What happens when British people try to describe the Super Bowl? That is what BuzzFeed tried to find out in one YouTube video posted on Monday.
It may be difficult to imagine someone in the U.S. who doesn't have at least a vague idea of what the Super Bowl is. But since football is a pastime that is unique to America, what the Super Bowl is remains a mystery to some in other countries.
"Existence of the Super Bowl suggests that there are lesser bowls," one respondent in the video said.
In the video, BuzzFeed asks several people from Great Britain to describe what they thought the Super Bowl and American football in general was like.
"What's the Super Bowl?" the video asks.
"It's three hours of the bests adverts of the year," one British man said.
"Maybe they win a large bowl for competing in it?" another man said.
These British may not have an exact idea of what the actual Super Bowl game is, but they seem to remember the Half Time shows.
"I don't remember who won the Super Bowl other than I remember that Beyoncé won the super bowl," one British guy said.
BuzzFeed then tested how much the British know about American football, which is played as soccer on other continents like South America, Europe and Africa.
Football is "like watching the matrix but in padding," a British man said.
The British in the video were then shown Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman's viral rant during his recent interview with Erin Andrews. It seems they enjoyed Sherman's enthusiasm more than watching the sport.
"That actually makes me want to watch American football," one Brit said after watching Sherman's interview.
