I Hate Football! 25 Things to Do Instead of Watching the Super Bowl
80I Love the football players, but I hate football!
Not a Super Bowl Fan?
If you are NOT a Super Bowl fan, then this is for you! Are you the only one in your office who isn’t invited to a Super Bowl party and can’t figure out where to bet on the football pool? Do you seem to always be the one person in the room who doesn’t know Eli Manning from the Wizard of Oz?
I may love the football players, but I stil hate football
First let me say that I don't hate football players. My husband was a football player in high school. My sons played football. Some of my grandsons played football. They started young.
But I have good reason to hate football. Imagine living in a house with a husband and 3 sons who are all football fans. That means football EVERY Sunday and EVERY Monday night during football season. It means football on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years and the whole month of January.
The guys shout out instructions to the televised coaches and players. The referees are yelled at. Favorite players are discussed like old friends. The guys remember Super Bowl's from 30 years ago, but SOME of them forgot my birthday this year. They can tell you who was on the winning team.
If you hate football season, too, you probably aren't looking forward to the upcoming hoopla of the Super Bowl. If you're lucky, your guy will be going to a Super Bowl party somewhere else, and you will have blessed relief from the shouting, beer drinking festivities.
Don't feel left out if you hate football
Don't feel left out on Super Bowl Sunday when it seems like everyone is talking about Super Bowl Parties, food for the Super Bowl and favorite football players. There are lots of fun things you and your non-football loving friends can do on Super Bowl Sunday.
25 Other Things to Do On Super Bowl Sunday
1. Have an Anti Super bowl Party.Gather together your girlfriends who have been deserted all football season and have an Anti Super Bowl Party. While the guys are having beer and pizza, serve your friends more sophisticated fare like pretty frozen drinks and crab puffs or mini quiche.
2. Get together with a friend for a spa weekend.
3. Stay home and hold the TV remote ALL evening long!
4. Have a mani/pedi party complete with lotions, nail polish and stick on decals. Order take-out from your favorite gourmet shop for you and your friends.
5. Rent a season of Sex in the City or Desperate Housewives to watch in peace and quiet.
Learn to knit instead of watching the Super Bowl
6. Get out that carton of photographs and put them in albums.
7. Finish the baby book you started for your second child in 1977.
8. Clean out your junk drawer.
9. Go through the digital photographs on your computer and rename them something besides DM004102.
10. Teach yourself to knit.
Learn to Crochet Instead of Watching the Super Bowl
11. Go through your makeup case and throw out everything from the 1990’s.
12. Clean out your husband’s closet and dispose of his leisure suit, the t-shirts with the grease spots on them and the flannel shirts with the frayed collars. Quick, before he gets back from his Super Bowl party!
13. Write in your new 2012 journal. You’re only behind a month – you can still catch up!
14. Teach yourself to crochet and start a new project.
15. Find your old classmates on Facebook and send them friend requests.
16. Google your old boyfriend and stalk him a little.
17. Rent a couple of “chick flicks” and invite your friends to watch. Serve wine and appetizers .
Learn how to fold a T-Shirt instead of watching the Super Bowl
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What Will You Do on Super Bowl Sunday
See results without voting18. If Hubby is off with the guys to watch the super bowl, get a couple of chick flicks and settle in for a cozy evening with a box of tissues, a pint of Ben and Jerry's and a bag of chips.
19. Teach yourself to fold a T-shirt perfectly every time. You'll be the new Martha Stewart of the book club!
20.Host a tea party. In honor of “anti Super Bowl” day, be sure to dress up a little and play soft jazz or classical music in the background. Serve dainty crustless sandwiches, fancy cookies and tiny nibbles with a variety of flavored teas.
21. Have a game night for non-football fans. Play some great group games like Apples to Apples or Trivial Pursuit. Play Scrabble or try Bananagrams, a faster moving word game for 2-6 players.
