Term denoting a person who merely watches rather than participates in sports, sits on the sofa surrounded by pizza, potato chips and beer, and phones in his or her bet to out-ofstate gambling brokers. Often stereotyped as males between the ages of eighteen and fifty advertisers target the couch potato constituency with commercials during Monday Nïght Football, Sunday afternoon football games, or during televised college basketball games. The commercials, often for beer, feature men sneaking off to watch sports (while wives complain bitterly).