Originally posted by
Laughing Lagomorph
Seriously, you feel that strongly about it? How does it affect your life one way or another?
1) It’s a stupid, stupid, stupid idea, and I’m not a fan of such stupidity. There are many shows on TV that I don’t watch because they’re stupid. It’s a foolish investment that won’t amount to any benefit, even for the league. It’s disrespecting existing fans in a vain attempt to gain other fans.
2) I can support using
regular-season games played outside the US to promote the world-wide brand. My team, the 49ers, have played in two such games, including the very first in Mexico City. It’s a fun thing. But hosting the Super Bowl is a reward that the rest of the world hasn’t earned.
3) I can’t support sending the economic package of hosting a Super Bowl to a foreign country. It’s an American sport supported entirely* by American fans. The championship game should be accessible to those American fans. I know the thing is pretty much corporate-ed out and not so accessible to the average fan nowadays, but that is a separate issue that I also take umbrage with.
*: However many foreign fans there may be, their collective financial contributions amount to a hill of beans in the grand scheme of things, and they’re not concentrated in a single foreign city.