Anybody hiding from the Superbowl today?

[NurseLefty]

For years, my ex & I hosted Superbowl parties. We'd have upwards of 30 guests and I'd spend hours in the kitchen marinating, flouring, frying, and baking Buffalo wings, usually 20+ pounds of them! Booze and beer would be a flowing, we had a keg for at least a couple of them. I won the football pool one year without watching more than 5 minutes of the game!
My, how times change.
My now ex & I broke up last April and I moved out. I live alone and have pleasant solitude. But, times have changed and I no longer look at a national pastime as the Superbowl as worth enjoying... especially, in a Bush America.
So, I'm doing some work, doing my taxes, listening to a little talk radio and some music. My TV will stay off today. Anyone else staying away from the Superbowl?

[NC_Nurse]

1. You betcha!

Maybe it's a nurse thing! I remarried and my new hubbie doesn't give a flyin' f*** about sport either. It's great! I'm on DU and he's playing the drums right next to me (loud, but still better). :D

[NurseLefty]

15. Sounds like fun!

Maybe I'll meet someone someday who will prefer playing drums to Superbowl!
BTW, I should clarify: I am a nurse-to-be. I'm licensed as a nurse technician and I graduate in June w/ my BSN. I grabbed the "NurseLefty" name while it was available. But, I'm feeling more like a nurse with every passing day! Good to meet nurses - you're all my heroes!

[NC_Nurse]

17. You are a hero too!

Anyone who can get through nursing school deserves a purple heart! I'm sure you'll make it...you're almost there! :)

[NurseLefty]

21. One more quarter after this one!

In the second half of winter quarter - and spring quarter is my practicum. I'm doing Public Health, which is a constrast to what I'll be doing after I graduate (Med-Surg.). In what specialty do you practice?
:toast: Cheers!

[Warpy]

25. Another nurse weighing in here

and yes, I'm hiding from all the hooplah, too. I have never understood the attraction of splaying out on a couch, eating bad food, and watching a bunch of grotesquely padded overweight guys run into each other in a cow pasture.

A friend once told me she enjoyed it because it was a maximum of excitement with a minimum of consequence. That aint what the cops and trauma team say.

Thank gawd my cats feel the same way about it that I do.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I always stay away from the Superbowl.

I don't like pro sports in general, football especially (only basketball is worse). Couldn't care less. I'll find something else to do this evening.

[toddzilla]

3. the superbowl is today?

i'm cleaning house, going to a concert later..


like sports? play them.

[aquart]

4. Me.

Non-sports family. Loathe the droning sound of sports announcers.

[kdmorris]

5. We don't do "Super Bowl" in our house

In fact, we make a habit of trying to find something to do during the game that would normally include crowds, like grocery shopping. It's always far LESS crowded when everyone else is at home watching the game.

Now, during World Cup, that's a different story here. :party:

:toast:

[peaches2003]

14. Love sports, hate the SB

I find the whole SB hoopla to be absolutely phony, and refuse to participate anymore. Went to my last SB party a few years ago because I wanted to go along to get along- longest night of my life. Never again. Hubby can go if he wants; not me anymore.

Went to the movies this afternoon and am watching a movie on TV tonight (after laughing at Brit Hume trying to sound unbiased on the rerun just now of the FoxNews Sunday morning show). SB Sunday is one of my favorite days of the year- I do as I damn well please and enjoy myself. I'm a totally liberated woman now that I have said no more SB parties for me.

[atommom]

6. DH will be watching it, but I have zero interest right now.

In fact, I'm tired of the Super Bowl hype. I don't watch a lot of TV, but even the Food Network has been taken over by Super Bowl nonsense this week. I don't need to know how to bake a giant bologney log, thankyouverymuch. ;) I'll be catching up on my reading instead.

I do hope to catch the post-Superbowl Simpsons ep, but that's about it this year.

[MassLiberal]

7. No superbowl for me

I hate that whole scene. I'd much rather knit and listen to music.

[henrik larssonisking]

8. watch the superbowl and miss the gunners vs villa

not a chance in shiney bright.

[diamond14]

9. never owned a TV...Superbowl is really a mindless waste of time

better to do something productive...


these big sport events are part of keeping America STUPID and uninformed....

[Swamp Rat]

10. Super Bowl?

Can you put lots of cereal in it? :D

[happynewyear]

11. sorry but ...

I dont' "do" super bowls. Never have, never will. End of story.


:evilgrin:


:kick:

[katinmn]

12. Just trying to ignore that it's taking place.

:-)

[DemGa]

13. I heard Paul Mccartney is playing halftime

so I might try and catch that. Otherwise I try to challenge myself to see how long I can go without hearing who's playing, (same with world series) this year I made it till two days before this game.

[SW FL Dem]

16. Me - I had to ask my hubby this morning who was playing

I spent the day taking my kid to do what he loves, play golf. I had the pleasure of his company for 6 glorious hours. Tonight, he and Dad will do the guy thing and watch the Superbowl while I catch up on laundry and get ready for the week ahead.

[latebloomer]

18. not into sports, married a man who's not into sports

When we first met he told me he was happy to finally find a woman who wasn't into sports!

[jedr]

19. sports is the only way our family can share the same room

if it wasn't for the steelers great year we would have made the cover of the enquire....as soon as the sports go off, my bother-in-laws serve right wing kool aide to my yellow dog democratic father in law and myself and the shouting matches begin....oh how W has brought us all into the big tent.....kinder and gentler, ya know!!!!

