[the808bass]

George Will said that football promoted the two worst aspects of American life in that it was violence punctuated by committee meetings.

[1rudeboy]

I really try to enjoy NFL football. But even if I'm watching my team, I need to have a book or a newspaper in front of me.

And I dread the field goal just before the half. If you do an instant replay (say to call the touchdown out-of-bounds), run a play, call timeout, kick and score, kick off, time expires . . . you can literally watch three or four plays and what seems like 25 commercials.

[antiRepublicrat]

George Will said that football promoted the two worst aspects of American life in that it was violence punctuated by committee meetings.

So true! The violence is okay with me, after all I like Aussie rules football. It's the committee meetings that mostly turned me off of football. That, and the mostly one-way play direction. Unless there's an interception things just mainly go one way for a while, then the other way for a while. Soccer is quick back and forth, you never know where the ball will be ten seconds from now.