Candy Asses who hate football!

[trumad]

Most likely stems from being the last picked for kickball or something?

[Scurrilous]

1. Or...

...they secretly like football and watch it religously, but their favorite team currently SUCKS so they badmouth the sport.

On edit: Go Canes! :thumbsup:

[RandomKoolzip]

2. Well, for me it stems from being forced to

play football (or what he called "football") with my older brother, which basically meant he was going to beat me up and torment me for crying about it.

Then, in high school, being in the school band, and playing for the footabll games, and everytime we'd play a little fanfare after each touchdown, the players would stand up and yell, "YOU FAGGGGOOOOTTTS!" at us. Every time.

And then also personally knowing guys on the football team who bragged about date-raping women.

And then, being beaten up in high school for not having the right haircut by- guess who? that's right, by football players.

And then, being ridiculed into adult life by sports freaks for not being properly enthusiastic about our official corporate sanctioned sporting events.

And then seeing football used as an excuse to behave unintelligently in general. Specifically, seeing people turn into violent brutish pigs for no damn reason at all.

And then knowing that more and more money is being spent on high school sports programs and virtually none is being spent on art, music, or general education, etc. In fact, those programs are actually being cut altogether in some places.

And then the time when my best friend was brought to tears at the restaurant we worked at when some asshole at the table she was waiting on told her that he was intentionally NOT tipping her, nor would anyone at the table, because she asn't able to read their minds and give them the latest score for the football game that was occurring. Of course, they never ASKED her to do so, they just assumed she "knew her place" and would just automatically tell them. She needed that tip money desperately. She cried a lot that day.

And then knowing that somewhere, right now, as we speak, some kid is getting the shit beat out of him because he's not a football player.

So forgive me if I'm less than "gung ho" about your favorite pastime.

[Lefta Dissenter]

5. I was just about to post a

smart-ass response to the original post, but I'm much more moved by your reply. I'm really sorry for all the pain that you describe in your post.

I got in an huge fight with my daughter's high-school gymn teacher, because he said that she wasn't trying in class when they played football. Not trying? Well, as it turned out, he never taught the rules, and simply couldn't BELIEVE that a girl of 17 years old didn't just KNOW the rules. She told me that whenever she got the ball, she'd just throw it to someone else, because she didn't have a clue what she was supposed to do with it.

A hole in her upbringing, I guess. I'll have to try to love her anyway.

Again, I'm sorry about all that football means to you.

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Some people have unplesant associations with the dentist or whatever...

I can't say I've ever enjoyed any kind of football-related phenomena (except for cheeleaders...yowza!)

[jus_the_facts]

15. yeah they're all mean testosterone filled assholes...but they look awesome

....in their uniforms...that's why I first fell in love with sports m'self...DEREK JETER comes to mind...uhm...Tom Brady...Joe Montana was my first spandex ass to fall for! *swoon* :evilgrin:

on edit I have to say I don't think any of these I listed are mean assholes for the record...just have mighty fine asses! :D

[RandomKoolzip]

17. I like seeing sports approached at a purely glandular level like that....

totally! Just as my only appreciable "in" for sports is cheerleaders, yours is tight asses in spandex. See, we have something in common! ;)

[jus_the_facts]

18. yep all those hard bodies in uniform.......

....always gets this gal gushin' I do declare! :o

[RandomKoolzip]

20. Yike-a-roonies!

Hmmm....I guess I shouldn't confess that I tried to get my wife to dress as a cheeleader in the bedroom once...don't wanna get this thread locked!

"Gushin'?" Oh my.....

[jus_the_facts]

25. *sultry sigh*....DJ has that affect on me....it's true.....

....now there's a Yankee Dandy I'd like to Doodle!:evilgrin:


:o :o :o :o

[jus_the_facts]

26. it's all that....ass *eye* candy....that started my love of sports.....

