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They need to scale back the Superbowl excess
Posted on 2/13/23 at 8:44 am
Posted on 2/13/23 at 8:44 am
Last night, was by most measure a really good game; but I could barely get into it because of the choppy presentation, mediocre announcers, constant distractions, tons of commercials and extra-long halftime.
It's become so overproduced and drifted so far away from how a usual game is played, that it's actually become difficult to watch. I understand that it's now more a media vehicle than a game, but when you dilute the game so much that fans of the actual game start to go away or ignore it, the other viewers will go away as well.
It's become so overproduced and drifted so far away from how a usual game is played, that it's actually become difficult to watch. I understand that it's now more a media vehicle than a game, but when you dilute the game so much that fans of the actual game start to go away or ignore it, the other viewers will go away as well.
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Posted on 2/13/23 at 8:51 am to RolltidePA
How they ever let Terrible Hat Terry Bradshaw run the show, I'll never know. He sounded drunk to me.
This post was edited on 2/13/23 at 9:02 am
Posted on 2/13/23 at 8:59 am to RolltidePA
Have you watched a super bowl before?
No, no they won’t.
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when you dilute the game so much that fans of the actual game start to go away or ignore it, the other viewers will go away as well.
No, no they won’t.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:01 am to RolltidePA
I didn’t watch a second of it this year. I’m usually just burned out on football by time the Super Bowl rolls around but normally watch anyway because it’s the Super Bowl. This year I didn’t really care for either of the teams so found something better to do
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:03 am to cfish140
Once the game starts, it’s fine except for the fact that the crowd is usually quieter because it’s mostly a neutral corporate crowd.
The pre-kickoff stuff is out of control.
The pre-kickoff stuff is out of control.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:05 am to RolltidePA
Man, it’s just WAYYY too overproduced
It’s always been this way, but lately it’s gone so far over the top that it just seems forced to me
Like the Super Bowl commercials….. they try so hard to be ‘Super Bowl commercials’, the majority of them missed the mark and were fricking terrible
They definitely need to scale it back some in my opinion
Did they really need 125 people, including 6 honorary guest captains out there for the damn coin toss?? It’s just too much
It’s always been this way, but lately it’s gone so far over the top that it just seems forced to me
Like the Super Bowl commercials….. they try so hard to be ‘Super Bowl commercials’, the majority of them missed the mark and were fricking terrible
They definitely need to scale it back some in my opinion
Did they really need 125 people, including 6 honorary guest captains out there for the damn coin toss?? It’s just too much
This post was edited on 2/13/23 at 9:09 am
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:07 am to steamengineRR
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Have you watched a super bowl before?
Yeah, they are getting worse and worse with the over-production.
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No, no they won’t.
Viewership and ratings have been declining rapidly since 2015, so yeah, they will.
They've been losing about 2 million viewers a year since then, so more and more production isn't helping. 2015 they had close to 115 million viewers and have steadily declined and dropped down to 98 and 95 million the last couple years.
This post was edited on 2/13/23 at 9:09 am
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:14 am to Mr. Hangover
The Super Bowls is one thing but what’s really bad is the opening game of the season. Remember when they had a greased up The Rock come out on the field in LA to bring the teams out? Ridiculous
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:18 am to RolltidePA
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Yeah, they are getting worse and worse with the over-production.
Not really, it's been an over produced mess since the 90's. Sadly, the Super Bowl isn't produced for football fans, because they're watching it anyway. It's designed to draw in people that never watch football.
I think the difference these days is a lot of the people that only watched for the halftime show and commercials are skipping it because they release the commercials in advance and you can watch the halftime show on the internet within minutes after it's over.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:22 am to Domeskeller
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Once the game starts, it’s fine except for the fact that the crowd is usually quieter because it’s mostly a neutral corporate crowd.
I was at the Steelers vs. Seahawks Super Bowl in Detroit. When Antwaan Randle El threw the touchdown pass to Hines Ward on the reverse, you could almost single out the Steelers fans because the people cheering were so sparsely intermingled with the corporate ticket holders.
One of the biggest plays of the game and maybe 30% of the stadium was making noise. It was really weird to have such little response on such a big play.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:46 am to RolltidePA
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2015 they had close to 115 million viewers and have steadily declined and dropped down to 98 and 95 million the last couple years.
This is due to streaming becoming more popular each year. Pretty steady average around 110-115 million viewers across all platforms the last 10+ years. Rams/bengals was 112 million last year.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:48 am to RolltidePA
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It's become so overproduced
They had a video package they rolled for the coin toss. The fricking coin toss.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:48 am to RolltidePA
Every time they showed Greg Olsen....I kept thinking "That's Fred from Scooby Doo". I don't remember thinking any thing about the announcing though other than the " forced to leave Alabama" comment. Maybe it's a good think I didn't notice much of the announcing and just watched the game
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:49 am to steamengineRR
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This is due to streaming becoming more popular each year. Pretty steady average around 110-115 million viewers across all platforms the last 10+ years. Rams/bengals was 112 million last year.
2022 LAR-CIN LAR +3 NBC 36.9 99.18M 6.0M
1.9M incl. 29.5 38.45M
Including streaming last year was 105 with the lowest combined viewership rating since 1968.
2021 Didn't top 100 million when including streaming and had a rating of 38 which was a low since 1968 that only went lower last year. 2020 was 103 million combined. 2019 was 100 million combined.
Steaming isn't significantly offsetting the loss of viewership.
This post was edited on 2/13/23 at 9:54 am
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:53 am to Domeskeller
quote:Yep, other than the halftime, it's just a football game once they kickoff. Not all that different IMO
Once the game starts, it’s fine
It is absolutely wayyyyyy overdone before kickoff but I don't get why folks complain so much about that. You know the exact minute the game will kick off, just tune in then if you don't like it and that quite literally solves your problem.
This post was edited on 2/13/23 at 9:54 am
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:54 am to RolltidePA
Need to also have it a week after the conference championships. Two weeks is too long.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:55 am to RolltidePA
It was the lowest rating since 1969. Viewership is different than rating.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:59 am to shel311
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Yep, other than the halftime, it's just a football game once they kickoff. Not all that different IMO
Typical Super Bowl game from kickoff to end is nearly 45 minutes longer than an average game. The extra commercials and extended halftime make the game very choppy to me. Almost like suffering through a CBS broadcast of a SEC game.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 9:59 am to RolltidePA
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They need to scale back the Superbowl excess
I definitely agree with this. It was so damn hard to keep up with the game due to the start stop nature of the production.
It felt like the game had a severe case of ADD.
Posted on 2/13/23 at 10:00 am to joshreed293
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It was the lowest rating since 1969. Viewership is different than rating.
Yes it is. Viewership has been down, ratings are significantly down. Neither is a stat that the league can be happy about.
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