Super Bowl is it really important?

I guess I just don't get football. My roommate is a football fanatic major. I just dont really care. I mean I do have favorite teams that I grew up watching with my dad and grandma. But like my mom I would rather be watching BASEBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or I would rather watch NASCAR by the way the DAYTONA 500 is Febuary 20th and I cant wait. But why football. This past season for many of the sports world has been havic. Take Hockey for instance NO Stanley Cup that is like telling a person who loves football NO Super Bowl or baseball NO World Series. I have always been the girl who would get into a heated arguement on whether the Atlanta Braves are even worth watching (still do I really dont like them). Also if the California Angels (Anaheim Angels now) would ever be as good as they were in the 80s which they proved in the world series a few years back. Or even dare I say it The BOSTON RED SOX and the NEW YORK YANKEES who really cares about the yankees any way (GO RED SOX!!!!!!!!!!!) or even the CHICAGO CUBS not being in the playoffs for a while ( thank goodness Sosa is gone) as you can see i dont really care who wins the Super Bowl I just cant wait til BASEBALL gets here.
I also cant wait til NASCAR gets back in the raceing spirit. Thats another argument me and my roommate have she really dislikes NASCAR and I LOVE IT!!! I dont understand it, a Southerner that doent like NASCAR. Thoughts and Help learning the reasoning of Football would be nice because Ryan loves football and I want to at least try to understand it before next season.