Thread: The pedestal that football is put on in this country

Football is simply the perfect sport for television.
The rhythm of the game, the complexity, the pace and the technology of video are matched in a way that makes NFL football the perfect televised sport.
If you can't see that, you are missing out on one of the cornerstones of American culture.

There's yer problem, unclassifiable. You think the Superbowl is about football? Not really. Listen to the conversations; they are just using football to socialize because they can't carry on a conversation on their own.

Originally Posted by goober

Football is simply the perfect sport for television.
The rhythm of the game, the complexity, the pace and the technology of video are matched in a way that makes NFL football the perfect televised sport.

What does this have to do with the rudeness of the masses who love football towards those who do not love football?

If you can't see that, you are missing out on one of the cornerstones of American culture.

Fuck dark ages culture.

Originally Posted by Dick Martin

There's yer problem, unclassifiable.

Let me guess, but when I fight back (verbally), somehow my retaliatory rudeness is not okay?

You think the Superbowl is about football? Not really. Listen to the conversations; they are just using football to socialize because they can't carry on a conversation on their own.

Whom are you referring to?

Everything you ever need to know is in football...

Football is life.

Originally Posted by tsquare

Everything you ever need to know is in football...

Football is life.

Thank you for your immense help. These words, coming from you, are a powerful demonstration of my point.

Originally Posted by unclassifiable

Thank you for your immense help. These words, coming from you, are a powerful demonstration of my point.

Spoken like a man that has never in his life put the pads on, stepped onto the field and fought with every once of strength to achieve victory.

Winning, losing, pain, triumph, teamwork, your own personal best, strategy, one-on-one battles, counting of others, them counting on you, the other side, equally determined.

The stars, the game lost and won in the trenches, the specialists, the work a day guys, high-tech, and raw power.

There was a time in this great nation when I would not have to explain these things, for ever if you never played a down, you would know what football was and what it meant.

Thus how a great nation falls...

Originally Posted by unclassifiable

Let me guess, but when I fight back (verbally), somehow my retaliatory rudeness is not okay?



Whom are you referring to?

The whom to who I am referring to are the whoms who talk about the Super Bowl but don't know a reddog from a mousetrap. Nor do they know how to have a real conversation.

Originally Posted by tsquare

Spoken like a man that has never in his life put the pads on, stepped onto the field and fought with every once of strength to achieve victory.

Winning, losing, pain, triumph, teamwork, your own personal best, strategy, one-on-one battles, counting of others, them counting on you, the other side, equally determined.

The stars, the game lost and won in the trenches, the specialists, the work a day guys, high-tech, and raw power.

There was a time in this great nation when I would not have to explain these things, for ever if you never played a down, you would know what football was and what it meant.

Thus how a great nation falls...

How about one of them engages in hand-to-paw combat with a lion, like many of your Christian predecessors did, if they're so great?

Originally Posted by Dick Martin

The whom to who I am referring to are the whoms who talk about the Super Bowl but don't know a reddog from a mousetrap. Nor do they know how to have a real conversation.

They don't teach the difference between the objective case and the subjective case in Arkansas? I suppose that the "education" system has more important things to accomplish there.

Originally Posted by tsquare

Spoken like a man that has never in his life put the pads on, stepped onto the field and fought with every once of strength to achieve victory.

Winning, losing, pain, triumph, teamwork, your own personal best, strategy, one-on-one battles, counting of others, them counting on you, the other side, equally determined.

The stars, the game lost and won in the trenches, the specialists, the work a day guys, high-tech, and raw power.

There was a time in this great nation when I would not have to explain these things, for ever if you never played a down, you would know what football was and what it meant.

Thus how a great nation falls...

Oh fuck too. Football was invented less than two hundred years ago and didn't even begin to be popular until tv came along in the 60's. It is, like Goober notes, the triumph of television over everything else. Foreigners think we're a bunch of pansies because we like to watch a group of oversized men in armor runnning into each other while their sports heroes play basically in their underwear, and they're right.

American football became popular because you could follow the cartoonlike plays on the small screens of yesteryear and the episodic play enabled you to put commercials into it easily and folllow it without really paying attention; so it's perfect for drinking beer, eating chips and falling asleep after a hard day of gluttony doing nothing, the perfect American entertainment.

Lets not forget; in the South football is a almost a religion.

I don't care for it much, although I will probably watch the Packers. I like the concept that they are publicly owned rather than billionaire owned.

Also, as far as the superbowl goes, the commercials are pretty good.

I don't get people who are way into sports (unless they're doing the sport personally). It seems so superficial - like who really cares who wins?.