Who doesn't watch football?

[Politico]

I don't watch any of them because it makes my IQ drop. All post game interviews from Basketball to Nascar go something like this.

 

[gtopa1]

I never could into it.

Baseball 7 months and 162 regular season games plus ST games all the way. Yes, I'm fucking baseball insane. Which types of forums did you think I trolled at?

I played "Rounders" in the UK years ago...it was a lot of fun. Seems to me like Baseball is an American form of the game with a bigger stick.

The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times,[1] with the earliest reference[1][5] being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called "base-ball"[6] by John Newbery. In 1828, William Clarke in London published the second edition of The Boy's Own Book, which included the rules of rounders and which contained the first printed description in English of a bat and ball base-running game played on a diamond.[7] The following year, the book was published in Boston, Massachusetts.[8]

Greg

 

[Dot Com]

its just another opiate of the masses. Already sedentary people sit for another 3 hrs whilst eating and being barraged w/ commercials for "stuff". No thanks

 

[gtopa1]

Gridiron is sometimes said to be the bastard offspring of Rugby....

"Gridiron" football developed in the late 19th century out of the older games related to the games now known as rugby football and association football. It is distinguished from other football codes by its use of hard plastic helmets and shoulder pads, the forward pass, the system of downs, a line of scrimmage, more specialist positions and formations, free substitution, platooning of different players for offense and defense, measurements in yards, a distinctive brown leather ball in the shape of a prolate spheroid, and the ability to score points while not in possession of the ball by way of the safety. Walter Camp is credited with creating many of the rules that differentiate gridiron football from its older counterparts.

It looks like a game of chess(which I like) and seems to be a lot of fun...but too many stop/starts.

Greg

 

[Judicial review]

I don't watch any of them because it makes my IQ drop. All post game interviews from Basketball to Nascar go something like this.

LOL!!! Just watched that movie tonight!

 

[ChrisL]

its just another opiate of the masses. Already sedentary people sit for another 3 hrs whilst eating and being barraged w/ commercials for "stuff". No thanks

It's awesome and exciting and gets your adrenaline flowing. It helps if you understand the game too. If you don't understand the game, it isn't going to be much fun to watch.

 

[Roadrunner]

I played for 11 years and watch almost every Sunday.

I guess everyone likes it, except me, c'est la vie

I like college football.

Did not watch the Super Bowl though.

Missed a great brawl, I hear.

 

[jon_berzerk]

i dont watch it or even support it

a bunch of wasted time and money

 

[Anathema]

After last night's game you can add ME to the list of people who don't watch pro or college football.

 

[ChrisL]

I've always preferred to partcipate in sports rather than watch sports on television.

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Hee-hee! I could say something really mean here, but I'll behave myself.

 

[Anathema]

Hee-hee! I could say something really mean here, but I'll behave myself.

Why bother? It's not like I have any respect for you to begin with, so you may as well say it.

The NFL has simply become the NBA and/or WWE. It's all rigged, and that's exactly what the NFL owners and management want. Trying to maximize the profits at the expense of the competition level in the league. I don't watch soap operas, so the NFL is now like the NBA/WWE..... things I won't watch.

 

[ChrisL]

Hee-hee! I could say something really mean here, but I'll behave myself.

Why bother? It's not like I have any respect for you to begin with, so you may as well say it.

The NFL has simply become the NBA and/or WWE. It's all rigged, and that's exactly what the NFL owners and management want. Trying to maximize the profits at the expense of the competition level in the league. I don't watch soap operas, so the NFL is now like the NBA/WWE..... things I won't watch.

Are you Ashtara, you idiot?

You do an awful LOT of babbling about football for someone who allegedly hates it. So, don't watch it. Who cares? Whether or not you watch or like it has no bearing on anything. You are just like a little nuisance mosquito around here, bitching and moaning. Nobody cares. Do us a favor and shut up.

 

[Michelle420]

The topic was really about people who don't like to watch football. People who like it have a lot of threads to talk/argue about it in.

 

[Roadrunner]

The topic was really about people who don't like to watch football. People who like it have a lot of threads to talk/argue about it in.

When they joined the Super Bowl to the worst of American pop culture, and this started in my awareness with the sleazy ass Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders and moved on to Justin Timberlake dry fucking Janet Jackson's ass, I quit watching.

I don't need to be subjected to that shit.

College football is headed that way, but not nearly as bad.

 

[Disir]

I never could into it.

Me either. I do like to occasionally cook all the super cool dips and stuff though.

I had a friend of mine that would give me all of the details for the Bears before the game. Stuff like, "Meh, they haven't had a decent quarterback since blah blah". This gave me enough time to buy my beer at the bar, make limited small talk and make it back to my video game. It was the mini how-to-survive-the-sports-bar guide.

 

[Vandalshandle]

I have never understood spectator sports at all. What the hell is the point? To me, it is about as interesting as spending the day with a bunch of old people talking about their operations.

 

[Michelle420]

I never could into it.

Me either. I do like to occasionally cook all the super cool dips and stuff though.

I had a friend of mine that would give me all of the details for the Bears before the game. Stuff like, "Meh, they haven't had a decent quarterback since blah blah". This gave me enough time to buy my beer at the bar, make limited small talk and make it back to my video game. It was the mini how-to-survive-the-sports-bar guide.

I love good dips! I don't love cooking mostly hate cleaning up afterward. My better half is more into cooking than I am. But when I do get in the mood to make a recipe it comes out great.

 

[Michelle420]

I have never understood spectator sports at all. What the hell is the point? To me, it is about as interesting as spending the day with a bunch of old people talking about their operations.

I like Boxing, probably just like watching the aggression of two brawlers

 

[Alex.]

I do not get vicarious satisfaction watching people run around. I need to do things myself, nothing like getting knocked on my ass and rolling around in the mud or doing it so someone else.

 

[ChrisL]

I have never understood spectator sports at all. What the hell is the point? To me, it is about as interesting as spending the day with a bunch of old people talking about their operations.

Says the old people. Lol.