[havocmom]

20. I enjoyed nearly a decade of football-less bliss.

Missed the commercials though. When I got a VCR, I would set it to tape the Super Bowl, then go do something fun outdoors. Sometime during the following week, I would play the tape, fast forwarding through the game and watch the commercials. Worked out OK

Game in on now though. Found me a gentleman worth dealing with football for. He's a New England born lad. Guess I am hoping LynneSin wears the suit! ;)

[Hissyspit]

22. From Different Thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=1572115&mesg_id=1572115

Johnoneill'smemory:
Yes, the Super Bowl is the Super Propaganda event that is the pay-off of the more pedestrian kind.

BUT-

The male brain is still programmed by millions of years of hunting to survive and testosterone to be physically aggressive. Look at who is in prison for violent crimes.

Men mostly talk to each other in the common language of ballgames. They discuss the warriors, the records of teams, who is going to 'win.'

Televised team sports are the Roman gladiator battles of our day which occupy men's attention so they know nothing about politics, history, life and death matters.

Sports indoctrinates boys into wanting to 'be on the team' and follow the coach, want a uniform, hate the 'other team', sublimate their identity to the pack, defend their territory, think only one group can win-not all, etc.

You see how all this serves to use the male mind's instincts for war as a distraction and model for recruiting into the military?

Who were the bullies in high school? Mostly jocks who acted like a gang that was rewarded for dominating the weaker kids, very Darwinist, very 'might makes right.'

The evening propaganda-I mean 'local news'- is partly sports and has very little more than fires and criminals, tabloid bullshit.

If boys and men could be weened off organized sports, we might have a chance of demilitarizing our culture. I could go on and on but I think ya git mah drift.

[Hissyspit]

23. My Favorite Super Bowl Sunday

My favorite Super Bowl Sunday was one in the early 1990s. While everyone else was at home, I was driving down Skyline Drive in the mountains of Virginia. Not another car for hours. Saw deer and bear and the lights glowing in the valleys below. It was beautiful.

[bdot]

24. Sort of.

I want to watch the Commercial Bowl cause of the commercials but I don't want to watch the game since no one is playing.
I'll unmute the tv during commercials.

[chi_girl_88]

26. Try the "Puppy Bowl" on Animal Planet

I stumbled onto it this afternoon. Picture a mini arena made up to look like a football field and teams of puppies just being puppies - playing, chasing each other, etc. You'd think it'd be boring as watching paint dry, but actually it was the perfect "background noise" while I was reading the Sunday papers. And cute as hell. You can even vote for the "MVP" on the Animal Planet web site. It's running all night.

[Piperay]

27. I am

I HATE football, in fact I HATE team sports. x(

[mopaul]

28. football is fucking stupid

i've never watched a football game in my life. it's a cult

[Windy]

29. I'm staying as far away from it as I can get!

Not much of a football fan.... maybe its a paralegal thing! None of my paralegal colleagues are football fans either!

[bikebloke]

30. I've always avoided the Stupor Bowl.

Don't care for football (basketball and baseball) anyway. Thanks to high school, where play was focussed on the jocks and rich kids. The rest had to block (or loiter in the hinter field).

[seabeyond]

31. i have pulled "family" out of the superbowl to do n/t

[bemildred]

32. What Superbowl? nt

[Hugin]

33. Here! n/t

[Cleita]

34. This is the first Super Bowl I haven't watched since the seventies.

Well my late husband watched it. I read something. Now I don't have to have it on and it makes me feel lonely. I won't put it on though. I think I would feel worse. Maybe I'll have a drink.

[WolverineDG]

35. Me!

I did my taxes, did the dishes, watched a couple of movies I didn't catch at the theatre & am now back online persuing DU & probably headed over to Netflix to add some more movies to my queue. Then I'll head outside & play with the dogs some more.

dg

on edit: learn to spell...sheesh

[Blue_In_AK]

36. No Super Bowl here

It's a bunch of mindless hype...who the hell cares anyway?

[rocktivity]

37. I manage to enjoy the actual game because I hide from the hype

The newspaper said the actual kickoff would be at 6:18 EST. But when I saw that there was still a lot of pre-game stuff going on, I just hit the mute button. When halftime comes, I'm going to start working on my taxes.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Lydia Leftcoast]

38. I didn't have to hide

After church, I went out for a long brunch with some friends, some of whom are in the same choir. At 3:00 PM, we went back to church to practice for evensong, which occurred at 4:00. That pretty much took care of the afternoon. :-)

[Sleepless In NY]

41. I was disappointed Clinton didn't mention Kerry when he was

acknowledging military service to the country, instead he mentioned Dole's name. Very disappointed. Otherwise its a really good game.

[proud patriot]

39. I'd like to take a moment to thank my lucky stars for

a Husband who likes sports less then I do .

I don't have to hide from it , we never watch the super
bowl , football just isn't our thing .

I watch Baseball and it drives my husband nutz :D LOL

I also enjoy x sports

[Darranar]

40. What Superbowl? n/t

[flaminbats]

42. no Falcons..no Superbowl!

I don't really care which team wins, does that make me a sore loser or what?

[Arugula Latte]

43. I despise the Stupid Stupor Bowl.

I'm cleaning my junk drawer instead.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

44. Millionaire entertainers making more millions? I prefer a good book.

Haven't watched it in about 25 years.

[BanzaiBonnie]

45. My guy said...

time for a Star Trek marathon.

I took myself out to lunch and brought home two chocolate desserts from the best dessert restaurant in Portland. We'll split them between three people. No one needs THAT much chocolate.