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The NFL forcing people to call it “The Big Game”

Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:41 pm
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
107245 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:41 pm
Versus just letting anybody for whatever reason use “Super Bowl” is just flat dumb.
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
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Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:46 pm to
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“Super Bowl”
copyright enfringment
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
107245 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:47 pm to
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quote:
“Super Bowl”

copyright enfringment


I understand the technical legalities, Nancy.

I’m just saying their militant adherence to it has become stupid, in a really goofy manner.
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
40651 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:50 pm to
I've heard more people saying Superbowl this year than the past few years.
Posted by KingofthePoint
Member since Feb 2009
10541 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:53 pm to
I’ve never understood how it hurts them to let businesses say Super Bowl in their ads/promotions.
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
188536 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:55 pm to
might I suggest Superb Owl
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
45436 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 10:59 pm to
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I've heard more people saying Superbowl this year than the past few years.

Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
68864 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:01 pm to
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“Super Bowl”


quote:

copyright enfringment


AKA “free publicity”
Posted by OWLFAN86
Erotic Novelist
Member since Jun 2004
188536 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:03 pm to
I've never uttered the phrase

the big game
Posted by LSUGrad9295
Baton Rouge
Member since May 2007
35230 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:13 pm to
The NFL can also frick off with making people not call the new 2-minute timeout in college football the "2 minute warning".

Or maybe that's an NCAA mandate. frick them too
Posted by efrad
Member since Nov 2007
18697 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:19 pm to
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I understand the technical legalities, Nancy.



Do you? If you did then you'd understand it's not really their fault.

In trademark law if you do not protect your trademark, and others begin to use it, then you can outright lose the trademark.

Since they do not want to lose a valuable trademark, they defend it.

It's like if you owned a large plot of unused land and someone squatted on it, you'd be wise to get them off immediately and not wait until you need to use the land, because they can make an argument it's theirs.
Posted by schwartzy
New Orleans
Member since May 2014
9586 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:29 pm to
What’s wrong with calling it the Super Bowl? That’s what the damn game is called. I don’t get it
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
150131 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:41 pm to
Ka F. Ka >>> Superb Owl
Posted by Brosef Stalin
Member since Dec 2011
40651 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:41 pm to
Why are we still allowed to say World Series, Final Four, Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, etc? Are those not trademarked?
Posted by KCRoyalBlue
Member since Nov 2020
1490 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:45 pm to
That's a good point.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
150131 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:45 pm to
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Why are we still allowed to say World Series, Final Four, Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, etc? Are those not trademarked?
I believe FF is

ETA: My bad. Not FF, "March Madness" is

NCAA has sued people over it
This post was edited on 2/8/25 at 2:44 pm
Posted by Obtuse1
Westside Bodymore Yo
Member since Sep 2016
28316 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:45 pm to
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I’ve never understood how it hurts them to let businesses say Super Bowl in their ads/promotions.


It is simple, they make money from collaborations with certain entities for the use of the name. If they let anyone use it for free that revenue goes away.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
129918 posts
Posted on 2/7/25 at 11:57 pm to
Super Bowel
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
129918 posts
Posted on 2/8/25 at 12:01 am to
I wonder...what if someone made a product called the Soup-er Bowl

And it was just a soup bowl

But the company licensed companies to refer to their Soup-er Bowl for a small fee...

Maybe have a Bowl in their commercial.

"Are you ready for the Soup-er Bowl?"


How would that shake out?
Posted by Harry Boutte
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2024
1898 posts
Posted on 2/8/25 at 12:50 am to
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“The Big Game”

That's the Cal/Stanford game.
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