SUPER bowl

[FuzzHugger]

Put me down for not watching. Forgot it was today. But I knew it was coming up, thanks to everyone pushing snacks, food, and TVs in the name of football.

If it's your thing, cool.
But I've never, even for one minute, in person or on TV, enjoyed watching other people play a sport. I can't wrap my head around it.

[Mudfuzz]

Instead of the stupid bowl, i shall watch....


You are all welcome to join me.

I like how you think

[theactionindex]

I'm dreading the inevitable "DOOD DIDJOO WATCH DUH GAME?!" question and being like no, I made weird noises with strange boxes and then recorded them ALL NIGHT, and there were better snacks at that event than at your super macho sexually repressed gay fest super bowl party.

[FuzzHugger]

Oh, I did watch Tyson bite off Holyfield's ear live on Pay Per View. That was exciting! The closer it gets to straight beat-em-up, the more I can at least "get" it. Yeah, it's barbaric and dumber than real sports...but I get it. "This guy's gonna try to beat the shit outta that guy." ... "Alright. Let's see what happens."

But these sports layer on so much...stats, favorite players, backstories like a soap opera, commercials. And take themselves so seriously that all the fun's gone. These overpaid a-holes are gonna strut around, act like their monsters (in tights), and smack asses... And we're gonna get all serious about it and turn it into gladiator proportions. In the name of Pepsi, Doritos, and Chevy. The national pastime is a national distraction, and it only benefits the people (players, owners, and corporations) making big bucks off it.

Okay, that sounded really cynical. I'm just saying, between the over-serious fans and the greedy corporations, they suck all the fun out.

I mean, if you get to sit around with family and friends, yell, eat food, and have fun... That's genuinely awesome. But you shouldn't need the Super Bowl as an excuse to do that.

[snipelfritz]

Football is kind of like a game of chess where every turn, you get you move all of your pieces at once. I've more recently really decided I enjoy certain sports. Primarily football and baseball. Soccer sucks giant monkey butts.

Also, the Green Bay Packers are a non-profit, public owned team which gives them mad indie cred. And they're going to win tomorrow so suck it, (arm)Pit-sburgh!

[Big Mon]

I'll probably draw some robots/ghosts instead.

I can has ghosty doodle?
I'd like to see it,but I'll be working. I got in to football about 2 years ago when my oldest son started playing. Since then,I've come to appreciate a good,close game. I don't wear my favorite team's jersey,or even have a favorite team. But it's pretty cool when I can catch it.
I like MMA. It's like everyone I hated in high school beating the shit out of each other,while I sit back and watch. And laugh

[Noise...]

Oh, I did watch Tyson bite off Holyfield's ear live on Pay Per View. That was exciting! The closer it gets to straight beat-em-up, the more I can at least "get" it. Yeah, it's barbaric and dumber than real sports...but I get it. "This guy's gonna try to beat the shit outta that guy." ... "Alright. Let's see what happens."

But these sports layer on so much...stats, favorite players, backstories like a soap opera, commercials. And take themselves so seriously that all the fun's gone. These overpaid a-holes are gonna strut around, act like their monsters (in tights), and smack asses... And we're gonna get all serious about it and turn it into gladiator proportions. In the name of Pepsi, Doritos, and Chevy. The national pastime is a national distraction, and it only benefits the people (players, owners, and corporations) making big bucks off it.

Okay, that sounded really cynical. I'm just saying, between the over-serious fans and the greedy corporations, they suck all the fun out.

I mean, if you get to sit around with family and friends, yell, eat food, and have fun... That's genuinely awesome. But you shouldn't need the Super Bowl as an excuse to do that.

We could be cynical BFF's IRL.

[Gearmond]

but theres always snax

[smile_man]

Instead of the stupid bowl, i shall watch....


You are all welcome to join me.

I like how you think

As long as you don't watch the shitty version with the voice overs.

[smile_man]

[plhogan]

What Tom said.

[culturejam]

Put me down for not watching. Forgot it was today.

It's actually tomorrow. Superbowl SUNDAY.


I enjoy watching certain sports, namely college football, college basketball, pro football (sometimes), soccer, and the occasional hockey game. I can't stand baseball on TV. It's fun to go to a baseball game and watch, but on TV it puts me to sleep. Golf is slightly more boring to watch than baseball, but not by much. Grand-slam tennis matches in the later rounds are fun to watch for me (I played in high school). NBA sucks balls.

I think soccer and tennis are only fun to watch if you've actually played them on a competitive team at some point. I can see where a lot of folks wouldn't care for watching either of them.

Attending college football and basketball games were a huge part of my college experience (NC State), so I'll always at least somewhat enjoy them for the nostalgia, if nothing else.

[warwick.hoy]

i'm i the only one not going to watch it

I'm going Ice Skating in protest.

[FuzzHugger]

Put me down for not watching. Forgot it was today.

It's actually tomorrow. Superbowl SUNDAY.

I realized that like 20 minutes after I posted it. Hey, it was partly cause I didn't know what day of the week it was.

[htsamurai]

Football is kind of like a game of chess where every turn, you get you move all of your pieces at once. I've more recently really decided I enjoy certain sports. Primarily football and baseball. Soccer sucks giant monkey butts.

congratulations, you fit the majority of white people living in the US
to your first point, no. no it's not, its an amalgamation of the crappy, pussy parts of old english sports. Comparing it to chess insults chess players.
chess where you move all your pieces at once? try starcraft (fanboy much? lol)
football is a tiny bit of strategy that doesn't take too much thought, applied to physical prowess and talent
chess is a game where you and your opponent have the same pieces in the same positions at the beginning of the game, there are no advantages. It comes down to who is a more apt player, defeat your opponent with the same tools he has. It's an amazing concept, designed and evolved throughout centuries to be what it is now. Balanced and thought provoking. It's not, go catch this ball after I act like I'm gonna throw it to this other guy, but before I get knocked down. then run really fast,k?
Chess is when two players of equal skill are playing. It's an art. If two players of equal skill are playing it comes down to (this is actually part of Bruce Lee's philosophy in JKD) who can feign better. That is, who plays a better mind game. And that is part of the appeal of it.
So many different levels to it.
To appreciate a game of chess is to understand the basic strategy, the evolution of it, the execution, only to realize that neither player was playing the game you thought they were.
A good game of chess is more like a good beer, a well cooked meal or a song than it is like football


So then the next point one tries to make is that it's not a strategy game but instead a pitting of human bodies and minds against eachother, the show of man working with fellow man against another man, maybe more capable, maybe more cunning. All in search of that touchdown.
Soccer is nothing like American Football. It's a sport that requires constant physical exertion, pushing your body to keep running at its peak sometimes for over an hour while maintaining a standard of play, while keeping in mind every thing thats going on around you. body/eye coordination that no other sport, except maybe basketball, can match. A 'true' sense of teams, a real show of passion and grace.
AND A HISTORY OLDER THAN THIS COUNTRY.

Ok I officially don't like you.