It’s a Sunday night in February…what ELSE are you going to do?
It’s a Sunday night in February. What *else* are they going to do with their time.
That made sense until I typed it, and only then did I realise this is Arlo we’re talking about. So it no longer makes sense.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to the dog park…
I briefly believed the misinformation that YOLO was meant to communicate “You Obviously Love Owls”. But if we did have someone who loves owls, wouldn’t a Superb Owl 🦉 be even better?
Yo! LOL
This didn’t make much sense to me until I saw your comment that
the NFL wants us to refer to the event that way.
So, Arlo is using “Super Bowl” as an adjective throughout. But
he refers to the actual game as “a Sunday night in February” in
order to
“correctly” refer to the actual game.
No – it has nothing to do with the NFL’s inflated idea of their IP rights (as noted, Arlo repeatedly uses the term “Super Bowl”). It is as Kamino Neko said – it’s not exactly an exciting time of the year, so there really isn’t much else to do (at least, that’s what Arlo is implying) – otherwise it wouldn’t be just “a” night in February.
I think it’s safe to say that MLB does not go as overboard about “World Series”. There are any number of “World Series of (fill in the blank)”.
Has the NFL really gone so far as to expect people to use “a Sunday night in February”? It’s not even accurate for a big chunk of the country. On the west coast the game starts in the afternoon and is usually over by 6 or 7 (or at least it was 20 years ago). I suppose they’re trying (and failing) to riff on “any given Sunday”, but this is ridiculous. I’m starting to think that if they could get away with it, they’d trademark Sunday.
I was kidding about the NFL wanting people to use “a Sunday night…” But of course they do insist that supermarkets and other place selling items for tonight refer only to “The Big Game.”
Mitch4’s mention of “superb owl” reminded me of Stephen Colbert’s hilarious NFL satire from a few years ago using that spelling to get around using the term “Super Bowl”
FWIW- another site I check out daily ( concerning cake fails) does awesome cakes on Sundays. On this particular sunday each year, they feature “superb Owl” cakes…and the truly are!
“But of course they do insist that supermarkets and other place selling items for tonight refer only to ‘The Big Game.'”
They don’t, and can’t, use courts to back up this “insistence”.
If you need the exact legal term that applies, it’s “nominative fair use”. If you use the words “Super Bowl” to describe the football game played at the conclusion of the NFL season, to determine the year’s NFL champion, you are using the trademark correctly as far as the law is concerned. The NFL knows this.
What’s funny is that this (the incorrect assessment that the NFL forbids anyone to use the words “Super Bowl”) persists year after year. The NFL owns a good many trademarks, but paranoia only seems to surround this one.
I was kidding about the NFL wanting people to use “a Sunday night…”
That’s a shame. It’s the only way I see a joke in this strip.
Note that the cake web site has no problem using the term Super Bowl.
Robert is an oddity (apparently) among men. Other than 1950s-1960s World Series, he hates sports – playing or watching them or even their existence. When “The Game” was played in the afternoon he loved to go stores which sold TVs and walk around changing the channels.
We went out to an Asian buffet during the game for dinner. Our logic was it would be relatively empty of people who might give us the flu. Mostly so, but apparently there was a party in one of the party rooms watching “The Game” Luckily they were open. The last 4 or 5 years that Old Country Buffet was still in business here, they started closing the night of “The Game” – annoyed the heck out of him as we had no place to go for dinner.
Hey wait – I understand “The Game”. It is not just the Super Bowl – it THE GAME – the one and only game that matters no other game in any sport matters, but this one.
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It’s a Sunday night in February…what ELSE are you going to do?
It’s a Sunday night in February. What *else* are they going to do with their time.
That made sense until I typed it, and only then did I realise this is Arlo we’re talking about. So it no longer makes sense.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to the dog park…
I briefly believed the misinformation that YOLO was meant to communicate “You Obviously Love Owls”. But if we did have someone who loves owls, wouldn’t a Superb Owl 🦉 be even better?
Yo! LOL
This didn’t make much sense to me until I saw your comment that
the NFL wants us to refer to the event that way.
So, Arlo is using “Super Bowl” as an adjective throughout. But
he refers to the actual game as “a Sunday night in February” in
order to
“correctly” refer to the actual game.
No – it has nothing to do with the NFL’s inflated idea of their IP rights (as noted, Arlo repeatedly uses the term “Super Bowl”). It is as Kamino Neko said – it’s not exactly an exciting time of the year, so there really isn’t much else to do (at least, that’s what Arlo is implying) – otherwise it wouldn’t be just “a” night in February.
I think it’s safe to say that MLB does not go as overboard about “World Series”. There are any number of “World Series of (fill in the blank)”.
Has the NFL really gone so far as to expect people to use “a Sunday night in February”? It’s not even accurate for a big chunk of the country. On the west coast the game starts in the afternoon and is usually over by 6 or 7 (or at least it was 20 years ago). I suppose they’re trying (and failing) to riff on “any given Sunday”, but this is ridiculous. I’m starting to think that if they could get away with it, they’d trademark Sunday.
I was kidding about the NFL wanting people to use “a Sunday night…” But of course they do insist that supermarkets and other place selling items for tonight refer only to “The Big Game.”
Mitch4’s mention of “superb owl” reminded me of Stephen Colbert’s hilarious NFL satire from a few years ago using that spelling to get around using the term “Super Bowl”
FWIW- another site I check out daily ( concerning cake fails) does awesome cakes on Sundays. On this particular sunday each year, they feature “superb Owl” cakes…and the truly are!
“But of course they do insist that supermarkets and other place selling items for tonight refer only to ‘The Big Game.'”
They don’t, and can’t, use courts to back up this “insistence”.
If you need the exact legal term that applies, it’s “nominative fair use”. If you use the words “Super Bowl” to describe the football game played at the conclusion of the NFL season, to determine the year’s NFL champion, you are using the trademark correctly as far as the law is concerned. The NFL knows this.
What’s funny is that this (the incorrect assessment that the NFL forbids anyone to use the words “Super Bowl”) persists year after year. The NFL owns a good many trademarks, but paranoia only seems to surround this one.
That’s a shame. It’s the only way I see a joke in this strip.
@Irene, GMTA – I just went to the the URL: http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2018/2/4/superb-owl-sunday-sweets.html
Oops, that should have been ‘get the’ URL.
Note that the cake web site has no problem using the term Super Bowl.
Robert is an oddity (apparently) among men. Other than 1950s-1960s World Series, he hates sports – playing or watching them or even their existence. When “The Game” was played in the afternoon he loved to go stores which sold TVs and walk around changing the channels.
We went out to an Asian buffet during the game for dinner. Our logic was it would be relatively empty of people who might give us the flu. Mostly so, but apparently there was a party in one of the party rooms watching “The Game” Luckily they were open. The last 4 or 5 years that Old Country Buffet was still in business here, they started closing the night of “The Game” – annoyed the heck out of him as we had no place to go for dinner.
Hey wait – I understand “The Game”. It is not just the Super Bowl – it THE GAME – the one and only game that matters no other game in any sport matters, but this one.