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Athletics: Super Bowl LIV - Wikipedia:
Super Bowl LIV, the 54th Super Bowl and the 50th modern-era National Football League (NFL) championship game, will decide the champion for the NFL's 2019 and 100th season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion San Francisco 49ers will play against the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Kansas City Chiefs. The game is scheduled to be played on February 2, 2020, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida. This will be the 11th Super Bowl hosted by the South Florida region and the sixth Super Bowl hosted in Miami Gardens, which hosted Super Bowl XLIV ten years earlier.
The game will be broadcast in the United States by Fox, and the halftime show will be co-headlined by Jennifer Lopez and Shakira.
According to NBC Sports:
Here's how to watch Super Bowl LIV between the 49ers and Chiefs, both online and on TV.
When: Sunday, Feb. 2 at 3:30 p.m. PT [6:30 p.m. ET]
TV: FOX
Online: fuboTV -- Get a free trial
The Chiefs are favored to win by just one point, so it has all the hallmarks of a close game.
Advertisements: Over the years, it has grown to be a spectacle where the game play is occasionally overshadowed by the advertisements. An advertisement during this year's game sets a new record of "$5.6 Million for a 30-second spot. Some of the most memorable ads of all time premiered during the Super Bowl®. Who can forget the Apple Macintosh 1984 advertisement or Michael Jordan and Larry Bird's game of "horse" where "nothing but net" became a meme?
Chat: Like we tried last year, we have set up a chat channel on our IRC (Internet Relay Chat) server. Also, as before, discussion about the game, teams, players and plays is invited. Also, of course, so is discussion about advertisements! Feel free to praise or pan them, in real time with your fellow Soylentils!
No catering is provided, so you'll have to BYOB (bring your own... bacon =).
Details: Use your favorite IRC client or use the convenient link copied here from the the left-hand slashbox titled "SoylentNews". If you are new to IRC, these commands may be helpful:
# Pick a name for use on IRC:
/NICK mynickname# Join the channel (be careful with the spelling!)
/JOIN #Superbowl-LIV
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:30PM (6 children)
I don't really enjoy the Super Bowl. I'll have it on, but probably be doing other stuff most of the time. The football game feels almost like a sideshow compared to the halftime show and the commercials. The amount of time spent showing commercials is longer than other games, and Fox recently added more time for commercials. This year there are four commercial breaks per quarter instead of five, but the breaks are longer.
I enjoy football, but the Super Bowl is annoying to watch. The rest of the playoffs are usually entertaining and you don't get this level of nonsense even in the conference championships. I typically watch all three games on Thanksgiving because I like football. But the Super Bowl is too much of a ridiculous spectacle compared with any other football game. It seems like the conference championships often turn out to be better games than the Super Bowl, anyway. And the college football playoff championship was a pretty good game. But I just don't really enjoy the Super Bowl. And this is coming from a football fan.
At least there isn't too much of a lull in sports. Pitchers and catchers report to spring training in ~10 days. And bring on the Daytona 500 in two weeks. Yes, the 500 is a spectacle as well, but at least the race doesn't feel like a bit of an afterthought.
Also... #1 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FAN RIGHT HERE!!!!! I'm a bitter St. Louis Rams fan who will never forgive Clark Hunt for supporting the Rams move to LA.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:37PM
And college football is more entertaining in general, but whatever, it's on tv.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:47PM (2 children)
That may be a sign of sanity...
... but this is highly indicative of severe intellectual impairment.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Monday February 03 2020, @12:19AM (1 child)
As long as you don't play football and get TBI/CTE, you have a chance.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday February 04 2020, @04:04PM
Said it for me. The NFL: Legitimizing CTE for 100 years now.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Monday February 03 2020, @06:17AM (1 child)
I tend to sleep through the Super Bowl, but that's really easy for me to do given the time zone I'm in.
Because it's the opening weekend of the Six Nations championship, I watched a lot of rugby instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @06:23AM
Not so easy for me and i live in a timezone where the game starts at about 2am.