I’ve moved to a sports desert.
Kind of knew that already since Vancouver is a one-sport town: hockey. Oh. Wait. Check that. Canucks hockey. But since cable providers have the major US networks, like NBC, CBS, ABC and Fox (who knows why?), I figured watching American sports would suffice. The real trouble would start when baseball season arrived, at which point I hope to find some friends who like taking trips to Seattle to see a baseball game, or making online friends with people from Seattle who like to go to Mariners games.
So partaking in the American right of passage known as the Super Bowl by going to a Super Bowl party didn’t strike me as being any different than what I’d do if I were back home in Chicago.
Silly me.
I don’t know what rules there are, but Super Bowl commercials are not shown in Canada during the Super Bowl. Why anyone in Canada would watch the Super Bowl other than to see the commercials, I don’t know either. I can only guess that, in Vancouver anyway, the Canucks have the night off.
They don’t show Super Bowl commercials in Canada.
So I had to ask: what did they do before the Internet and YouTube?
Answer: Nothing.
Why? Because they didn’t know they were missing anything. Seriously. They had no idea Super Bowl commercials are the biggest deal since sliced bread. Or perhaps the Oscars.
It’s mind boggling to me. With two previous Super Bowl winners duking it out, the commercials are the best part! And the only reason to watch, really. Granted, it turned into a good game. Bit of a nail biter there as it looked like Tom Brady would pull out another win. But without the commercials, it wasn’t quite as much fun to watch. There was a piece missing without the commercials.
Seriously. Who allows the Super Bowl to be aired sans Super Bowl commercials?!
NFL, NBC or whatever party is responsible, you hereby get a #fail.
Oh, and another thing: Canadians think it’s hilarious that the NFL, NBA and MLB crown a “world champion” since the winner only plays teams in its own country.