But not really. The Super Bowl is an event largely apart from the rest of the NFL season. It's a social event, a quasi-national holiday, and a sizeable chunk of people who will watch part of the game on Sunday will never, or rarely, tune in to a regular season game.Marciano490 said:Right, but the more people who watch the Super Bowl the more people the NFL can capture, which will increase regular season ratings, as well as ticket and merchandise sales.
In terms of ticket sales, most NFL stadiums are sold out every week. Teams are increasing revenue via higher prices, PSLs, etc., but there is relatively little margin for increases in the total amount of tickets sold.
I'm just arguing that the notion that the NFL is purposefully pushing this story as a means to drum up interest in the NFL is illogical on several fronts.
You'd think that would resonate in a thread where people are referencing Occam's razor every 10th post and screaming about how the media is concocting ludicrous scenarios instead of focusing on logical explanations and science.