SUPER BORING!

Is it just me or has the Super Bowl become the newest addition to the long list of days where the only reason we care so much is because we are going to get drunk. Now this isn’t to say that I don’t love football, quite the contrary, I am a die hard NFL fan and will always watch a game no matter the circumstances. As of late though, the Super bowl has become something of a one sided contest that always feels so over hyped that by the time the game is due to arrive, I’m sick and tired of it. I might be an old grouch but if so what has the super bowl truly become? I mean save for the 2003 contest where the Bucs won, the NFC is truly a delusion of its former self, losing all but one of the last seven holy bowl games. This scenario doesn’t just happen it’s a spiral that started (thought weirdly) with the giants loss to Baltimore in 2001. And it has culminated with the last two terribly boring games that had no real value other than to say told you so to your coworker the next day. I mean personally the championship games are more fun to watch just because of the closeness of the competitors. Either way the super bowl has become more of a time when families get together for beers and barbecuing than the actual “game” and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, its just about realizing that things have changed. The advertisers over the past 10 years have realized what a gold market the super bowl is for their products that we now have a commercial every first down. It also strikes me how funny it is that every year we want Budweiser to craft another brilliant frog commercial but alas to no avail. As I said before, I might just sound like a old timer but that constant sense of product placement grows older every second I watch the game. So, hopefully soon we will have two teams that can keep me hooked to the television for 4 freaking hours but until then, let the super boring bowl reign supreme.