Fun? FUN?! Do you see anybody having fun around here?!
Being a football fan is nothing but hardwork, from the first day of the pre-season to the last minute of the Pro-bowl.
Fun. snort If I wanted to have fun I wouldn’t be watching pro sports.
Damn, everything said in this thread is so predictable. The guy from Minnesota is upset with a Green Bay game, but of course that has nothing to do with it because he hates the Yankees. At least his team didn’t leave town, like his supporter from Houston. Why don’t whose guys start watching futball or if that’s too much, watch bowling. Either the pins fall down or not and the commentator has to whisper. :rolleyes:
Q: What do you get when you sell out Lambeau Field?
A: A full set of teeth.
Fuck the Packers.
Fuck Favre’s dad (and his mom).
Fuck the zebras (and their moms).
Go Eagles. Sorry Packer fans, your run of fluke wins is over.
Ummm… not quite… I rather think you’re better off crediting the NFL Commission for their poor judgement in selling the TV rights to a network with a known track record for dumbing everything down. It was a decision made for one single reason - chasing the bucks. And Rupert Murdoch had made his intentions known long, LONG before he got his mits on the NFL it seems to me.
That, my friends, is a classic example of an Philadelphia Eagles fan. Rude, insulting, brain-dead and vile. It’s no surprise Dio would be proud to join the group of idiots who pushed a guy down the stairs for wearing an inappropriate jersey, cheered while an opposing player was motionless on the turf with a neck injury, booed when they drafted their current francise quarterback, and fired flare guns in the stadium. And calling a 31-3 win over Denver, a 41-7 win over Oakland, a 38-21 win over San Diego, and a 34-21 win over the Bears “flukes” shows the complete lack of intelligence Iggles fans are known for world-wide. 100% class all the way, Dio
That, my friends, is a classic example of a Green Bay Packers fan – an encyclopediac memory for every injustice and crime ever (supposedly) perpetrated by fans of other teams, and a devout faith in his own moral and spiritual superiority because there’s a G on the helmet of his fave team instead of a bird or a horse or something. Packer fans are like fucking Jehovas Witnesses for being sequestered by their own holiness, always touting what good fans they are, how loyal, how well-behaved. I’ve never been berated by anyone but a Packer fan, but I’ve been berated by many a Packer fan. The moral universe of Packerdom is as rich and complex and fair-minded as a Jack Chick pamphlet. I can just imagine the badly drawn heathen Vikings fans, with devil horns instead of Vikings horns, that haunt the Packer fan’s troubled, cheese-addled brains when they sleep.
Well, Hamlet, blow out wins over the Broncos are apparently a dime a dozen these days. And home victories over the Seahawks are not that tough to come by. If they win next week maybe we can start talking “team of destiny” or whatever suits your purpose. As a fan whose team is sadly on the sidelines during the playoffs, I greatly enjoyed most of what I saw of the games this weekend. Amazing finishes in Baltimore and Green Bay, and it was great to watch Tony Dungy’s Colts smack down the ever annoying Mike Shanahan. The Panthers taking apart was a little boring, but it’s also nice to see Parcells and the Cowboys lose, so there’s something there for just about everyone.
Coldie, yeah, it’s a national championship, but it’s a big nation and the most popular sport here, so it’s probably the equivalent of the Champions League at least.
It was a fun weekend. I really like Tony Dungy, and was pleased as punch to see him get such a ass-kicking win after what happened to his team last year.
But next week, as usual, all these teams will get eliminated by the HFA teams who rested up and got healthy this week. If there’s one upset, I’ll take Carolina in St Louis.
I am a VIKINGS fan, Hamlet. Check my location. I am also a de facto fan of whoever is playing the Packers, so for one day I will be an Eagles fan.
For one day, and one day only…
Go Eagles!
Yeah, but in order to gain control over mor and more stuff, and really fuck up the world’s news and media, Murdoch had to drop his Australian citizenship in order to become an American. You see, only Americans are really allowed to screw thing up.
What means this word ‘international’? There’s someplace meaningful beyond the borders? I thought we’d done away with all that.
Yeah, but how many can pick them out of a line-up?
-Rav
I totally agree with the OP.
The refs made some bad potentially game altering calls, which is bullshit.
I don’t want family drama either. We all face our parents death. Leave that crap out of it. It’s an insult to the people watching the game. I’ll watch lifetime TV if I want drama.
