Somewhere in the list of Top 5 Things I Care About Least is football. It was never a part of our household when I was growing up and my school was too small to have a team. An old boyfriend spent most of the 1999 season trying to explain it to me, and I just never got it. I think you have to be born into football. Here's an excerpt from an AIM conversation I had today with a friend:
Him: Is there a football thing on TV today?
Me: I think so.
(pause)
Me: Oh, wait a minute. The Super Bowl! I was watching the Weather Channel and they said something about it. But I don't know who's playing.
Him: Oh, OK. I'm not watching it.
George doesn't care either.
Update, 24:55: Dammit, I should have been watching after all. I mean, how was I to know that Justin Timberlake would rip Janet Jackson's top off? (Although that wouldn't have made up for the stupefying boredom of the rest of it.) Surely that was a socio-rhetorical cultural semiotic moment. Swirlspice links it up.
The most interesting thing about the superbowl is that every year Fox tries to compete by showing Independence Day in the same time slot. I imagine they might get more viewers by showing a film that appealed (stereotypically speaking) to a different demographic than the game.
But they never ask me.