just have to hate football all over again.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Galyn, a friendly wager? :)

Of course i will watch the big game. St Louis has been waiting way too long to miss it. I just feel sorry for those who have dedicated thier whole life to this moment. I encourage people to get active rather than watch others be active. We usually set up a room at our party for those who are non-football minded. To each their own.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Usually I'd rather die, I am the least team sports oriented male on Earth. (One on one sports like Boxing I like, though...)

However, you have to realize I live in Nashville, who, until a year or so ago, their biggest team was Vanderbilt, of whom the kindest thing you can say is that they have the highest SAT scores in the Southeastern conference. Now, we have an NFL team for the first time, and first crack off the bat (as the Tennessee Titans, not the Houston Oilers) has a shot at the Superbowl.

So I might---just might...break down and watch it. It's my civic duty or something. Or, considering how much it cost to move the Oilers, build the stadium, etc., it may be a matter as a Nashville taxpayer seeing if I get my money's worth.

Al of Nova Notes

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

The SuperBowl loop is one loop of many that I feel perfectly fine being left out of.

And lucky for me, I live with a man who does not watch sports on TV.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Absolutely NOT.

Gah. Football.

Gag me with a spoon.

You could not drag me near a sports bar on Super Bowl Sunday, though half the time I am completely unaware that it is Super Bowl Sunday and we wind up going out and getting stuck somewhere, with a bunch of rabid football fans smearing themselves with chips and dip and shouting meaninglessly at the television.

Of course not _all_ football fans are that way, I just always seem to get stuck with the truly crazy ones.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

I never used to watch sports because my husband did not watch. However, after he died last year, I started watching our Indianapolis Pacers and of course, this fall, even started watching our Colts....who did extremely well this year, made it to the 2nd round of the playoffs, but lost to the above-mentioned Titans last week. After the Titans eliminated us, I was cheering for them and for the St. Louis Rams both this past weekend so that the superbowl would be all midwest (I didn't watch all of their games...just parts) and now I hope that St. Louis wins....mainly because they have Marshall Faulk on their team who belonged to us up until this year. Sigh. And yes, I'll be watching. However, I like basketball much better than football. It's much more exciting and I know the rules. Some of football is still a mystery to me. I used to throw away the sports page immediately, and now it's the first section I read!! I also like basketball better than football because the men have better bodies...they are nice and lean!! My 20 something assistant(and her twenty something cousin who works here also) opened my eyes to this additional bonus to watching basketball. Reggie (engaging smile and the cutest ears) and Travis (very sexy eyes) are my favorite Pacers and they give this ole lady a thrill. Oh, dear... I think I need to get out of the house more.....

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

yes i watch the superbowl and as much of the world series as i can.

i am not a great sports fan but do like to watch the top teams do what they have done so well throught the year. the cream of the crop. why not ?

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Since I moved to Colorado two and a half years ago, it's been hard to avoid watching the Super Bowl. Not being a Broncos fan is a sin in these parts. If you're not a fan (and I'm not, really), you just don't talk about it. You grab your nachos, sit down in front of the projection screen like a good little Coloradan and cheer when everyone else in the room is cheering. Afterwards, you go outside to watch the riots.

Actually, I've spent the last two Super Bowls at the office. My husband's company maintains the Broncos Web site and my company hosts it. Our company actually put cable in so that the sysadmins and Web developers wouldn't have to miss the game to babysit the servers.

This is the first year since I moved here that we've been free to not care.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

i've been a chicago bears fan since i was a wee girl. since the bears are pretty consistently mediocre these days, i don't watch much NFL football any more. i may watch the super bowl if i don't have anything else to do, but i don't give a crap about either of the teams, so maybe not.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Oh i forgot this:

There has actually only been one superbowl I had any interest in and it was the year The Cinncinati Bengals played and won it. I have no idea why I liked them. I cried like crazy when they won though.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Super Bowl: When I get up for the toilet break during the program, and come sit back down for the ads.

Although, i do know that the Tennesse Titans are playing because for Christmas, I had to track down a Tennessee Titans for my brother-in-law in Oz, and I discovered just how dark a horse they are, because no shops around here had ever heard of them, let alone carry their merchandise. Damn near every other bloody team that I'd never heard of, but not theone I actually Needed.

the exceptions I make for sports are cricket, tennis, and the various Olmypian pool type sports. I'll probably be glued to the box for the Olympics this year, but that's quite possibly tied up in the whole being in Oz dealie.

-- Anonymous, January 26, 2000

Absolutely. I'm a complete fan. I know everything. I'm rooting for the team whose (quarterback? half back? 2/3 back?) was stocking shelves at Walmart last year. Anybody know who that is? Semiseriously, there's almost always some schmaltzy story like that that draws me to the old big screen. Plus we just got hdtv and watching almost lifesize big guys run at me hasn't lost its charm.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000

I'm not really fond of sports, but I can tell you everything you need to know (and more) about the New York Jets and the New York Yankees. My man is a big fan of both teams and sports in general.

I will probably watch some of the superbowl with him, because I am mildly interested in watching the best teams play (like the world series too). And I love the Ads too.

And mostly I'll be watching the scores at the quarters and the half so that I can see if I win the big money in the office pool!

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000

I never watch ANY football game during the year, except the Superbowl. I know who's playing, and all... I'm one of those "watch the best-of-the best" people. I watch the NBA finals, the World Series, and the Superbowl. My boyfriend, however, is a HUGE jock. He watches all sports all the time.. so I learn some things by osmosis.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000

My spouse always stops drinking for the month of February, so I figure he's entitled to really booze it up on Superbowl Sunday. Too bad he won't be able to do that this year. I was all for having a party, but it was the only weekend we could visit his parents. Oh joy.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000

Manchester United!

Gooooo Youuuuuuu Rrrrreeeeeedddsssss!

Oh. Wait.

You meant American football, didn't you?

Bugger.

Rugby for poofters, that is.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000

Actually, I should confess that I do like watching football ... as in real football, not American football and I like to play it too.

Only other sports I like to watch are ice skating -- racing and figure and tennis.

But the whole point of sports for me is to get out and _play_ I'm up for a game of volleyball, softball or "soccer" anytime.

-- Anonymous, January 27, 2000

REALLY big eye opener in my local paper today about Pros and Cons:they both play in the Superbowl dealie. I can't lift and quote but check out this first story 28th: http://www.dunndailyrecord.com/news/news.php?category=Columnists

I couldn't believe it.

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2000

Only for the ads. I feel out of the loop if I haven't seen the new commercials

-- Anonymous, January 28, 2000