Fottball Saturation: Or Seriously, What the Fuck?

The BBQ Pit
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Okay look, I Know that lots of people like football. I KNOW. Yes, I indeed know that I am in fact free to watch other programs, and I do so. Seriously, though; What the hell is up with football saturating all media forms? Did Satan himself appear in a cloud of sweaty, painted, morbidly obese, fat fold, fan body odor mingled with the aroma of ripe jock straps, and grant the NFL and whatever acronym one uses for college leagues, an unlimited infernal visa to spend on advertising? Is John Maddon holding an all to small .38 in his bunch of bananas like hand to the head of every fucking radio broadcaster in my area simultaneously? I can’t fucking escape the football. EVERY network television station: FOOTBALL!!! Every radio station: Rock music, Non Sports Talk, even that last ivory tower bastion of radio known as NPR : FOOTBALL!!!

Now I am no sports grinch, I understand that people want to watch the game. I know that like myself loads of people don’t have cable, and thus the game is broadcasted. I can deal with that, even if you are preempting decent entertainment to do so; I have books. In the name of all that is good and righteous, DO WE REALLY NEED 45 FUCKING MINUTES OF PRE AND POST GAME DRIVEL drooling from the slack, jiggly, cake holes of the most useless and parasitic form of life in our cultures? NAY! I say. NAY!

Sports, you have your own cable networks. You in fact have 8 of them in my area. You have 4 radio stations dedicated to you. Stop oozing your infected, viscous, glurge into my entertainment. I do not want to hear about FOOTBALL!!! when I am trying to listen to a MUSIC station on the radio. I do not want to hear about FOOTBALL!!! when I tune into a daytime talk radio program on a non sports station. I can tell that the hosts are not really interested either, they are obviously phoning the segment in. Decease!

I have done my best to avoid you, but I can’t help but feel that the next move by your marketing demons, will be for someone to be hired to follow me about with a sandwich board, and a bell and solicit my attention to you, until I finally cave, and drink the cool-aid and slather myself in bifurcated painted disgrace.

Fuck you FOOTBALL!!! While I’m at it, What the hell is up with football terminology? All the other balled sports are content to pass or catch “the ball”. What has made you so special that you must pass and catch “The Football”. You don’t hear baseball doing that, or soccer do you? WELL DO YOU? While I’m here, why must football always be pronounced with a capital F? I don’t KNOW how I know that everyone is pronouncing words with a capital, but I DO. It is a GAME, not a person or a deity. STOP IT! Perhaps you have noticed that I myself have been spelling you: FOOTBALL!!! This is because if your fans, or advertisers do not utilize your honorific, they instead bark your cursed moniker in a fevered voice whilst emitting a fog of spit and sweat, that nigh obscures their bug eyed, fanatical gaze.

Tone it down football, or there WILL be repercussions.

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Try living in Columbus fricking Ohio during college football season and then talk to me about football saturation. God.

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It’s playoff season and Bowl season. This is when the sport is at its most frenzied. Relax. The college season will be over in a couple of days and the NFL season will be over in a few more weeks. Football gets a lot of media time because it gets ratings. At least they’re not talking about NASCAR.

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You have a lot of energy and spirit, OP. You know what you’d be good at? FOOTBALL!!!

:slight_smile:

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It just seems a LOT worse this year. Almost by an order of magnitude. It’s weird, though I haven’t really changed any of my habits in viewing/listening; it seems that this year, it has completely gone insane nearly all season. I just finally lost it this morning.

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That’s probably because, like it or not, the New England Patriots this season have just become the first team in NFL history to have a 16-game undefeated season, and people have been analyzing and talking about that for weeks and weeks in anticipation of the final game (last week). Will they continue undefeated all the way through the playoffs and Super Bowl? Who knows? Let’s talk some more about it.

The NFL season is over in early February. It is a landmark season though. Thus, more hype than normal.

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<Vinyl Turnip abruptly nods off>

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I agree-it is impossible to turn the TV on and not be assaulted with some boring “post game analysis”. What amazes me-the number of idiotc statistics that the football industry has come up with…like :
-the number of intercepted passes in post-season
-the number of winning games won by coaches from 1900-1941
-number of yards rushed after scoring
The pregame analysis is also boring as hell-but the netwrks seem to think it is of overwhelmng importace-sota like the return of jesus and the 12 apostles!

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While I don’t actively hate Football, I certainly feel your pain. In addition to the complete blitz every weekend, mindless blather like “NFL Huddle” seems to be invading prime time during the week. Maybe it’s a result of the WGA strike, but I don’t recall this much Football coverage in past seasons.

OTOH, I was happy to see the Dallas Cowboys put up a winning season. Because when the 'Boys are winning big, the malls and stores empty during their games and I can get my Christmas shopping done without the crowds :D.

BTW, Football (or FOOTBALL!!) is the sport, football is the pointy roundish thing the two teams fight over.

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I’m disappointed - I opened this thread hoping that someone had at last addressed the oversaturation of fottball in the media.

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I suspect that it’s all a distraction to make people forget their real problems.

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I really have no idea how I missed THAT typo. Damn laptop keyboards, Would a mod kindly fix that to “Football” please.

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Isn’t that the nature of most forms of entertainment?

Marc

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Lets go back to OJ and Britany Spears stories. Thats entertainment.

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Are you suggesting that football should always be capitalized when referring to the sport, as if it were some sort of proper noun, or is this a joke?

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Ah, you mean American Football!

You should see the massive coverage of football (soccer) in Europe…I found some Brazilian football at 0400 the other day.

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Hah. Columbia fucking South Carolina is no fucking picnic, I assure you.

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The post-game blather was the first football thing to piss me off a few years ago. Schedule said the game was going to end at 8pm, or whatever hour. It ended at least 15 minutes before. So I sat through the commentary waiting for the show that was supposed to be on after the game ended. About a half hour later I turned the TV off, since at that point I’d missed a significant portion of the show, assuming it ever made it to air. I can understand if the game runs long, BUT YOU CAN CUT THE COMMENTARY ANY FUCKING TIME YOU WANT!

Anyways, totally onboard with your rant. I’m not a sports fan–I’m Canadian and I don’t even like hockey. It’s impossible to get away from football this time of year–even if you avoid all the major media outlets, everyone around you is going to be talking about it. ARGH! I can’t even log onto WoW on a game night without hearing about it from guildmates. This is my refuge of geekery–I don’t want to hear about football! (And one of my guildmates is a huge Patriots fan–you can probably guess what he’s been like this season)

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There’s your answer right there. :wink:

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“-number of yards rushed after scoring”

Presumably this refers to celebratory “victory laps”?