Are you reading this, Paul?

No, actually I don't care. I can see the benefit for the city, but I'm not personally invested in it. "You're not watching the Super Bowl?" has become the new "Why don't you eat mean faggot?" I do eat meat and I think pro football is fine, but the constant need to impress upon everyone the importance of the game is getting a little old, and there's an underlying macho aspect to the whole thing. I'd like it if the Seahawks won, but it's not important.

#2: Mean = Meat

50%? Bullshit. Last year's Super Bowl pulled a 71 share. I bet this year will be more like 75.

Nobody cares, that you do care, either. Watch, don't watch, whatev.

I'm extremely grateful—for yet another day during the year when I can go to some beautiful place that might otherwise be crawling with humanity, and enjoy it in blissful silence.

"Here in Seattle, if you're still saying you don't care, you're faking."

Trust me, I don't care. Win or lose, I just want this 12th man "MeToo@AOL.COM" bullshit to end.

Meh, who cares?

@4, "share" is the percentage of TV sets in use watching the program, not people in America.

why, i say 'why', should i care that no one cares that i don't care?

I care only to the extent that, if the Seahawks lose on Sunday, I'm going to have to deal with a whole lot of sad/disappointed/angry/depressed friends on Monday, and I prefer my friends to be happy.

So, for their sake, I hope they win.

And yes, the fact I'm wearing blue today IS completely coincidental...

so, nobody cares we don't care, and it's ok we don't care as long as we don't talk about it, but we _must_ care anyway because feels? ok...

@10: No shit. BJC wrote: "All of America watches the big game, he says—except for the 50-percent-ish of all people watching TV during the Super Bowl who are watching something else."

This is untrue. In 2013, only 29% of all people watching TV during the Super Bowl were watching something else.

BJC is one of the worst chauvinists at the Stranger, a paper notoriously intolerant of dissent and diversity outside their two block radius of urban hipsterism.

You're wrong, Bethany. Again. There are people on Earth who are unlike you, who don't share your tastes, and who are not lying when they tell you they don't like what you like.

I don't expect telling you this to make a dent in your rigid worldview.

Bless you, Bethany! It is stupid and meaningless, but a helluva lot of fun.

Come on into the communal pool. The water is fine.

I just found out (thanks google) that the 12th Man is a nickname for the supporters. How'd they get that name?

I couldn't care less about the game, but my friends are having a day-drinking party so I'll be there. I'm also an atheist who celebrates all kinds of religious and pagan holidays, so there's some precedent.

I care about this game in the same way that I care about my mentally ill neighbor. It makes no difference in my life, but it makes me sad to see good people lose all of their time and energy to a pathological condition.

And I won't watch the game any more than I try to peer into the next door windows to witness private agonies. But I hope the Seattle team loses, just like I hope my neighbor is eventually committed to an institution, because it will be a painful but necessary first step toward recovery.

I can certainly understand there's many people that genuinely aren't interested in football. What I hope all people grow to understand, however, is that your interests, and your passionate disinterest, are not things that define you.

The more you want me to care, the more I will resist it.

Why do I have a feeling that, were the Seahawks not going to the Superbowl this year, Bethany would be one of the "look how much I don't give a shit!" people?

And, no, I seriously do not fucking care. I care so little that I will be doing literally nothing on Sunday to demonstrate to the public that I don't care, because I don't care enough to do even that.

@6,

I think I'll walk the streets and pretend I'm the last human alive on earth.

rob! @6 - The first Sunday in February is my favorite day to go to the beach. No monster trucks to be seen anywhere! Nothing but me, my partner, gulls and shorebirds.

He should get over his "get over yourself."

One thing I care less about than the Superbowl would be the upscale restaurants that the Stranger usually reviews.

I don't give a fuck about football, and I don't live in Seattle, so fuck the Superbowl.

DID NOBODY HERE READ ANYTHING PAST THE TITLE?

why does the "silent majority" need to "shut up" IF THEY'RE SILENT? anyway, no bethany, you are not omniscient, i am not faking, i don't care about the outcome of the game. i have never cared about football. i cared slightly about basketball when i lived in chicago during the jordan era; you didn't have to be a superfan of that game to appreciate the fact that when you watched jordan play, you were seeing something that was unlikely to be repeated by non-technologically-enhanced humans. i briefly cared about baseball like 15 years ago when i first moved here, for similar reasons; i dug watching ichiro play, but then the sport just got monotonous. but i don't care about soccer, i don't care about bicycling, or race car driving, or most olympic sports unless i'm watching cleverly edited highlight videos with emotionally compelling music beds, and i have never once been into football. i'm not into sports is the theme here, and i was silent about it until your troll post, bethany. which is fine, because i'm sure [trash talking is all part of the game or some other analogous analogy].

i also don't care about the academy awards, or the emmys, or the tonys, or the grammys. i mean, on an abstract level, i read internet blog posts about these awards for the same reason i read internet blog posts about sports: sometimes, an intelligent or savvy commentator offers up some nugget or some gem that informs me about pop culture and more importantly distracts me when i am otherwise bored stiff while standing in line at the grocery store reading blogs on my phone or whatever. but this is very different from caring about the outcome of the game, or the award ceremony, or the amanda knox jury trial, or whatever the fuck. your loud pronouncement to the contrary notwithstanding, bethany, no i actually don't care.

i do care about all kinds of shit that feels more relevant to me than sports. i'm not uncaring. i go through life caring about all kinds of crap that bethany's presumed omniscience didn't pick up or isn't worth blogging about or whatever. but i don't care even slightly about the seahawks. aside from this comment, though, i'm happy to go back to being silent about it.

