I guess I should start with my own. Nothing tops the Super Bowl, in my view, because it's such a cultural event in America. Even if you don't dig football — and I do — everyone can pick a team for a day, drink some brews and scream at the TV for a few hours. Or stay out till 5 a.m. celebrating the victory of the team you didn't even want to win — like I did last year.

Uh, this is kind of like asking a blind man if he'd rather have a copy of Hustler or Time? You have seen NO MOVIES in 12 months that would be in any Oscar category. I don't think "Goldmember" counts.

i'm going with the superbowl. the reason? the parties, of course. and the beer. yes. the beer. and john madden isn't there, right?

although, i do love watching joan and her daughter trash the fashions on E! after the oscars...that's just good clean fun.

maybe they should incorporate an "after super bowl fasion roundup" - and i wouldn't ever have to watch the oscars, again!

Not even a contest. The Super Bowl is a time when everyone can get together and actually set the remote on top of the TV for three hours; the world absolutely stops while the game is on. And yes, Madden will be there, which means whether you keep the volume up or turn it down and engage in your own conversation, it's going to be a fun time. In closing, what kind of commercials does the Academy Awards offer? ...

The Academy Awards is typically the second-highest-rated telecast of the year, another bankable commodity for advertisers, so you'll see high-profile commercials then, too.

The Super Bowl usually gets at low-40s rating and the Academy Awards gets a mid-to-high 20s. Clearly, its an entire industry's Super Bowl.

But Kevin is right. I saw only two movies in 2002: "Black Hawk Down" (average) and "Goldmember" (average). Still I'll watch the Academy Awards for the aforementioned cleavage shots.

I'm definitely going to have to go with the Super Bowl. The commercials every 2 seconds are more entertaining then watching actors kiss each others a$$es. Plus I'd definitely rather see a slutty Britney than an anorexic so called "actress." Well, wait, was Crossroads nominated for anything?? If it was, I may just have to sit through both of them!

umm let's see
Superbowl Party with jello shots men in tight pants and lots of people
Academy awards women in horrible outfits, lame movies winning once again, and no jello shots

what do you think?

Not to mention it's the freakin RAIDERS!!!! :)

Yo, that's one movie you saw last year. Black Hawk Down was in late 2001. It won some awards last Oscar time. What will you see this year? Charlie's Angels 2 or Bad Boys 2?

Definitley the Superbowl. I would rather sit and scream at the tv about a bad call, than about a bad movie that won way too many awards.

My wife likes the Superbowl better too. She likes the commercials better.

Why compromise? Aren't they at different times of the year?

If, when hell freezes over, they ever go head-to-head, go to a Superbowl party and TIVO the Awards at home. That way you enjoy a great party, football game and sports event and when you are good and trashed, you can go home and zip through the awards for best key grip and best boy and get to some serious boobage.

It has got to be the Super Bowl. Let's put it this way. Does anyone talk about the commercials after the Oscars. If you have a party for the Oscars you are 99% of the time a woman. Everyone has a party for the Super Bowl it bridges both genders.

Super Bowl....but don't fuck with the Bills Paul.

Both are two totally different kinds of drunk.

The Super Bowl is a drink lots of beer, munch on chips and dips with burgers and hot dogs.....Then take shots everytime a "new commercial" comes on kind of drunk.

The Oscars are a chicken dish of some sort with a few different sides followed by way, way too much wine and the occasional glass of bourbon kind of drunk.

Either way, you are left with one hell of a hangover the next morning.

Being male, though, I vote Super Bowl. This year has the makings of one of the best games in Super Bowl history. For as much as I would like to see the AFC represent, f*ck the Raiders. Go Bucs.