The Superbowl is the occasional 10 seconds of frantic activity that takes place between 5 minutes of frantic discussion & stats.
If you are watching in the USA then it's that 10 seconds of frantic activity that takes place between 5 minutes of frantic advertising & stats.
If you ever get the chance to watch a live game in the US then you will be absolutely amazed at the amount of standing around and inactivity (while the game is halted for the TV commercials).
American Football makes me feel uncomfortable. There's something disturbingly racially segregated about it. The mainly white crowd eating hot-dogs whilst watching the mainly black gladiat...I mean footballers do battle. The coach will invariably be some old white guy and the General (aka Quarterback) will be some white collegiate type, making sure the black running backs receive his passes.
American society perfectly represented in one hour of sport I suppose.
It's so amazingly specialised. There are complete team changes for kick-off, for receiving from a kick-off, from offence to defence. It's a game taken up by constant team changing (you rarely see this on TV...but it's a huge part of the boring live game).
Line-backers are paid huge amounts to travel approximately 2 yards per game. I expect they'd have a heart-attack if they ran for more than 20 yards. Sumo-Wrestlers in riot-gear.
It survives because the stop-start format suits American TV execs and their advertising revenues.
Like Baseball and F1 it remains popular because many men have an innate desire to hear other men reel off statistics about something or another.
"Joe Bluggenhooffer has a 75 to 83 percentage of off-ence versus dee-fence success rate in 47% of games played between august and october when the year ends in a primary number unless the deeeeee-fensive coach has a surname longer than 5 letters"
Most American sports I have watched live are just an excuse to eat hot-dogs and drink low-alcoholic beer.
Baseball is OK though "Go Rochester Aces!!"