22. Update your Pinterest boards and add referral trackers to all of your pins.
23. Make a Handmade Valentine for your sweetheart.
24. Download some new free apps or ebooks to your Kindle or Nook, and spend the evening reading or playing games .
25. Update your blog with pictures of your Anti Super Bowl party.
So cheer up. There is life during Super Bowl Sunday for those of us who hate football. Get together with your non-sports fan friends and do something fun, or spend a wonderfully quiet evening at home. What ever you do, short of going to the dentist, it will be more fun than watching the Super Bowl!
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Haha, Ardie! Me too! Luckily, hubby has a tv in another room, so I only have to hear it when the shouting gets out of hand!
No men live here but the game will be on for my Mom who loves it but if it stays on....well, who knows. I usually watch the half time but I'm almost always disappointed, I'm getting old for sure. So, I might go shopping or like Ardie on my computer. Fun hub Stephanie.
Marellen - I know a lot of women who love football and who will be watching the big game. Me, I'll pick something from my list of 25 Things to Do Instead of Watching the Super Bowl! Thanks for stopping by to comment!
Stephanie...
Well now...I am a guy and will watch a football game and understand (most) of the rules...not the real technical stuff though, but I don't have that deep love that the fanatics do...I don't know all the stats or really have a favorite team and, as such, I can take it or leave it.
Now the problem is I do not believe myself coordinated enough to knit and I believe my make-up from the 90s has already been tossed. Perhaps a book...
Thanks,
Thomas
Great ideas! I like watching some of the game, the commercials but I won't be watching half-time with what's her face performing. Ha! I wrote a similiar hub for college football. GO GIANTS!:)
Thoughtsandwiches - How rude of me to assume that my audience looking for things to do instead of watching the Super Bowl would be mostly women! Perhaps you could clean out the medicine chest and discard all the expired medicines instead of cleaning out your makeup case... :) Thanks for your comments!
Sunshine - In spite of my best intentions, I'm sure some football will seep under the door of the den on Sunday. I think most of my guys are Giants fans, too. They're a football team, right? Haha... Thanks for your comments!
Hahahaha...very good. My husband watches football, but is far from a fanatic. He does not (thankfully) feel the need to watch every single game all season long. He watches the occasional Sunday game, and I don't mind.
He doesn't memorize statistics, and while he is more familiar with the players than I, I doubt he could name all of them on all the teams...in fact, I know he could not.
I watch a little bit, now and then, IF our local team is playing. Frankly, I'm a fair weather fan. Once our team is out of the running, so is my interest.
This year, however, I'm a teensy bit torn. "OUR" team is out, but my alternate team...the Patriots...(for whom I must share a bit of allegience due to my New England ancestry)...is in...so I don't know whether I'll be sneaking peeks or not. Hubby is defintely NOT watching.
Thanks for a great article..Voted up and funny, as well as interesting. Cool videos!
This is a cute hub. I always need an alternative to the Superbowl when my team doesn't make it. I am a die hard Steelers fan. I may peek at some commericals, but I won't party until the Steelers return. But this is a cute hub with a ton of things I need to get done any way. Well done. These will help me if Nascar is on. :)
Stepphy: I lived in the US for 8 memorable years. Being a sports nut - like most males - I soon became enamoured with "Gridiron" - American Football, along with rugger, soccer, cricket and all the other games I love.
Here in the UK we are AM Footy deprived! Now and again, some great US team like Dallas or Steelers (my team) deign to arrive on our shores and beat a local team by a zillion-love. But we do get great BBC coverage with US commentators on the Super Bowl. No Steelers this year, but the Giants should do a job on the opposition i think. Manning's got 'em hanging, babe!
I know you wouldn't deny your poor cuzzies their one time to see this GREAT game!
You would? Cruel, cruel Bob
DzyMsLizzy - Oh, a fair weather fan, are you? I have to admit that I've watched one or two Super Bowls when our local teams played. Having been around football fanatics for many years, I picked up a lot about the game whether I wanted to or not! Well, do enjoy your weekend, whatever you do. Thanks for sharing your football experiences!
