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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 03:51 PM
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I hate football.
I really do.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 03:52 PM
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1. But Joe Gibbs is back!
how can you say that? are you a terrorist or something?
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 03:53 PM
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3. I have no idea who that is.
I must be an unAmerican commie terraist.
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Bronco69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 03:53 PM
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2. Amen to that!
I'm right there with you! I would rather watch paint dry. :-)
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 03:55 PM
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5. I like paint.
It can make a room pretty.

Football? I don't get it.
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 03:54 PM
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4. How much money did you lose today?
It must have been a bundle...:nopity:
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 03:56 PM
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6. Er, none.
I'm just one of those un-American commies who sees no use for football.

Wait, no. There's one good thing about it. It keeps jocks off the streets for a little while. :)
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Bobbie47 Donating Member (386 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:03 PM
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7. me too!!!
and whats up with the 2 minute warning...they end up playing for another hour.. I hate football
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:09 PM
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9. Here's what I don't get
Why does every damn channel need to show football? Haven't these people ever heard of counterprogramming? If I didn't have a dish, I would lose my mind in the fall.

I also hate that they always go over the time it's supposed to go off. This is one of the reasons one of my favorite shows got cancelled. Stupid Fox kept pre-empting Futurama or coming in on the middle of it 'cause of stupid football. And then it just disappeared.

Stupid football.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:06 PM
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8. The Lions won
So, I can't disagree with you more, Chovexani

This is a good football day
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:12 PM
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10. Sure, it's a good football day
Every day this time of year is a good football day, if you're a football fan. The only good football day for me would be the day every football team got abducted by aliens.

That would be a really good day. :)
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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:59 PM
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35. You know what would be a REALLY good football day?


When Utah and BYU play each other, and the earth opens up and swallows the stadium whole, teams, fans, coaches, the works.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:15 PM
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11. Of course, I don't care much for:
D&D, gaming, anime, comics, reading/watching/writing fantasy & sci-fi

But then, it takes all kinds doesn't it? So, I will refrain from criticism.......
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:04 PM
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22. I had a really long diatribe written out
Edited on Sun Sep-12-04 05:06 PM by Chovexani
But I self-deleted since this seems to be the day for it. It does indeed take all kinds.

Let's just say I'm having a supremely shitty day irl, and some of it is due to football.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 06:03 PM
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36. I am sorry you are having such a crap day - go watch Totoro
you'll feel better.........
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miss_kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:16 PM
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12. i can't even work up the energy to hate football
it is so boring. and i am glad you started this thread.

i did not like sports, then i had a bf who was a total baseball fan and i liked it for a while. then my dad worked for an NBA owner, and i got him to get seats as part of his pay thing. so i liked basketball for a while. but i will never love anyone enough to take football on. i have no idea what the rules are and what stuff is in the game.

and i intend to keep it that way. :)
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Christof Donating Member (469 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:24 PM
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13. I love football.
Go Vikings!
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:33 PM
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14. I hate Osama bin Ladin
Football rocks!
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:35 PM
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15. USC Trojans ROCK!!!
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:05 PM
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25. Um, ok
Yay condoms! :silly:
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:12 PM
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27. hahaha.
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Awsi Dooger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:38 PM
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33. Fight On!
I'll start going to the games in a few weeks. And to think, Pete Carroll was maybe our 5th or 6th choice.
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:46 PM
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34. I will be going soon. With my neighbor who is a right wing but have USC
in common.
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OneBlueSky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:37 PM
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16. I don't hate it . . . I don't love it . . . it just bores me . . . n/t
.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:38 PM
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17. same. but I don't begrudge people their pleasures
:P
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:05 PM
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24. Me either
Notice I didn't say I hate football *fans*. Well, some of them. ;)

I just don't get it.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:41 PM
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18. My new roommate is a big football fan, too bad for him the game
today put him AND his girlfriend to sleep, if I wasn't out of space on my flash card I would have taken a picture.
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curse10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:42 PM
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19. You aren't alone
I can't stand it
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:57 PM
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20. Personally I never could get into it
I'll watch it at a stadium, but I'd rather see baseball, and then, I'd rather be participating in a sport instead of watching-fencing, aikido, katana, etc.
Watching just doesn't do anything for me for sports. Not like movies.
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:25 PM
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29. I agree.
It's not that I hate sports--I actually like sports, though I'm not the obsessive type that knows every stat, etc. I was on teams in school and did extracurricular stuff. I would rather be playing than watching, though. I think soccer is boring as hell to watch on tv (except when watching on Telemundo...the announcers are hilarious) but I had fun playing it in school. The only time I really watch sports on TV is figure skating competitions, the occasional baseball game and the Olympics. You could call me a casual sports fan.

But football is just weird. I've gone to games (every year I get dragged to the Urban League Classic b/c I have family acquaintances involved with the organization and the tickets are free). I've watched on tv. Aside from high school gym class I never really played it, but no matter how you slice it, it's just boring to me.

You seem to like the stuff I like though...I did fencing (sabre), and enjoy studying any kind of martial or sword arts. I don't really consider them sports though, they're on a totally different level IMO.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:33 PM
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31. Exactly martial arts are a different level
They're sports, but not "sports"-at least, not as defined as the average sports fan thinks. I've always wondered why, but I think it likely has to do with the lack of team elements. The average person doesn't have the context to understand a fencing bout, so it would be boring for them, and there's no interaction with other players (except the opponent) to mitigate any of thet.
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Moonbeam_Starlight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 04:59 PM
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21. Good Lord
I do too. Can't stand it. I don't get in anyone's way who wants to watch it, but I thank my lucky stars I married a non-sports watching guy.

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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:10 PM
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26. Hehe
My boyfriend is a sports fan, but he hates American football. He thinks it's for wusses 'cause they use padding. :P

The only thing he really goes nuts over is Aussie rules football, which I also think is boring but I don't mind it so much because the guys are cute and they have nice legs. ;)
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Meshuga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:05 PM
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23. Booooooo!!!
Football rules!
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happyasaclam Donating Member (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:13 PM
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28. depends which football you mean
that sissy American football, or australian football
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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:26 PM
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30. Ya know
Maybe I'd like American football more if the guys were cute and wore those shorts. :P
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happyasaclam Donating Member (165 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 05:36 PM
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32. see
thats the added bonus when watching AFL, of course it isn't the reason why I watch it. :evilgrin:
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 06:53 PM
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37. Me too!
Yuck!!!

Especially pro football!
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 07:42 PM
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38. Me too. You are not alone. I just don't get it.
:shrug:
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-12-04 07:53 PM
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39. It's the perfect representation of corporate America: violent, territorial
and played against the clock. Baseball, on the other hand, is the representation of agrarian America: relaxed, played in a meadow, and played by taking turns.
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