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Poll: Super Bowl on backburner of consumers' minds

The sour economy has led to the loss of jobs, cost taxpayers money and now is affecting the winter's biggest sporting event - the Super Bowl. Even NBC, at $3 million for 30 seconds, still has commercial

News 12 Staff

Jan 30, 2009, 11:33 PM

Updated 5,855 days ago

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The sour economy has led to the loss of jobs, cost taxpayers money and now is affecting the winter's biggest sporting event - the Super Bowl.
Even NBC, at $3 million for 30 seconds, still has commercial spots open, and scalpers may be forced to bring ticket prices down to face value by game time on Sunday evening.
"The economic situation, you know money is tight on everybody," says Steven Love, of North Brunswick. "It's just that everybody is trying to save dollars on what they have so maybe we'll drop the money later on when the economics get a little bit better."
Even as the unofficial holiday approaches, a Seton Hall University poll of 1,004 respondents says most people are concentrating their minds elsewhere. The poll found that 68 percent of people are paying more attention to the economy, while 14 percent are following Super Bowl developments and 13 percent are following news in the Middle East.
But that probably isn't the case in either Pittsburgh or Arizona. Pittsburgh will delay public school openings by two hours on Monday to avoid a high rate of absenteeism.