As I mentioned in another tread. I'd never gotten football until very recently, when I was stuck in the waiting room at the hospital. Now I somehow get it.

One thing I don't get is the almost biblical proportion the event takes. Where I used to work, absenteeism showed a remarkable peak every year for Super Bowl in the US office.

I remember people trying to plan vacation days just for the Super Ball. If their vacation couldn't be granted on first try, they'd try and try again until the very last minute.  And they'd send e-mails, mentioning that they HAD to be off for the SB. 

If they still couldn't get the day off, they'd simply call in sick. 

They knew that we knew that they weren't sick, that their manager would follow up and they had the e-mail trails - yet, they took off. Funnily enough, I've seen the same thing happen w/ Spanish folks and soccer - those guys actually lost their job for a soccer game.

That's the one thing I could never figure out - not the sport, but the obsession w/ it. Be it football or soccer or hockey - I don't get it.

Cricket. Now there is a really boring sport. It's like a baseball game that lasts for days. They throw the ball in the dirt and they make up the rules as they go.

No doubt that football player was thinking "Hotdog!" of which he turned out not to be.

I must take exception to the statement that even the cowboys could beat any other team. Football in Canada is not to be sneezed at. It is faster (3 downs, not 4), farther (150 yards not 120), and longer time in actual play (due to the previous two items). Some great American football players have earned their wings in Canada. Much like the so called "World Series", there are actually competitive teams who might give the NFL a run for their money outside the USA who are not part of the competition. Calling the winner of the Superbowl world champions is... well.. simply wrong.