Every year, my sister Laura (aka Lor) and brother-in-law Mike (aka Coolhand) throw an epic Super Bowl party replete with multiple courses of food and booze, varied games, family, friends and… uh… oh yeah: a big football game. My priorities for attending this party pretty much fall in that order, too. It’s not that I’m against the event or hate football, it’s just that I don’t follow it and have avoided doing so since birth. Heck, I didn’t even know the Ravens made the cut this year until just before I arrived at my sister’s door. I know I’m not alone in this just as I’m sure many watch the Super Bowl solely for the halftime show and commercials, as those items (and the 34-minute blackout) seemed to generate the most links – even more so than the particulars of the football game itself – when I logged onto the Internet the following morning. I look forward to next year’s Super Bowl, but mostly because I’ll be anticipating the pizza, tempura shrimp, Nerf hoops and pie. As for the football? If I have to.
How ’bout you BOTpeeps? What are your traditions for the “Big Game”? And how many of you watch it for the football, and how many of you watch it for everything else?
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woo! yep, they’re yours, Nat: you just achieved the Shades of Firsting! wear them well: these play all the Super Bowl commercials on an endless loop:
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YES. MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I had a heart attack, it didn’t submit my first comment. YES. 😀
The best part of the Super Bowl is the commercials. (;
it takes a very steady hand, Nat, but you did it! congrats. 🙂
and i didn’t get to see all the commercials, but i did like the Iron Man 3 trailer and the Budweiser horse ad.
Thank you, my good Bot!
Iron Man looks great, I didn’t really like the 2nd one. The goat for sale Doritos commercial was pretty funny and I was surprised Walking Dead had a commercial.
I just needed the Shades once in my Bot life, I’m happy. (:
darn, i missed the Doritos and Walking Dead commercials. guess i’ll have to catch those online. and yeah – Iron Man 2 was pretty disappointing. high hopes for 3, tho!
and glad you finally achieved those Shades!!! 😀
No traditions, mainly because I live in Europe and I do not care about sports. All I know about the Super Bowl this years is the blackout, lights coming back, and Ravens won. Thank you Twitter! *Twitterbird tweets*: U R welcome!
Also, pretty much any American TV show, animated or not, has a special Super Bowl episode, so I kinda knew without knowing.
i think your summation pretty much covers it, DAS! and yeah, we do seem to tie a lot of our entertainment into sports. weird.
Hi Bot, i totally agree with you. Football is a wierd game. As a german we don’t have the connection to this and they don’t show the fantastic commercials here… with the blackout the game went on till 4:30 am cet. I was quite smashed the next day
hey, Boeltier! thanks for the German take, and glad you can relate to today’s strip. and while i didn’t get completely smashed during the Super Bowl, i was kind of in “slow mode” the entire next day. fortunately, i was still able to get the comic up in time. 🙂
I’m in the UK, so watching the Super Bowl is a bit of an endurance feat – what with the half hour blackout, I got to bed at 4am and that was as soon as the clock ran out.
As for traditions, there’s ice-cold Coors Light at 2am, popcorn, pretzels and a Twitter stream full of insight. And opinions on ads I won’t see until the morning.
Fun fact: apparently the BBC (who were showing the CBS feed) had a man on duty to make sure no adverts were broadcast.
being on the U.S. west coast was fortunate, as the game was all tied up around 7pm here! i’m sure the blackout wasn’t fun for you at that late hour. 😛
i dig your traditions. i think if i had consumed a couple more alcoholic beverages, my twitter account would’ve been full of “insights” about the game as well. heheh.
interesting fun fact about the BBC monitoring the adverts! i had no idea.
An actual quote from our living room Sunday evening:
“Wait—hold that thought, the commercials will be starting in a second . . . Okay, the game’s back on now. What were you saying?”
ha! unfortunately, one of the partygoers kept messing with the tv settings nearly every time the commercials came on, so i missed a bunch! grrr…
I didn’t know who was in this year’s Super Bowl until yesterday morning when it was on the news on who had won. I have no interest in football whatsoever. It isn’t even worth it to see the halftime show or commercials. I figure any that are worth seeing, I’ll be sent links to on YouTube (Clydesdales, anyone?). I DO like a good party, but this year I spent the day on my couch trying to recover from a cold.
