It's been five years since I went to the Super Bowl, watched my team hoist the trophy, and found it all an unbelievable bore. As I wrote at the time:
Yawn. Nothing affiliated with the NFL has been anything better than dreadful. All the fun I've had, I made myself.This is my last Super Bowl. I didn't particularly enjoy myself. It's a sterile, deathly dull, made-for-TV event in which I felt like neither participant nor audience. "Antiseptic" is the word that comes to mind.
"Corporate" is another good term for it. The vibe is completely different from any other football game, and at now-$4000 per seat, it's not hard to imagine why. Tailgating as you know it doesn't really exist. Hell, parking costs $900 this year. And there's zero homemade signs, zero face-painting. Wouldn't want to slop anything on the Armani blouse. And I'm talking about the dudes.
In short, precious few actual fans make it to the game.
This morning, StubHub reported that 26% of tickets sold to the Pittsburgh/Green Bay Super Bowl in Dallas are going to...Texans. Because they're just that big of Steelers and Packers fans.