Tammyswallow - I see, another fairweather football fan. I hear the commercials are pretty good. Sometimes I even watch some of them myself. Oh, Nascar is a whole other story -- thankfully, I don't have to live with any Nascar fans... Thanks for stopping in to read and comment!
Bob - My son's job is in the UK right now and he is desperately missing football. I know he will be thrilled to be able to watch the Super Bowl! I don't deny you a chance to see football - as long as I don't have to watch it with you! :) Do enjoy it!
Thought I would come by to help you meet your goal today. I stopped pretending I liked football years ago, lol. What is worse is listening to the ones watching it! I get out of the house!
Jackie Lynnley - Thanks so much for stopping by - I did meet my goal of 50,000 hubs today! I agree, listening to the football fans in the house is just as bad as listening to the game!
Hi Stephanie,
I was thinking about writing something similar but I completely agree with you. The Super Bowl is so boring. I think I am just going to watch the Law & Order marathon or watch TCM's 31 days of Oscar. I may watch the commercials and half-time show but other than that they can count me out. I enjoyed reading this!
Alecia Murphy - Since I got a Kindle for Christmas, I've been having fun downloading new free books and apps. I'm sure I'll find a great book to read... oh, for a quiet place to read it!
Hahaha! - Fun hub! In honor of “anti Super Bowl” day I would love to try out any of your 25 great ideas!
Thank you for linking my tea party hub to this hub. To attend a tea party, perhaps recapture the romance from the past ages from the Victorian era, sipping tea and munching on quaint little treats instead of watching the big game, is a great idea!
Voted up! Well done Stephanie!
Popular subject right about now! I get to make snacks for my hubby--before I go off and nap!
SanneL - I thought that a refined tea party would be a perfect Anti Super Bowl party. It is so much the complete opposite of a Super Bowl party. And the suggestions in your hub are wonderful! Thanks for your commets and vote!
AudreyHowitt - There does seem to be endless talk of the Super Bowl right now. Hope you get some of those snacks before your nap!
Very funny and some practical advice too! I do not plan on watching super bowl but I could just as easily be sucked in because I liked the second football game I watched in my life this last season. My eyes are on the Africa Cup Soccer games going on right now. I had to learn to love soccer and so I know I have fallen in love with Football. Best wishes to everyone who feels a little left out during this season! :)
Donnaisabella - Oh, it sounds like we've lost you to the football fan club! You may not plan on watching the Super Bowl, but you could be easily convinced. Whatever you decide to do, enjoy the weekend!
Thanks Stephanie.
Hi Stephanie...How can you not like Super bowl Sunday. When I lived in the States it was my favourite day of the year together with Thanksgiving and the World series...and I'm a Brit! But if you don't want to watch the football why not watch cricket....that game lasts 5 days....lol
Ah, Stephanie....You're a kindred spirit! I've never liked football, though I've watched football games in the past to please others. (When I lived in Dallas, it was during the height of the Cowboys' Super Bowl victories, and it was considered heresy not to watch "America's Team." Of course, football is another religion in Texas!)
Now, however, I just please myself! That means no watching football, and everyone knows not to even try to discuss it with me.....
Happy Avoid-Super-Bowl-Day!
JayeWisdom - It is pretty hard to avoid hearing about football I'm afraid I can't avoid hearing about football when you are surrounded by avid football fans, isn't it? I will manage to find another activity that day, though! Thanks for stopping by to read and comment!
One2get2no - There is an exciting party atmosphere surrounding Super Bowl Sunday that's hard to ignore, isn't there? I don't think I'd be a very good cricket fan, though... really? 5 days? LOL!
Even though I absolutely LOVE football--and can't wait until Sunday for the Super Bowl--I loved all the suggestions and ideas you have for those who don't share my passion, lol...
It also reminded me of all the things I need to do, but keep putting off! :D
Loved this--I hope you have a fun-filled day on Sunday!
