{"id":108263,"date":"2024-02-13T19:07:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/?p=108263"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:00:10","slug":"super-bowl-sociology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/super-bowl-sociology\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Interaction at the Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, there was one incident that made viewers pause. No, it wasn\u2019t the lackluster commercials. And no, it wasn\u2019t Usher randomly roller-skating on stage during the halftime show. It was Kansas City Chiefs tight end <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/12\/sport\/travis-kelce-andy-reid-altercation-super-bowl-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travis Kelce screaming<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/military-life\/defcon-levels.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DEFCON Level 1<\/a> in the face of head coach Andy Reid. While Reid later shrugged it off, and the internet made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/travis-kelce-meltdown-jokes-memes-andy-reid-super-bowl-1868939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">memes<\/a>\u00a0of it, the incident opened an opportunity for us to use sociology to consider <strong>social interaction<\/strong>, <em>the interpersonal relationships between two or more people<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Reid and Kelce have been with the team for 11 years. Each has a <strong>social role<\/strong>, which entails <em>patterns of behaviors for specific statuses and positions<\/em>. For Reid, that involves managing the team of coaches and developing a game-day strategy. On the other hand, Kelce\u2019s job is to work with the quarterback to make plays and hopefully win the game. One could argue that the <strong>social context<\/strong> or <em>environment of the interaction \u2014 <\/em>i.e., the Super Bowl \u2014 added a level of urgency to each man\u2019s work not seen in previous football games throughout the season. Even with that in mind, <strong>social status<\/strong>, <em>an individual\u2019s position, or rank within a social system,<\/em> would dictate that a player shows more respect for their coach than aggressively bumping into him and yelling at him on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-108265 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/Football-referee-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"An American football referee at a game.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/Football-referee-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/Football-referee.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, Reid and Kelce aren\u2019t the only members of the Kansas City Chiefs. Football teams are made up of <strong>social networks<\/strong>, <em>groups of individuals, and organizations that are connected to one another<\/em>. This includes other team members and coaches, as well as the front office staff, the team owners, the NFL organization itself, and the fans. The <em>small-scale, intimate, face-to-face, long-lasting association<\/em> of the owners, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/kansas-city-chiefs-ownership-who-is-hunt-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Hunt family<\/a>, qualifies them as a <strong>primary group<\/strong>. Other people employed by the team may see their experience as more of <strong>secondary group members<\/strong>, <em>large-scale, impersonal, task-focused, and time-limited associations<\/em>. Regardless of their position, each person in the organization has a <strong>role set<\/strong>, <em>the complement of role relationships within a single status<\/em>. This could include, but not be limited to being an employee, a coworker, a representative of the team to the public, and a liaison between the team and the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, members of the team may feel there are <em>incompatible demands and expectations within a single role<\/em>. This is commonly referred to as <strong>role strain<\/strong>. Imagine if you were a football player and your job required you to stay in shape, study game-day plays, attend training days, serve as a mentor for newer team members, make media appearances, have charitable affiliations, and interact with fans. You might feel the strain from that role as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-108264 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/american-football-2940149_1280-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"An American football on the field of grass.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/american-football-2940149_1280-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/american-football-2940149_1280-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/american-football-2940149_1280-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uitac.com\/inthenewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/american-football-2940149_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Regardless of the strain leading up to the big game, for the second year in a row, Kansas City Chiefs team members get to wear Super Bowl rings. In the world of professional football, these rings are <strong>status symbols<\/strong> and are <em>a material signal that is meant to convey a message to others about an individual\u2019s social position.<\/em> A Super Bowl ring is a sign that your team was the best of the best. While we may never know the whole story behind Kelce&#8217;s behavior on the sidelines, what we do know is that he got a ring and a kiss from <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/2024-super-bowl-travis-kelce-kisses-taylor-swift-on-the-field-after-win-8575848\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his girlfriend Taylor Swift<\/a>. And, maybe, that is all we need to know for now.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b><i>Thompson is a co-owner of\u00a0<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/uitac.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><b><i>UITAC Publishing<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a><b><i>. 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