By the way, I love Lor’s expression. It says so much – loving indulgence is the best way I can describe it. She is not at all surprised that you didn’t realize/care that it was a SUPERBOWL party.
awww… thanks, Shanna! took me a while to figure out exactly which expression i wanted her to have and your interpretation is spot on, which makes me happy. 🙂
lots of people recovering from colds this year, Shanna! keep away from that flu going around, too. hope you feel better. and i’m with you – although i’m more interested in the commercials than the actual game, i figured any i missed i could catch on the web.
-this will be the Arceus strip-
I used to watch football and the Super Bowl cuz I actually followed the season now I watch the game mostly for the commercials. And that requires me to be near a tv with regular tv on it and not Netflix. Until the Lions make it to the Super Bowl I don’t really care 😛
My phone made me double post. oops
deleted the doppleganger post. 🙂
the Arceus strip?
that’s cool that you used to watch football, dj. i guess that was one of your obsessions you gave up to pursue other hobbies? and/or school?
go Lions! (or whatever. i don’t follow any teams anymore. i used to like the Rams. probably won’t care until L.A. gets its own team again.)
Arceus is pokemon number 493 in the national dex.
I have a dad who watches football. As I no longer live at home, doesn’t really work. Occasionally we’ll have a game on the TV at my work but not all the time. School and stuff got in the way.
AH! i knew arceus, but i just didn’t get the connection to the comic! i thought you had a short in your pokébrain. 😀
There is a short in my pokebrain 😛
i knew it.
That was me this year. I hosted a Superbowl party and with all the running around, I only got to watch the last seven minutes of the game.
At least that was the best part! 😉
heh. yeah, my buddy Coolhand is running games and Lor’s cooking the entire time for two rooms full of people so i doubt either got to see much of the Super Bowl or commercials either, Bill! and agreed: the last seven minutes were pretty fun. glad to have some excitement and uncertainty during these big games!
Growing up in a family that loves football was interesting since till I was about 16 I didn’t give a damn. That changed, once my sister and I started betting on the games with each other. Now I love the game.
I love the Super Bowl, and oddly don’t care much for the commercials, and I actually watch the playoffs with my full attention. My sister and I bet 20 bucks a game, so it makes it much more interesting.
Actually every year I make one real bet with my parents bookie, I started out about 5 years ago with a hundred buck bet. I won, and I decided that the next year I would bet and winnings (200 bucks) on who I like the next year.
I continued this, I have picked the winners 5 years in a row and I finally decided to stop doubling the bet.
That black out was amazing though.. But it almost cost me a few thousand dollars..
betting on games does make it much more interesting, Sato! i, too, had 20 bucks on various aspects of the game w/ friends and won $28, so at least i came out ahead.
and congrats on all your winnings! my interest in the game would go up exponentially if i had that much money in play!!! 😀
I’m not really into football, but I do like the Super Bowl parties with friends. That and I try to pick the winner of the game for kicks.
it’s fortunate i don’t bet big on these things, 52pickup, cuz i rarely win on bets for winning team/yardage/passing/etc.
The-Foot-WHAT-now?
…Oh, U mean that thing where 22 guys walk around the big field while kicking a round thingy around and fail to hit a target as big as wide side of a barn? Yeah, I heard of that, and let me tell U score 0-0 or 0-1 at the end of 2 hours THAT REFEREE NOR PLAYERS CAN KEEP TRACK OF AND END ON TIME is not a sport just laziness. Who knows what they get paid so much for, I certainly don’t.
And if U mean that mass beatings Americans do to each other, that’s not football, get your names straight. Earlier one gets to be called that, you don’t just steal name for some new strange mutation of other strange thing.
