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Super Ratings

February 7, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Despite the supposed lack of glamour teams, this year’s Super Bowl was viewed in more homes than any other event in TV history except for the M*A*S*H finale in 1983. Were the recent articles bemoaning the fact that we don’t have mass entertainment moments anymore wrong? Nah. Fragmentation still rules; popularity is still dying. The Super Bowl is just the exception that makes us question the new rules.

Look. The Super Bowl isn’t really about the game – it’s more about having one more excuse for a party. In a unscientific poll taken at our place on Sunday, only 25% of the people there were interested in the game: the rest were there for the food, friends and fun. Which is fine of course, but makes the Super Bowl more like Christmas or Thanksgiving, just with a dollop of violence, commercials and officiating controversy.

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