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          • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            24·
            24 days ago

            That I followed! That was fun and my first exposure to Drake and Lamar, coincidentally my best friend a week before that was begging me to finally listen to Lamar and assuring me I would like him. That worked out.

            I just don’t follow American football. I was out doing errands today so I missed it on Hexbear too and found out when someone mentioned the Super Bowl to me like around 7PM and I was like ”Ohhh, today is the Super Bowl!” Explains why most spots I went to were dead. I’m such a nerd.

            • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              24 days ago

              Oh yeah I also don’t follow American football. It’s like if someone designed a sport specifically with ad breaks in mind.
              About a year ago there was a discussion here that started out with some guy disliking football (soccer) because there wasn’t any action. He argued that points scored = action and the low point scores of football was proof it was boring.

              I’m not trying to disparage American football, I think I’m just too pessimistic and used to there being less ads, so I see all the stops not as part of the sport, but as some artificial thing installed by an outsider. But I haven’t been taught about the game and what goes on and so on, so that’s also a big part of it. I am of the opinion that any game can be made interesting, if you know what is going on. Heard a guy from Loading Ready Run say that years ago in relation to getting into curling, and it’s stuck with me since.

              But I’m not gonna get into American football, there’s too many ads and militarism about it. Has a fascist vibe. Not that FIFA are saints.

              • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                15·
                24 days ago

                Yeah, that’s fair. I will only watch World Cup every four years, even if I’m alone, and revel in the nationalism. Otherwise, I don’t really like any sports.

                To your point, though, I can theoretically have a good time at a watch party or a bar with friends but not by myself or strangers watching the game. But I just annoy my friends because I don’t care about the game and just try to chat and always root for the team no one is rooting for, so I don’t get invited and no one texts me for these things. Everyone knows I don’t give a shit anyway so it works out. I did learn the mechanics of American football from Madden as a kid, but it doesn’t really do it for me.

                You’re right about the ads too. So many fucking ads. The ads are horrific too. The entire country hyped to watch ads, peak USian brainworms. Not to mention the military worship. God, I hate American football.

                • REgon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  14·
                  24 days ago

                  I used to feel the same way about football - I’d just watch the world cup and that’s it. Then I got dragged to a local game and now I’m hooked. It’s a lower league, which means I can actually keep up with what’s going on. I can see when they’re making mistakes now. And I care! Oh how I care! They’re my boys out there on the field! Our tickets paid for their uniforms! We make songs for them, and they lose all the goddamn time! It’s brilliant. And there’s such a great sense of community.

                  Yeah I more or less know the rules to American football, but “knowing a game” goes deeper. Why do they do what they do? Strategies and so on. I tried to get into it, but the ads just took me out, everything is sponsored, everything is brought to you by some company and it’s commercialised to hell all the way through the leagues it seems.

              • BelieveRevolt [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                14·
                24 days ago

                Singing the national anthem before every game in US sports is so cringe. The NBA has 82 regular season games per team and they sing the damn thing before every one of them.