Now Ice hockey, that’s right dynamic spectacle.
agreed: tried to get into football (or soccer, as we call it here in the States) and it just couldn’t hold my attention. i feel the same way when watching baseball on tv. when i’m in the actual stadium i find it way more fun.
agreed x2: i don’t even know why America started calling the “mass beatings” sport “football.” there’s only a few times when a foot even comes in contact with a ball during the game!
I don’t watch the game at all. I’m just not that interested in sports and would be bored if I had to sit there and watch a game. Hell, the only way I know when the super bowl is going on is when YouTube has ads running for it or because one or two of the web comics I read mention it.
if i didn’t go to an actual party celebrating the event, i’d be right there with ya Fijiman. it’d just be another normal day for me as i wouldn’t care one way or another.
Being myself an international student, I have never paid much attention to the S.B. Now here in Canada for some reason everyone is hipped up for it! Though I really don’t get why: as far as I know Canada doesn’t play what you U.S.A. people call “football”, and they don’t get the cool commercials!? Could someone explain me why…anyone…
interesting, Nicobot. i wonder if Canada’s big on American football the rest of the year, or if it’s just the Super Bowl that gets them excited?
For what I know, only during S.B., after that si all hockey and basket ball 😀
Yep. That’s pretty much how it went down for me too! I though it was a Beyonce special! Hilarious as always Jefbot!
heh. glad you dug it, FunnyShaffer!
I love football, so I’ll watch the Super Bowl hoping to see a good game. And it took a half and a 30-minute blackout, but it was a good game. I also paid attention because of our office’s Super Bowl pool. I did win a portion of the pot, and that went toward more geeky interests, like finally buying Ni No Kuni.
i’m loving Ni no Kuni, Striker! haven’t had a lot of time to actually play it much, but the couple times i’ve turned it on i’m just amazed. beautiful.
Thanks for the webcomic shout out, and congrats are in order for the bot! He randomly drew Joe Flacco’s name out of a hat at the beginning of the game and won our Super Bowl MVP pool when Flacco, Ravens QB, was named the MVP of the game. The force was strong with the bot when picking from the hat. Let’s hope the success doesn’t lead him down the path to the dark side. 😉
was awesome to win big at that random drawing, seeing as how i didn’t win any of the sport challenges, coolhand! gonna practice my nerf hoops and football toss for next year. of course i always say that, then forget until the day before the Super Bowl. 😛
We watched Monty Python’s Flying Circus and ate stir-fry.
…Oh, was there some kind of game going on?
sounds like a good time, Jeffrey Nonken! and no, nothing of import was going on this past sunday. 😉
I always watch Puppy Bowl, it’s on Animal Planet at the same time. Basically just a large group of energetic puppies frolicking in a playpen shaped like a football stadium; the halftime show is baby kittens and hedgehogs.
Some people probably think that’s lame, but I prefer it to watching angry men in shoulder pads smacking into each other.
i always see the promos for the Puppy Bowl and always forget to check it out, Wanderer! of course, if i did change channels during the game i’d probably be pummeled by an angry mob. maybe next year. heheh.
Shame shame shame. Jb, as a half asian who is not of indian descendant u are required to love soccer and can be forgiven if u dont care about “American football”.
since soccer was pretty much the only sport i played in school when i was a kid (well, that and track) you’d think i’d love to watch soccer, Jf#300! but no. i do like ninja warrior and sumo, though. guess that’s where my asian heritage kicks in. 🙂
Ah, last sunday was a fun day for me. I hung out with a bunch of my friends and we watched the superbowl commercials. Some of my friends don’t really care for football while others like me had already watched our teams get eliminated. We just used it as an excuse to hang out together.
good excuse for hanging, GB. if i had a team i cared about, i’d probably be more interested in football (i do root for the Oregon State Beavers on the college side cuz i think it’s funny) but until then, i’ll watch the SB for the commercials (and food and games), too!
