I don't like football. It's a violent sport and horribly injures many players.

[MoonRiver]

That's why I will NOT be watching Superbowl. I also do not care who wins. FWIW

[Obamanaut]

1. Then by all means, do not play football. nt

[MoonRiver]

4. Never have, never will.

:D

[Obamanaut]

13. One less worry for me. Thank you. nt

[MineralMan]

2. Ok, then.

I'm really glad to know that.

[taterguy]

3. Sounds like someone was always picked last for the team

[MoonRiver]

Most teams don't want girls.

In addition, I always went for the brilliant bookworms. In fact I married one!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

22. I always say the brilliant bookworms were the kids the autoshop

kids picked on and made fun of. I also say that those bookworms grew up to be engineers and found a way to get even with the technicians and mechanics. Someone tell me I'm wrong.

[Drunken Irishman]

41. That or grow up to be Ted Kaczynski.

[MindPilot]

48. You're wrong.

Having spent most of my life as a technician/mechanic, your gross generalization could not be more wrong.

[Drunken Irishman]

62. You're just a grease monkey.

:P

[HysteryDiagnosis]

67. I'm kidding of course... but then you knew that? n/t

[rd_kent]

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[Arkana]

5. So don't watch football.

There are plenty of football fans to take up your slack.

I personally love the game and will be watching the Super Bowl in HD.

[wolfgangmo]

26. I also love football.

I just don't like the 12 minutes of play in a 5 hour broadcast, special teams, heavily armored, change lineups every 6 seconds, pussy ball that they play in the US.

Just my opinion but if you want to watch a real mans game then check out rugby or aussie rules football. The NZ All-Blacks - now that's a tough team.

[Arkana]

29. Bah

Aussies talk all funny. Oy, mate, throw another shrimp on the barbie!

:P

[DrDan]

37. I met one of the All-Blacks at a bar in Wellington several years back

no doubt he was one tough guy - a cop from the UK prior to joining the All-Blacks. And no doubt it is a tough game.

[Elwood P Dowd]

39. Yet every time a rugby player or aussie football player tries the NFL, they get killed.

You don't have 250-pound linebackers that can bench press 500 pounds and run a 4.6 forty playing in those leagues.

[Berserker]

6. Plus

innocent little pigs have to die to make those balls the big mean players toss around willy nilly.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. That's how I like my sex. Violent and leaving me injured.

[Arkana]

24. I like my women how I like my coffee: COVERED IN BEES.

[On the Road]

36. I Like My Women Like I Like My Coffee, Too --

Ethiopian.

Even better if she's an NFL fan.

[Drunken Irishman]

38. You don't like self-righteous women, On the Road?

[On the Road]

44. Nobody Likes Self-Righteous People of Either Gender

unless they happen to agree with them, anyway.

[MindPilot]

49. If you didn't come away bleeding...

you weren't doing it right!

[timtom]

8. I'm with you...

BUT it's verrrry unamerican of us both. I have long blamed America's ongoing love affair with the pedestrian and with football on the collapse of her as a nation.

[MoonRiver]

10. I also think it's tied to the destruction of our educational system.

Sports come first in this country. Knowledge not so much.

[Turbineguy]

9. I'm going to watch

The Great Race. There's a pretty good fist fight in there too.

But to those who do: Enjoy the game! And let the rest of us know how things turn out and how the commercials went.

[Berserker]

11. Next week

the Nascar haters will be posting all kinds of mean things. Don't you know it hurts the feelings of sports fans GEEEEEEEEZ

[quinnox]

12. Football and all team sports suck

Its meant for the masses and dummies who have nothing better to do than watch sports.

Bunch of primitives love this idiocy

[Codeine]

23. I'm glad you're here to remind

those of us who love a team sport (can't stand gridiron ball but love soccer/football) how stupid we are.

I very nearly thought myself an educated and well-read person with an active intellecual life for a monent! Whew -- you cleared that up for me!

[quinnox]

32. depends on your age

If you are 25 years or less, then, yea I can see how you wouldn't know better. If you are over 25 you should have grown out of watching this shit already.

[rd_kent]

47. "If you are over 25 you should have grown out of watching this shit already." - Who died and

made you the boss of what adults should and should not be doing?



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[Codeine]

52. I take comfort in the fact

that despite your professed intellectual superiority and overwhelming maturity you've managed to make yourself look quite the wanker in a vanishingly small number of posts.

Most folks require far more rope be supplied before they have sufficient slack to fashion themselves a noose.

[Arkana]

27. Well, we NFL fans will just have to learn to live with your disappointment.

I'm sure at your next Snooty Tightass Club meeting you can bring it up.

[Name removed]

46. Deleted message

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[fishwax]

50. lol

:crazy:

[MadBadger]

63. No...that's NASCAR

:hide:

[paulsby]

66. there is another thread asking about what is elitism

i suggest this last post is a great example

[quinnox]

68. maybe, but why is elitism bad?

[Codeine]

75. because those who style themselves the "elite"

very rarely are. More often they mask social awkwardness or low self-esteem with an armor of self-bestowed superiority, loudly proclaiming themselves smarter, more sophisticated, more philosophically deep, or more politically astute than "the common herd" when - more often than not, by far - the common herd outstrips their meager abilities across the board.

