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.
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.
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.
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.
Haha That’s fun! If I was outside the US I would probably end up going to local games too. Do you do hooligan shit?
Honestly, some people get really into it with fantasy football and other stuff. They know everyone’s stats. They know the strategies. It can get really intense. At the end of the day, it is a game so I understand. But I just ultimately get turned off by the culture around American football to the point that it’s virtually impossible for me to get into it.
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.
I actually thought he died.
What happened?
That would be great news. The only good pedo is a dead pedo
Undeniably true.
Savage lol. I love it
Super Bowl half time show with Kendrick Lamar
Oooh, right. Sorry, I don’t follow it.
Me neither, but I got caught up in the hype about their beef a year ago, so that was fun
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.
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.
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.
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.
Haha That’s fun! If I was outside the US I would probably end up going to local games too. Do you do hooligan shit?
Honestly, some people get really into it with fantasy football and other stuff. They know everyone’s stats. They know the strategies. It can get really intense. At the end of the day, it is a game so I understand. But I just ultimately get turned off by the culture around American football to the point that it’s virtually impossible for me to get into it.
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.
(82 games x 30 teams) / 2 teams per match = 1.230 renditions of the anthem every NBA season