{"id":28173,"date":"2007-02-02T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2007\/02\/02\/super-bowl-sunday-the-day-the-entire-country-stops-doing-anything\/"},"modified":"2007-02-02T10:00:17","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T10:00:17","slug":"super-bowl-sunday-the-day-the-entire-country-stops-doing-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20070202-17\/?p=28173","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl Sunday: The day the entire country stops doing anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This upcoming Sunday features an event that means absolutely nothing to people outside the United States: The Super Bowl. I call it an event because it is more than simply a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_football\"> football<\/a> game. It&#8217;s an American institution. Even people who think a <a href=\"http:\/\/football.about.com\/cs\/football101\/g\/gl_noseguard.htm\"> nose guard<\/a> is a piece of safety equipment will watch the game, or at least pretend to be interested in it for a few hours.\n At a party last year, I met someone who spent time as an emergency room doctor, and he told me that the entire hospital goes quiet when the Super Bowl is on. Patients don&#8217;t come in. Inpatients don&#8217;t call for nurses. Those who are already in the waiting room are transfixed by the television set. It&#8217;s like a national hypnosis has taken over.\n A few months ago, I met someone who works in a hospital as a mental health specialist and asked her whether the Super Bowl had the same sedative effect on her patients. &#8220;Nope. These people are oblivious to the Super Bowl.&#8221;\n Perhaps they were French.<\/p>\n<p> (Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/international\/story\/9179720\"> I won&#8217;t be able to use this joke for much longer<\/a>.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This upcoming Sunday features an event that means absolutely nothing to people outside the United States: The Super Bowl. I call it an event because it is more than simply a football game. It&#8217;s an American institution. Even people who think a nose guard is a piece of safety equipment will watch the game, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-28173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>This upcoming Sunday features an event that means absolutely nothing to people outside the United States: The Super Bowl. I call it an event because it is more than simply a football game. It&#8217;s an American institution. Even people who think a nose guard is a piece of safety equipment will watch the game, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}