Can someone explain to me why people get excited for the advertisements and a truncated concert during a sporting event? Just seems like crass commercialism to me
Yes, but they used to put effort into their crass commercialism. Now it’s just people seeing how much money they can waste on pointless bullshit, and everyone watches because of inertia and nostalgia.
my guess is that a lot of people find the ads more entertaining than the sport, and it’s fairly common to have big super bowl parties. so you get a lot of people watching something that they might not be all that interested in and the commercials are a break from that.
Football is boring as fuck but a lot of people get pressured into watching it due to social obligations. Ads can be 30-60 second short films that are entertaining in their own right, especially in comparison to the boring as fuck game. Superbowl ads are more likely to be the entertaining type because the ad space is the most expensive in the world.
Things become more engaging as you learn about them. Baseball, bowling, US History, math, gardening, opera, coin collecting… the more you learn about it, the more interesting it gets.
The folks who are really into football tend to have stories they know about key players and coaches, the evolution of certain plays, and the history of the arenas that make watching a particular game or series of plays more engaging in context. Folks who are tuning into the Super Bowl without really following the season or cheering for a local team that made it to the Big One are picking up a drama in the last chapter. And if they don’t know the plays or the players or the stakes or the underlying drama around the various franchises, of course they aren’t going to be interested in the conclusion.
Its like picking up a copy of Romeo + Juliet, flipping to the last six pages, and saying “Shakespeare sucks, who cares if a couple of teenagers kill themselves?”
It is the yearly reapplication of the spell that watching a bunch of buff men hump each other in the ass and grope each other in a pile is in no way homoerotic and the concert and advertisements prove it. See honey: it’s about music and celebrities.
Can someone explain to me why people get excited for the advertisements and a truncated concert during a sporting event? Just seems like crass commercialism to me
Yes, but they used to put effort into their crass commercialism. Now it’s just people seeing how much money they can waste on pointless bullshit, and everyone watches because of inertia and nostalgia.
my guess is that a lot of people find the ads more entertaining than the sport, and it’s fairly common to have big super bowl parties. so you get a lot of people watching something that they might not be all that interested in and the commercials are a break from that.
Football is boring as fuck but a lot of people get pressured into watching it due to social obligations. Ads can be 30-60 second short films that are entertaining in their own right, especially in comparison to the boring as fuck game. Superbowl ads are more likely to be the entertaining type because the ad space is the most expensive in the world.
Things become more engaging as you learn about them. Baseball, bowling, US History, math, gardening, opera, coin collecting… the more you learn about it, the more interesting it gets.
The folks who are really into football tend to have stories they know about key players and coaches, the evolution of certain plays, and the history of the arenas that make watching a particular game or series of plays more engaging in context. Folks who are tuning into the Super Bowl without really following the season or cheering for a local team that made it to the Big One are picking up a drama in the last chapter. And if they don’t know the plays or the players or the stakes or the underlying drama around the various franchises, of course they aren’t going to be interested in the conclusion.
Its like picking up a copy of Romeo + Juliet, flipping to the last six pages, and saying “Shakespeare sucks, who cares if a couple of teenagers kill themselves?”
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It is the yearly reapplication of the spell that watching a bunch of buff men hump each other in the ass and grope each other in a pile is in no way homoerotic and the concert and advertisements prove it. See honey: it’s about music and celebrities.
Murica. Capitalist hellhole. That’s it.