Has the final four replaced the SB as your most enjoyable sporting event!?

[SydneyBillsFan]

My top 5 sporting events:

 

1. European Championship Final

2. World Cup Final

3. Superbowl

4. Australian Football League Grand Final

5. Bathurst 1000 (V8 Supercars)

 

Edited April 9 by SydneyBillsFan

[SectionC3]

No.  I didn't watch it.  Once I realized how much better then NBA is than college basketball, the college game was ruined for me.  

[BritBill]

8 minutes ago, SydneyBillsFan said:

My top 5 sporting events:

 

1. European Championship Final

2. World Cup Final

3. Superbowl

4. Australian Football League Grand Final

5. Bathurst 1000 (V8 Supercars)

 

 

The soccer finals, as a general rule, tend to disappoint. The 2022 World Cup final being a brilliant exception. However, the tournaments themselves are brilliant and will be in my top 5. 

 

As much as I love football and the Bills the Superbowl isn't an event I've ever been to or will likely get to so I struggle with it. Especially as it's usually preceded by disappointment with the Bills being knocked out a week or two earlier. When the Bills play in it and it's in London I might change my mind 😜 I think it's a cultural difference between the US and the UK. 

 

I'll throw The Ashes in there as an event which has the history, build up and in the last 20 years or so, produced some of the most memorable matches ever. The last series was immense. 

 

 

 

 

[BillsPride12]

The Super Bowl was always the biggest sporting event of the year for me.  Probably still is...but I dunno over the more recent years it's starting to lose some of it's luster in my opinion. It feels like the entertainment aspect is becoming bigger and bigger and it's starting to feel over the top. There's something that feels more pure about the Stanley Cup Playoffs and Master's weekend for me.  Obviously if the Bills ever made it back to the Super Bowl that would be the Number 1 sporting event hands down.

[eball]

9 hours ago, uticaclub said:

I thought this was one of the worst tournaments as far as close games and upsets. Snoozefest

What? NC State, multiple double digit seed wins, three teams in the Final Four who hadn’t been there in 40 years (Purdue, NCSU) and ever (Bama)?

 

So what that UConn is a great team and proved it. It was a great tournament. 
 

[Gregg]

3 minutes ago, BillsPride12 said:

The Super Bowl was always the biggest sporting event of the year for me.  Probably still is...but I dunno over the more recent years it's starting to lose some of it's luster in my opinion. It feels like the entertainment aspect is becoming bigger and bigger and it's starting to feel over the top. There's something that feels more pure about the Stanley Cup Playoffs and Master's weekend for me.  Obviously if the Bills ever made it back to the Super Bowl that would be the Number 1 sporting event hands down.

 

Agree with you but the league goes over the top with the entertainment to draw in the non-football fans. The football fan is watching because they want to see the game. The non-football fans tune in for the other stuff like the halftime show, commercials.

[ddaryl]

I do not watch either, unless a team from Buffalo is competing

[MiltonWaddams]

3 hours ago, Freak-O said:

Basketball? Tall men jogging and constant scoring? No thanks. 

Similar to the title for my autobiography. “Tall Man Biking and Constantly Scoring ”

[GottaRun]

I watched zero seconds of it, dullest sport on the planet, I'd watch lawn bowling before I watched basketball.

[jwhit34]

The Bills are my #1 sports team by far but I love basketball, it's my favorite sport. Played it, coached it for a long time, our kids both played. I was in high school when the Braves left town. Super sad day for me. I actually went to high school with Paul Snyder's (Braves original owner) kids and played basketball with George Daddario's (who was the Braves VP of Marketing) son. 

 

Alas, Buffalo is not a basketball town as shown by many of the responses. 

 

I love March Madness. Every year me and 7-10 of my college buddies go to the first two rounds of the tournament somewhere. We target a destination site when the first couple rounds are not in the area that one of us live (love it when it's in Buffalo). The first day is awesome watching 4 games in person, then the off day we hang out and watch games on TV all day. Then the 2 round of 32 games are usually really good. 

 

The women's game has made March Madness even better. This year's women's tournament I think was better than the men's, it definitely had more star power between Caitlin Clark (the biggest star men or women's game), Camilla Cardoso, Paige Bueckers, and all the great coaches like Geno Auriemma, Dawn Staley and the controversial Kim Mulkey. 

 

For the basketball junkie, the first weekend when it's non-stop games from Thursday on is tough to beat. Sprinkle in the women's games and it's even better. But as much as I love the tournament, and can't get enough of the games, the Super Bowl is tough to beat. You're watching the whole thing. I think the NCAA does itself a disservice playing the men's championship starting at 9:20 PM on a Monday night. For east coasters, that's too late. 

 

 

[JohnnyBuffalo]

Resounding NO!

 

The most frustrating thing about basketball is how slow it gets at the end of the game.    These are some of the most elite athletes on the planet and between fouls and timeouts the game screeches to a halt.  To me it’s boring and frustrating to watch.   “Oh the other man tapped my arm”. Game stop.  Boring.  
 