....the physical aspect of gettin' to SEE them perform was the inital attraction...the finess and understanding of how and why and what they brought to the game...the rules of the game and all came later...oh how I love to watch them play ball!:wow:

[7th_Sephiroth]

27. yeah

i got stabbed by the captain of the football team in HS for looking at his "bitch" I ended up breaking both his legs with the pipe i had in my car, and i got suspended for damageing the financial interests of the school, no mention of me getting stabbed, his buddies holding me down, and what happened to them? later that year they got put away for the rape and murder of a cheerleader

[toddzilla]

22. Bingo!

I think scholastic sports are a training ground for macho asshole types as well. Virtually every person i had a problem with picking on me in high school was an "athlete" of one kind or another. The fact is i was in tremendous shape in high school, being a triathlete, i didn't play team sports. I did manage a 3/4 mile swim, 35 mile bike ride and a 10k run in under 4 hours while attending high school full time and working 35+ hours a week. and i did it all while not beating the shit out of someone smaller than me!!


nope, you could wipe out professional sports altogether and i wouldn't give a shit in the least. there are far more interesting things to do than watch someone else do something i enjoy (excluding porn!!)

[Red_Storm]

32. Thanks for your post.......

While I didn't experience the things that you did (physical and verbal abuse), alot of the same things that you describe went on in my High School ( as I imagine it has and continues to in alot of High Schools all over the country)....i'm not a jock, never was but the same type of actions, attitudes and mindset that you talk about were prevalent in my school, I watched from a close distance so I remember well........I wonder if the starter of this thread ( who has yet to respond to what others have written) acted in the same buffoonish, ignorant and cowardly manner as those that you mentioned......

[ArkDem]

52. I agree. Football is responsible for more of what is wrong

with the world than Bush.

[Randi_Listener]

3. I'm the biggest football fan you'll ever meet.

But I can certainly see why many people choose to hate it.

[salin]

4. Nope - just living in basketball heaven instead.

Don't blame me - blame those who reared me in a virtual sirensong community for college basketball!

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Hmm.. did Miami win tonight?

After the OSU vs Miami thing last year..... you disappeared for a long time, only to return later, still stewing...

Hawkeye-X

[trumad]

41. Oh please

You think I'd run offf and hide because of the one shot wonders known as the Buckeyes?

[Ohio Dem]

44. Hey trumad

What's up, man? Here's a question for you. I know you want Dave Wannstedt fired there in Miami, right? You know what I think would be great? Steve Spurrier sits out a year and takes the Dolphins' job in about twelve months. Wouldn't that be great?

[wtmusic]

7. proud candy ass

Grown men running around trying to knock each other down? Sheesh! I can fall down on my own! ;-)

[camero]

8. I was always picked last the first couple of games

Cause I was always the smallest one on the field. Then once I started kickin ass, I was picked first. Especially after picking off the varsity QB four times in one game.

They called me the little engine that could...lol. Love football.

[BeyondGeography]

10. Kill the ball carrier

Great game, until you're about 9 or 10. Then kids can actually start kicking the shit out of each other. And it stops being fun...

[camero]

11. It never stops bein fun.

You just feel it in the morning. Yeow. :)

[Fovea]

12. I was into it in HS

But after a couple of knee and rib injuries, I had to make a choice
between football and cycling. The diff? At 48, I can still cycle.
So I don't follow NFL stuff anymore, but I watch OLN cycling and
hope to see Lance win a sixth TdF this year.

I did however get into full contact martial arts as a violence
therapy replacement. For many years, I counted any day where
I got to hit someone with a stick as a good day.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

13. Nope.

I play real football ;)

aka... soccer!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

14. I loathe football, BUT

I'll be more than happy to kick your ass for you if you think that will make me more "manly" to you. Just remind me to tie my good hand behind my back so we start out even... :evilgrin:

[Cat Atomic]

16. I despise team sports.

I just never could give a shit about the outcome of a completely fanciful "rivalry". WHO FRIGGING CARES??

I mean, if the losing city had to actually cede territory or pay tribute to the winning city, that might make it interesting. At least it would have some MEANING. But as it stands now, it's a bunch of grown men running around, playing with a ball.

It's just sad.

[picus9]

38. Tell that to yankee fans.

[jus_the_facts]

49. with that analogy....Boston Are Belong To US!!

:evilgrin:

[aquart]

19. Has more to do with the crushing boredom.

Also baseball, hockey, tennis, basketball, golf, pretty much all of that pre-emptive and annoying garbage.

Oh, and for me, the sound of a sports announcer's voice is chalk on a blackboard. It's no different than being forced to listen to rap.

[Coldgothicwoman]

21. To put it like Samuel L Jackson

'My girlfriend is a football watcher...which pretty much makes me a football watcher too.'