GO EAGLES!
Diogenes, you’re explination of team loyalty is unnecessary, as any fool can see by your very moniker that you must indeed be a fan of the Vikings. 
Hamlet notes correctly that it seems almost second nature for you to take up the mantel of an Eagle’s fan, who are (by and large) combatative, obnoxious and use piss poor language.* Odd that.
*not that I’ve got a problem with that. and as we’re in the Pit, Fuck Dallas.
CC
Oh, absolutely. My remarks are to be taken in jest - it may not be my game, but I won’t stand between a man and his game of choice. Nations full of people adore cricket, and I can’t stop them, for instance. 
What does puzzle me is the rooting for another team just out of spite, or so it seems. That’s kind of alien to me, as a “soccer” fan. Yeah, I supported Ireland after they kicked us out of the 2002 World Cup qualifiers in an oh-well-you-deserved-it-now-go-get-them kind of way, but that’s not what’s implied here. It’s like, you hate team A (in this case the Green Bay Packers, right?), therefore you’ll root for team B should they play team A, even though team B may have beaten your own team of preference, or has yet to face your own team. Weird!
FWIW, I saw some highlights of an NFL match on Dutch TV this weekend. The Marlins vs. the somethings? It was 14 all, deep in the 4th quarter. It didn’t look like a technically skilled match, but then again, few sports are at their technical bests when the stakes are highest. To my shame, I must admit I changed the channel during a commercial, and never saw the end of the game. :o
I am in agreement that the TV announcers suck bad. Here’s a solution:
Turn down the volume on the TV, then turn on the radion and tune it to the game. Radio announcers are too busy describing the action for people who can’t see it to interject as much of that bullshit fluff.
And I’m a major football fan, and I get pretty excited watching the action, but some of the emotional vitriol that some of y’all are displaying is rather like a disorder, like somebody with Tourette’s who thinks Disney characters are real or something.
You know, im a Seattle fan.(Poor me this morning.) But i gotta say, we gave green bay hell yesterday. And The Refs haven’t been good to us all year. I can list it.
- Baltimore?
- St Louis?
- Hi Opal!
Well, we had a good run. And we’ll be rooting for Philly next week.
That whole lesser of 2 evils thing.
~SkY~
The Marlins? That’s a baseball team from Miami. Maybe you saw the Miami Dolphins. As to whether it was technically skilled, hard to say. Especially for you. Just like World football, a lot of the skills involved are highly nuanced, and doesn’t necessarily get picked up well on TV (a good example in soccer is that a good defender will position himself well; when he takes the ball from the attack you just infer it, but don’t necessarily see it as the camera was focused on the attacker and suddenly the defender is just there). For most fans it’s more a matter of entertainment value than recognizing skill, anyway. So if it didn’t hold your interest, then just as well you flipped the channel.
Anyway, as to the “My favorite team is the Vikings and whoever is playing the Packers” mentality, I think it’s a familiarity breeds contempt sort of thing. For years the Packers won and the Vikings suffered. (Okay, for a while they didn’t even exist AFAIK). Then the Vikings finally made it to the Super Bowl. And they lost. And lost. Now Minnesota and Wisconsin also border each other, so it’s sort of as if Germany always won the World Cup, and the Dutch either never made it, or always lost. And they are in the same division, so imagine that the Netherlands always had to beat Germany to get to the Cup, not just some random assignment of teams. And whenever you lost you would get on your TV and Radio about how wonderful the Germans are. Every year. For forty years. It can build some very intense rivalry that’s not really seen in the international version so much. Maybe a bit in your national leagues. It’s a bit negative, but it’s great from a PR standpoint, as those games will always have meaning even when neither team is doing well. Verstehen?
The Dolphins, entirely possible, yes.
Agreed on the TV vs. being there thing - you miss a lot of nuances in any televised sport. I think I can spot a good defense or pass in American Football, but a more avid watcher probably appreciates the finer nuances a lot better.
Well, for most Euro and World cups, that does hold water: you need to beat the frickin’ Germans somewhere down the line. 
But yes, I see your point.
That part only lasted 5 years, thank God.
Aber ja, verstehen, Herr Shibb.
Perhaps it’s unique to the game of American Football. I remember when I was a wee lad, my dad told me, “Son, we have two favorite teams. The Washington Redskins, and whoever is playing the Dallas Cowboys this week.”