• vexikron@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago

    Try to understand it like this:

    The SuperBowl is more akin to a televised national religious holiday than a sporting event, brought to you by the best and most moral kind of social institution: Absurdly huge and wealthy corporations.

    EDIT: If you tell an average American man you are not interested in the Superbowl… not that you dont watch football in general, but that you do not even care about the /Superbowl/?

    They are likely to basically mock you for the rest of your life for reasons they will make up.

    Football is very similar to a religion in America, in many ways.

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      9 months ago

      Fuck are you on about? I’m middle-aged, friends and neighbors and coworkers of all races and incomes and ages, live in the South, and I don’t know a soul who watched the game. If it wasn’t for the Taylor Swift thing, I wouldn’t have known it was last Sunday.

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        9 months ago

        120 million people watched it. On CBS alone.

        You are a statistical outlier.