Caleb week 7

You know it's Super Bowl Sunday when the ads get more memorable, the grocery store gets busier and the jerseys start showing their way out of the closet. It's an iconic day that has become integral to American culture. Love football, hate football, or (like me) not really care what's going on in the sport, the Superbowl is most likely a day circled on the calendar. That's because the Superbowl has outgrown the game. The real focus of the Superbowl has gradually transferred from the actual game to the funny, memorable, and ridiculous ads and of course the halftime show. 

I can prove it too. The total ad time for the 2019 Super Bowl was around an hour. Add this to the halftime show which lasts 30 minutes, and that's an hour and a half dedicated to these two components to the Superbowl. Comparing this to the actual game, which lasts one hour, and you’ll find that less time is allotted for the game. For research, I googled Super Bowl 54 to see the result that it would bring up. The top three articles that were brought up were about: a person taking a nap at the Super Bowl, a backlash to a coach flexing his Super Bowl rings, and memorable moments from the halftime show, but none having to do anything with the actual game. 

This may be because I don’t follow it that much, but one of the biggest stories leading up to the Super Bowl was that the ads were going to cost around five and a half million dollars for a 30-second ad, again something that didn’t have to do with the actual football game. 

So the point of all of this is that the Super Bowl is no longer a sporting event, or a competition between two teams, it's a national holiday similar to Thanksgiving that just so happens to feature a football game.

So why we are talking about it, what is your favorite Super Bowl ad of this past Super Bowl, mine is the one with the self-park car.