She might be rethinking that though, since, being from Indiana, I love the Colts and she's a Titans fan. :)

It did take forever to make sense of the rules though. Can the game get anymore complex? :P

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. "The only real sports are Bullfighting, mountain climbing.....

and motor racing. All else are games"

- Ernest Hemingway ( i think) ( or someone similarly famous)

American football is the quintessential American distraction. It is violent, hyped beyond need, pointless and distracts it's viewers from their daily troubles. Just like NASCAR and Professional Wrestling.

Remember; "Fan" is short for "Fanatic"
If you are a fanatic about grown men trying to move a ball around.....well......

F-1 Motor Racing. Now THERE is a sport. Intellectual, high tech and fast. Not to mention snobby, snooty and expensive!














go canes!

hee hee

[Blue_Chill]

34. Bullfighting is not a sport

It's a rigged event in which people pay to watch a animal slowly tortured to death. Not to mention the bull is usually wounded prior to limit it side ways mobility.

I like it when they get smashed by the bull.

[RebelOne]

51. Same here.

I went to the bull fights in Mexico City and I was shouting my Oles for the bulls.

[A HERETIC I AM]

67. Bear in mind, i didnt write the quote. I just repeated it.

And i tend to agree. Mountain climbing isnt real a sport either. It is a way to get to the top of a hill.

But Motor Racing....well....THAT IS a real sport. Except NASCAR motor racing. Nascar is just a parochial contrivance packaged for mass consumption. I worked in the Racing business in this country for ten years and trust me, NASCAR is perfectly suited for those that tend to be the most interested in it.

"The rise in the popularity of NASCAR racing in this country is indicative of the shortcomings in the public education system"

- Me

"Real race cars dont have roofs, doors, trunks, fenders, headlights, gunracks or mechanics named "Bubba" or "Chocolate"


hee hee

[A HERETIC I AM]

68. BLUE CHILL!!! HEY!!!! I was hoping you would stop by....

"Not to mention the bull is usually wounded prior to limit it side ways mobility."

Any evidence for this? Any links? Ever been to a bull fight? I haven't but from what i know about it, the idea that the bull is "Usually wounded" is, how shall i say?....Typical Blue Chill...um....."Bull"!

Bullfighting is big business in Spain and Mexico and it is legal there. When they are ready to outlaw it, they will. Elephant soccer is big in India, so i hear. Dwarf tossing is a big deal in Australia.
(I understand they get the donks pissed before they toss, so as to make it fair dinkum)


Sheesh, lighten up, dude

Paul
(anticipating Blue Chill's next post chock full of his rapier wit and worldly knowledge that is sure to make me look silly)

(on edit to admit that i am baiting the guy and this post probably will get deleted for it, but hey, what the hell. If you cant test a new system, how do you know if it will work?)

[stopbush]

24. Or...not...

I assume your thread is a response to my earlier thread. Like I said, I played freshman football in HS. At 5'4", I was a nose tackle. Yep, that's right. I played across from centers who outweighed me by 60 lbs. Later in the year I played linebacker and cornerback.

I was in the band and choir at my HS, and every year we'd have a sandlot football game for bragging rights. I was always one of the quarterbacks. In my senior year, I took the opening kickoff back and was heading for the end zone when I was tackled from behind. It was a high tackle that pinned my shoulders together. I landed hard on my left shoulder and felt woozy afterward. Since I was quarterbacking, I called a couple of running plays to allow myself time to settle down. Then I threw two passes. After the second one, I almost passed out. I had a drink of water and threw another pass. Then, I felt REALLY sick.

I went to the hospital where I was diagnosed with a broken collarbone. It put me out of commission for 6 weeks in a sling. But later that night, I still had to strap on a f*cking bass drum to play in the marching band for the annual crosstown rival game (I didn't dare tell my band director I had broken my collarbone).

So you tell me - am I a candy ass for no longer having any interest in football? :)

[sventvkg]

28. Well I hate Football and the brainless Beer Drinking Fat wannabees

Who are into it...And as for being a candy ass, I was an Army Ranger and am Quite certain I could "Take out" you and all of your Football friends with ease..And I was a GREAT Athlete so your synopsis that we all were shitty athletes and were never picked doesn't hold true.