Playoff hockey on the other hand is some of the most exciting action in the critical times of the game. The refs take a step back and the whistle is put away the speed hits another level and the action is non-stop.   Unfortunately TV doesn’t showcase the speed and the Sabres have stunk for 12 seasons and counting…
 

So between March Madness and Super Bowl….Super Bowl is better.  
 

[wppete]

Absolutely not. Not even close. 

[corta765]

lol I am not sure if the final four is even in my top 10. In general I have found CBB increasingly boring, could just be me or less time having kids now. Also even though I am a NOVA fan for CBB who have been good for a long time, locally Cuse has fallen, UB stinks, Bona is up and down, etc... just haven't had much to root for locally to give me a vested interest

 

But for fun this is my top 5 of sporting events (not including bills):

 

1. NHL playoffs (hockey is my favorite sport)

2. NFL playoffs

3. NFL opening night/NFL opening weekend in general - tied here

4. CFB thanksgiving weekend

5. Masters 

 

Edited April 9 by corta765

[uticaclub]

48 minutes ago, eball said:

What? NC State, multiple double digit seed wins, three teams in the Final Four who hadn’t been there in 40 years (Purdue, NCSU) and ever (Bama)?

 

So what that UConn is a great team and proved it. It was a great tournament. 
 

NC State is not a Cinderella team. They have won the ACC championship and made over 30 tournament appearances. Although Purdue and Bama are not traditional basketball powerhouses, they still belong to the Big 10 and SEC respectively, and have been building their programs in recent years. However, none of the games were close or entertaining.

[Bleeding Bills Blue]

35 minutes ago, JohnnyBuffalo said:

Resounding NO!

 

The most frustrating thing about basketball is how slow it gets at the end of the game.    These are some of the most elite athletes on the planet and between fouls and timeouts the game screeches to a halt.  To me it’s boring and frustrating to watch.   “Oh the other man tapped my arm”. Game stop.  Boring.  
 

Playoff hockey on the other hand is some of the most exciting action in the critical times of the game. The refs take a step back and the whistle is put away the speed hits another level and the action is non-stop.   Unfortunately TV doesn’t showcase the speed and the Sabres have stunk for 12 seasons and counting…
 

So between March Madness and Super Bowl….Super Bowl is better.  
 

 

Love that Elam ending that they use in the basketball tournament.  No more stalling in the zone, no more intentional fouling, and it'd cut down on all the timeouts.  The only thing you lose is the potential "buzzer beater".  

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elam_Ending

[H2o]

I haven't watched basketball in general, except a Duke game here or there (favorite team since the mid 80's), since 2019. I haven't watched the Final Four since 2022, and I haven't watched a National Championship game in 9 years. The interest just isn't there anymore. 

[TheFunPolice]

Football is far and away my favorite sport, so for me the Super Bowl is a holiday.

 

Heck, we have a draft party the Thursday night of the 1st round every year. It's a show about teams picking players and I would rather watch that than the Final Four. 

 

But that's me. Football is a passion of mine, hockey I watch when the Sabres are good (so not for the past decade or so) and beyond that I might watch basketball if I'm bored and it's late at night but I don't follow it like I used to. 

[hondo in seattle]

I'm a Purdue alum so I watched a bunch of March Madness games this year and enjoyed Purdue's run.  And for me the answer is still an emphatic no.  Even if the Boilermakers had won the championship last night, it wouldn't have moved me nearly as much as a SB win.

 

My rooting energy is divided something like this:  Purdue football: 1%; Purdue basketball: 1%; Buffalo Sabres: 1%; Buffalo Bills: 97%.  

 

After the game last night, I've accepted that I'm just not destined to ever experience a championship.  The Bills lost in four championship game attempts. The Sabres had two tries and came up short both times.  This will probably be Purdue's only national championship game in either football or basketball in my lifetime and they failed.  I'm 0-7 in championship games/series.  

[eball]

58 minutes ago, uticaclub said:

NC State is not a Cinderella team. They have won the ACC championship and made over 30 tournament appearances. Although Purdue and Bama are not traditional basketball powerhouses, they still belong to the Big 10 and SEC respectively, and have been building their programs in recent years. However, none of the games were close or entertaining.

 

Sorry you feel that way.  I happen to disagree but to each his own.

 

[ArdmoreRyno]

Most enjoyable sporting even I've ever had in my life was when Oklahoma State beat St. Joe's in East Rutherford... back in 2004 to reach the Final Four. Was at the game with my late mother and late grandfather about 10 rows from the floor where the game winning shot was made (Met Tim Robbins that game). We had traveled to every Oklahoma State tournament game and the ups and downs were nearly emotional... then John Lucas III hit the 3 with a few seconds left for the win. 

 

Pure joy. Hard to beat. 

 

But no. Final Four hasn't taken over the Super Bowl. Not by a longshot.