SUPER BOWL? Thanks, but no thanks
AP FILE PHOTO Skiers take to the slopes at night at Camelback Ski Area in Tannersville. With most people parked in front of their TV on Super Bowl Sunday, it's a great day to hit the slopes, says Carleen Ladden of Lehighton. "My favorite thing is to go skiing because the slopes are EMPTY!" The same holds true with restaurants, museums and other venues. Times News correspondent Stacey Solt says she and her family enjoy going to their favorite, usually busy restaurant, because it's not crowded. Says Megan Rodgers of Lehighton, "My mom goes to Longwood Gardens to do some photography on Super Bowl Sunday. She says it's a great day to go, because there isn't anyone there!"
Super Bowl Sunday is just two days away! Excited?
No?
You're not alone.
Not everyone paints their face and sits glued to the television for four hours, with a buffalo wing in one hand and a cold beer in the other.
You can watch a movie, or binge watch Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy or Orange is the New Black. You could also find Jersey Shore marathons on MTV or Sex and the City marathons on E!
Tired of the same-old, same-old? PBS will broadcast a new episode of Downton Abbey.
If you prefer something more cerebral, you can always pick up a book, like reader Annette Sanders, who posted on our Facebook page: "Since my Packers are out of it, and I don't like either of the two teams in it, I will most likely be reading a good book!"
In case Annette, or anyone else, needs some suggestions, here's The New York Times top 10 books (print and e-books combined):
1. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins: A psychological thriller set in London is full of complications and betrayals.
2. Saint Odd by Dean Koontz: In the conclusion to the Odd Thomas series, Odd, who communicates with the dead, returns home to small-town California.
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn: A woman disappears on the day of her fifth anniversary; is her husband a killer?
4. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr: The lives of a blind French girl and a gadget-obsessed German boy before and during World War II.
5. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty: Who will end up dead, and how, when three mothers with children in the same school become friends?
6. Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag: Shaken by torture and rape at a serial killer's hands, a TV reporter returns to her hometown, where she investigates the disappearance of a high school friend many years earlier.
7. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James: An innocent college student falls in love with a tortured man with particular sexual tastes; the first of a trilogy.
8. Still Alice by Lisa Genova: A 50-year-old Harvard professor learns she has early-onset Alzheimer's disease; now a movie.
9. Fatal Scandal by Marie Force: In Book 8 of the Fatal series, Lt. Sam Holland of the Metropolitan Police defends two colleagues from allegations of scandal.
10. Gray Mountain by John Grisham: A downsized Wall Street lawyer joins a legal clinic in a small Virginia town, and litigates against the coal-mining industry.
Other things are readers are doing
• Making wine
• Cleaning or doing laundry
• Keeping everyone fed and snacking
• Living
• Working
• Organizing a sock drawer
• Taking their grandchildren to a pet show
• Watching the Puppy Bowl
And hands down favorite?
• Going on a cruise
I don't like football; I'm just here for the commercials
In spite of not liking football, there are many viewers who will watch just for the commercials.
Here are some of our Facebook posts:
Kathryn Kroboth: Hubby is going to watch the commercials would you believe? Why, I don't know. He never watches them any other time. Cheez !!
Nancy Barry Farkas: Don't care for either team ... COMMERCIALS
Sherry Lambert: Commercials (although have been going downhill last few years)
Annie Slonski: I like to watch because of the commercials, ESPECIALLY the Budweiser commercials featuring those gorgeous Clydesdales!!
You have to admit, it seems to be the Budweiser commercials that get everybody talking around the water cooler the next day.
This year is no exception.
Want a sneak peek? Check it out here: youtube.com/watch?v=xAsjRRMMg_Q.
Kathryn Kroboth also commented about the cost of those Super Bowl commercials.
"Did you read what a company has to pay for a commercial during that game? That's ridiculous!!"
It does seem kind of ridiculous. Those ads cost on average about $9 million for one minute.
That doesn't matter for Cathy Rose this year.
She said she's not watching the "cheater bowl," not even for the commercials.