I find these football maniacs devoid of any real knowlegde of important issues and really remind me in many ways of Freepers.

In High school the football players or "Jocks" as we called them were exactly like described in other posts here and exactly like the cliche's by and large...Also, many of our team decided they were going to beat up a friend of mine because he dressed weird...So a bunch of them waited for my friend hidden when he came home, then they jumped out and beat him up...Well I challenged them all to a fight one by one if they had the balls...After beating the shit out of the first one, none of the rest of them would fight me and the whole school found out what coward bastards these jocks were. These guys never lived it down and still hold the scars of their stupidity to this day...I can't stand them, can't stand the mentality and football is mindless drivell.

[ScreamingMeemie]

55. Hello? I'm not a beer drinking fat wannabee and I love Football.

And I was a 4.0 in college. So, I guess that kind of blows the stereotype out of the water.:shrug: To me it's highly entertaining and a lesson in commitment to excellence, at least on the part of the Packers recently. :). It really bothers me that people generalize.

[jonnyblitz]

29. that's what most guys who are insecure about their masculinity

say about those of us who don't conform. :)

[VOX]

30. My ass ain't candy -- I lettered in track and cross country...

At 6'5", 155 lbs. (not a typo), I wasn't exactly physically cut out for a contact game. But I like to compete, and I found my sport and did well in it.

That said, I've watched my fair share of football over the years, but I've grown extremely bored with that whole mentality. I'm too weary from the hype, the rampant crass commercialism and the depressing corporate encroachment on the sport. The tired idea of three announcers screaming in the booth, "Whoa, it's been picked off!" or "Look at that hit!" just sends me running in the opposite direction. The NCAA and NFL have not owned my Saturdays and Sundays for years now.

No thanks, I'd rather be reading, or doing my own workouts, or fixing things around the house. On the rare occasion that I do have some time to look at team sports on TV, I do enjoy a rugby match -- now, *that's* football! :evilgrin:

[camero]

60. I'm the same build as you but shorter

5'7" 116 lbs. It was always a David and Goliath thing with me. I lettered in wrestling and lacrosse but played football in the backyard. No pads, that's the way to play.

I agree with you about the hype but I tend to block that part out. Maybe it's better that you didn't do contact sports because you don't have the problems with arthritis that I have I'm assuming. :)

[tkmorris]

31. Ease up people

I think trumad meant it in fun, no need to get all excited.

[WillParkinson]

36. Gee, I'm sorry...

I shouldn't take offense at being called 'candy ass'. Silly me.

[maxanne]

33. yep

girls still aren't allowed to play it. We have to pay the taxes thought, that build the big stadiums where it's played, however.

Big dumb testosterone laden, often violent jerks playing a dopey game where they run and crash into each other - and are paid more money than the people who teach kids how to read? Whose job is more important?

Lick my candy ass!!

[WillParkinson]

35. Candy ass?

I won't take that personally. Unless you'd like to take a lick and tell me if it tastes like candy?

I don't care for most sports. Why? Because most sports figures (not all) are nothing but scuzzy pieces of fecal matter who treat women like pieces of meat that they use and then get rid of.

Call me a candy ass all you like. I don't really care. But before you gush about your sports love take a look at the players off the field.

[RebelOne]

37. I don't hate football.

I just don't go out of my way to watch it.

[trumad]

40. Chill folks

It was simply a reply to those silly ass threads that pop up every now and then that are simply mean't to diss Football and other American sports. Oh sure there are a few athletes out there that aren't your true blue wonderful human beings, but I'd say that there's a large majority of Athletes who are. So just cause you got beat up by one jerk who hit you over the head with your own flute, don't label all athletes jerks.

If you're a football fan then it's a terrific time of the year because of the bowl games and NFL playoffs. It's natural for us fans to post about our teams and the excitement of the games.

AND I guess it's natural for the typical whiners to start a thread simply for no other reason than to diss the folks who have a passion for football. You won't see me posting threads titled "How many male DU'ers hate Basket weaving" only because if basket weaving is your passion, then great, weave away.

[toddzilla]

43. with my own flute?

for pointing a finger at all us non-sports lovers, you sure do your very best to portray us as "wussy" and "candy-asses"


open your mind a little if you can fit anything else in there but stereotypes.

[trumad]

54. Sorry

I meant Clarinet....

