Posted on 08/18/2009 9:55:56 AM PDT by Matt Philbin
So Michael Vick is an Eagle now. That’s ok with me. I’m a Giants fan. Or I was a Giants fan, when I could stand to follow pro football. For a long time now, I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch more than a few games a season. These days, I feel nearly as out-of-place at a Super Bowl party as I would at an Oscar party.
Here in the DC area, the Redskins religion has begun its sacramental advent count-down to opening Sunday. I wish I could share the excitement. Part of the problem is that I’m a natural contrarian. Everybody loves football, so I don’t. Also, I’m a baseball fan (in a town largely devoid of them). The end of summer means my season’s running down, while theirs is pumping up.
But the problem is more involved. See, I love the game of football. But I loathe how it is played at and by whom at the professional level. I don’t like the hype and the spectacle and the production – the computer generated “Transformers”-type robots Fox uses in commercial bumpers. And I can’t believe I’m the only one who thinks Hank Jr.’s “Monday Night” theme song gets a little more embarrassing every year.
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I, too, watch very little football. But really it’s just a byproduct of the fact that I have just about cut all TV watching from my daily life.
I got no sympathy for people who complain about things on TV.
There’s an easy solution: Don’t watch it.
I've heard of broken plays before, but I'm not sure what this is. Not sure how much of a fan you were in the first place.
The NFL is a business. Patronize it, or don't.
I was so happy to watch the Giants/Panthers game last night.
And now with Brett Farve going to the Vikings, I’ll be watching all football all the time.
Seems like all football accomplishes is sucking up tax dollars for big stadiums and causing programs I like to get delayed because a bunch of guys throwing a ball around can’t decide who wins in the allotted time.
blowing kisses would be taunting, that’s a 15 yard penalty. If such an incident happened, and I don’t remember it, it would have been penalized, and plenty of sport journalists would have harangued the guy for it and he probably would have gotten clobbered by the defense who certainly would have caught up to him (lots of guys get crushed by the D when they start their celebration at the 10, starting at the 40 is a sure ticket to pain). There can be excessive celebration in the NFL, there can be excessive celebration in every sport. Plenty of home run hitters stand their and watch the ball and wave their arms around during their victory lap. Yeah the NFL probably does more in a game, but they have 1/10 as many games, that condenses the sport.
I’m ready for football. Arsenal vs Celtic.
“Too much celebration on the field” is one of my favs.
Once they vote themselves Bread and football...
Most years about this time — for almost 40 years — I am chomping at the bit waiting for the season to begin.
This year, for whatever reason, I just can’t get excited about it. Maybe that will change at kickoff of the first game. Maybe not.
Olberman is on NBC for NFL games, sports keeps eveil networks like CNN (ESPN), BCS, ABC, NBC alive, stadiums cheat taxpayers. NFL and TV sports helps to keep the serfs in line.
Just like Rome - bread and circuses. Send the army away for the empire and to keep the army from removing the despots - meanwhile illegal aliens flood in (vandals, hun & visigoths) then Rome aka USA implodes.
TV sports is a mindless waste of time.
I have felt for a long time that sports “watchers” are those of us with little athletic talent and who live a sort of Walter Mitty life. Washington D.C. is the perfect example of that syndrome. So many bureaucrats with so little talent — intellectual or athletic.
I love football!
Overproduced. I grew up a Raider fan. Loved pro-ball as a kid. I got into College FB from there, and pro-football lost its lustre for me. Too many great games on Saturday, too many upsets.
I agree with you.
I am an odd sort of person who can’t stand college football and loves the NFL, yet prefers the NCAA to the NBA.
Football players are paid to be 18. And it shows.
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