[paulsby]

76. ime, people who think they are better than others

are usually wrong.

as a young'un, for example, i never had exposure to people in trailer parks, southerners, etc.

i heard plenty of people in my prep school who made disparaging comments about them, and were certainly elitist.

when i started working as a cop, i was exposed to a broad swath of society, economically that i had never had before.

and i learned that people are fucking people.

people who think they are better than somebody else because gosh darnit, they waste their time watching football are elitist.

and usually wrong.

i've heard similar high and mighties regarding people from the south, frat boys, republicans, etc. etc. etc.

i've learned not to make assumptions about people. it's really incredible how elitist some *supposed* liberals are, just ina different way than the classic archie bunker'esque bigotry.

we also see it a LOT in DU with the attitude that european culture, food, governance, etc. etc. etc. is ALWAYS better than the US. the US is just a dumb country, full of uneducated rubes, who are slaves to the media, and if they could only be as enlightened as the author of the latest america sucks diatribe, the world would be such a better place/

character, intelligence, bravery, creativity, courage, etc. (attributes i admire in people) ime are not any more prevalent amongst rich, poor, republican, democrat, white, black, etc. etc.

but some people just need to feel better than others. and again, they are usually wrong.

[Odin2005]

72. Oh look, a elitist snob.

Sports diverts "spirited" individuals' aggressive tendencies away from criminal behavior.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. How 'bout if they play naked?

Let's make it a real fun sport.

[Liberal Veteran]

15. I find most team sports to be less than interesting.

I enjoy skiing and swimming and ice skating and gymnastics, but football, basketball, baseball, and soccer bore me.

[MoonRiver]

17. I like basketball. eom

[Fast Dude]

16. I pulled a muscle during sex...

...but I'm not hanging up the game. :shrug:

[TheCowsCameHome]

30. ....whatever it takes to get things fired up.

....I guess.

[bluestateguy]

18. Oh brother

The old "football is too violent" meme. Just what we need to make liberals look like a bunch of sissies.

[MoonRiver]

20. Hey, I'm a sissy and proud of it!

GO SISSIES!! :woohoo:

[Mari333]

19. just reminds me of a watered down fertility ritual

If they used human heads or something it would be more interesting. otherwise

borrringggg.

[MoonRiver]

25. Well, there's that too.

[zappaman]

21. good for you

you feel the need to post that?
who cares?
more likely, you don't get invited to any SB parties because you are such a party-pooper.

[Jennicut]

28. I love football...and baseball. My Dad had me watch games with him when I was a little girl.

So now I am addicted. My Dad made me a Yankees fan and a Giants fan...and of course, being in CT I was always a UConn basketball fan. It is an escape really but not to be taken seriously. But my husband had to step in and turn me from the Giants to the Patriots and he is a Red Sox fan so sometimes the games can get interesting. :)

[RedCappedBandit]

31. I don't watch sports, period.

I don't care how violent or nonviolent they are; I just don't find watching other people play a game on TV fun.

I'd rather go out and do something myself.

[DrDan]

33. that's is certainly fine . . . why do you feel the need to share that?

[MoonRiver]

34. Why not?

[Drunken Irishman]

40. I took a pretty mean dump earlier today.

Just thought I'd share.

[Codeine]

55. I think I may have a boil on the back of my left leg.

Somebody take a look at this thing for me.

[superduperfarleft]

54. Because DU is not your personal twitter feed. n/t

[TommyO]

35. Because we just had to know.

[wtmusic]

42. It's a necessary war proxy in our culture

at least they're not using guns (yet)

[rd_kent]

43. We are all entitled to our opinions.......

[superduperfarleft]

51. Wait, football is violent and horribly injures many players?

Well, now I'm DEFINITELY watching.

[Codeine]

53. I might start watching if I could count on that! nt

[SidDithers]

56. Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television...

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694

Sid

[HughMoran]

57. I don't care

I've always liked football - fun game.

[Drunken Irishman]

61. You're just a violent asshole.

Go back to your cave you beast!

[HughMoran]

64. (grunts)

:)

[Warpy]

58. I love the Stupor Bowl

It means a lot of stations are running decent movies to compete with the sucker.

It also means football season is finally over.

[blondeatlast]

77. Then you muist hate animals.

Why aren't you watching the Puppy Bowl, animal hater?! Huh?!

[virgogal]

59. Hockey isn't exactly a pillowfight.

[Bitwit1234]

60. I HATE IT

I think it is stupid to run around the field tackling other men. And the are against gay marriage. And when I think of the obscene money they get for doing it, when a doctor or scientist who is researching for a cure for cancer gets 1/10 of that amount my blood boils. And yes hollywood stars and their money sucks also. But one difference. Most of those in Hollywood donate to charities. How many of the blown up ego sports starts do. HARDLY ANY...THEY BLOW IT ON GUNS AND CARS AND SEX.

[The Straight Story]

65. That's ok, some people hate smoking and letting small bars allow it, and they won their fight

someday, there will be no football...for the good of others, we must save them!

[Codeine]

69. Wow, there is no discussion

into which you cannot shoehorn that particular hobbyhorse/obsession/sad addiction of yours, is there?

On some level I'm almost impressed.

[upi402]

70. Superbowl is rigged. They robbed the Seattle Seahawks of the title

I watch it like ice skating but with more salt. The refs cheated and gave the title to the Steelers and nobody called them on it. It was flagrant too. Just a game, and a bogus one at that.

[Raine]

71. I don't like team sports

the only sports I watch are the Olympics.

[GinaMaria]

73. Wanna come over to my house to watch

hours of televised opera and ballet? There will be shows we can watch pre-performance to really get us psyched and more shows to watch afterwards dissecting all the great moments of the performances.

Actually, I offered this invitation to one of my husband's friends after he started to push us to come to a super bowl party. His response was, "Point taken".
What is entertainment for one person is not for another.

[MrSlayer]

74. I love football. It's a violent sport and horribly injures many players.

I really don't care who wins this one either.

[Stevenmarc]

78. Than God they invented the remote control, angst issues solved.