The trending topic surrounding “what time does the Super Bowl start” is primarily driven by the ongoing buildup to Super Bowl LX, which features a matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. This significant game is generating heightened anticipation, prompting many fans to seek detailed information regarding the kickoff time.
Recent news signals indicate a surge in search interest as individuals look for clarification on the specific timing of the event. The NBC article emphasizing the kickoff time for the 2026 Super Bowl illustrates the public’s focus on scheduling this major sporting event. Consistent inquiries about the starting time reflect the overall excitement and planning involved in viewing the game.
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O
This is your chance to be the bigger person honestly. it’s not like you showed up at 4 and were told the party was from 2-3, or changed to the day before. Give her the damn truffles, go to the party even if it’s only for 15 minutes and don’t be spiteful. and don’t send her a bill. that’s a real AH move. if you want to end the friendship over this just ghost her after, fine. don’t be mean on her baby”s first birthday. are you a parent? if you are you know damn well that the first year is tough.
H
I am a parent and only one guest not being notified seems intentional. It’s incredibly hard to forget to update the person you asked to do something for you even in the midst of first year confusion. I was a very disorganized person during the first year of life for both my kids and no one I actually wanted at birthday parties was forgotten even with all the back and forth about location and times. A few people being forgotten would be understandable but only one and the person you asked for an expensive favor? No.
W
What? One guest not being notified seems *accidental*, not intentional- this woman was probably so busy with planning that she assumed she must have told OP because it’s such an obvious thing someone would do. Sometimes we miss the most obvious thing.
F
Exactly. She’s also been talking to OP so much about the party that it seems reasonable that she thought she told her.
S
How does OP know she’s the ONLY person who wasn’t told of the time change? Did she wait around to see if anyone else showed up to the space around nine-ish? Also, it doesn’t make sense for her friend to do that when OP is bringing food for everyone. Sounds more like a parent brain lapse.
T
She probably figured out she was the only one not told because she was the only one there. If others hadn’t been told, she wouldn’t have been waiting there alone, needing to call her friend to find out where everyone is.
S
Ugh. Yep. I’ve been the one who had to call to find out where everyone was once. That really sucked and made me super upset.
B
And a little communication goes a long way. I’m surprised that OP didn’t text her friend to confirm the time of arrival,ije, “Morning, friend! I’m on my way out the door now. I’ll see you at 9. Can’t wait!” Then the friend could have circled back, saying OMG, I’m so sorry! We moved the time to x pm. I hope that will still work for you.”
N
I wouldn’t do that. If I RSVPd, I’m not connecting again. One thing if it’s a dinner with a friend, but a party?
F
If I had such a big hand in planning it, yes
R
I guess if you know your friend is flaky, you could do that. I don’t have the energy to micro manage other people for events I’m not in charge of. And I find other people micro managing me annoying. My gut reaction to getting that kind of message is always “Yes, yes, I know. That’s why I was in my car driving there.”
L
So now we are blaming OP for not confirming through text? Come on. Ow let’s be reasonable.
B
Your blaming her, not the friend? I don’t think that it’s her fault for not texting the friend ,’ in my way!’ She did a huge service for that party, and in my mind, she would be the first I’d think of! Helping her plan it, borrowing stuff to her, making truffles! No, that’s on the Friend. Im a open minded sort so…the friend could have texted her to say,’ party is moved,’ but she may have been super busy and forgot. But wouldn’t you make double sure you told everyone? I sure would! I know how crazy kids birthdays get, been there done that. So, it’s most likely just a mix up and not on purpose, but it’s not far fetched to say the friend was being lax with who she told and didn’t. 🤷🏻♀️
N
Why is it surprising that she didn’t send a text like that? She could have, of course, but there was no need to confirm her pending arrival.
C
Nice blaming the victim. SMH.
O
imagine if every guest to the party was texting her when they were on their way lmao, and even if she had, OP was annoyed because she woke up super early to get it done
N
Who does that? It’s a party with a time. Do you think the host really expects or wants 50-60 people texting the morning of the event saying they are on the way?
K
I feel like people think about themselves a little too much
P
The best words of wisdom I ever got was “You’d worry a lot less about what other people think about you, if you realized how *little* others actually think about you.”
B
This. Aka. People are thinking about you a lot less than you think…
K
Yes they really do, the friend was being selfish but with a new baby, being exhausted and probably not completely conceiving of the labor involved in bringing this treat, I’d give her a pass. Doesn’t have to be a permanent pass. NAH
T
She was helping the woman plan the party, how much food, etc. – *that* makes it seem intentional, ESPECIALLY when she’s a newcomer in her friend circle and making food. You know there was a point where she was going over what food was going to be available for guests and remembered op’s name specifically when counting the truffles. It would have taken 30 seconds pop off a quick text with a “oh BTW, no longer 9am, party starts at 2!”
H
I don’t really get what her supposed motivation is, though? Why would she want OP to get up early and arrive at the wrong time with a delicate food item? What’s the benefit for her? Why would she want to antagonize the person who is helping her? Maybe she thought she must have already told her because they’d been communicating so much. Maybe she forgot that OP wasn’t in a certain group chat that she had told. Maybe she thought about telling her and confused that with having told her (have you never had the experience of trying to remember whether you said something or just thought about it?) You don’t even have to be overly naive to think the friend genuinely forgot. It’s just the most simple explanation unless she secretly hates OP and wants to cause her annoyance out of pure spite.
L
And miss out on those delicious truffles!?! No way she did that intentionally.