@28,

Yes.

Here in Seattle, if you're still saying you don't care, you're faking.

"Here in Seattle, if you're still saying you don't care, you're faking."

I live in Seattle, and I'm from Denver, and I really don't care. Why would I?

I wouldn't mind watching the game. It might be mildly entertaining. But it's likely that I'll find other ways to spend that four hours, because I don't fucking care.

Seattle is the only place in the world -- ok, Portland, but they don't HAVE an NFL team -- where people spend this kind of effort talking about whether they care or don't care whether people they don't even know care or don't care about the Super Bowl.

Football is kind of dumb, but compared to this masturbatory navel-gazing, it's the height of culture.

@18: how cute.

we stole the the concept from the Texas A & M Aggies, where the student body/fans consider themselves the "12th Man" (out of 11) on the field, active participants in helping their team to victory.

every home game, the record-setting loudness of the Seattle crowd typically causes the visiting team to have 2 or 3 false start penalties, and waste a timeout because the QB couldn't get the play off in time.

@32 bravo

I love the fact that Pony is going to be closed this Sunday because they simply don't want to deal with football-drunk assholes of the type who added nothing positive to the ambience of Tiny Tea Dance last week. Go Marcus! The only thing about this game I care about is that it too, shall pass.

Well, you're partly right. We do care, even though we really didn't want to. We're caring against our will, in self-defense. When the more obnoxious fans started insistently shoving it in our faces, we became actively annoyed and put off by the whole thing. The "go big or go home" attitude is irritating to those of us who would either prefer to be quietly supportive or who really don't enjoy the game but feel pressured to act as though we do. I like football, but I really can't stomach the hype.

@ 33 - Well, we didn't exactly steal it. Seahawks paid TA&M $100,000 in 2006 in order to be able to use the phrase, and they pay $5,000 a year, every year, for the privilege. The contract was renewed in 2011 for another 5 years.

It's a great deal for the Hawks, for all kinds of reasons, and it doesn't seem to hurt The Aggies at all (Johnny Manziel, anyone?)....

What a coincidence! Nobody gives a shit that you give a shit about football! Now try not to flip the fuck out and ruin the town Sunday night, okay??

Nobody cares that you all care that nobody cares that you don't care.

Nicely done Bethany.

And OMG @19 that was brilliant!

Comment #29: big thumbs up. I might re-iterate that this is a troll article.

I just like how everyone forgets that Peyton Manning already has a Super Bowl ring, won the year after Seattle's own title hopes were stolen.

Of course it's a troll column but why pass up a chance to call out assholes being assholes? The majority of newbie Seahawk fans aren't really Seahawks fans, they are trend and excitement fans. There's a big difference, instead of being let down if the Hawks lose, they'll mope a bit and look for the next shiny thing.If the Hawks win, they'll get really drunk, tire of talking about it and look for the next shiny thing. We wont hear a word fromthem next season if the Hawks aren't on fire.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vI6LGR352yE/TH…

I find not caring to be very liberating. This whole nonsense is interesting from a sociological perspective, but ultimately there's so much going on in the world that's out of our control that it feels great to not give a flying fuck one way or the other.

I am not at all even remotely a football fan, having spent too many years in an uncomfortable woolen band uniform that was older than I was, waiting for the end of third quarter so I could leave.

But I think the Super Bowl is exciting. It would be neat if we won (as long as we don't riot) and a shame if we lost (especially if we riot). I am going to a Super Bowl party on Sunday, bringing devilled eggs and a lazy susan full of assorted sliced vegetables with dip, and I plan on not only watching, but enjoying myself. So there.

The 12th man thing dates back to 1985 or thereabouts. It was originally a promotion at The Bon Marche (which is odd, because
I believe the Nordstrom family still owned the Seahawks at that time. Perhaps they thought jerseys were beneath them).

@43, yup that is exactly me. I don't even know how handegg is played, but what I enjoy is the spirit and energy in it. At first in the season Injust enjoyed being social with friends. As things got more heated we watched at my friends loft overlooking the stadium. The amount of energy from person to person was ... Present. Like the type of collective emotion Jung wrote about.

yeah, that is all I care about, being in that experience. If you want to rag on that as an invalid excuse to participate in the fun.... BITE ME, WANKER. GO TEAM.

At a conference yesterday I turned to the friendly guy next to me and asked, "Is the Super Bowl this weekend?" To which he replied, "At least try to fake cultural competence." Best. Reply. Ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5J_kao6…

@48

You mean 1900 or thearabouts, not 1984.

Also, neither UW or Gonzaga were the first ones to think of spelling "dogs" as "dawgs".

nobody cares that you dont care about nobody caring

You sure set forth a good effort for someone who doesn't care that I don't care....are you certain that it doesn't bother you just a little?