Who will win the Super Bowl?

[Monique1]

[Monique1]

1. Packers

Packers are owned by the community, they are non-profit - their monies go to local charities. I want them to win! Their history is very interesting.

[kentauros]

2. The NFL.

Oh, and the advertisers.

[Monique1]

3. What do you mean?

The Packers are owned by 112,000 stockholders and is a non-profit organization where the stockholders get a certificate (frame not included), no dividends, the NFL gets nothing, no money from the profits and a committee distributes any profits to local charities so nobody makes any extra profit. In fact for snow removal they asked for unpaid volunteers.

The NFL under Pete Rosell made what is called the Green Bay rule which prohibits any other team from being owned like the Packers because it cuts their profits and keeps the team from being able to threaten the community from moving for leverage.

[kentauros]

6. They win by other means

or there would be no superbowl. I really don't care about the game or who is non-profit of whatever. The NFL wins because they are the business that operates this "game".

And the advertisers win because too many people tune into the Stuporbowl only to see the latest commercials.

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. So having lifelong friends to my house tomorrow to watch the game

and probably make plans for our NEXT get-together means the NFL wins?

I'm sorry, but I win ANY time I'm with people I've known for over 40 years, whose company I cherish, and who I drink with, smoke with, camp with, stay with, and love.

[kentauros]

19. Yes. And by your answer, the NFL really isn't a business?

They just volunteer their services to bring these teams together each fall and winter just so you and your friends can enjoy the Big Game each February? Right. Sure.

And the companies you support to feed, warm and nourish you and your friends also win with the airing of this Big Game, or do you not recognize all the commercialism associated with it? Is this another instance of people volunteering their time, money, services and products to you and your friends just so you can enjoy the Big Game for this and the last 40 years worth? Do you truly not understand the point I originally made? I made it simple, because I thought most if not all people here would get it.

The NFL wins because this is a Big Commercial Event. Entertainment value is secondary to how much money they're making off of it. I don't know what this year's fees per half-minute are for the commercials, but they go up every single year, and by extraordinary amounts. The NFL certainly wins by that measure alone as does the network chosen to air the Big Game. How much is the NFL making at every restaurant and sports-bar across the country that has to pay the big bucks just to have the "right" to air a game that's free to home-viewers?

I don't know why you're choosing to miss my point, but there it is. Again.

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. I guess I'm able to tune certain things out.

I don't even notice the commercial side of the event other than to laugh at some of the creativity of the advertisers and agree with the rest of my stoner friends that whoever writes this stuff MUST get high. NEVER do they influence my buying patterns.

I care about the rest of it this much: < - >

[Orrex]

4. If the Steelers win, then the win will be attributed to bad calls by the Refs and illegal hits

As is always the case.


Good luck to the Packers, though. Should be a very evenly matched game.

[madinmaryland]

8. Isn't that how the Squealers always win??

:wtf:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. Anheuser-Busch

:patriot:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

24. Go Busch! And bring back the three frogs

Budweiser's winningest front line.

I'll put the game on Tivo, just to watch the commercials.

Maybe I'll re-read coverage of Super Bowl VII, when the Dolphins beat the Vikings. "Fear and Loathing at the Super Bowl" was a classic job of reporting, from a certain perspective. Great reporting, sorta.

For the first time in years, I have no money on squares, so don't care about the scores.

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

7. Jerry Jones. nt

[PuffedMica]

9. The WeatherChannel

Viewership of the WeatherChannel is at an all time high from people wanting to know if is going to snow on the StupidBowl.

[kentauros]

21. Probably the same for all the online weather outlets.

I had to laugh at your "StupidBowl" as I like to call it the "StuporBowl" ;)

[txwhitedove]

10. Don't care, just want my friend to video her husband the Steelers fanatic who

goes nuts, screams, curses, once after a Steeler fumble he ran out of the house screaming and she found him prostrate on the lawn. I told her to film it so we all can share. Awesome.

[Orrex]

12. He should have his prostrate checked.

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. Target

They are about to sell me a 40" flat screen, I think

[underpants]

13. Tim Tebow

come on - someone had to say it

[Mojambo]

14. As a Seahawks fan, I'm in the Anyone But Pittsburgh camp.

Yes, I do hold grudges.

[PBS Poll-435]

15. Oncor

:)

[rainbow4321]

16. I just want it to be OVER

Living in Dallas, I am oversaturated with SB news..sooooo oversaturated. I want it over. I want everyone on the first outbound plane Monday morning!

[kentauros]

20. I felt the same way when they held it here, whenever it was.

Houston freeways are bad enough without being inundated with visitors there for one big event, and an over-commercialized one at that. At least with the rodeo, it's spread out over many weeks and you hardly notice. Saturation still takes place, but it's over before you know it and people are on to the Next Big Thang ;)

[quakerboy]

17. 49ers. Duh

[struggle4progress]

22. I thought all those bowling places had closed down years ago

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. Not closed, but they removed all the ashtrays

The sport ain't been the same since.

:hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

23. The coolest bar I've ever been a regular at in my life was in Southeastern Pennsylvania...

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...during the late-80's/early-90's.
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One year, we made a group purchase of a (sorry) shitload of shrooms...
and the vast majority of people who came to the bar for Super Bowl
Sunday were flying soon after arrival.
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The owners had rented some gigantimundous projection TV for the game --
and couldn't understand why there were only 4 or 5 people actually
watching it.
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We called it "Shrooper Bowl Sunday"... and it was undoubtedly the BEST
party of the year.
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WE won!!!!!!
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[CatholicEdHead]

27. No Vikings in it means who really cares

Though I prefer the Packers over the Steelers, go NFC North.