Superbowl Haters - Ever Play Sports?

[Jack_Dawson]

at the high school level or higher?

:shrug:

No worries if you were Thespians...I'm just curious.

To be honest I really admire actors...there's no way I could remember all those lines.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Personally, I don't understand the complete disdain.

I may not like ballet, but I sure as hell have a lot of respect for it. I think people who truly hate the Super Bowl either don't understand at all, or are simply snobs who want to be better than everyone else. I mean, seriously - there's nothing to outright hate. It's just a sport.

[Jack_Dawson]

2. I agree

and that is a truly disturbing picture. Thanks for ruining my dinner.

:beer:

[goddess40]

3. Managed the baseball team and curled

I just dislike the way this country, and others, treat athletes in certain sports like some kind of gods.

It costs a fortune to attend any of the big sports.

[ThorsHammer]

9. Not a superbowl hater, I love sports, but hate the glorification

[wtmusic]

4. I love the Superbowl

because there is absolutely no traffic.

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. I only hate the Super Bowl this year.

Other years I watch it. For the first time ever, my least favorite two teams are in it. I'll be playing "Go Fish" with my son.:hi:

[Jack_Dawson]

25. You have "least favourite teams"?

LOL...then whooz your team?

[DrWeird]

6. Yeah, I did.

Four years of high school football, three years wrestling, one track.

It's because I loved playing foorball that I'm not really that big on sitting on a couch watching other people do it.

[Jack_Dawson]

12. I can dig that...but...

after playing 4 years of football (what position?) don't you have an appreciation for the game?

:beer:

[DrWeird]

13. Defensive and offensive tackle.

Sure, I have an appreciation for the game.

[Aristus]

7. Yeah, Highspeed, I played football......in TEXAS...where it is less

a sport and more of a religion. I played corner, defensive backfield. I was also in the Drama Club AND a member of the Thespian Society. I'm hoping your post wasn't a smug as it reads; I can hate the Super Bowel, the juiced, spoiled, overpaid "athletes" who "play", and the tiresome, disgusting commercialism that goes with it all, without being some kinda anti-sports elitist. Hell, at my wife's fundy church tomorrow, they're going to cut the festivities short so everyone can go home and party! some faith; some devotion.

I've got the entire series of "Sports Night" on DVD. I'll watch some of that tomorrow instead.

Enjoy.

[Jack_Dawson]

15. Baseball players are "juiced"...not NFL players

you know that, right? The NFL actually has a policy w/ teeth when it comes to steroids.

BTW...you are very well-rounded! Are you Matthew McCounaghey? (sp?)

[Aristus]

19. No, unfortunately.

I could use those dimples and cheekbones. :(

Think Paul Giamatti. That's closer to the mark. B-)

[Jack_Dawson]

20. Is "Sideways" good?

I haven't seen it yet.

:shrug:

[Aristus]

22. Haven't seen it yet, but I'm hoping to soon.

If you want quintessential Paul Giamatti, his role in "Saving Private Ryan" is matchless. Tom Hanks was supposed to portray the apotheosis of the 'citizen soldier', but Paul Giamatti did a much better job. Hanks was too weighed down with nobility. Paul Giamatti's character was just a guy; tired, cold, wet, frustrated, and just trying to get home in one piece. At no time in the film can you envision him thinking: "Man, someday, Tom Brokaw is going to call me 'The Greatest Generation'." He just wants to get the job done and go home. That's when I really started to like him as an actor. He reminded me so much of the average schlubs I knew in the Army.

[AlCzervik]

8. yup, babe ruth little league

and softball all thorough high school.

[Smallberries]

10. I made it to JV football

But mid-Junior year I transferred to a private school without a football team.

Possibly the best thing to ever happen to me.

I still follow college football (GO GATORS!) but profesisonal sports is a pathetic joke.

[Jack_Dawson]

16. Why do you hate pro sports?

Juss wonderin'

:shrug:

[Neoma]

11. Soccer

Football is fun to play sometimes & sometimes its interesting to watch.
but i could not give a hoot about it.

Baseball...i can't stand it.
its slow.

Soccer....WOOT! g0 g0 g0!
Who's winning....oooooh right in the @#$%!

[Jack_Dawson]

17. I like the World Cup

but that's about all I can do. Then again, I'm not European. :-)

[leanin_green]

14. I played all sports, scouted by Orioles, Royals, Reds in the 70's, but. .

I've grown tired of pro football. You know, I couldn't even get into one full game this year? I'm a dyed in the wool Niners/Raiders fan too. I never thought I wouldn't be into football. Something about the game has changed for me. Maybe High School ball is the answer. Just like with baseball, I was one person that hoped the players would have stayed out on strike long enough for the replacement players to take over. There's so many of us who would play for less than the league minimum just to set foot on some of those hallowed fields and warm the bench. So much of that's gone now. In all sports.

[Jack_Dawson]

18. Niners fan here

as well. I think parity has hurt the league a little bit. But even though tomorrow features two teams I don't really care about, I like how the SB has become a day for gathering with friends.

[leanin_green]

21. Yeah, I hear ya.

However, there's something I like about the Pats. It's the team chemistry thing. I've been on a few teams like that. No matter what you throw at us, we knew each other so well, that we always found a way to win. Reminds me of the Walsh days when everyone, and I mean everyone, had an assignment. Remember how guys in the league would kill to be on that team? I'll watch to to see the Pats play.

[Jack_Dawson]

23. So is it fair to say that tomorrow...

you won't be a Superbowl Hater?

:beer:

[leanin_green]

24. A hater? With all those great commercials?

No, I don't hate it, it's a damn spectacle. A celebration of all the is American(how do I mean that? You decide). It does seem that the game get's lost in all of it somehow. It's kinda like watching NFL films now without "the Voice" of the NFL. Ahh, the memories of childhood, when everything was larger than life and full of wonder.

[annabanana]

26. the games themselves aren't usually that good.. and the hype is

awful. That said, I enjoy watching an occasional football game when it's somewhat of an even match.