Attending or hosting a Super Bowl party can be one of the best ways to take in the Big Game.
It can also be the worst part of the Super Bowl if the attendees are difficult, annoying, or boring.
As someone who has frequented many Super Bowl parties throughout the years, I've experienced some that were incredible, others that were terrible and everything in between.
And when I think specifically about the bad ones, they typically had at least one of the three people I've detailed below.
So without further ado, I have for you here the three worst people you'll encounter at any Super Bowl party.
The Worst People at Any Super Bowl Party
3. The Super Bowl Party Lingerer
On the annoying meter alone, the Super Bowl party lingerer could easily be ranked No. 1 on my list, but because of the lack of widespread appeal — they only really annoy the person or people hosting the party — I decided to put them at No. 3.
The Super Bowl doesn't kick off until 6:30 p.m. ET and with commercials, the extended halftime, etc., it will not end until late Sunday night for those on the East Coast, especially if it's a close game and both teams use their full complements of timeouts in the second half.
If I'm hosting a party, which I often do, my wife and I have already spent hours cleaning, shopping, cooking and cleaning again after everyone leaves, then have to be up early Monday to get the kids up, fed and off to school before we head to work.
So once that final whistle blows, grab your coat and the rest of your deviled eggs — the single-worst Super Bowl snack — say your good-byes and get the hell out — respectfully, of course.
2. The Sports Betting Shamer
Let me paint you a picture of most Super Bowl parties I've been to, especially since sports betting was legalized in the U.S., right before the game gets underway.
Whichever artist is signing the national anthem is shown on the field with a microphone, and the real ones at the party move in front of the TV with phones in hand, ready to time the performance.
When the rest of the party finally settles in around the TV at kickoff, a few of us will inevitably be discussing how long the final note of the national anthem was held and whether tails did or did not fail.
Someone outside the initial sports betting clique will wander over and ask what we're talking about before eventually displaying fake terror and asking how anyone in their right mind could wager on the length of a song or the flip of a coin.
Thanks for your unwanted input, Topher, but can you please return to the kitchen now to finish explaining why you got into pickleball and about the differences between New England, Double and Imperial IPAs, because nobody in here cares.
1. The Super Bowl Commercial Shusher
This has been my least favorite Super Bowl party person for as long as I can remember.
We are all gathered together for a Super Bowl party, not a commercials party.
I'm here to watch the biggest sporting event in the world, not short snippets of billion-dollar corporations trying to sell me something I don't need, so don't ask me to be quiet during the commercials — there's a game to discuss, live odds to monitor and existing bets to sweat.
Years ago, I tolerated the Commercial Shusher because if you missed a commercial live, there was no easy way to watch it again later.
However, with social media and YouTube nowadays, every Super Bowl commercial is at every person's fingertips to watch whenever they want.
I get it, not everyone is a football fan and some people look forward to the commercials more than the game — that's fine.
Just don't shush me while I'm shopping live over/unders with the other bettors during a commercial break after Sam Darnold fumbles away a 75-yard drive in the red zone.
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