I’ve always disliked (American) football. (Shouldn’t they call it “carryball”?) I mean, they spend 10 seconds running around, then spend two minutes milling about!
Just this year I stopped thinking of it as a “sports game” and started thinking of it as a game of chess (or some other strategy board-game). I actually found it interesting when I changed my perspective.
I would have watched the Super Bowl, but I was working on a film. The actors watched the game while we were setting up the shots.
I like football. I don’t watch every game during the season, just the playoffs and the Superbowl. Basketball’s okay, but just not the same since Jordan retired. I think I just need some new heroes in that sport. Baseball and soccer are good live only.
Auto-racing is not a sport, in my humble opinion. Hate that polluting pastime with passion.
My husband shares my opinions. Yay!
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Shadowfox
“Hard work often pays off after time, but laziness always pays off now.” - Procrastinator’s motto.
I have no opinion whatsoever about football - I’m completely indifferent. This is probably the result of having a father who slept away my childhood on the sofa, watchng football. I grew up in a college football obsessed town, and everyone who was introduced to me asked me right away whether I was a (hometown) fan or (rival) fan. Saying Neither led them to name off all the teams in a tri-state area, at the end of which I would say I have no opinion about sports, and they would look at me quizzically and walk off.
To me, this seems the equivalent of asking Do you prefer O negative blood or AB? I have no opinion, as long as I keep mine and you keep yours and there’s a good supply in case of emergency.
One of the reasons I went to a small, out of the way women only college is so I would have no fan by association problems. We sucked at sports, and besides, nobody’d ever heard of us.
I hate football. I don’t care much for watching sports on TV, nor do I carefully follow the standings of my favorite team (if I have one) in the paper, but I do enjoy watching a baseball or basketball game at the stadium every once in a while. But football? I’ll pass… And then there’s the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl, to me, represents everything that is wrong with professional sports today, and by extension, with America. The rampant commercialism, the overpaid players, the overriding obsession with the game itself… it all boggles the mind. I had a teacher once who always claimed that if the government suddenly shut down all the libraries in the country, nobody would care, but if they closed the stadiums, there would be rioting in the streets. Every year, I am more inclined to agree.
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I tried the abc.com, ENHANCED football TV, you watch the game & watch the web site, a big window comes up with a plug in. I was hoping maybe you get to shoot the players or pick your own plays, but it took too long to load, so I didnt get to see what it really looks like.
Falcon–did you ever play football? Ever smash your hand on a helmet, or have somebody spear you with one? Got stepped on by cleat? Took a shoulder pad to the throat? If you played and didn’t find that you got hurt much more and much more often than playing tackle witout equipment, you’re lucky.
Sports Illustrated regularly has run info on how helmets cause injuries. The padding is basically designed to allow for hitting without fear to the hitter, which means that he doesn’t have to protect himself by slowing down, etc. It all increases the force of the collisions, thus increasing pain and injuries.
Bucky
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Ooh…clever! The literal police are in force here, I see! 
Well, I could care less, but that would require energy. So I just don’t care. At all.
I agree with the previous post that mused that if they shut down the libraries, no one would notice, but if they shut down the stadiums, there would be rioting (or something like that.) In the sports-obsessed town I live in now, that is certainly true. I swear, the stadium here is almost like a place of worship. It’s unhealthy.
I also find that many of the people here are not terribly well-traveled (of course the definition of “well-traveled” is vague - let’s just say they rarely leave their home town, ever.) I think that they have decided to sit at home watching football and other spectator sports, instead of getting out and exposing themselves to what’s out in the world (or at least neighboring states.) It’s pathetic, that’s what it is.
I had my washing machine in about 18 pieces. That burned up most of the day.
Football is a ground acquisition game: you beat the crap out of the other guys and take their land. It’s less destructive and only slightly less expensive than an actual war.
I have never understood the thrill people get from watching other people have fun- and honestly it doesn’t look like the players are having all that much fun anyway. I like to participate in some sports, but watching other people play? Nah… when I’m hungry, I don’t watch some guy eating a steak.
While I’m at it:
Baseball: Might be worth watching if there was a gasoline fire at 2nd base & randomly placed land mines in the outfield -G. Carlin.
Golf: Offers the same degree of entertainment as looking for your car in an airport parking lot.
Fishing: Same as golf- You stand around with a long skinny thing in your hand while nothing happens for days at a time.
