After 38 years, I've finally come to the conclusion

[no name no slogan]

football sucks

[ThomCat]

1. Yeah. I agree.

I decided that 34 years ago, and nothing since then has made me change my mind.

[no name no slogan]

7. As a guy, I feel obligated to at least TRY to care about it

but it just bores me to tears.

I guess that's what I get for growing up watching ice hockey.

[RainDog]

2. the only thing I really like about football

is the background noise, as in, I'm not watching it but it's on.

[no name no slogan]

8. Yeah, that's pretty much all I have it on for nowdays

Plus, it's the only sport I know where it takes 1/2 hour to play two minutes of game time. At least with rugby, they don't stop the game when a player gets maimed.

[Bunny]

3. Your avatar is a hoot!

Football is background noise to me, BTW. :hi:

[no name no slogan]

5. heh

Yeah, I put the avatar up after I started this thread on GD: P. Why vote for a fake Republican when you can vote for the real thing?

:hi:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. What took you so long?

[no name no slogan]

6. Damn Vikings

:hurts:

[qwertyMike]

9. Why do they call it

Football.
Only one guy can actually kick the ball
And he's usually a burnt-out soccer player from Chechnya or somewhere.

Just wondering

[no name no slogan]

10. I actually got bored and looked that up once on Wikipedia

apparently, something called "football" existed as far back as the middle ages, when it involved the citizens of two villages kicking an inflated pig bladder between them.

Eventually, the games we know variously as football, soccer and rugby evolved from that. The different nature of these games came from different rulesmaking bodies implementing their own rules

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

(Article is guaranteed to be more interesting than an actual NFL game)

[qwertyMike]

18. Just wondered

When poor David Beckham had to correct himself at a big news conference, and call Football Soccer

The word 'Soccer' derives from Association Football

Mick

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Mer'kin football, yeah

Other kinds, definitely not.

[no name no slogan]

12. That's not football, that's aerial ping-pong

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Wanna tell that to this donk?

Big Bad Barry Hall, co-captain of the Sydney Swans.







:P

[Fox Mulder]

13. Yeah, the Vikings are sucking today.

I never did get my hopes up that they'd actually win because then I'd be setting myself up for disappointment, just like every other year.

[no name no slogan]

14. Spoken like a true Vikings fan

I don't know why I even bother anymore, either

[Fox Mulder]

17. Holy shit...

The Vikings just tied the game! :o

Edit: Even if the Vikings do win, it won't matter because Washington is winning against Dallas.

[no name no slogan]

19. NICE FUCKING FUMBLE IN OT VIQUEENS

FOOTBALL EATS BIG BOWLS OF ELEPHANT ASSHOLES

[liberaltrucker]

16. As a HUGH fan of the game

I must reluctantly agree.

:cry:

GODDAMNED BRONCOS!!!!!!!

[qwertyMike]

20. That the Toronto Maple Leafs

will never win another Stanley CUP

It.s been 40 years now

Michel

[DarkTirade]

21. ... it took you that long?

The only reason people get excited about it is because people get excited about it. It's a very cyclical thing.

[KitchenWitch]

22. Les Steckel.

[no name no slogan]

23. HEYNOW

:rofl:

[KitchenWitch]

24. Turnabout IS fair play!

:P

[no name no slogan]

25. fair enough!

It's okay though, because I don't like football anymore!

[Lethe]

26. i concur

the only football i can stand watching is my college alma mater play occasionally.

other than that, no thanks, its like 3 hours of boredom.