SUPER Tradition
While I was sitting on the couch all day continuing to put off writing this blog post for class because I couldn’t possibly think of anything to write about until at five o’clock on Sunday it finally hit me. I kept pondering the thought of the ever so popular SUPER BOWL SUNDAY. What has made this sport the most watch event on television? Why watch 200 lbs of muscle and padding crash into each other? From my reading on the brief history of the super bowl all I could take away from it was that the event is basically the result of competition. The Super Bowl was first played on January 15, 1967 as part of an agreement between the NFL and its younger rival, the American Football League (AFL) in which each league's championship team would play each other in an "AFL-NFL World Championship Game". The game is come a long way, from the first game bring in over 62,000 dedicated fans to now well over millions of viewers tuning in. It has also brought with it millions of dollars in advertisements and it is the second-largest U.S. food consumption day, following Thanksgiving. While I think the super bowl is a little to extravagant it’s not all bad at least it can bring family and friends together for a “good old time�, even if you’re not rooting for the same team.