Auto racing: You watch cars go around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around… the only place where thousands of people gather in hopes of seeing a fatal multi-car road accident, and then they show it again in slow motion & from various angles on the news.
Boxing: Put two men in a ring and get a paying crowd to watch them beat each other into bloody pulps. For added tension, we pad their fists so that the damage is inflicted slowly & over a longer period of time. If this happens on the street, we call the police & throw the men in jail.
Tennis: I get more entertainment from watching a couple hundred spectators rock their heads back & forth for an hour than from watching the actual players.
Skiing: An adult version of the playing ground sliding board. Most people I’ve spoken to say they spend most of the time drinking brandy by the fireplace in the lodge. If that’s true, I may have to try skiing some day.
Hockey: Even more like war than football, except you are allowed to brandish weapons & draw blood.
Basketball: Somebody think of a reason why this sport is silly… I’m all worn out.
You ought to check out hurling sometime 
Oh, I just adore you football haters, I really do, I feel so not alone anymore! I loathe football, I was dragged to a game at the Dome once and was never so bored in my whole life, nearly fell out of the cheap tin nosebleed seat. Sunday I went shopping for a new purse, I spent 45 minutes checking them all out, taking out the tissue paper, etc. Stopped at the grocery store and the cashier said was I going home to watch the game, and in a line of guys with bags of chips and sixpacks, I said loudly, “what game? The superbowl? I don’t even know who’s playing!” Went home and cut out quilt squares . I despise football and I frankly think all sports suck and I think athletes are poor and pathetic role models. Does anyone remember the Kraft Foods ads/coupons in the Sunday paper the week before the BIG GAME which used to give tips and menus on the catering of same, and featured pictures of ecstatic cheering couples gathered round the ol’ TV with pennants clenched in fists and TV trays heaped with the Kraft Food snacks suitable for the BIG GAME? Made me want to barf. How much pepperoni, cheese cubes and dip can you gag down so soon after Christmas, anyway?
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So, would everyone here like to enlist in my year long boycott of pro sports? I haven’t a start date, but as soon as I find some followers about 2 million or so I’ll make one up.
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Sorry to go off the topic here, but I can’t resist: Did anyone else find the irony in evilbeth’s stuttered posts and her sig line?
Neil, Neil, orange peel!
Zygstardst pointed out
Wasn’t the public’s love of and obsession with blood sport one of the major causes of the downfall of the Roman Empire? I mean, all those people, just sitting in the Colluseum, watching people gore and club each other, not working or contributing to society, living off government aid (bread and circuses), and taking no responsability for their own lives. People got greedy and lazy, and ceased to care about the condition of others. This indifference to the suffering of others was due in no small part to government sanctioned fights to the death, and flinging virgins to lions, etc. (what a waste of a virgin, by the way).
My own prediction is that western society would be headed the same direction, were it not for our unstoppable greed and the newfound laziness of the mechanical age. Oh, wait, we are headed in the same direction, my mistake.
Deja vu to you too. I guess he’ll be calling OJ now. If I find out he stabbed his ex-wife I might die myself.
It’s difficult for me to comprehend how people incite themselves into such a feral state over something they’ve got absolutely nothing to do with. “It’s my team.” WTF are you talking about? That team doesn’t know You from Shinola. Then all the football facts just kills me.
About that boycott, I’ve been boycotting *professional sporting events since I knew what they were. Those guys aren’t even enjoying what they’re doing. It’s just a stupid job.
The college I went to (because I could afford it) didn’t have but ten books in the library, but had a 1/2 million dollar billboard for the damn football team. Don’t even get me started on the delinquency of the actual players.
A legend in my own mind.
So you’re going to have these people who do not watch sports, not watch sports for a year? Should be effective…
I am not what you would call a big fan, and I didn’t watch the game because I don’t give two turtle farts about either the Rams or the Titans. Instead, my girl and I went to the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and saw a very amusing rendition of A Midsummer’s Night Dream.
Good luck with that boycott thing.
Add me to your ranks, y’all. I despise football but that’s probably because I spent all of my life (except this past year) living in Dallas. I got so sick of hearing about “Da Boys” and their exploits on and off the field. Not to mention having to endure being married to a football fanatic for ten years. Thankfully, I’m engaged to a great guy who has NO interest in watching sports at all. What a relief!
Noooo!!! BTW, I love your handle/username! I work third shift and I exist solely for and because of Mtn Dew!!
I like my new sig line better!
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.