He is always pissed that I not only have not picked which team to support, but I often don't even know who is playing.
If he cops and attitude I just remind him that I am the only one of us to actually play on a football team. That usually shuts him up.
GO PACKERS!
ReplyDeleteSports is just the substitute for not having to go out with a spear and kill your dinner (or be killed).
ReplyDeleteWhen I was growing up, I played soccer, volleyball, and field hockey. I went to college and was on the field hockey team for 3 years--I was no star, but I was good enough to make the team, and I loved to play. You'd think I'd give a hoot about sports on tv. I most certainly do not. I don't get the insane, deranged fans who simply MUST ruin entire weekends watching some stupid game on tv.
ReplyDeleteI resent that my cable dollars are being used to support literally dozens of sports channels that I never watch, and moreover, regular networks (CBS, NBC, etc.) preempt what little tv is actually worth watching by endless stupid games that invariably run over, and over.
I particularly don't get the talking heads that extend an already endless game by blathering inanities for an additional half-hour or so. SHUT UP ALREADY; the Simpsons is 3 hours late!
I live in Ray Rice country, where idiots proudly wear the number of the man who battered his girlfriend.
DeleteThe best description of professional basketball I ever heard.
A bunch of millionaires running around in their underwear.
Speaking of Super bowl, I talked recently to a friend who was invited to a Super bowl party, that had TWO LEVELS of commitment!
ReplyDeleteThe party, which I hear is being held in a large and costly home is welcoming the general audience upstairs in the great room/living room.
In that area, you have to be generally quiet while the game is on, but you are free to leave, go to the bathroom, and talk or eat while the game clock is running. Socializing , women, children, and pets are allowed.
DOWNSTAIRS in the game room (man cave), as my friend told the story, children under 16 are not permitted, it is men only, unless you have a long history of being a known fanatic adult female football fan. No pets are allowed.
In the man cave there is no eating or talking during game clock run time, and you cannot leave the man cave area, except to go to the toilet down there. No cell phones can be used at all while the game clock is running.
Once in the man cave area downstairs , you can't be re-admitted if you do decide to go upstairs for any reason.
The man cave has two large HD screens tuned to the same game, so that if one dies, the game still lives on.
Yes, kids, you better be fully committed to the Super bowl to have any chance of of getting invited to the man cave!
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I personally don't understand the sports fans who feel that " their team is worthy of so much time, money, adulation, and admiration, unless maybe they have a family member actually playing, as is the case with high school or college teams.
What's really telling is the amount of prayer that is offered up before and during games, from both sides, which really illustrates a paradox.
So if both teams are nominally Christian, and both teams are praying to win, who's side is "god " on anyway, and does "god" give a damn about something as spiritually meaningless as the Super bowl?
The last time I checked, God doesn't give a whit about sports.
DeleteOnce we have established who gets the "best tush" award, the superbowl loses its appeal.
ReplyDeleteGo Vikings! Yes I know they suck but I love 'em anyway.
ReplyDeleteI repeat...GO PACKERS! hahahaha! Sorry about your Vikes this year :( from a born & bred Cheesehead xo
DeleteDon't much care for pro ball, love watching college and bowl game season. There again, it's so become about money even at that level.
ReplyDeleteWhat amazes me is that, on college applications, if you check student athlete you don't need the GPA the rest of us would. In like flynn, and they have remedial programs where paid staff even teach some to read.
Can you imagine college athletics if they were held to the same entry standards as the rest of us? Talk about "a whole different ball game!"
Why are sports allowed in college, anyway? Colleges are just free "farm teams" for pro sports, and bazillions of dollars are taken away from the actual students in order to fund the "student" athletes. Only 9 schools in the USA actually break even with their sports programs, and in the meantime, the entire student body is funding the freeloading athletes.
DeleteLet me assist - Go Seahawks!
ReplyDeleteyour birds are playing good ball again this year!:) but alas, GO PACK GO!
DeleteWow, some folks really HATE sports here huh? LOL. Don't take it so seriously people, I don't. OK, well maybe I do...GO PACKERS! And screw the rest of ya. (I mean that in the loveliest & friendliest manner) I am assuming ya'll have more "respectable" hobbies & interests? :)
DeleteWalterNeff I totally agree with you! Go HAWKS!!!!
DeleteWhere does one buy that fantastic shirt?
ReplyDeleteI only watch the super bowl for the commercials.
ReplyDeleteI wanted one of these for my husband (I'm a much bigger sports fan than he is) and found it at shirt.woot.com for those who were asking where to buy.
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