I think I have “watched” exactly one superbowl in my life. I went to a party at a friend’s but mostly I stayed away from the tv and snacked and talked with others that weren’t watching. We may have watched the commercials but I don’t think they were as big a thing back then.
I do like all the shows that talk about superbowl snacks because “hey, snacks!” but zero interest in the sportsball game and the commercials I can catch online at any time. I may catch a few minutes of the puppy and kitten bowl if we have time, because only people with no soul hate puppies and kittens.
Well, in my defense, I really do try to call it that universally, since “Football” is a terrible name for describing the game. To be honest, the name bugged me even when I played it.
It’s the right name to use because it’s the name that people around you will understand (assuming you are American). How can calling something by its name be a terrible thing to call it?
I had no idea you were even referring to football. I thought you were just expressing disdain for sports by talking about some other sport with a weird name. That doesn’t seem conducive to conversation at all. And of course once you said you do it essentially to irk people, that really feels like it’s more about being smug than just not caring.
I’m not. Never had much interest in sports but a few video games I don’t mind. Never watched the Super Bowl nor does my wife. I never understood how people get so hyped over big games and perhaps never will. Overall I find watching sports on TV to be very boring.
“Football” is an ambiguous term without context. I’ve never used “hand-egg” outside of the context of a discussion about the American sport, but you’re the first person who’s expressed confusion at what I was referring to.*
If I’ve got any disdain or smirk, it’s for people who think a sport (or a stranger’s enjoyment of it) is somehow important or says something about the person’s view of classes in our society. Possibly I have it for the people who think that I’m somehow damaging the game by calling it an unusual name, but that’s a new one to me.
*In fact, I just used it at the liquor store, and the guy didn’t blink.
I wasn’t aware that there were Canadian, Austrialian, American and international games with those names that all have widely varying, completely incompatible rules.
Sure, educate me on the widely varying, completely incompatible rules between say, golf or tennis in the U.S. and Europe. I doubt I have to educate you on the differences between European and American “Football”.
I’ve never played golf or tennis, and don’t have much interest in their rules. There might be such rule differences, but I doubt a casual observer such as I could be expected to know them.
Hell, even though Hockey has different rules in the NHL and Olympics, the players don’t have any problem moving between them. I don’t think you could drop an American player in to the Australian game and have them have any idea what to do.
Who said the differences were the same? The terms are still ambiguous. If I’m going to a tennis match, you don’t know if it’s male or female, doubles or singles. But I can clarify for you, just as easily as I can clarify which football I’m talking about.
I realize that the English language doesn’t make you all warm and fuzzy inside, but bucking against it in a juvenile manner doesn’t help your cause.
I don’t care if people who love and respect hand-egg are made all warm and fuzzy by my use of the word, I’ve never met anyone who’s made a convincing argument that they were confused by the term when used in context. You’re the one who came into a group of people who obviously don’t care about the game and tried to enforce some sort of linguistic regime.
No, I said “Football” was ambiguous, and you said that hockey, tennis, golf and badminton were the same way. “Football” doesn’t even tell you the shape of the ball, much anything else without context. The other names tell you a lot about the sport, comparatively.
Oh, you thought I took hand-egg seriously? Hint: We’re in a thread about not doing that. Laugh away.
I love that you’re actually defending your elementary school terminology. I love it even more that you claim to be doing so in an attempt to clear things up for the world.
Yeah, the amount of time you’ve spent earnestly defending it really makes this ring hollow.
