2016 NFL Offseason

[Serocia]

If you want to compete and exercise yourself I would understand (well, a bit)...

but watching other people compete and exercise for hours and hours and hours? To the point where the said competitors can be paid millions of dollars while others starve? It makes no sense...

Televised sports are a very strange phenomena if you think about it...

Not really. They take advantage of our tribal nature as well as our lust for spectacle and triumph.

I agree.

[Frisivisia]

Not really. They take advantage of our tribal nature as well as our lust for spectacle and triumph.

To which I am seemingly immune... but it's strange because I didn't think I was particularly privileged...

Wow, you're amazing.

Pff, kids.

[Temujinn]

Yes fitness and competition are terrible ways to kill time.

If you want to compete and exercise yourself I would understand (well, a bit)...
.

I sincerely doubt that.

[Blasveck]

Is this a new hipster thing where you must deliberately point out to everyone that you don't like something?

When they could just ignore said something in the fits place.

[God Kefka]

If you want to compete and exercise yourself I would understand (well, a bit)...

but watching other people compete and exercise for hours and hours and hours? To the point where the said competitors can be paid millions of dollars while others starve (not to mention these enthusiasts are often the types who don't have the patience to read through a novel)? It makes no sense...

Televised sports are a very strange phenomena if you think about it...

How is that football's fault???? It's the people who give their money to the competitors, not the competitors or the game's fault. Go take your little complaints elsewhere.

And, no, no it's not.

Well it's just really over-hyped that's all...

I mean if you break all the sports down to their basic components, you see a set of rules that are really very primitive and physical. And the tendency for these rules to be played out over several mundane hours really shouldn't make good televised material...

which is why I'm surprised televised sports games have not yet been supplanted by something far more exciting...

I'd rather watch someone play through the latest Mario Bros game without dying on TV... that way at least I learn something new...

[Shaluach]

YES.

Are the seats comfy on the now broken-down bandwagon?

Very much so. It's almost luxury here.

[Frisivisia]

Is this a new hipster thing where you must deliberately point out to everyone that you don't like something?

When they could just ignore said something in the fits place.

It becomes even more meta (and therefore more hipster) to deliberately point out how much you hate hipsters.

[God Kefka]

Are the seats comfy on the now broken-down bandwagon?

Very much so. It's almost luxury here.

what bandwagon?

[Neighbor]

Is this a new hipster thing where you must deliberately point out to everyone that you don't like something?

When they could just ignore said something in the fits place.

If pointing out to people you don't like something is hipster then I think there have been hipsters for a verrrryyyyy long time

And I am no hipster, but I also don't get distracted by bread and circuses

[Temujinn]

Is this a new hipster thing where you must deliberately point out to everyone that you don't like something?

When they could just ignore said something in the fits place.

Looks a lot like the old Douchebag thing.

[Serocia]

How is that football's fault???? It's the people who give their money to the competitors, not the competitors or the game's fault. Go take your little complaints elsewhere.

And, no, no it's not.

Well it's just really over-hyped that's all...

I mean if you break all the sports down to their basic components, you see a set of rules that are really very primitive and physical. And the tendency for these rules to be played out over several mundane hours really shouldn't make good televised material...

which is why I'm surprised televised sports games have not yet been supplanted by something far more exciting...

I'd rather watch someone play through the latest Mario Bros game without dying on TV... that way at least I learn something new...

No it's not.

I don't see any problem with them being "really very primitive and physical." And, yeah, sports tend to have an element of physical activity. As I said, just because you say something (such as, "this is boring") does NOT make it so. Your opinions are not some fiat.

Again, you opinion does not equal the facts. It is exciting to me and to millions of others. You don't like it, then don't watch it.

Then go ahead and do it. Is someone forcing you to watch it???

[New Event Horizon]

Hmph. Such a pathetic display of masculinity. It is truly depressing to see how the corporations are able to control the minds of the dim-witted masses with vulgar acts of pointless violence. *cough*Go Seahawks*cough*

[God Kefka]

Well it's just really over-hyped that's all...

I mean if you break all the sports down to their basic components, you see a set of rules that are really very primitive and physical. And the tendency for these rules to be played out over several mundane hours really shouldn't make good televised material...

which is why I'm surprised televised sports games have not yet been supplanted by something far more exciting...

I'd rather watch someone play through the latest Mario Bros game without dying on TV... that way at least I learn something new...

No it's not.

I don't see any problem with them being "really very primitive and physical." And, yeah, sports tend to have an element of physical activity. As I said, just because you say something (such as, "this is boring") does NOT make it so. Your opinions are not some fiat.

