Admittedly, I don't watch/listen to a ton of sports shows. But, even when I do turn ESPN on, it seems like no one is talking about this. Is the world just over the Chiefs?
Does this Super Bowl seem underhyped?
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two teams that are very tough to root for. you dont even hate either either, just tired of them both.
good for kansas city and philly fans for sure but for 99% of us, a tough super bowl to get excited to watch.
good for kansas city and philly fans for sure but for 99% of us, a tough super bowl to get excited to watch.
Are we gonna hear excuses about the president taking attention away from the big game like we heard about the college football national championship?
If you dont think that the 6.5 million primetime viewers on Fox News took away from the CFP, I dont know what to tell you.
Chiefs fatigue. Their opponent's fans being some of the most thoroughly unlikable people in sports. No clear underdog story/rooting interest. A rematch of a Superbowl we just saw a couple years ago.
Agree with all of this. That said, you have a huge market in Philly and some of the biggest names in sports and entertainment on the other side. This feels like Cincinatti vs Detroit or something.
I'll be honest, the NFL coverage in week #1 is overwhelming. Feels like there is just so much information every week so what could possibly be reported on now that offers any insight that doesn't just sound like overhyped BS. Almost like the big game is a victim of itself.
Also don't get the hate of KC. The Eagles, yes. We all know that Eagles fans are awful and annoying but I don't really get KC. They're good. They make good moves. They win a lot. I feel pretty ambivalent about most NFL games that don't involve the Steelers but I'm still interested in watching the game.
Also don't get the hate of KC. The Eagles, yes. We all know that Eagles fans are awful and annoying but I don't really get KC. They're good. They make good moves. They win a lot. I feel pretty ambivalent about most NFL games that don't involve the Steelers but I'm still interested in watching the game.
ESPN doesn't cover it as much so it seems like it isn't being hyped. Of the top 8 headlines on their app, none are about the Super Bowl. There's one about LIV Gold, Hoosier Basketball tanking, and a bunch of NBA ones but no Super Bowl. They aren't televising it so they aren't promoting it.
It's easy, for me.
1) The Chiefs win a lot - that's always going to be the chief (heyo!) reason for the disdain
2) They seem to get a lot of calls
3) Mahomes embellishes quite a bit in an attempt to get said calls
4) Taylor Swift - be it the polarization or the attention, she's inevitably going to irk people
5) Travis Kelce is my most disliked player in professional sports
6) They're in an awful lot of commercials, which kind of just adds to the overexposure
7) I once showed up to Arrowhead in a toque blanche, only to find out that they are indeed not called Chefs and it was merely a spelling mistake by a hungry groundcrew member - so embarrassing!
🤣 No offense but everywhere I go people are pumped. This game is packed with super stars and story lines. Literally no one wanted to see old axc Russ tossing moonballs around in the Super Bowl. These teams have been the best all year aside from Detroit. Can't wait .....Go Birds!
Winning a lot is what good teams do. I don't buy the whole "they get calls" narrative. I could do videos of how the Browns get calls and make you think there is a conspiracy to make them winners. And yeah, embellishing is something that a lot of QB's do. It's always gross.
The rest is soap opera stuff but that's up to you how you feel about it.
Top to bottom, the amount of talent of Philadelphia's roster is almost silly. Thank goodness those first 8 teams passed on Jalen Carter in the 2023 draft and he had to fall to the best team in the league, instead of playing for some futile franchise like the Cardinals or Texans. They showed him.
Won't be long before the Pirates are 17-15 and we're told this year is different. Of course, then the rest of the league will arise from their slumber and realize the season has started, and the Pirates will be 25-36 before most plant their tomatoes.
8) Reid's son, who was working as a coach for the Chiefs at the time, severely and permanently injured a 5 year old girl while driving under the influence of alcohol (and he had a prior DUI on his record before the incident); he apparently was drinking at the team facility immediately preceding the incident. Then he got a light sentence. And then had his sentence commuted by the governor. The victim's family, who was promised justice, felt mistreated and very upset. But hey, the Chiefs are good, who cares about an innocent kid? We saw such indifference to kids in State College too.
9) Chiefs fans do the tomahawk chop which is really annoying.
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I think the halftime show will be the most talked about one outside of nipplegate
I haven't watched much ESPN, but there's definitely Chiefs fatigue. What stories are there that haven't been told?
Locally, I think we're all still waiting (yeah right) for these big moves the Steelers are gonna make to right the ship. There's too much to complain about with that team to worry about the game which I can just turn on and watch on Sunday.
Locally, I think we're all still waiting (yeah right) for these big moves the Steelers are gonna make to right the ship. There's too much to complain about with that team to worry about the game which I can just turn on and watch on Sunday.
well yeah, if you are in philadelphia, it's going to be that way. think we are referring to non Eagles or chiefs die hard fans.
Besides Chiefs fatigue, it’s a repeat of the Super Bowl two years ago. Had either Buffalo, Washington or Detroit made it the hype would be huge.
I feel like the Superbowl used to be a bigger deal than it is now because the amount of hype around it was outside of the norm. Nowadays with multiple 24-7 sports channels, 24-7 sports talk radio, and the internet everything is talked about non stop so it isn't outside the norm. I seriously think there was as much talk about the Doncic trade as there used to be about the Superbowl. It was non stop for 3 days.
This is part of it I think. Also, does it being almost in March have anything to do with it? It always used to be end of January.
