Yesterday, I posted I wasn't going to watch "The Game"

[Cyrano]

And I took some shit for it.

A few of my friends and acquaintances know who I am and that I post here on DU.

Yesterday, after posting that I wasn't going to watch the game and didn't even know who was playing, I got a couple of calls from (what I can only call) semi-acquaintances who wanted to know what was wrong with me.

Actually, there's nothing wrong with me, or people who love movies and don't watch the Academy Awards, or people who swim every day and don't watch the Olympics.

Why should anyone be surprised that there are many of us who don't do what many others do, or what we're "supposed" to do. After all, no one is forcing us to march in lockstep. Yet.

Actually, (after reading this morning's news), the best moment was when the creature congratulated the state of Kansas. (And my bet is that millions of others didn't know that Kansas City is in Missouri.)

My final thought regarding yesterday's battle of gladiators, is that the winners don't make a mockery of humanity by showing up for a White House invitation to further degrade democracy.

[calimary]

1. I didn't watch it either.

No interest in the Organized Brutality Bowl.

Joined a group of friends at an event where we were singing crazy custom-lyricized protest songs. Great fun! And it raised some money for a couple of local activist groups.

Just not a football fan. Neither is my husband. How cool is that?!

[monmouth4]

2. Neither did I, Pride and Prejudice was on and I enjoyed that a lot. Jane Austen is a favorite..n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

3. Virtue signaling!

Of to my ignore list with you,

[Cyrano]

8. No virtue. Just preferences.

[johnp3907]

14. And you to mine!

[blueinredohio]

4. I don't watch football either

nor do I watch any awards shows, any reality tv, or talk shows.

[HAB911]

5. NO SHAME in not supporting pro sports

I don't

I just pay for their stadium, at the point of a gun

[Cirque du So-What]

6. There's an underlying conjecture in our society

that refusing to participate in Super Bowl festivities is vaguely unAmerican - professional sports being the pinnacle of American culture.

[abqtommy]

7. There are actually two Kansas Cities, one in Kansas and one in Missouri. You're welcome.

https://www.quora.com/Which-US-states-have-a-Kansas-City-and-why-are-there-multiple-Kansas-Cities

[MuseRider]

10. Kansas has nothing to do

with this team. It is purely a Missouri team. I know, I live in Kansas and while many claim it as their team as it is the closest to us, we pay no taxes for it, did not build and do not pay to maintain the stadium and have nothing to do with it at all except the support of going to the games.

[MuseRider]

9. I always find it really interesting

that anyone would ever care that you do not watch. I NEVER watch but did this time. Not because the Chiefs are called "our"team (I live in Kansas, God Trump is an idiot) but because I do not like the sport and do not care for much that surrounds it. I watched this year, as I have watched many of their games this year because their quarterback Mahomes is amazing, magical even, to watch. I go do things when he is not on field and I cannot tell you what or how many games they won this year. EVERYONE I know has made a huge deal out of me watching or caring "finally" about "our" team. People are odd. I love tennis and follow that fairly closely and get teased over watching the "rich mans sport". As I said, people are odd.

Somehow watching that game, seeing the ticket prices, being shown the famous and wealthy in their private boxes and having to wait through 4 ads at least between regular plays should have shown anyone that this is not a game for everyone. You can watch on TV but it is as expensive as anything else, or worse as it is the "SUPER bowl played by "Super" heros. Can you even imagine what the cost of these worthless, often in poor taste halftime shows, given the circumstances of our world, are?

I hope they do not go to the White house for cold, slimy hamberders as well.

[Tracer]

11. I only watched at the end to see the final score.

Because my daughter had a local "football squares" bet going.

And she won $250!

[Brainstormy]

12. I am at peace, after many years,

with my abject hatred of football. I'm now working on trying not to hate football fans.

[llmart]

13. Thank you for articulating exactly how I feel.

Where is it written that somehow those of us who don't watch the Super Bowl are not "normal"? I have absolutely no interest in football. Why do some people claim they only watch for the ads? That is really weird to me since most people complain about ads the rest of the year, but one day of the year they decide to watch a program just for the ads?