I love the Super Bowl, but it isn’t for fans. It’s for corporations, sponsors, and wealthy businessmen who can fly their private jet half way around the world to see a game played between two teams that they probably don’t even care about.

If the Super Bowl was designed for the fans, then the game would be played in the hometown of the team with the best record. And I’m not just saying that because I’m a bitter Giants fan that doesn’t have the $3,500 to drop on a ticket.

In a venue like Phoenix Stadium which can house over seventy thousand screaming and adoring fans, only six thousand tickets are allocated to the season ticket holders of each team. The other sixty thousand tickets are divided up amongst the NFL, corporations, and sponsors.

And the sad truth is that advertisers don’t even want fans at the game; they want us at home watching their 3 million dollar commercials with the other ninety-five million Americans. Which incidentally is nearly triple the amount of people who tuned in last week for the State of the Union address.

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