1. I hate the Super Bowl. I’ve said this a few times recently on the SI Media With Jimmy Traina podcast, but, for me, the NFL season ends when the second conference championship game is over.
The game itself is fine, except for the fact that it’s played at a neutral field. I don’t understand why every single game of the season is played in one of the participating teams’ home stadiums, but then that changes for the biggest game of the season, but I digress. It’s everything surrounding the game that I hate.
The Super Bowl is a spectacle. I just care about the game. But the spectacle is filled with nonsense. That’s what happens when you have 80 million people who don’t care about football deciding that they are going to watch the final game of the season. Sunday Night Football on NBC is the most-watched show on television. It generates just about 20 million viewers each week. More than 100 million people will watch the Super Bowl on Fox this Sunday.
