• ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
      23·
      4 months ago

      Meh, I’d like sportsball better if they didn’t spend my taxpayer funds on stadium construction.

      • kameecoding@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 months ago

        Yes that is something that’s not right and you are entirely justified in being upset about it.

        However it’s kind of unrelated as here you are being kind of a douchenozzle and shitting on people for liking different things than what you like. Which is kind of ironic give how much supposedly a lemming should be different from others and liking other things, like Linux over “Normie” windows.

        • TachyonTele@piefed.socialEnglish
          9·
          4 months ago

          Just because people don’t like the same game you do it doesn’t mean they are shitting on it.

          That’s you being overly defensive for no reason.

          • tempest@lemmy.ca
            6·
            4 months ago

            I’m shitting on it.

            It’s slow, has a ton of advertising ( probably more than actual play time), causes CTE, wastes money at colleges that would be better spent elsewhere, covers up sex crimes etc.

            There are a ton of more interesting / exciting sports than American football.

            I’ll still attend a gathering today but only because I like food and socializing whether the game is on isn’t really relevant to me .

          • kameecoding@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 months ago

            That’s you being overly defensive for no reason.

            Try again bucko, I am from Europe, there is only one Football and that’s where you actually kick the ball…

            Doesn’t mean you can just shit on what someone else likes, or I mean you can and you can act like a dick about it, but all it does is reveals what an asshole you are.

            Going by the downvotes there is a few of you around here having an issue facing this fact. 🤷‍♂️

            Have you considered that you are the one being defensive about rightly being called out on your asshole behavior?

  • lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    20·
    4 months ago

    My folks’ fav characters got killed off a few episodes ago but for some reason everyone is still hyped for the finale

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    19·
    4 months ago

    The most fun take I heard about this: “Why are they playing a football game at the Bad Bunny concert?”

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

    I came across something about it this morning, and thought, ‘Oh, is that today?’ Then I forgot about it again until this post.

    I’ve never cared about sportsball, but I’ve learned enough about football to follow a game. I couldn’t avoid it. Same for other sports, like baseball, golf, tennis, and even bowling.

    I’m old and mostly alone now, I feel no desire to pretend to be interested anymore. Y’all have fun.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      I never cared for it, but it felt like such an event that I’ve been to a lot of superb parties over the years. But now I barely knew it was happening.

      Same goes for the Olympics. I remember watching it for hours and hours back in the day, but I didn’t even know it was happening until I heard Vance got booed.

      Culture is shattering.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        4 months ago

        I am from Seattle and I didn’t even know the Seahawks made it to ‘the big game’ until literally yesterday.

        Sportsball!

              • andros_rex@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 months ago

                The woman who leans into the frame also seems to be wearing hers like that too.

                Truly a bunch of epic penguins of doom.

                • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
                  2·
                  4 months ago

                  That’s her mom! If you watch the video, she talks about how she supports her daughter and then eats some broccoli, I think.

            • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              4 months ago

              https://youtu.be/5-hS2r7v3Iw

              The “Go Team Go Sports Broccoli Girl” is a viral meme character ffom a video where a young girl, while being interviewed about a sports game, excitedly shouts “Go team! Go sports!” while eating broccoli. The video, often captioned with her enthusiastic, slightly chaotic energy, gained popularity on social media.

              • IratePirate@feddit.org
                2·
                4 months ago

                Thanks for enlightening the unenlightened, mate! This meme seems to have escaped me. I guess the casual non-mention of the upside-down sunglasses on both her and her mother is part of the fun.

    • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      7·
      4 months ago

      I used to watch a lot of football. It would consume so much of my time. I’m not sure if it’s getting older, having kids, manufactured drama, folks tying their identity to something they have no control over, or the ‘kneeling’ bullshit but it was kind of eye opening when a buddy of mine called me today to ask who I was rooting for and I genuinely had no idea what he was talking about. I don’t think he believed me when I told him I didn’t know what he was talking about. I haven’t seen a single game all year and I don’t think I’ve missed anything. Happy that folks find enjoyment in it but I just don’t think it’s my bag anymore.

      • Serinus@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        I was slightly interested in getting into it. Youtube had some 15 minute sample of Sunday Ticket. So I figured I’d catch the end of the Bears game. Why not.

        13 of the 15 minutes were ads and the demo ran out. Iirc it was exorbitantly priced to continue, and you wouldn’t get everything.

        So instead I watch pro League of Legends. Not as relatable, but a hell of a lot cheaper to watch, and I enjoy it.

        • merc@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          4 months ago

          There’s a site I use where you can download sports videos. Often you can find the “compressed” version of a gridiron football game. An NFL game on TV typically lasts 3 hours from the kickoff to the final whistle. The game clock runs for 4 15-minute quarters, but they stop that clock all the time. Any time there’s a point scored, the ball is turned over, or the clock hits a special value (end of quarter, 2 minute warning to the end of a half, etc.) they stop the clock and while things happen there’s a commercial break. They also have commercial breaks every time either team calls a timeout. But, what’s extra ridiculous is that there are “TV Timeouts” when the network itself calls a timeout so they can show some commercials. Anyhow, that’s how a 1 hour game expands to fill a 3 hour slot.

          So, these compressed games, you’d think they could shorten it to just 1 hour, right? What’s amazing is that they actually manage to compress it to about 30 minutes. Not only do they cut out everything happening while the clock is stopped, they even cut out stuff when the clock is running but nothing much is happening – the players are getting up to the line, the quarterback is calling out before the snap, etc.

          So, gridiron football is about 83% filler, and 17% actual action.

  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    4 months ago

    Everytime one of my frienda where’s a scarf of our local soccer club, I’m gonna tell them their cosplay looks fabulous.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    8·
    4 months ago

    And again, two bands of brawlers beat themselves up over a ball, and they call this uncivilized bar fight “football” despite carrying the ball in the hands most of the time.

  • BigDiction@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 months ago

    Still adapting to EST. It’s inhumane and outrageous this shit goes down at 630pm every year. How do people work on Monday??

    • Retail4068@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      I’m near 45 and have a 5 year old. Even I can stay up to 930, have a drink or two, and wake up to get the kid to school. It’s not exactly clubbing until 3am.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      It has a massive impact on productivity. Something like 25 million people are calling in sick today.

      I’m not a big football fan but I love seeing people not working.

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
    6·
    4 months ago

    It was weird when American food franchises started advertising that they would show “the big game this weekend” in Canada and no one knew what they were talking about.

    Then it started defaulting to that it must be that American game. Now I imagine most people hear about it from the internet before those signs go up.