Superbowl - 1 week away!

[Angel Tarragon]

I am not a huge football fan but I do enjoy watching the Superbowl. Hopefully it'll be a family get together this year. Any body else having a Superbowl party?

 

[Crothian]

Isn't it two weeks away?

 

[GlassJaw]

The Superbowl is Feb 4. It's always 2 weeks after the championship.

 

[Crothian]

It used to not always be that way.

 

[GlassJaw]

It used to not always be that way.

The only time it was one week that I can remember in recent memory was after Sept 11 because the league skipped a week. I'm pretty sure since they went to current divisional setup, it's been 2 weeks.

 

[Crothian]

The current division set up hasn't been there that long. We had over 30 Super Bowls before then

 

[LightPhoenix]

Man, and here I was hoping it wouldn't be near my birthday this year.

Ah well, at least it's not on my birthday (the 3rd) this year, I might be able to get people to go do something.

 

[kenobi65]

It used to not always be that way.

There's usually been a week off between the conference championships for as long as I can remember (going back 30 years or so).

There have been a few exceptions (the 2001 season being one, as GlassJaw notes), but only a few, AFAIK. It used to be that the Super Bowl always wound up being on or around my wife's birthday (January 29th), which would drive her nuts -- she hated that her birthday party seemed to always wind up with people watching football.

Since they moved the starting weekend for the regular season forward a week (to keep it from starting on Labor Day weekend, which always meant weak attendance and TV ratings), the Super Bowl usually winds up on the first Sunday in February.

Edit: and, they added the extra playoff week when they added a second wild-card team; that was sometime in the 1980s, IIRC.

 

[was]

Two weeks isn't too far away. Besides you have to give all those poor marketing people time to build the hype.

 

[drothgery]

The Superbowl is Feb 4. It's always 2 weeks after the championship.

It's usually that way, but sometimes it's not. The more notable relatively recent exceptions are the Pats first Super Bowl win (because 9/11 pushed the season out) and the first of the Bills four consecutive losses (no particular reason for that one). The players, coaches, host city, and TV networks all prefer the two-week dealy; fans might not like it, but we still watch.