I am so glad I’m not the only one. I didn’t even learn who was playing until halfway through the game when I decided to see what was going on. Did have a tiny party, but we played Halo and Kinect Adventures instead…
now that’s my kind of party, LordOfTheWyrms! and i commend you on not knowing the opposing teams until the playing of the actual Super Bowl. i consider that a personal challenge to keep myself in the dark about the details of the Big Game as long as possible next year! we’ll see how close to the game i can get before i find out…
I’m usually working one of my jobs when the Super Bowl occurs so I don’t get to watch it. I probably wouldn’t anyway. Although I find it difficult not to know that the Super Bowl is occurring because it’s advertised so well. Usually this makes me think of football and causes me to watch football themed movies such as “The Longest Yard”, “All the Right Moves” and “The Little Giants”. Also, when I play World Heroes 2 during Super Bowl time, I often select Johnny Maximum as my character.
it’s true, Rainey: it’s hard to escape the Super Bowl since they blitz (sorry) us with advertising leading up to the actual game! not sure which football movie i’d watch if so inspired as i don’t have a favorite. does Jerry Maguire count?
The Clydesdale commercial, man. I threw my man card at the tv. T.T
ha! i was lucky enough to catch that commercial, Anime fan, and i feel ya! i was able to hold it together but only just barely cuz i excused myself from the room under the pretense of “getting another drink” from the bar. 😉
HA-larious!!! I didn’t get to watch the game or commercials live. Coolhand and I checked them out the next day. My favorite was the Doritos-Goat commerial.
i keep hearing about that one, lor – will definitely have to check it out soon. and, again: awesome party. (and big thanks for the bamboo!) 😀
Big Game? What Big Game? I thought it was just a bunch of awesome commercials with some football clips in between! :mspa:
yep! commercials, football clips – and don’t forget Beyoncé, NeoD! 😀
I actually skipped last year and the year before’s party because they were distracting me from watching the game. This year I comprised and left at half-time. I just love watching Football way too much I can’t be distracted!
this i understand, TPC! in my experience, everything’s so noisy and people are always talking and getting up and walking in front of the tv, i don’t know why anyone even bothers with parties if they’re really into watching the game!
I didn’t realize that us americans played football. I always figured that they just never liked the idea of kicking a black and white spotted boll at some guy called a goali… what? that’s called Soccer here? So what’s football then?
heheh. don’t ask, jesternario. never understood why the (American) sport was called “football” in the first place. 😛
If my team is playing I watch the game, if not, I’m in it for the food, friends, and fun. And yes, the commercials. Those are always a blast.
“food, friends and fun” are always the best reasons to do anything/everything, Ozmandious!
PUPPY BOWL all the way!
Hello BOTiverse. Sorry I haven’t been around much. Things in the Pixiverse have been…welll, rough. I found out last week, the company I work for has decided to close my department. Out of 3 people in said department, I’m the only one who doesn’t have a definite place to go. So begins the job hunt.
I’ll pop in when I can.
Miss you all!
SO sorry to hear about your job loss, Pixie. i completely understand, believe me. come back when you can and i’m sending good luck vibes your way for the job hunt! xoxo.
Hey hey! Sorry I’ve been absent lately; the great trek across the United States has begun, and that means limited internet a lot of the time. I don’t much care about football; it’s a bunch of big guys whacking into each other over a ball. The only reason I know who won is from the Severus Snape tweet congratulating Ravenclaw for the win.
WOOOOOO!!! awesome, awesome. so proud and happy for you, T! i know you’re gonna make tons of lasting, incredible memories on your trek! keep us updated. 😀 😀
Oh, the Superbowl happened? I think I was watching back episodes of “Downton Abbey” that day. I have an abject apathy toward all sports. Odd considering I was born on Superbowl Sunday.
i still have to get into Downton Abbey, Bender_Sastre! too busy trying to catch up on Homeland and Fringe. 😛
As an Australian who follows American football, I am lucky enough to get two big game nights a year! I’ll usually watch the Super Bowl with those few university friends I have who also follow American football (complete with Doritos and beer) and the Grand Final (the Big Game of Australian Rules Football, or AFL) I’ll watch with my dad and brother (ALSO with snacks and beer). Maybe I should start following the rugby as well….