T
But no matter the time op would have still brought the truffles so deliberately telling her an early time would be illogical. Sometimes the simplest option is the correct one – she was already communicating with op about other things and thought the time change was one of them. Not to mention she was going to pay op so it’s not like op was doing all the effort without being reimbursed.
L
Agreed that it was just an oversight to not tell op about the rescheduling
B
Literally this is her FRIEND. If this is the worst thing she’s ever done, it’s 1. ridiculous to post about and 2. clearly an ACCIDENT
O
My adhd sister literally forgot to invite me to my niece’s first birthday party because she thought she’d done it already. It stings to feel like you were forgotten but with the chaos of planning a party, it’s understandable for things to slip through the cracks
M
Yeah, I agree. My first thought was the friend posted the party change in a group chat she forgot Op wasn’t a part of. Which while super annoying, can also be a good sign of how she thinks about op, by putting her in the same category as the other friends to the point she doesn’t remember Op hasn’t been added to the chat.
C
This seems especially likely since OP notes they are new to the area and not fully ‘in’ with the group yet. Mom updated the group chat and thought she was good, crossing it off her mental list. Unfortunate, but very unlikely to be intentional. There’s really just no benefit to doing it intentionally.
H
Or, if she’s like me, she remembered MANY times that she needed to tell OP about the time change, but only ever remembered when she was not in reach of her phone and couldn’t stop what she was doing to get to it. Then kept forgetting again. It’s constant for me. Washing dishes, thinking “oh I need to text my mom about this weekend”, but my hands are wet so I don’t do it at that moment. Then I forget. Then I’m in the shower, same thing. Then later I’m in the middle of helping my kid with her project and the same thing. Then when I’ve got four different foods cooking on the stove and raw meat juice on my hands, same thing. When you’re busy with life and children (especially infants) it’s really easy to keep forgetting and remembering and forgetting again. It’s not deliberately hurtful. It’s not intentionally negligent. Things just slip through those cracks. Just last week I made my kid miss something she was looking forward to and reminded me of multiple times because I forgot. Something came up and I needed someone to pick her up for me, and instead of remembering the thing my kid was wanting to do after school, I sent my helper to pick her up at the normal time. Since her school is thirty minutes from our home, and since someone was helping me in a pinch, I couldn’t ask them to go home and come back again later to get my kid. My kid had to miss out. She was sad and I felt awful. If I had remembered in the moment I would have just told my helper to pick her up later than the normal school pickup time, but because of that pinch I totally spaced it and didn’t remember until she was already at the school waiting for my daughter. I still feel awful about it. I didn’t mean to ruin my kid’s day, but I sure did.
J
I agree with this because of OP’s edit. They talked about the party SO much apparently, that I can totally see her sending out time updates and her brain just glossing over OP, because they always talk about the party, so surely she must have told her *this* detail about the party, too, right?
S
Yep and I’ve done the same thing. Told 2 of my 3 kids something and thought I’d told the third because I talk to her every day. But I didn’t tell her. Definitely wasn’t intentional.
L
Especially if the other people are part of the “in group” and have a group chat.
T
Agreed also I feel like a lot of 1st year parties are mostly family, so if she was one of only a few friends coming, it’s even easier to overlook
E
Especially if she has a group chat with her family and another with her friend group (that op is not a part of yet) that would potentially be everyone but op
P
And to be honest, we have no way of knowing if OP was the only guest who wasn’t notified. If the friend forgot to tell OP and didn’t realize it, it’s quite likely she forgot other people as well but also doesn’t realize it.
O
Not just *one person* but the one person who helped plan everything and was asked a big favor to make truffles. It just feels off.
M
It feels off to me as well. It makes me wonder if the friend wanted the truffles there more than she wants op there.
H
But telling her the wrong time is also a bad way to have the truffles there? What if OP had actually had other plans in the afternoon? Not everything is sinister and in this case I don’t even understand what the sinister motive would supposedly be.
U
One possibility is the event is being planned as a Facebook event and everyone else has been kept up to date that way and OP may be the only one not on Facebook.
P
I can very easily see how a mom of a one year old could forget to text an individual person about a time change. She’s stressed, tired, and probably just texted a group chat for the time change and thought everything was fine. OP admitted she’s not in the “friend group” that’s invited to the party so this isn’t a hard leap.
S
How does she know the entire guest list and who else was or wasn’t notified?
C
No one else was there when she showed up.
O
Because no one else showed up at the time on the invite?
L
Well that’s obvious. But let me ask you the same question, just in a different way. Who else turned up at the original agreed time?
I
What would be the intention? If it was intentional it would be set up so she missed it. It’s accidental since she’s not close to the friend group yet.
P
There’s probably no way for OP to know for certain that her friend forgot to notify just ONE person. I’ll bet the friend probably forgot more people and other things. It does happen. Although, I would say, it’s very poor planning and disorganization on her part. Personally, if you sent out invitations, you should keep a list of people you invited. But, again, I’m just saying what I would have done. I think it’s fair to assume that it’s possible people could have “messed” up. And that’s really okay. Noooow… if this mom (the friend) does stuff like this all the time to OP, I think it’s worth mentioning it. If it continues, it’s up to OP to determine whether this friendship is fruitful to her.
R
We were supposed to have a birthday party for my son and had to push it back a week because of the snowstorm two weeks ago, and I forgot to tell my sister the new time 🤷♀️ It was absolutely an accident. I planned some of the food around her preferences so she would be able to eat something and I wanted her there. She found out a few hours before when my mom and I were talking about picking up my grandmother to bring her to the party in front of her.
Additional Sources:
Defector – What Time Does “What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?” Start?
NBC – What Time Does the Super Bowl Kick Off? 2026 Super Bowl Time, Explained
