SUPER bowl

[culturejam]

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.

That's cool. Sometimes it's good not be sure what day it is.

[Noise...]

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.

Clearly you were the popular quarterback that all the girls got giggly around in high school.

[htsamurai]

please excuse me, I'm writing a stupid long paper and have been staring at a screen w/ messed up resolution for 5 hours, havent eaten all day and am running 5 hours of sleep.
imma go get some fried food.

[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.

I don't like football because it's all about who's a better athlete.

I like soccer because it's all about who is a better athlete.

That's pretty much what I read, along with some inane point about how older things are inherently better than newer things.

Sure, much of football is based on the physical abilities of the players, but that is something which becomes ingrained in the ever-changing strategy. Yes, there are complexities to the strategy of American football, a point that I realize is useless to argue. It'd be like trying to convince me there is anything interesting about soccer.

I'm not even a huge football fan and it turns out I'll probably miss the first half of the game so I can have band practice. I just understand some(but not nearly all) of the subtleties of the sport(mostly due to playing Madden 2003) so I enjoy watching a good game. I used to be a sports-are-for-meatheads kind of person and I still am in many ways. I think anybody who cares about college or high school football is pretty much an idiot.

Oh, and baseball is cool.

[smile_man]

Sportz are fun to play when you don't take it seriously.

[FuzzHugger]

Sportz are fun to play when you don't take it seriously.

Taking a game seriously defeats the definition of the word game.

I've always loved playing a game for fun, sports or otherwise.
I've never liked watching other people play games, for fun or for serious.

I feel pretty much the same about life in general.

[unownunown]

i was in marching band so i've spent like 4 years watching football games on the reg. i still don't fucking get it and even if i did it's boring as balls. in fact balls are less boring because they are dynamic.

although it's cool when you win and everyone's excited so you feel excited by proxy.

[McSpunckle]

One word: Chariot races.

[snipelfritz]

One word: Chariot races.

I wish I could go back and see when they would flood the Colosseum and reenact navel battles. That sounds so freaking awesome.

but +1 about games just being games. I appreciate football and enjoy watching a game here and there, but I don't take who wins or loses seriously. My dad however is super serious about football. He's a Lions fan, so he's just angry and disappointed all the time. He was actually at the game when they became the first team to have an 0-16 record. It's sad, so very, very sad.

[SPACERITUAL]

One word: Chariot races.

WORKPLACE DIVERSITY POSTER APPLAUSE

[SPACERITUAL]

haha look at the guy in the back all "oh great darkey got the front row"

[snipelfritz]

Am I missing something? There's like two maybe-asians in there and not one single person is in a wheelchair. I demand more token persons!

and n00dz of that chick in the middle.

[warwick.hoy]

I see fiveheads are well represented.

[unownunown]

notice how people get more ethnic from left to right.

RACIIISMM

[Mudfuzz]

You're right!

Here I fixed it!