The Super Bowl No One Wanted

[H2o]

I looked at the score every so often on ESPN, and I saw some videos as they were posted on social media. I didn't watch the first minute of the game. 

[US Egg]

4 hours ago, Brand J said:

Think I heard Jay Z/Roc Nation has put together the last few halftime shows, which is why they’ve all been hip hop. I’ve never liked Kendrick Lamar’s nasally voice so I didn’t tune in for longer than a minute. Have no idea what Samuel L Jackson was doing out there but also don’t care enough to find out why.

They should have LL Cool J, I like him.

[LABILLBACKER]

8 hours ago, BuffaloMatt said:

Don't forget the imapct that gambling has on viewership. And I hate to say it Taylor Swift had an impact with certain demographics. 

Doesn't TayTay have 127M followers?   Just sayin?

[BigDingus]

"Some of the increase can be attributed to a change in the way viewers are counted. This is the first year Nielsen is measuring out-of-home viewers for all states but Hawaii and Alaska."

 

Interesting. I'd be curious to know viewership by country.

 

I suspect viewership goes up as international viewers are increasing. Perhaps ratings dipped in the US but international viewership offset that, though I don't think the Nielsen Ratings track that (could be wrong).

[GETTOTHE50]

Didn’t turn it on till the 4th qtr when the game was out of hand

[nucci]

Eagles and Chiefs and their fans wanted it.

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

It was the trendy thing to say that you’d rather watch Hallmark Christmas movies, but at the end of the day, it’s the super bowl and the last NFL action until September, so yeah, I didn’t believe that viewership would be down

[RobbRiddick]

It was glorious. I haven’t enjoyed a beat down so much since I paid a group of bikers to show my wife’s lover the error of his ways*

 

 

 

 

 

 

(*for not letting her move in with him)

[finn]

15 hours ago, Brand J said:

If you guys recall, going into the conference championship games the most popular SB matchups - from best to least - were:

 

Bills vs Commanders

Bills vs Eagles

Chiefs vs Commanders

Chiefs vs Eagles 

 

There was then talk about boycotting the SB over questionable officiating and many others said they simply weren’t interested enough to watch. Well, the ratings are out, and the NFL has set yet another record:

 

https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-ratings-fox-nielsen-eagles-chiefs-e0c22b0e956e16637870110140933cea

 

Guess more needed to boycott.

You're missing the most obvious reason: the word spread that the Chiefs were being humiliated and tuned in. That's the only reason I did. Don't underestimate the power of schadenfreude. 

[boyst]

12 hours ago, Jrb1979 said:

 Nope not at all. Reading that tells me they are getting a more accurate number. 

Instead let's keep this boycott going. 

You seem like a fungi so let's dance.

 

Your argument is that it is more accurate because people wear devices. That 100k people represent the makeup of Nielson, that is it, everybody's talking about that being a strong enough makeup who believes in this bit of coconuts. Sorry to Jump Into the Fire, but it's a lot more complex than this. These devices may be catching drift. Someone in a bar with the game on but not there for the game. The housewife doing the dishes not watching the game. Me, watching Twilight Zone with the dog, just Me and My Arrow.

 

Nielson is using 100k people to propagate statistics. We don't know what the demographics and how they are weighed. Historically, as of recent the 50+ watches the most TV so the majority of these folks are over fifty - but that is because they watch TV from the time they get home until the late night shows. However, the largest demographic shift of daytime viewership, specifically mid morning to late morning is black women who watch most of their TV in the morning. The 35-50 age group watches evening TV after 8.

 

Nielson uses these factors to measure their TV viewership. It isn't an en masse system to count all 100k at one time. They count and weigh how many of their P1 viewers are engaged during the time studied.

 

Further, if they're now finally getting a full viewership based on ooh than how can they say the past results were accurate? You have to pad equal weight to the inflation of this year's numbers to those. That's how statistics work.

 

Regardless, you're breaking my heart that statistics and the understanding of this process is awful by the laymen standard.

 

Spaceman.

 

 

 

Ok. That's like 11 titles in there. That was fun. 

Edited February 12 by boyst

[Jrb1979]

9 minutes ago, boyst said:

You seem like a fungi so let's dance.

 

Your argument is that it is more accurate because people wear devices. That 100k people represent the makeup of Nielson, that is it, everybody's talking about that being a strong enough makeup who believes in this bit of coconuts. Sorry to Jump Into the Fire, but it's a lot more complex than this. These devices may be catching drift. Someone in a bar with the game on but not there for the game. The housewife doing the dishes not watching the game. Me, watching Twilight Zone with the dog, just Me and My Arrow.

 

Nielson is using 100k people to propagate statistics. We don't know what the demographics and how they are weighed. Historically, as of recent the 50+ watches the most TV so the majority of these folks are over fifty - but that is because they watch TV from the time they get home until the late night shows. However, the largest demographic shift of daytime viewership, specifically mid morning to late morning is black women who watch most of their TV in the morning. The 35-50 age group watches evening TV after 8.

 

Nielson uses these factors to measure their TV viewership. It isn't an en masse system to count all 100k at one time. They count and weigh how many of their P1 viewers are engaged during the time studied.

 

Further, if they're now finally getting a full viewership based on ooh than how can they say the past results were accurate? You have to pad equal weight to the inflation of this year's numbers to those. That's how statistics work.

 

Regardless, you're breaking my heart that statistics and the understanding of this process is awful by the laymen standard.

 

Spaceman.

 

 

 

Ok. That's like 11 titles in there. That was fun. 

That all could be true. It doesn't change how many tuned in. I get many want to believe there was an actual boycott and many didn't tune in.  The majority of people tuning in are casual fans and tune in regardless of the teams playing 

[T master]

Well they must have taken the rating in the second half when every one knew the Chiefs were taking a ass whooping because that's when every body tuned in i'm thinking . I know i watched Dr Phil almost the entire first half and it was far more appealing .

 

As far as Super bowls go this one pretty much stunk ! The only thing great about it was the thumping the Eagles gave out ! Oh and that Siriani was from Jamestown !!

 

The half time show was totally unappealing i tuned back long enough to hit the back button on my remote ! I would have loved to see Paul McCartney run down out of the stand and tell that dude to give me the freakin mike & let me show you how this is done !! This is saying something i would have rather watched Taylor than that guy ...

 

The entire Super Bowl experience is becoming way to over the top any more I can't remember another game where they had built doors for the players to  come out of REALLY ??? There is such a thing of over saturation or what a old guy i use to work with use to say "It's just to much S**T for a nickel" I didn't see any commercials that were half funny at all but i only watched the second half so i may have missed a few of them .

 

The classic commercial show that had shown prior to of past Super bowl commercials was much better than the actual ones for this year .

 

The only way a Super bowl can get any better in the future is if the Bills are in it, and as far as the half time talent man i hope they get some better up and coming talent because its getting bad !! 

[Brand J]

13 minutes ago, T master said:

The half time show was totally unappealing

I agree with you, but just saw it broke Michael Jackson’s record for most watched halftime performance of all time. Kendrick Lamar? Unreal.

[T master]

1 hour ago, Brand J said:

I agree with you, but just saw it broke Michael Jackson’s record for most watched halftime performance of all time. Kendrick Lamar? Unreal.

 

It just goes to show that if he beat MJ the bar as far as talent has been set pretty low IMHO ... Real talent doesn't matter any more . Will anyone know him 50 yrs from now ?? I bet they will remember MJ though . That's just me .

 

Edit; And MJ did what he did with out the internet his was all just from album sales can you only imagine if he had the internet in 1982 when the album Thriller was released ? It sold 32 Million copies with NO internet - Just saying ...

Edited February 12 by T master

[boyst]

2 hours ago, Jrb1979 said:

That all could be true. It doesn't change how many tuned in. I get many want to believe there was an actual boycott and many didn't tune in.  The majority of people tuning in are casual fans and tune in regardless of the teams playing 

Point went right past you. No one cares about the boycot that you're missing.

 

The stats were padded by counting people never counted before. Counting the one unit at my neighbors had 12 kids over watching it to count 12 instead of 1 this year. The past so many years it always counted as 1 or however many in the household.

 

The super bowl had 4 viewers: eagles fans, people wanting to see the chiefs fans, people who watched it to be cool, and chiefs fans/12 yr old girls who like Taytay. 

[Jrb1979]

2 minutes ago, boyst said:

Point went right past you. No one cares about the boycot that you're missing.

 

The stats were padded by counting people never counted before. Counting the one unit at my neighbors had 12 kids over watching it to count 12 instead of 1 this year. The past so many years it always counted as 1 or however many in the household.

 

The super bowl had 4 viewers: eagles fans, people wanting to see the chiefs fans, people who watched it to be cool, and chiefs fans/12 yr old girls who like Taytay. 

Got you now. Now they are counting people that most likely aren't watching making the ratings better. 

 

Even without that I'm sure the number was still very high. Your list you made is still a high number of people. 

[Jerome007]

I watched it. But with very small attention or anticipation. I heard but not watched that horrible halftime crap. And by the 4th quarter I was listening but not watching. It hasn't happened since, well, ever ha ha.

[boyst]

22 minutes ago, Jrb1979 said:

Got you now. Now they are counting people that most likely aren't watching making the ratings better. 

 

Even without that I'm sure the number was still very high. Your list you made is still a high number of people. 

Yes, now you're starting to understand now let's walk this out. This year they finally started including others in their ratings. Others that were additional or going to parties or stuff like that. In the past those events happened in those people were never captured. In the past in the captivating game a lot of people would go watch this. A lot of people would remain engaged or check back in during the falcons Patriots game. 

 

This year's entirely different because they were able to capture those people supposedly in the past they didn't, which is suspect. You can't claim this is the highest watch super bowl if you suddenly change the metrics on how you measure. 

[bigduke6]

didnt watch a lick of the game.  dont feel like i missed out on anything.  kinda wished both teams could lose.  

Edited February 12 by bigduke6

[Goin Breakdown]

7 hours ago, AlCowlingsTaxiService said:

It was the trendy thing to say that you’d rather watch Hallmark Christmas movies, but at the end of the day, it’s the super bowl and the last NFL action until September, so yeah, I didn’t believe that viewership would be down

Hahaha. I legit did watch hallmark. My daughters watch when calls the heart and so I watched with them. lol funny you worded it that way!