Could we switch it to a headless calf so maybe the Afghanis will join us in our distraction?
Let us be perfectly clear on the matter.Terry says it far more eloquently than I ever could.
whoooooooooosh!
I just mean that when it is pronounced with audible capitilization, that’s a reference to the entire sport. No caps, it’s just a ball that rolls funny. Personally, I think that sort of overpronunciation is just some has-been or woulda-been jocks’ way of letting us know that they Minored In Broadcast Journalism!
For some reason it’s also part of the player/coach culture to always say the whole word “football” instead of just “ball,” and to always include the full prefix to other words like “field” or “game.”
It’s never “we have to go out there and move the ball down the field and try to win this game,” it’s always, “we need to move the football down the football field and try to win this football game. That’s what this football team is all about.”
I work with this guy… He has spoken two sentences near me in three years. Both on Sundays, both when the Cafeteria TVs were not showing FOOTBALL.
“Are we going to watch FOOTBALL?”
and
“What happened to FOOTBALL?”
Dude looks like Dan Marino, if Dan Marino had flesh eating bacteria all over his face and then got hit by a bus and then someone kicked his head because they thought it was a FOOTBALL.
Maybe it’s because so many of them went to THE Ohio State University.
Come ona my house! It’s a football-free zone. I wake up in the morning to videotapes or DVD’s of my choosing, none of which ever involve sports of any kind. All cable news and sports channels have been removed from my TV tuner, so it is not possible to even accidentally land on one. It is true that on occasion, I will quickly remote past one of the networks that happens to be showing something football-related, but all it takes is one click to reach some other station showing the Britney Spears saga instead. Since I’m on the West Coast, primetime TV is rarely affected by sports. In fact, everything I know about football, I learn from thread titles I skip past on the SDMB. You’re welcome to join me in no-football-land, or give it a try yourself. With just a little effort, you too can be football-free! (I make no guarantees about fottball, though).
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Firstly, I think you mean either “cease” or “desist”.
Secondly, I’m in your area, and I call bullshit. There were two sports talk radio stations in the area, and one of them just switched to a Spanish news and music format.
Edit: plus, they’re both on AM, so it’s not like they were taking up space for something else you wanted to listen to. Quit whining.
Or maybe, he wants them to DIE! Mwahahahaha!
Oh, so it was supposed to be some kind of joke.
People who don’t get football are quite jocose.
You know, I used to be completely indifferent to football, years ago, because my dad never watched it, so I never got into watching it as a kid. Years later, my wife got me hooked on the NFL. Now I love it.
Maybe you should give it a chance.
Come to the dark side… 
…we have FOOTBALL!!!
See you in March for your basketball rant.
I know, as a cricket lover, I shouldn’t talk (it can go for five days), but JEEEEEEEEEZUZ it’s the golf and the tennis that shit me to tears. Those fuckers knock out one of the TV networks for WEEKS, and they are So. Bloody. Boring.
Al least football is over in an hour or two. It doesn’t compare to the hell that is Wimbledon.
You beat me to that. I live in Columbus humping Ohio and is it INSANE or what? My spousal unit and I have no use for sports, but hey whatever floats your boat. I can just about manage to ignore the cars covered with Buckeye crap and all the Buckeye merchandise (have you seen the red and gray M&Ms???) What I honestly CANNOT TOLERATE is when, having taken advantage of the empty roads during a game to go shopping, the stores HAVE THE GAME ON THE PA SYSTEM!!! AARRGH AARGH.
There is this mindless assumption that everyone is a fan and if you’re in the store it’s only because for some reason you can’t be watching the game.
WTF?
I’m sure they put the game on because more people ask them TO put it on than people who ask them NOT to put it on. Either that or the employees themselves want to hear it. In any case, I’m sure a most people don’t mind a few hours a week 1/4 of the year of NOT listening to retooled Carpenters songs piped through the PA system.
You are right. I was counting my xm channels by accident. I can’t attest to the change of the AM stations, I merely knew of their existence. Damn near ALL the clear channel stations on the FM dial are doing football though.
Nah it’s more like 4 hours, with pre and post game, plus commercial breaks every 30 seconds. I’m with you on the wimbleton crap. That and the bloody dog show. When i still had cable i would be mighty pissed when decent programming would be preempted for THAT.
Nah, it isn’t the sport that bothers me, it’s the ridiculous amount of media coverage it is getting. I’ve NEVER had the NBA thrust up on every channel like football has been this year.
One of my favorite sports rant seasons! The sound of fans shrieking… the smell of the balls…