Am I The Only DUer who HATES Pro Football????

[CO Liberal]

Personally, I can't think of a bigger waste of time than spending an entire Sunday afternoon watching overpaid jocks playing for millionaire owners in taxpayer-financed stadiums with corporate logos on them.

Anyone agree with me? Please check in.

[mrboba1]

1. you're just jealous.

Go dance:

[CO Liberal]

7. Can't Dance Much, Due to a Bad Back

But I can let my sig line bounce.

[mrboba1]

11. even with this purple guy?

[sniffa]

2. i know a bigger waste of a sunday

it's caLLed church.

[swag]

13. Good point

"Stay outta churches son, and don't let a priest near ya when you're dyin'. All they got a key to is the shithouse."

Wm. S. Burroughs

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. Big McLargehuge is not a football fan

I am usually not home monday nights, so the season passes pretty quickly before I even realize it's started. The game doesn't move quickly enough for me. I like soccer.

[Carni]

4. I hate it too

I have never liked football, just can't get into it, or see what the point is! LOL

[wtmusic]

5. They run into each other. They fall down. They run into each other. They f

*snore*

[Snoggera]

6. yup

Sorry, but that's the way it is!

:)

[cmf]

8. I'm not really a fan of any pro-sports

except for tennis, only b/c I like the drama. If it went away, I wouldn't really care. I also think those stadiums for football, baseball, and basketball are a big waste of taxpayer money.

bring on the flames :evilgrin:

[swag]

9. I hate all football and most TV sports

Sometimes I will watch a World Series baseball game or two, maybe even the NBA finals, even an Olympic event (though American TV coverage sucks rubber donkey dicks, as another poster in another thread mentioned), but I tend to avoid socializing with the kind of people who are sports-obsessed. Come to think of it, they avoid socializing with me too.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

10. I've gotcher back - FOOTBALL BLOWS!!!!

Flame on!!!

[JuniorPlankton]

12. You are not alone

(American) football is an ugly cross between rugby and boxing.

[CO Liberal]

16. With John Madden Yelling In The Background

:-)

[matcom]

14. YES NOW SHUT UP!!

:P

[Fenris]

15. I watch English football.

American football, on the other hand, I cannot stand.

[ceile]

55. English football only?

What about the Asian League, La Liga, Futbal Brasilero(sp?)? Sorry, had to ask because the English certainly don't have the monopoly on football.

[Bronco69]

17. I only watch the Superbowl, and I'll only watch that

if I have money on it. :-)

[Wickerman]

18. man! I'll bet you don't like guns, either

got a problem with apple pie?

:P

[FunBobbyMucha]

21. Are you aware how Bushie this retort is?

Why not call us tree huggers and traitors?

(If you're being ironic I withdrawl my judgmentalism)

[Wickerman]

32. thanks for the withdrawal

Co_Lib and I go way back on the gun issue.

tree-hugger :P

[CO Liberal]

48. Nope - I LIKE Apple Pie

Especially when it's warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on it.

[Wickerman]

51. mmmm, ice cream!

[FunBobbyMucha]

19. Hate it. However,

I loved "Remember the Titans," "Rudy," and "Brian's Song," and one of my favorite all-time books is Pete Gent's North Dallas Forty, yet I couldn't tell you what two teams are in the Superbowl on any given year. Go figure.

I loved Bobcat Goldwaith's routine about football. Someone throws a flare at him and dismisses this act of violence with

"Dude! Niners!"
"Oh, 'Niners!' Why didn't you say so? Here, here's your flare back. Why not try for the old lady in the Pinto?"

I was just called condescending elsewhere for this viewpoint, btw.

[bobja]

20. I used to hate it

But now see that as a waste of energy. Currently I just don't care!

[sallyseven]

23. I can live without it.

my one concession is that I never watch the Patriots. That is why they win. I watched them 4 years ago once and they lost. So the deal is no watching games and they win.

[Dan-W]

56. Thank you, and please stay tuned out. *wink*

[Commendatori]

22. I love fantasy football, so the NFL is a necessity.

I honestly don't care if my local team wins or loses should the guy rushing against them be on my fantasy team and rush for three scores and 150 yards.

[terrya]

24. I hate football. It's a brutal, violent, stupid sport.

[ramapo]

25. I just don't care

Football (and most pro sport events) rarely enters my mind. I do find out who won the Super Bowl so I can say at work the next day, "How about that game, those xxxx really kicked ass", or some such manly statement.

[alterfurz]

26. "American football: a bunch of steroid-enhanced/addled mutants...

...running back and forth in tight pants and monkey-piling on each other every three yards."

[ET Awful]

27. I agree. And dammit, it's HARD to hate football when you live in Mass.

They expect you to love the N.E. Patriots. . . . bleh.

[Downtown Hound]

28. I don't hate it but I could never get into it

I find it boring as hell to watch.

[trumad]

29. You all are a bunch of fucking Commies.

and probably Gay too.

[Downtown Hound]

31. Hey big boy!

You want to play football with me do you?

[trumad]

34. You a tight end?

or a receiver? Then again you could be both.

[Downtown Hound]

36. There's only one way to find out...

heheheheheh...

