The Super Bowl is the highest holiday of the year, the show at the Football Championship almost a national service for many Americans. This year, a singer convinced even more than the game.
It was the greatest day in Tim Collins’ life, this Sunday at Met Life Stadium in the swamps of New Jersey;, even though the Denver Broncos were presented bitterly with his idol Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl from the Seattle Seahawks and. “Since I was a little boy, I dreamed of being at once the big game,” the burly man said Encinitas in Southern California, while he sipped his beer at the stadium starting at midnight.
Of course, he had wanted a different outcome , but it outweighed the happiness about being there. Collins may be in his own words exactly remember every move in each of the playoffs the past 35 years . The Super Bowl , which was always the most important holiday of the year in the house of Collins, and now he has fulfilled his dream to be in the stadium once. For a year he has adamantly saved and the trip to New York indulgence.
There are also Americans , which the Super Bowl is a matter of indifference that can not do anything with 130 -pound men who go at each other with full force , with martial show elements such as a jet fighter air show and the excessiveness of commerce around these days . But for the vast majority of U.S. citizens of the Super Bowl plays a role similar to Collins. It is one of the holiest days of the year , a ” national service America’s largest religion , ” in the words of the magazine “The Week” .
Super Bowl 2014:Patriotic ritual of the first rank
Even the pregame show this Sunday left no doubt that it is in the game to a patriotic ritual of the first rank, and not just a sporting event. The national anthem was celebrated by the opera soprano Renee Fleming, the United States had moved with her performance at Ground Zero in October 2001. Soldiers in Afghanistan were switched on, and when the conclusion of the lecture the sky exploded over the Meadowlands of New Jersey rotweißblaue missiles, expressed the 80,000 spectators in the stands for minutes by deafening cheers their patriotism.
More than 100 million Americans rallied on Sunday in beer and buffalo wings – the traditional Super Bowl snacks – to their television. The Super Bowl is after each measurable parameter, the biggest sporting spectacle of the United States, the world, second only to the World Cup.
And it was another record year for the Super Bowl, as almost each of the 47 headed. The ability of the final match to bind the nation’s attention as well as the millions of the advertising industry for a day in the year, can be dull by any economic crisis and by no other world events. So the Super Bowl was in 2002 shortly after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 88 million viewers, four million more than last year. To watch the game that time was considered as something of a patriotic duty.
Super Bowl 2014:The NFL continues to bang
The attraction of the Super Bowl probably lies in a combination of marketing skill and luck. For example, there was the charisma of Jets quarterback Joe Namath, the third Super Bowl in 1969 made it the largest ever media event in U.S. sports. The Namath sensation, however, was favored by the fact that the Super Bowl, the final game between the champions of the two leagues AFL and NFL, still the only proper finale in American professional sport. All other sports trying to expand the audience interested over playoff series and so to maximize their profit. The NFL, however, relies on the bang.
Then there was the daring commercial for Apple Macintosh for the Super Bowl in 1984, which ushered in the current era of advertising. Since the advance of the advertising industry is jostling to be allowed to throw their money behind the NFL and trying to outdo themselves every year with more and more elaborate spots.
Finally, there was the decision of the NFL at the beginning of the nineties, to transform the halftime show in a private super-event. Since then, the Super Bowl is not only a highlight in the sport, but also in the pop calendar, on a par with the Grammys and the MTV Awards.
The big question this year was whether, boy is Bruno Mars, the NFL had booked to find access to a younger audience ready for the big spotlight in the still had been in the past year, Beyoncé. But the Hawaiians gave an energetic show that better than the reviews got but very one-sided game.
Super Bowl 2014:Denver Broncos – Seattle Seahawks 8:43 (0:8, 0:22, 8:36)
0:2 Safety (1)
0:5 31 yard field goal Hauschka (5)
0:8 yard field goal Hauschka (13)
12:15 2-yard touchdown run Lynch, extra point Hauschka (19)
00:22 69-yard interception return Smith, extra point Hauschka (27)
00:29 87-yard kickoff return Harvin, extra point Hauschka (31)
0:36 41 yard touchdown Wilson on Kearse, extra point Hauschka (43)
8:36 14 yard touchdown Manning on D. Thomas, two-point conversion on Manning Welker (45)
8:43 10 yard touchdown to Wilson Baldwin, extra point Hauschka (49)
