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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 10:35:46 GMT -5
For some reason, I largely lost interest in the NFL about 1973. The realizations that mars cites obviously starting piling up for me a lot more recently than that, which I guess now allows me to rationalize my disgust with something that so many people continue to (IMHO) worship mindlessly.
We all like having our biases seemingly confirmed, I'm sure.
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 9, 2014 12:42:55 GMT -5
Sorry guys, you're in the vast minority in regards to football interest. Football is THE powerhouse in sports and also the highest watched tv show every year. While I'm sure that it's tied more into the gambling, fantasy league gambling, still it's the #1 activity on TV. But that's why I don't understand them covering for Rice, he's a minor piece that wouldn't hurt the league at all in his absence. Why did they stick their necks out for him ?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 13:05:50 GMT -5
Because it wasn't just about Rice. It's about every player or coach or GM or owner that's done or will do something that they will claim to be very much against but still view as less important than their bloodsport.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 13:26:50 GMT -5
Sorry guys, you're in the vast minority in regards to football interest. Football is THE powerhouse in sports and also the highest watched tv show every year. While I'm sure that it's tied more into the gambling, fantasy league gambling, still it's the #1 activity on TV. But that's why I don't understand them covering for Rice, he's a minor piece that wouldn't hurt the league at all in his absence. Why did they stick their necks out for him ? People also watch reality TV in gigantic numbers, apparently. Dirty little secret: The vast majority of people -- Sturgeon's Law would put it at 90 percent -- are absolute idiots. If I weren't in the "vast minority" in comparison to them, I'd pray for death. Except, I guess, that I'd be too stupid to know it. So there's that. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 13:29:30 GMT -5
Now get off a comic book site (of all things) & go do something that the vast majority of people do, for godssakes.
Go to McDonald's or something & talk about, I dunno, Katy Perry's latest video or how Brad & ... whoever ... Angelina? ... are doing.
Otherwise, you'll be in the "vast minority," which evidently would be a Bad Thing.
(Though I know very well that you know better than that. I must confess that I haven't a clue what your point is.)
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Post by Jasoomian on Sept 9, 2014 14:47:04 GMT -5
I gave up on the NFL a while ago, and it feels so good to have my Sunday afternoons free. ... Oh, and my beloved Pirates have been on a tear lately Doesn't following a baseball team take ten times as much time as following a football team? Sundays should be the least of your problems. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 9, 2014 19:27:46 GMT -5
(Though I know very well that you know better than that. I must confess that I haven't a clue what your point is.) My point was in response to the amount of people on this thread that said they don't like Football, or that they stopped watching. Football is more popular today than it's ever been. But I think you know what i meant and just wanted to make me go to Mcdonalds to look for Katy Perry. |
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Post by The Captain on Sept 9, 2014 19:46:15 GMT -5
I gave up on the NFL a while ago, and it feels so good to have my Sunday afternoons free. ... Oh, and my beloved Pirates have been on a tear lately Doesn't following a baseball team take ten times as much time as following a football team? Sundays should be the least of your problems. The difference is that I have a deep and abiding love for baseball, while I was watching NFL football out of what a "go along with the crowd" mentality. I probably watch 200 baseball games per season, mostly Pirates but also national games on ESPN and MLB Network, which takes up almost every evening from April through September, but it's something that my wife and I love and do together. |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 9, 2014 19:55:01 GMT -5
I'm watching the Cubs in Toronto and pondering how much I'll be paying for "The Cubs Network" in five years.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 9, 2014 20:02:58 GMT -5
Sorry guys, you're in the vast minority in regards to football interest. Football is THE powerhouse in sports and also the highest watched tv show every year. While I'm sure that it's tied more into the gambling, fantasy league gambling, still it's the #1 activity on TV. But that's why I don't understand them covering for Rice, he's a minor piece that wouldn't hurt the league at all in his absence. Why did they stick their necks out for him ? I stopped caring about being part of the majority when I graduated high school, because I realized when I got to college that I had much more fun either indulging in things that I kept hidden in high school because I feared being an outcast (comic books, dressing up for midnight showings of Rocky Horror Picture Show, They Might Be Giants) or discovering and enjoying new things that would never be considered cool (Oingo Boingo, Magic: The Gathering, working in a comic book shop).
I certainly understand that the NFL is widely popular, but so are Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, NASCAR, the Twilight book series, NCIS, American Idol/The Voice/America's Got Talent, Fifty Shades of Grey, and the musical stylings of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and One Direction, and I have no interest in any of those either. I like what I like, and I'm not going to get into something just because lots of other people are crazy about it, because it's very possible those people are just plain crazy.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 14:18:26 GMT -5
Wow yesterday was the day for getting hit by a pitch. Giancarlo Stantonand Chase Headly both got hit in the face by fastballs last night. Stanton is probably done for the season as he suffered multiple facial fractures from the beaning. That's the kind of thing that can change a career trajectory, and you have to wonder if Stanton will be the same when he steps back into the batter's box next (as a Sox fan I always think of Tony Conigliaro when things like this happen). Headley avoided fractures, but they'll watch for possible concussion. Jeter got hit in the elbow late in the same game as Headley, and I noticed a number of other hbp in box scores across the league. It's part of the game, but you hate to see anyone get hit in the head or face. Wishing Stanton and Headley the best though.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 14:22:46 GMT -5
I really hope Stanton is able to come back at 100% (and end up on the Cardinals). That guy smacks the absolutely dickens outta the ball.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2014 15:46:52 GMT -5
No surgery for Stanton, so there's that.
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 12, 2014 20:04:18 GMT -5
I really hope Stanton is able to come back at 100% (and end up on the Cardinals). That guy smacks the absolutely dickens outta the ball. I imagine the he will be traded to the Yankees for cash. and by cash, I mean Scrooge McDuck bank vault cash |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on Sept 13, 2014 3:04:38 GMT -5
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