[Uzybone]

48. well said

what with all the vitriol towards people who love sports?? Big fucking deal, everyone has thier own thing. If you dont like football, then dont watch it.

[maxanne]

61. I guess

pointing out the franchises who hold cities hostage to build them sports palaces that people of my gender can't use makes me a whiner.
Pointing out the outrageous sums of money paid to idiots who play with balls makes me a whiner.

Plenty of athletes are jerks - and if you read about college rapes the highest percentage of them are committed by football players.

You have every right to be excited about the sport you clearly venerate. Calling the rest of us non-worshipers "candy asses" was bound to provoke the reaction you've received.

I'm okay with being a whiner on this issue. :eyes:

[Flightful]

39. Real football season ended in November

The candy asses are the players on offence who need four downs to make ten yards and have to hire a Canadian to show them how to kick the ball.

[trumad]

42. LOL...

Canadian football is where all our retreads play....

[leftofthedial]

45. nope. comes from playing football in high school

stupid game.

fascist game.

perfect for all murkans.

[n0_data]

47. Quick

fascist game

..someone tell Hunter S.Thompson. He loves football but hates fascists. The Good Doctor's gonna be pissed.

[Wcross]

46. Fat asses who watch football.......

Do you play the game or do you just swill beer and WATCH people play the silly assed game?

I hate watching football as I hate watching any sport.

To un-candify my ass I played ice hockey through high school and was a U.S. Marine. I am 6'6" and weigh in at 235lbs. I know you wouldn't call me a "candy ass" to my face.

Bwaaaaaaaaa! Football sucks!

[jus_the_facts]

50. I personally think hockey sucks.....and SMART ASSES abound.....

...to each his own...but not everyone who just watch sports are fat asses...that's a broad sweepin' generalization ya big JARHEAD!! :evilgrin: :*

on edit...and not all football haters are candy asses either!! ;-)

And I happen to love a former JARHEAD...my dear ol'DAD! :loveya:

[Wcross]

59. Oh, I can't stand WATCHING hockey either.....

I just get so amused by the guys in the office when Tennessee or the Titans win a game. "we really kicked butt" or "we did this or that"- when I hear that I mention that I didn't see their fat ass out on the feild.

[jus_the_facts]

62. Well my Dad was a Marine and he taught me all about football....

....he has quite a quick wit...that I absorbed that from him thru the years along with a football education...after watchin' my first Superbowl in 9th grade...Joe Montana and the 49's in that game rocked my socks...as a hormone induced euphoria came over me WATCHIN' Joe's awesome ass WIN....and I've been a rabid fan ever since...after livin' with the same man for 13 years I've also been affected now by baseball and basketball...tennis...even golf isn't as boring as I used to think....after watchin' Tiger Woods and his amazin' skill...I appreciate even GOLF! I just like men and like to watch 'em perform what they do best...and look sooooo good doin' it! :)

[ScreamingMeemie]

57. Not a fat ass and I watch football. Lots of it. All the time.

:P

[Wcross]

58. Give it time......

[ScreamingMeemie]

64. 33 years, and people still think I am pleasant...and no lard

butt either. :shrug:

[TreasonousBastard]

53. Maybe...

those who can-- play

those who can't-- watch

those with better things to do-- do neither

[trumad]

56. better things to do???

Such as?

Come on...I'd love to see what the Sport Hating crowd deems better than sports... but please leave out the convienant saving the world excuse.

[rustydog]

63. Or..candy-asses overpaid to hit other candy-asses in tights

so they can take a sharpie and misspell their name autographing a football...candy-asses spending the off-season learning a new endzone dance...candy-asses so full of themselves, they hurt the team effort....candy-asses busted for dope, shooting girlfriends, getting the free-pass in college simply because they can catch a ball or knock down the guy carrying the ball. Yea, real people to be admired. Nothing like sitting all day saturday and sunday watching the same endzone dancing.

I'd rather play a pick-up game of football than watch over-priced prima donnas dancing for us after they caught a ball thrown to them.

Of course, I talking about getting a life.

Did I take the flame-bait and run with it?

[trumad]

65. Wow...Then you must not go to the movies either?

Talking about over-priced prima donnas...

[rustydog]

66. Actually, I love Football movies

north dallas forty...necessary roughness...etc
They have the player mentality and hyper-ego down pat.