That's very interesting. I never made any such claim, but I see that it was taken that way by overeager men. But the link is interesting. I had no idea that this was a controversy. I didn't know about that tv ad from twenty years ago. It must have made quite a splash since apparently you are all still butthurt over it.
I've read the snopes link carefully. It's very confusing. It seems to say one thing while linking to experts that say another. What the experts seem to be saying is that they have no clue. I wonder, have you bothered to read that? Because the more I read it, the more it raises my hackles.
The first quote the original claims, which state that there is anecdotal evidence that there is a 40% rise in DV on Superbowl study. That's a shocking number, and I don't see any studies backing it. But the original claim was that anecdotal evidence suggested this. Anecdotal evidence in the form of asking people who work in shelters and man DV hotlines. Then someone mentioned a study that showed that there was a 40% increase in DV. Or did she say that? I would like to see her saying that, because what I see is two different claims - one being made about anecdotal evidence, and one being made about police reports and hospital admissions. But for our purposes, let's say she specified this study showed a 40% increase. She was wrong. But what was she wrong that there was an increase?
This is what "debunks" the claim:
"one of the authors of the study" said "that's not what we found at all". I am very curious as to what question she was answering when she said that. It doesn't show the question. Because she goes on to show that indeed, there is an increase:
One of the most notable findings...was that an increase in emergency room admissions "was not associated iwth the occurrence of football games in general, nor with watching a team lose". When they looked at win days alone however, they found that the number of women admitted for gunshot wounds, stabbings, assaults, falls, lacerations and wounds from being hit by objects was slightly higher than average"
She went on to say that "these are very interesting but very tentative findings, suggesting what violence there is from males after football may spring not from a feeling of defensive insecurity, which you'd associate with a loss, but from the sense of empowerment following a win" We found that significant. But it certainly doesn't support what those women are saying in Pasadena".
So they did find something. And "those women in Pasadena" weren't making claims about this study, other than supposedly one woman. And we don't know exactly what she said.
It seems to me that you have proved that there is a (slight) increase in DV. I'd be interested in seeing the stats on male on male violence for Superbowl Sunday in particular. But a study about sports in general, and I found some about the World Cup in other countries, would be good.
So in closing: I never made any claim about DV on Superbowl sunday being more prevalent than any other day, but I apparently stumbled into a 20 years long butthurt bender. I learned some interesting things about an event I had no knowledge of from 20 years ago. And... you have shown evidence that there is a slight increase in DV on so-called winning days.
I learned one more thing - I don't like the editorializing Snopes did there. Talk about your snarky paragraphs. Specifically the one which begins "after all, everyone knows that men are loutish brutes.." WOW!!!! Sounds like Tom wrote that in a butthurt marathon after 5 hours at the pub!!
I will definitely be giving a side-eye to anything coming out of snopes from now on. Very interesting. Thanks for the information Damo.