[fudge stripe cookays]

30. I never realized HOW much I hated it until I moved to Dallas....

Every moron with a free bumper has a freaking Cowboys sticker on it.

BFD.

These extortionists are now trying to move their stadium from Irving to Arlington, and expect the citizens there to be so grateful for the "added revenue" that they'll gladly pay a bazillion new dollars in taxes to pay for the freaking thing.

They are criminals-- coke-heads, wife beaters, they cause traffic accidents in their million dollar automobiles and kill people.

I hate everything the game stands for. Idiots who barely graduated from high school being paid way too much money to throw a hunk of pigskin around. And Jerry Jones, taking all the money he earns from this and cuddling up to Chimpy and his good ole boy network. FUCK I hate these people.

Anyone who ever saw Deion Sanders in a full-length fur coat in DALLAS (where it rarely gets cold enough in winter to wear fur let alone any other season!) know exactly what I'm talking about.

[trumad]

35. And what are your interests... I'd really like to know?

[fudge stripe cookays]

40. I enjoy

reading, gardening, creative writing, political volunteering, small and large gatherings with friends, genealogy, painting, traveling, antiquing, soccer, and spending time with my husband and my dog.

Why?
Your question sounded vaguely condescending.

[trumad]

46. Your question sounded vaguely condescending.

Bwwwwhaaaaa....... I responding to your incredibly condescending post up above.

[fudge stripe cookays]

50. Because I was telling the truth?

I'm sick of seeing Cowboys bumper stickers.

I'm sick of seeing disgustingly rich assholes make ordinary people pay exorbitant amounts to build their stadiums for them.

I'm sick of the fact that when so many newsworthy events happen every day, the only thing people in this city seem to care about are the freaking Dallas Cowboys.

We discuss these same sorts of issues every day on DU as they pertain to the Bushes. Jerry Jones is cut from the same cloth as those evil fuckers.

Condescending? Yeah. Whatever.

[FunBobbyMucha]

43. There's this crazy thing I do called

"Spending time with my son." Without a television in the room. Yes, I know how crazy that sounds. We run, we bike, we read, we play. I wouldn't discourage him from football if he should become interested someday, but he won't pick it up from his dad, that's for sure.

Used to mountain bike but moved to the flattest area in the hemisphere. So now I kayak in the harbor and the ocean.

Racquetball.

Running.

Movies, plays, concerts, writing, DU.

Note I didn't include "reading Karl Marx" or "fudge packing."

[RubyDuby in GA]

Yep

We saw it in Atlanta and I'm sorry, but we're awfully glad he became your problem.

And, I too hate pro football. College, on the other hand......

[Worst Username Ever]

33. I'm with ya. I don't like any pro sports.

Although I do like the olympics!

[ASanders84]

37. I hate it.

I don't watch the superbowl, nor do I even know who was in it this year or won. I hate the "I'm a man's man, I watch football!" attitude.

I play/watch tennis & soccer.

[funkybutt]

38. GO SAINTS!

Maybe a Friday the 13th preseason opener is what we need. I'm a little weary though.

[blindpig]

39. maybe not hate, but disinterest and distain

Was a big fan in my youth, BALTIMORE COLTS. When that rich bastard Irsay stole my team I lost interest. When my old home town did the same to Cleveland that sealed it. Ain't gonna waste my ever diminishing time on that bs no more.
To think that Johnny Unitas got paid less in one year than some of these steriod freaks gets for a half an hour is disgusting.

[OpSomBlood]

41. It's official...you and I agree on nothing.

n/t

[capriccio]

42. This must be the place!

I'm looking for someone in North County San Diego to share the Direct TV football package with me. Must be a PATS fan.

[dr.strangelove]

44. Do you like ANY sporting event?

If not, then I understand why you would not like football.
If you like sporting events, but just pick football as the only one you dislike, what is it about the sport you don't like?

[ohiosmith]

45. Blasphemy! Get thee behind me philistine.

[HEyHEY]

47. Does everything have to be a political statement?

Can't you just sit down and watch a fucking game?

;-)

Seriously though, I don't really like it, only because that game in particular isn't entertaining to me.

[BigBigBear]

49. I watch football

I like it well enough, but I hardly clear off my Sunday calendar for it. I try to catch the Broncos when I can.

Denver is a hard town to live in if you don't like football, CoLib.

[sonias]

52. Don't care for it much

Grew up in a home with 5 brothers, all football nuts. Had my fill of forced football watching. I enjoy my Sundays now.

I do agree with FSC above that pro-football franchises are some of the worst corporate criminals in the lot today. If they need a new stadium they should pay for it themselves. Stop stealing from the taxpayers, to line your own pockets your rich fucks. :mad:

Sonia

[stopbush]

53. It's just not a factor in my life at all, ranking down there with

sitcoms.

I don't like basketball either, though I'll shoot hoops with my son once in a while. But as a spectator sport? Please!

I follow baseball, tennis and the Tour de France and that's about it. Once the World Series is over I enter the great drought on TV sports until the spring. Lots of DVD rentals for about 4 months!

My wife doesn't complain.

[rene moon]

54. NO!!!!!!!!!

I hate football---what a waste of time. Sorry.

[Amaya]

57. Can't stand football.

My entire family are a bunch of football freaks...I was forced to watch it. :boring: