Football is overrated

[wootapotky]

Okay let me start off with this so I don't get flamed. I don't hate football. I watch it all the time. But I am sick and tired of Espn having everything football football football. I mean seriously, how many days of the week do they need to talk about football. Everyday there isn't a game they have analysis analysis analysis, someone running his mouth, analysis. It's gotten to the point of if there isn't a game on within 24 hours then SHUT THE HELL UP. I'm sick of getting home flipping on espn and it being NFL Live.

Besides being overhyped, I've come to the conclusion that its not as exciting as I once thought it was. One knock that baseball and hockey get are that they just aren't high scoring enough. Well yeah, that's because they don't give you 7 points everytime you score. I can understand if people find baseball boring, so don't reply back that it's boring. I know. I get bored of it a lot as well. Hockey I can't really talk about in terms of whether its boring or not because its never on tv. In actuality even the best offensive football teams don't actually score that much if you count their scores by 1 point.

Also there's a whole lot of standing around per play. it's very stop and go and that gets annoying as hell.

College basketball sucks too.

/rant off

 

[Teflon_Mcgee]

I won't even began to tell you my feeling on the American (western?) men's total reliance on watching sports as a viable male activity.

But hey, to each his own.

 

[THE_ADDMAN]

all televised sports bore me.

the mere fact that its "manly" and "cool" to sit in your living room watching other men play a sport, while you eat potato chips and get fat is nuts.

glad to see that I'm not the only one

 

[synergy1]

I won't even began to tell you my feeling on the American (western?) men's total reliance on watching sports as a viable male activity.

But hey, to each his own.

I live in the states obviously, and never got the whole craze from football. Its slow, requires 10 seconds of actual movement per play. Give me rugby over football any day of the week. Same sport, no stopping, no pads, more athleticism's . Hockey and soccer also rank higher than football since they also have fewer stoppages in play. It takes more to win the world cup or the Stanley cup than the super bowl.

as you said, to each their own. Just is tougher living in the states if you like soccer or hockey since they get 0 press here. Its always basketball, football or baseball. Poker is on ESPN more than ice hockey.

 

[Teflon_Mcgee]

I live in the states obviously, and never got the whole craze from football. Its slow, requires 10 seconds of actual movement per play. Give me rugby over football any day of the week. Same sport, no stopping, no pads, more athleticism's . Hockey and soccer also rank higher than football since they also have fewer stoppages in play. It takes more to win the world cup or the Stanley cup than the super bowl.

as you said, to each their own. Just is tougher living in the states if you like soccer or hockey since they get 0 press here. Its always basketball, football or baseball. Poker is on ESPN more than ice hockey.

I live in the states too And I'd have to agree about rugby. I started watching it when I spent some time the Frenchies. Why isn't rugby more popular here?

 

[Charm&Style]

Okay let me start off with this so I don't get flamed. I don't hate football. I watch it all the time. But I am sick and tired of Espn having everything football football football. I mean seriously, how many days of the week do they need to talk about football. Everyday there isn't a game they have analysis analysis analysis, someone running his mouth, analysis. It's gotten to the point of if there isn't a game on within 24 hours then SHUT THE HELL UP. I'm sick of getting home flipping on espn and it being NFL Live.

Besides being overhyped, I've come to the conclusion that its not as exciting as I once thought it was. One knock that baseball and hockey get are that they just aren't high scoring enough. Well yeah, that's because they don't give you 7 points everytime you score. I can understand if people find baseball boring, so don't reply back that it's boring. I know. I get bored of it a lot as well. Hockey I can't really talk about in terms of whether its boring or not because its never on tv. In actuality even the best offensive football teams don't actually score that much if you count their scores by 1 point.

Also there's a whole lot of standing around per play. it's very stop and go and that gets annoying as hell.

College basketball sucks too.

/rant off

plz go watch the asia finals of ping-pong


now stop


tanx

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[BacardiGuy]

It's football season, what do you want?

During baseball season all ESPN has is baseball.

It's almost as if they cover what's going on. Some network strategy that ESPN has.

 

[Capt.Jack Sparrow]

I think watching any sport on t.v. for me is boring
I really do enjoy playing base ball though.. I used to play for 5 years and got trophies and all that B.S. than I stopped but as for watching it on T.V. I find it just straight out boring

 

[wootapotky]

I think watching any sport on t.v. for me is boring
I really do enjoy playing base ball though.. I used to play for 5 years and got trophies and all that B.S. than I stopped but as for watching it on T.V. I find it just straight out boring

That's how I am too. I like playing baseball but not really watching it anymore.

 

[wootapotky]

It's football season, what do you want?

During baseball season all ESPN has is baseball.

It's almost as if they cover what's going on. Some network strategy that ESPN has.

Thanks captain obvious. I could have never figured that out on my own. What I'm talking about is how overhyped it is during football season. You don't really see that in any other sport.

And also in baseball they have a baseball game just about every night so there's highlights going every night. For football they have: Sunday-Highlights Monday Highlights from sunday night games and monday night game Tuesday-Highlights again Wednesday-analysis Thursday-analysis Friday Analysis Saturday analysis. The analysis gets annoying as hell.

 

[doctoroxygen]

What bothers me about the analysis is that it's not analysis: it's just the same five or six guys saying the same surface things + cliches over and over again for five days. They don't KNOW anything and they don't ever say anything worthwhile.

 

[MetalFortress]

Okay let me start off with this so I don't get flamed. I don't hate football. I watch it all the time. But I am sick and tired of Espn having everything football football football. I mean seriously, how many days of the week do they need to talk about football. Everyday there isn't a game they have analysis analysis analysis, someone running his mouth, analysis. It's gotten to the point of if there isn't a game on within 24 hours then SHUT THE HELL UP. I'm sick of getting home flipping on espn and it being NFL Live.

Besides being overhyped, I've come to the conclusion that its not as exciting as I once thought it was. One knock that baseball and hockey get are that they just aren't high scoring enough. Well yeah, that's because they don't give you 7 points everytime you score. I can understand if people find baseball boring, so don't reply back that it's boring. I know. I get bored of it a lot as well. Hockey I can't really talk about in terms of whether its boring or not because its never on tv. In actuality even the best offensive football teams don't actually score that much if you count their scores by 1 point.

Also there's a whole lot of standing around per play. it's very stop and go and that gets annoying as hell.

College basketball sucks too.

/rant off

So what should ESPN talk about all the time? Poker? Pro bowling? Hot dog eating contests? Don't post a complaint without offering an alternative.

 

[Skilla_Staz]

They over hype it because people watch it. If people watch it, they don't care WHAT they say.

Fantasy football has grown like wildfire in the past few years, so all that comprehensive coverage is keyed towards those people. Now that basketball season is starting, you're going to see some balance between hoops and football.

 

[diplomatic_lies]

Personally, I don't consider watching a sport makes you a "man", unless you can play the sport. I mean, what is so manly about sitting on a couch eating chips and watching sports? Wouldn't it be better to...play the sport?

And worst of all, they actually talk about sport strategy, despite the fact they've never played it in their life. Its sad...

Back in the army, one of the guys used to call video gamers "armchair generals". I call those overweight, beer-guzzling men 'armchair footballers'.