At the end of the day the estimated amount of money spent overall on the day of the super bowl ends up being around 5.6 billion dollars. I just want to take a step back and think that the kind of good that could be done with this money. To put it into a little bit of perspective, if America took three years and saved this money instead of spending it on super bowl enjoyment that would give us a budget of about 16.8 billion dollars. The other day I came across a picture on facebook which was created by Katie Bieber Loverland which shows the good we could do with 14 billion dollars. With this money we could give a year of education to 1.3 million school children, 70,000 $200 thousand dollar grants could be given for research on cancer, HIV/AIDS,
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Why do people spend so much money on one day? Why is it a thing to sit down for two plus hours and watch guys you don’t know throw a football around? The simple answer, entertainment. Any psychology major should know that in today’s society our generation is obsessed with always having to be doing something. Whether it be always being on your phone, playing a game, talking to people, or watching something on the television. Our brains always have to be stimulated, and football gives many people the opportunity to watch something and stay engaged. Football gives many ordinary Americans a team to follow every week and route for, it gives them the chance to get out of their lives and step into an alternate society. However, when it comes to routing for your sport team, as we talked about in class, when they win it becomes a ‘we won!’ but when the team loses it becomes ‘they lost’. This is because even though either way you did not actually do anything to help the team a person disengages from loss. These days a big thing with sports is fantasy leagues where a person can create their own little team and follow how everyone on their team is doing which if they do well you get more points for yourself. In the end though I believe that the reason super bowl games are so big in America is because people like to one come together and route for something, and also to pick one of the top teams and put yourself into the
Why do people spend so much money on one day? Why is it a thing to sit down for two plus hours and watch guys you don’t know throw a football around? The simple answer, entertainment. Any psychology major should know that in today’s society our generation is obsessed with always having to be doing something. Whether it be always being on your phone, playing a game, talking to people, or watching something on the television. Our brains always have to be stimulated, and football gives many people the opportunity to watch something and stay engaged. Football gives many ordinary Americans a team to follow every week and route for, it gives them the chance to get out of their lives and step into an alternate society. However, when it comes to routing for your sport team, as we talked about in class, when they win it becomes a ‘we won!’ but when the team loses it becomes ‘they lost’. This is because even though either way you did not actually do anything to help the team a person disengages from loss. These days a big thing with sports is fantasy leagues where a person can create their own little team and follow how everyone on their team is doing which if they do well you get more points for yourself. In the end though I believe that the reason super bowl games are so big in America is because people like to one come together and route for something, and also to pick one of the top teams and put yourself into the