Might as well. There’s not much football in a football broadcast to begin with.
I used to work for a local TV station as a videographer. We always had to go out and get "highlights" of high school and college sports games in the area. Football was by far the worst, because it could literally take you an hour to get any 10-15 seconds of footage that was usable.
I hated football before that. Now I really hate football.
The bottom half of the pie chart is the reason I can manage to watch it. It doesn't demand constant attention, and offers occasional moments of focused action and excitement during your conversation/meal/game/doomscrolling.
The Live TV and ads are the worst part of trying to watch any sport live though, so I don't actually watch much. Just a couple games the entire year. Actually I bet the superb owl was the first game of the year I watched beginning to end without interruption.
With other sports like Hockey, I can work up the excitement to watch some games if I hear the team is good and they're already deep into the playoffs, lol.
I hate that I love football. Especially if you played, it hard to stop watching. NFL aways had the best camera tech, and was amazing in the 80s/90s. No other show on the TV was nearly as good technically.
I want to know the source for that and if it's actually accurate. It does feel right though.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406 (paywall removed) & https://web.archive.org/web/20100116114207/http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Comparing-Four-NFL-Games.html
I took an odd journey to get to this source. The actual graphic posted here is rotated and some of its colors were changed. The source for the visualization is this reddit post which links to the WSJ article. According to comments on the reddit post, the visualization pulled from charts from the second archive link, but I can’t find them in the non-paywalled WSJ article (and I can’t access the original article since I’m not subscribed to the WSJ).
This is why I have hated football for years. It's fuckin boring to watch. The halftime show was lit though.
This is why I prefer hockey, except my team sucks this year.
i have seen a few volley ball games with beach balls break out at more than a few concerts....not that anyone was keeping score.
The Wiggles, always stirring shit up. 😤
I can't imagine this will reach the right audience, but in the lead up to the superb owl this year I was saying that a great sketch about this country would be to have this giant hyped up spectical where everyone's getting all fucking jazzed up and talking about how all of this epic shit is going to happen and then at the climax of the sketch you get to the actual "action" and it's just a dude flipping a coin once.
That's America IMO, and it's definitely illustrated fully in the super bowl: six hours for ten seconds of actual action interrupted constantly by bullshit and commercials and followed by idiots tearing "their city" apart because their laundry was crowned "world champions" of a sport only played by people in one country.
USA super bowl champs yet again, other countries cant keep up 🫵🤣
I mean there was World League for a little while
spectical
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As a fan of neither team, that Kendrick performance was fucking fantastic.
as someone who's not really into hiphop/rap that much, Kendrick has some fucking bangers, and that show was hype af.
only watched it because conservatives are struggling to shit talk it without outright saying "I don't want to see [black people] during an NFL game"... turns out it was lit. there's a reason they can't really say anything about it without being just straight up racist: "that's not music" - yes it very clearly is & "he's mumbling" - no he definitely isn't and his vocals were super clear to understand to the point that I was surprised how clear it was with all the physicality involved. nah they just wanna say "I don't speak black".
Man I had a hard time understanding his vocals but that might have just been the sound mixing on the broadcast. Heard that it was clearer on YouTube or other places to watch just the performance by itself. Probably easier to make out in the stands, no idea though.
If I listened real hard I caught some of it but that's probably also because my ears are not tuned well for a lot of hip hop just in general I have a hard time picking up lyrics for a lot of rap artists.
Still, you're spot on with the racism perspective - honestly it's just people whining it's not "their" kind of music. Ok, well, taste is subjective and I thought it was a banging show even if I didn't clearly hear everything he said. Conservatives just want to be racist but pretend they're not racist. When I hear someone say, "I'm not racist," 95% of the time it's because they're racist and said or did some racist shit.
I'd be up for a few rounds of Chessboxing between sets.
Raw, imma give it to ya, with no trivia
I'd be good with a mandatory Wu Tang set between most concerts.
Real football*, not that American shit.
(Association Football but Australian Football is cool, too)
Nice try I won't watch either one
I have found my people.
Ah, soccer?
The pace of American football is utter shit, and I think it relies too much on in-game coaching, but the actual strategy and feats of athleticism are equally impressive to any other version and have their own charm, but none of it is important enough for me to tell anyone they have to give it a try.
You mean, a bunch of twinks run around for an hour and score no points ball?
Yes which is much better than brain injured dudes standing around and getting dozens of points for 6 minutes of gameplay.
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What's fun about football, tho? I mean, it's basically a bunch of dudes hitting a sphere for some weird reason or fighting for the pleasure of carrying an egg (and making more money than the most of us while at it)
Do you personally dislike all sports or just football?
I don't dislike most of them per se, I just don't understand most of them. I mean, it's quite impressive what those people can achieve, but I'd rather watch some dude free-climbing in the grand canion or something of that nature ('cause for me even climbing a 20m pipe was scary asf).
Now that i think of it, football is probably singled out in my mind due to its fans doing some batshit crazy stuff oftentimes. Like dude, chill out, it's just a bunch of people kicking a ball. Save your molotov for your friendly local politicians.
Had a metal festival in town with the gimmick that the bands had a soccer tornament on the side. Great fun.
That might actually make football bearable.
Think chief fans appreciated the break tbh
Like watching a UFC match and a hockey game breaks out.
What... you've never seen Gwar?
I got to see Gwar and The Misfits on a double-billed free concert when I was a vendor at Dragon*Con in the 1990s. I am not a fan of their music (Gwar's, I like The Misfits), but they put one one hell of a great show.
I can see it, Yakety Sax playing the entier 4 minute game.
What about integrating singers, cheer leaders, NASCAR drivers, tennis players and drones all in one game?