TamCor - To each his/her own! Hehehe... Do have a wonderful Super Bowl Sunday, even if you do spend it watching football! Thanks for stopping in to read and comment!
Finally! Someone who hates football as much as I do!
I don't even know what teams are playing in the Super Bowl. I never watch football. I use the excuse that I don't understand it, but in truth, I just don't like it.
DFallis - Well, in my house, I end up knowing which teams are playing just because there is so much talk about it, but it doesn't mean a whole lot to me. It sounds like you'll be taking up one of those 25 things to do instead of watching the Super Bowl! Have a good day!
Have fun out there today the streets will be quite so go and enjoy something outdoors or any of the other things on the list.
CZCZCZ - There are always so many things to do, but I'm afraid the rain today will limit me to indoor activities. Thanks for stopping in to comment!
I have to agree with you on this. I cannot stand football or football season. I am so relieved it is finally almost over. I will no longer be ignored by my male friends (and half my female friends!)... I might actually have dates again Sundays once football is over. Hooray!
Jeannieinabottle - Hooray! No woman like to compete with a televised football game for attention from friends, male or female! The trouble is that football season seems to last longer and start earlier every year! Thanks for stopping in ... enjoy your evening!
Oh my gooddness, you are my new hero! I hate how people let football rule their lives. During football season, I sometimes feel like I have no friends because they all "have" to "watch the game." Football fans seem to let the sport dominate their lives more than other sports fans.
Natashalh - Hahah...It does seem that weekends and Monday nights during football season are dominated by the sport in some homes. I'm always glad for a few months reprieve after the Super Bowl and before the pre-season games in the fall. Thanks for your comments!
I should have had an anti Super bowl Party!! To bad I only discovered this now. There is always next year....I have a lot of football games until then so that should give me plenty of time to plan ;)
jenniferg78 - Hahaha... It sounds like you should have had an anti Super Bowl party! Do plan one for next year, and have a great time! Thanks for stopping in to comment!
Well, I played football on a coed 2-handed touch team. We didn't have refs that first year. It was more like tackle and some of us girls would jump on the guys backs to slow them down. My team went from last to first place, but one girl got her nose broken and I got knocked out. My career was cut short . . . haven't played since then -- but who knows? It's only been 33 years.
I did not go to an actual Super Bowl Party. I went grocery shopping. Then I played Chutes & Ladders and had a party with my 5 y.o. for the rest of the afternoon before I had to go to work. At a casino. Talk about a party!
Great game not quite ruined by the awful Madonna!
Bob
BakingBread-101 - Maybe it's more fun if you play, but getting a broken nose and getting knocked out isn't exactly my cup of tea! Well, maybe 33 years ago... I'll bet the casinos were having some wild parties on Super Bowl Sunday! But at least you got paid for going! :) Thanks for stopping by to share your football experiences.
Diogenes - From what I hear it was a great game, so I'm glad that Madonna didn't ruin the Super Bowl for you. I enjoyed playing on my computer and reading a new book on my Kindle! :)
Oh believe it or not....I totally dislike football!!!
I've been annoyed to high heaven my entire life by the expectations of folks who've thought that I should love football like they do.
"No, I have no idea if the Cowboys will win this week! I don't even know if they're playing!" - my standard answer to everyone's standard question just following,
"how ya doin'?"
I thought for a long time it was some sort of thing that....people trying to be Mr. Macho just loved...but then I met some gay dudes that LOVED football...and then realized that tons of women love it too.
Me...not so much....at. all.
I love me some Major League Baseball though - about like Elvis loved pb and fried nanner sammiches!
Wesman Todd Shaw - I've learned a little about football through osmosis living in a household with hubby and 3 sons who love the game, but can't say that I've ever cared about it that much, and I never know who's playing or if the person they're talking about is a football player, a coach or a golfer! Now Elvis...that's another story!
Ardie Level 8 Commenter 3 months ago
Hahah Great article. I will NOT be watching football at ANY point during this football season. I will probably be at my computer writing, playing on FB, or napping.