I’m not a football fan.
I have found that making that simple statement can sometimes cause people to brace for an expected tirade on various perceived evils of that sport and professional sports in general. That isn’t going to come from me, though. My views really are as simple as the statement. I don’t have a dislike or moral objections to the sport. I’m just not that interested in it and generally tend to get bored pretty quickly when watching it.
For me, Super Bowl Sunday has never been that big a deal. To be honest, I pay so little attention to the sport that I often don’t even realize the championship game is coming up until the last minute. There have been a number of years where I didn’t even know who was playing by the time the game started or, occasionally, even until I read about the results.
That isn’t to say that I consciously avoid the game at all. Some years, I have watched all or part of the game, although usually while doing other things and basically paying only a bit of attention to the game. There have even been a couple years that I have gone to Super Bowl parties, but mainly for the socializing rather than the game. If I’m around the house, I’ll often have the game on in the background, although it is pretty rare that I’m at home all afternoon on a Sunday.
Although I don’t always think of it, I also will usually set the DVR (or in the distant past, the VCR) to record the game, just in case something interesting happens. If nothing else, there are usually some neat commercials that air during the game, so it is fun to go back and look at the ones that got some attention. Of course, that is not as big a deal now that they have started making all the commercials available online after the game.
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