Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by martyb on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-other-game-of-football dept.

The "other" game of football has its championship today. On the docket are:

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


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:49PM (9 children)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:49PM (#952933)

    Football, baseball, basketball - it's all a bunch of guys playing with their balls. I don't want to watch that.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +2  
       Insightful=2, Total=2
    Extra 'Insightful' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   4  
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 02 2020, @11:59PM (#952935)

    What are you, effing straight?!

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Monday February 03 2020, @12:18AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 03 2020, @12:18AM (#952945) Journal

    Football, baseball, basketball - it's all a bunch of guys playing with their balls. I don't want to watch that.

    Baseball is so much worse then the other two - they aren't just playing with their balls, they are hitting them with a bat.

    it's all a bunch of guys playing with their balls

    You only need a bit of patience, until the women counterpart pick up.
    The US women's soccer team is currently the champion in ball kicking [wikipedia.org]

    (grin)

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday February 03 2020, @01:51PM (1 child)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Monday February 03 2020, @01:51PM (#953106) Journal

      Baseball is so much worse then the other two - they aren't just playing with their balls, they are hitting them with a bat.

      Some people pay double for that action.

      --
      Washington DC delenda est.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @09:55PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @09:55PM (#953311)

        Especially if lawyers and politicians are involved.

  • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday February 03 2020, @12:44AM (1 child)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Monday February 03 2020, @12:44AM (#952954)
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @12:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @12:57AM (#952957)

      Yuck.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by SpockLogic on Monday February 03 2020, @02:09AM (1 child)

    by SpockLogic (2762) on Monday February 03 2020, @02:09AM (#952970)

    Football :- a game for two teams of eleven players who kick a round ball and score goals.

    American Football* A game nothing like Football, closer to Rugby with plastic armor, where two quarters of fifteen minutes takes an hour and a half to complete.

     

     

     

    *AKA Selling Advertising

    --
    Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @10:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @10:13PM (#953317)

      That's one thing I find annoying with American sports, its the time-outs. Why interrupt the flow of the game? Tactics can be applied during quarters/half-time, the flow of the game is important and team's that can't recover from a poor run deserve losing.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @03:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 03 2020, @03:05AM (#952985)

    > it's all a bunch of guys playing with their balls.

    Cue Papa Hemingway, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”

    No Superbowl on in our house. But I'll be attending a Daytona 500 party (which has been going on for 40 years) in two weeks. Good friends, beer, chili and a low-buck pool (draw a car number out of a hat).