Its NOT the game, stupid

Disclaimer: Like ESPN takes pain to point out, the poll is unscientific, and hence unreliable to draw "scientific" conclusions. I am not a court of law, and I don't split hairs in establishing what is the truth and what is right. So this poll is a good enough trend indicator for me!

The Best Part of Super Bowl sunday? To over half the people in this country, its the sideshows that accompany the game itself, and not the game. I am sure everyone must have heard of the story of not killing the goose that laid the golden egg, but then I cannot be so sure.

But one interesting trend showed up - about one in four loved their Superbowl parties and if people want to use this Sunday as a pretext to get-together with friends and family, so be it. Another interesting trend that showed up in the poll was the fact that other than in the states of Washington (home of one of the teams playing the game) (and in the Pacific NW states of Oregon and Idaho) and Pennsylvania (home of the other team), and regional states of West Virginia, Delaware and Maryland, no where else, as of the time of this post, did the game register atleast a 50%. By a simple majority, the hype and hoopla around the game is whats preferred by the people over the game itself. Chalk up a big win for the NFL Hype/Marketing Machine. Vince Lombardi must be fuming in his grave.