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| | {{See also|1969 Super Bowl}}, which was perhaps the biggest fraud in sports history. | | {{See also|1969 Super Bowl}}, which was perhaps the biggest fraud in sports history. |
| − | The '''Super Bowl''' is the championship game at the end of each [[National Football League]] (NFL) season, subsidized by taxpayers through [[crony capitalism]] and increasingly promoting [[gambling]]. The television audience is puffed up by including its use as background noise. The Super Bowl to be held on Feb. 11, 2024, attempts to increase its TV rating by having [[Taylor Swift]] fly in her environment-polluting private jet from [[Japan]] to attend for some cameo scenes of her sitting in a luxury box at the game. The record audience share was in 1982 (49.1), as most Americans do not watch this annual game, and worldwide it is only the 8th most-watched event. '''''Absenteeism from work the following Monday surged by another 40% in 2025, as [[emotional gambling]] and financial losses from this [[demonic]] game plague millions of viewers'''''. | + | The '''Super Bowl''' is the championship game at the end of each [[National Football League]] (NFL) season, subsidized by taxpayers through [[crony capitalism]] and increasingly promoting [[gambling]]. The television audience is puffed up by including its use as background noise. The Super Bowl held on Feb. 11, 2024, boosted its [[television]] rating by having [[Taylor Swift]] fly in her environment-polluting private jet from [[Japan]] to attend for some cameo scenes of her sitting in a luxury box at the game. The record audience share was in 1982 (49.1), as most Americans do not watch this annual game despite its overhype, and worldwide it is only the 8th most-watched event. '''''Absenteeism from work the following Monday surged by another 40% in 2025, as [[emotional gambling]] and financial losses from this [[demonic]] game plague millions of viewers'''''. |
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| − | It is purportedly the most-watched sporting event in the [[United States]] (much of it "viewed" as background noise), and is justifiably criticized for:
| + | The Super Bowl is purportedly the most-watched sporting event in the [[United States]], and is justifiably criticized for: |
| | *[[addiction|addicting]] men to a pagan, [[demonic]], unhealthy spectator activity; | | *[[addiction|addicting]] men to a pagan, [[demonic]], unhealthy spectator activity; |
| | *causing overall economic harm to the location (refusing to pay sales tax and taking millions in subsidies);<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/02/11/the-super-bowl-doesnt-always-produce-super-sized-revenues/?sh=302e20901362</ref> | | *causing overall economic harm to the location (refusing to pay sales tax and taking millions in subsidies);<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/02/11/the-super-bowl-doesnt-always-produce-super-sized-revenues/?sh=302e20901362</ref> |
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| | The term "Super Bowl" did not come into being until the third such game: the first two games were simply called "NFL-AFL Championship Game" (the games would later be retconned as Super Bowls I and II). With the exception of Super Bowl 50 the game is always named with Roman numerals (for Super Bowl 50 it would have been "Super Bowl L"; however, L stands for "loss" which did not appear to be good marketing). | | The term "Super Bowl" did not come into being until the third such game: the first two games were simply called "NFL-AFL Championship Game" (the games would later be retconned as Super Bowls I and II). With the exception of Super Bowl 50 the game is always named with Roman numerals (for Super Bowl 50 it would have been "Super Bowl L"; however, L stands for "loss" which did not appear to be good marketing). |
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| − | The game is always played at a pre-determined site (often at a stadium which hosts an NFL team), on a Sunday (referred to as [[Super Bowl Sunday]]) two weeks after each conference's championship games (which usually places it at the first week in February). Normally the site is either a warm-weather site, or has an enclosed stadium where weather is not an issue, and almost always is played in a metropolitan area which is also a tourist destination with experience in handling major events ([[New Orleans]] is among the popular sites). No team had ever played a Super Bowl game in its own home stadium until Super Bowl LV, when the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] would play the game which was already scheduled for Raymond James Stadium in Tampa (the following year another team played and won in its home stadium, when the [[Los Angeles Rams]] won Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in suburban Inglewood). The winning team receives the [[Vince Lombardi]] Trophy, named for the legendary [[Green Bay Packers]] coach who won the first two games. | + | The game is always played at a pre-determined site (often at a stadium which hosts an NFL team), on a Sunday (referred to as [[Super Bowl Sunday]]) two weeks after each conference's championship games (which usually places it at the first week in February). Normally, the site is either a warm-weather site, or has an enclosed stadium where weather is not an issue, and almost always is played in a metropolitan area which is also a tourist destination with experience in handling major events ([[New Orleans]] is among the popular sites). No team had ever played a Super Bowl game in its own home stadium until Super Bowl LV, when the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] would play the game which was already scheduled for Raymond James Stadium in Tampa (the following year another team played and won in its home stadium, when the [[Los Angeles Rams]] won Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in suburban Inglewood). The winning team receives the [[Vince Lombardi]] Trophy, named for the legendary [[Green Bay Packers]] coach who won the first two games. |
| | [[File:Lombardi Trophy.jpg|thumb|right|Lombardi Trophy]] | | [[File:Lombardi Trophy.jpg|thumb|right|Lombardi Trophy]] |
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