Super Bowl Impact On American Culture

What is The Super Bowl? “The Super Bowl is the championship football game played annually between the AFC and NFC division champions of the NFL." In 1970, the National Football League and the American Football League officially announced the merger, but they think the two single league champions should have a match which can decide who is the world football champion, so they established

America needs the NFL for it is the biggest thing in American. People from various beliefs and backgrounds can come together for the same common goal in their team. It gives Americans something to believe in, something to rely on. Its reputation is held high, regardless of politics or religion the NFL is something Americans can agree on. Football means so much to Americans that they have projected so much belief and desire onto football it has been there for whatever Americans have needed it to be when times have been tough.

Growing up right by the boarder in British Colombia has made me use to all of the American culture and traditions. Although many are very similar to Canada’s, most would be very odd to other countries. Football is America’s favourite sport and with football comes tailgating. Nine out of ten times when going to a football game in the United States you wouldn’t just head into the stadium and take your seat, you head to the parking lot to have a good time with all your friends and fellow fans while all dressed up in your teams colours, grilling hamburgers and hotdogs, and drinking. A tradition that ties along with football is when the super bowl comes around. It is tradition to watch all of the commercials that come along with it; whether it is for beer or doritos, they’re all hilarious and make waiting for the game to come back on ten times better. If somebody came from another country they may find these traditions pointless, but it would never been weird to Americans as they live and breath football.

The NFL has become the most popular sport in the United States. It is watched my millions every weekend. The NFL is only growing in popularity. With new fans joining the fun every day. The NFL has faced its share of problems too. With concussions scaring away many future players, the NFL is hoping to lower the possibility of concussions in the future. Each NFL team plays a total of 16 games over a span of 17 weeks. There are two conferences in the NFL, the AFC and the NFC. There are four divisions in each conference, each with 4 teams. The playoff teams are decided by the division rankings. The winner of each division makes the playoffs, with the two best 2nd place teams making it in as a wild card.

Every country has a sport that they find most interesting. Due to the nationwide involvement, this sport will result in a great amount of revenue, and a common form of entertainment. In America, it is evident that this sport is football. No other sport pulls in the same amount of revenue, media and nationwide attention than football does. It is popular in all age groups, and is the staple of sporting events to attend while students are in high school and college. Football is the greatest sport in America because of the business it has created, and the national draw that has developed from it.

The two extremely popular sports have huge fan bases. The average number of television viewership in the United States for the 2016 baseball World Series was twenty-three million four hundred thousand according to statista (http://www.statista.com/statistics/251536/average-tv-viewership-of-selected-major-league-baseball-games/). The average number of television viewership for the 2016 football Super Bowl was forty-six million six hundred thousand according to statista (http://www.statista.com/statistic/216538/super-bowl-us-tv-ratings/). It should also be noted that the World Series was the average of seven games, whereas the Super bowl was a single game. The average amount of viewers, and game attendance varies considerably from team to team. With those numbers, it is more like who in the United States is not watching the

To start things off, Football is known to be a popular American sport, As Nina Burleigh states in her essay “Would Football without Concussions Still Be Football?” That “Professional football is currently the most popular spectator sport in the United States” (610). Burleigh also mentioned “Currently the super bowl is the most watched sporting event in the United States, and it is also seen by millions of people around the world” (610). This goes to show you that Men, kids and even women enjoy watching the game whether its attending a little league football game every Saturday, A high school game every Friday or watching the NFL every Sunday on ESPN. “Such is the glory and delirium of American football – invigorating autumn air, the crack of a beer at the tailgate, the snuggling team logo sweat shirts” (Burleigh 611). Burleigh describes a day of feeling relaxed in which almost every American can enjoy while watching or attending a

The Super Bowl is one of the most exciting events of the entire year. Each year, fans spend hundreds of dollars to be able to travel to the city is hosting the Super Bowl and even more money

Just caught the tail end of the Steelers win in the Super Bowl against the Cardinals, shown on the NFL Network. It's hard to convince me that the throw from Ben and catch by Santonio Holmes is not the best ever. Especially, under the circumstances. To win the Superbowl on that play, still amazes

Mike Mitchell of the Pittsburgh Steelers recently made comments about how the defenders do not even know how or when to tackle players anymore. Mike said that the fines and suspensions are very inconsistent, and that he has seen suspensions and fines handed out to players who do things after the play and they get let go easier than defenders doing something in the middle of a play. Mike Mitchell has also brought up how he thinks defenders basically have to ask the player if it is okay to hit them in the middle of the play because of how the NFL treats hits they consider “dirty” even though most of those hits are good football hits. Many former NFL players are saying the NFL has essentially became flag football with all of the rules that

NFL is the highest level of professional American football in United States. There are 32 teams at any time playing for NFL. Although NFL hosts several games all round the year but Super Bowl is undoubtedly the most popular game of the year. It is the champion ship game

The NFL and its owners have voted to shorten overtime from 15 minutes to 10. The league cited the change as a way to make the game safer for its players, as playing 75 minutes of football increases the risk of injuries. More time to play, more chances to get injured.

Just as Lombardi affected the early Super Bowls with his coaching style and character, the Super Bowl, itself, has attained a greater-than-life presence influencing the world today. With NBC and CBS being the only two television stations broadcasting the first game, there are now an uncountable number of stations showing the Super Bowl today. The advertisements are talked about just as much, if not more, than the game itself. Of all viewers that tune in during the game, eight percent are only watching to see the commercials; the average cost for a thirty second commercial has gone from $42,000 for Super Bowl I to most recently three million dollars for Super Bowl XLV (“NFL Super Bowl”). Even though the big game is only played once a year and lasts for

To connect to the economic power that generates through the Super Bowl one must understand the historical pattern of revenue, ticket cost, and attendance the game exhibits in the week leading up to the actual showdown. The ticket prices of the Super Bowl are the main catalyst into understanding what every consumer is willing to spend and how much revenue the game brings to that city. In 1967, the first Super Bowl tickets were no higher than 12 dollars and the average price of a home was less than 25,000 dollars (Smith, 2012). In 2016, the average ticket price was 1,325 dollars making a big ascendance from 1967 (Depietro, 2017). Therefore, this also shows how the game has become more popular since it has come into existence and ticket prices

The super Bowl is an American sports event i.e. enjoyed the most byamerican people. American Super Bowl sometimes becomes very dangerous for players as it involves greater chances of accidents. In the year 1998, Terrell Davis a player from Denver Broncos, got injured and fainted in the field while carrying the Super Bowl in his hand (Walker 72). This incident led to several complications and the player finally recovered completely after a good amount of time.