Man bails on the family Super Bowl party just minutes before the end of the game, ditching the in-laws who hosted because 'the game was out of reach'

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Feb 12, 2025 7:00 AM EST

This man decided he was over the Super Bowl game before it had concluded, but like a bad-attitude poor sport, he refused to sit through the last 2 minutes of the game. After crying over a very clear loss for the Chiefs, this guy complained to his wife, made a lame excuse, and forced her to leave her family's football party before the confetti fell. 

Unnecessary roughness, 15-yard penalty, first down.

Bad sportsmanship is just pathetic. While sports fans can all relate to the disappointment of a bad loss, being a sore loser is a serious red flag. And when you use belittlement and sorry excuses ('iTs a WoRk NiGhT') to get your way after wallowing in the loss of your favorite football team, there's not much sympathy left from the crowd—especially when you're disrespecting your gracious hosts for the evening. Keep scrolling to read the discourse that unfolded when this man bailed early on his in-law's Super Bowl party just minutes before the end of the game because he simply couldn't bear to watch anymore, denying his wife and her family the courtesy of pleasantries and a decent goodbye. 

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  • "AITA for trying to leave a Super Bowl party when the Eagles were kneeling out the clock with their backups?"

    My wife is ped at me. We went to her parent's house to watch the Super Bowl. Had food, some drinks, standard stuff.
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  • When the game was far out of reach I wanted to go home and said let's go. This was with around 1:50 left. The Eagles had dumped Gatorade on their coach, celebrated on their sideline, and already put their backups in.
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  • She wanted to stay to watch all the stuff after the game. I don't care about any of it and wanted to get home because it's a work night.
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  • She is of the opinion that nobody would ever leave a party to watch a sporting event before the clock had fully run down. She doesn't watch sports at all. I told her
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  • that this is pretty standard behaviour - when a game is out of reach sports fans will get going. I explained that sports fans do this when they attend games, go to bars, or watch with friends. She thinks I'm an ah le. What do you guys think?
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  • Merigold00 YTA. People who are fans of the winning team usually don't walk out on a blowout. And you did not attend a game or go to a bar, you were at your in-laws house. You watch the game, thank them, maybe chat a bit, then leave. It's a work night is a weak excuse. What would you have done if the game was tied and one team was trying to get into position to win it?
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  • Top_Anything5077 If it was tied, he obviously would have stayed. That's not the point. It's a work night and this game s ks is a perfectly valid excuse regardless of venue, absent an important reason to stay. There wasn't one here. NTA
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  • Lobster-mom Also he's condescendingly explaining that "this is what sports fans do" because clearly the wife doesn't understand that going with the flow of all the real football fans is more important than staying and watching the game she wants to see /s
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  • schemmenti YTA. It's a party, it's a family gathering with food and drinks at somebody's home. You're not at a bar, you're not trying to rush out of a stadium so you aren't stuck in parking lot traffic. There were literally two minutes left. It's like leaving a movie at the theatre before the credits even roll. You
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  • could have waited two minutes, even twenty minutes and then said your goodbyes as a *guest in someone's home*, where they won't be able to enjoy the ending either because they're going to have to say their goodbyes to you. You might not care, but clearly your partner does care about suddenly leaving her parents' home before the end of the *reason you are there*, and you're not seeing that at all.
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  • Fun-Implement-7979 ΥΤΑ. Today for her was not about the game, it never was. It was time to spend with her family, you basically said "lol game s ks can we go home now?", which it did. However you need to realize you aren't
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  • making a good look with the in laws or her with this. Yeah, it s ks making pleasent with family that you may not like that much but that's part of being a family.
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  • introsetsam it is r de to leave someone's home before the game is over. you wanted to ruin the end of the game for someone else because now they've gotta say bye to you who is rushing out the door? fifteen minutes difference of sleep is NOT going to matter - says someone who watched every second of that game and has work in the morning.
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  • Caramel Cactus "sports fans" you mean chiefs fan. I believe this post wouldn't have existed if you were rooting for the Eagles. Either way, YTA because she wanted to enjoy the rest of it, and the "stuff after the game" and you salted out when things weren't going your way. Don't go to a party if you have to work the next day.
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  • rutfilthygers YTA for trying to tell your wife what to do instead of discussing it. You were at her parents' house, maybe she wanted a few minutes after the game to chat with them, etc. The whole country has to go to work tomorrow, you're not the only one who's going to be a little tired in the morning.
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