Again, you opinion does not equal the facts. It is exciting to me and to millions of others. You don't like it, then don't watch it.

Then go ahead and do it. Is someone forcing you to watch it???

From time to time people like me get discriminated against in society because we don't like to watch a group of people in tights kicking/handling balls around for hours...

I think this should change...

Interviewer: So what's your favorite baseball team?

''... I don't really watch baseball.''

Interviewer: So what do you watch?

''Mostly movies and few documentaries. I'm really interested in history for example and-''

Interviewer: Football? Basketball? Hockey?

''no sports but-''

Interviewer: Ok I think we're done with this interview. Thanks for your time.

[Farnhamia]

So I decided to make a superbow thread! Talk about who you think is going to win! Talk about the ad's! Because this will be the last football game of the the year! So lets make it a blow out! Let's say good bye to this season! Because next season, we all know the cowboys are going to win it all!


ON WITH THE THREAD!

What an amazing idea, Tim. Trouble is, we've had a thread on this for a couple of weeks already, so yours is now merged with that one.

[Neighbor]

No it's not.

I don't see any problem with them being "really very primitive and physical." And, yeah, sports tend to have an element of physical activity. As I said, just because you say something (such as, "this is boring") does NOT make it so. Your opinions are not some fiat.

Again, you opinion does not equal the facts. It is exciting to me and to millions of others. You don't like it, then don't watch it.

Then go ahead and do it. Is someone forcing you to watch it???

From time to time people like me get discriminated against in society because we don't like to watch a group of people in tights kicking/handling balls around for hours...

I think this should change...

Interviewer: So what's your favorite baseball team?

''... I don't really watch baseball.''

Interviewer: So what do you watch?

''Mostly movies and few documentaries. I'm really interested in history for example and-''

Interviewer: Football? Basketball? Hockey?

''no sports but-''

Interviewer: Ok I think we're done with this interview. Thanks for your time.

Not all sports fans are anti-intellectual, but most are.

[Serocia]

No it's not.

I don't see any problem with them being "really very primitive and physical." And, yeah, sports tend to have an element of physical activity. As I said, just because you say something (such as, "this is boring") does NOT make it so. Your opinions are not some fiat.

Again, you opinion does not equal the facts. It is exciting to me and to millions of others. You don't like it, then don't watch it.

Then go ahead and do it. Is someone forcing you to watch it???

From time to time people like me get discriminated against in society because we don't like to watch a group of people in tights kicking/handling balls around for hours...

I think this should change...

Interviewer: So what's your favorite baseball team?

''... I don't really watch baseball.''

Interviewer: So what do you watch?

''Mostly movies and few documentaries. I'm really interested in history for example and-''

Interviewer: Football? Basketball? Hockey?

''no sports but-''

Interviewer: Ok I think we're done with this interview. Thanks for your time.

[sarcasm]A sports reporter isn't interested in your history documentaries that aren't material to his job. . . Oh, no, you're so persecuted. . .[/sarcasm]

[Blasveck]

From time to time people like me get discriminated against in society because we don't like to watch a group of people in tights kicking/handling balls around for hours...

I think this should change...

Interviewer: So what's your favorite baseball team?

''... I don't really watch baseball.''

Interviewer: So what do you watch?

''Mostly movies and few documentaries. I'm really interested in history for example and-''

Interviewer: Football? Basketball? Hockey?

''no sports but-''

Interviewer: Ok I think we're done with this interview. Thanks for your time.

Not all sports fans are anti-intellectual, but most are.

Generalizing about a group of people generally isn't intellectual either.

[Tiami]

So I decided to make a superbow thread! Talk about who you think is going to win! Talk about the ad's! Because this will be the last football game of the the year! So lets make it a blow out! Let's say good bye to this season! Because next season, we all know the cowboys are going to win it all!


ON WITH THE THREAD!

What an amazing idea, Tim. Trouble is, we've had a thread on this for a couple of weeks already, so yours is now merged with that one.

>:D

[Neighbor]

Not all sports fans are anti-intellectual, but most are.

Generalizing about a group of people generally isn't intellectual either.

The exception I make in generalizing is sports fans and fans of shitty music.

Over a sample size of several thousand people I have met in my life, 0 of them who likely sports ever interested me, and 0 of them who ever liked shitty music interested me.

[God Kefka]

Generalizing about a group of people generally isn't intellectual either.

The exception I make in generalizing is sports fans and fans of shitty music.

Over a sample size of several thousand people I have met in my life, 0 of them who likely sports ever interested me, and 0 of them who ever liked shitty music interested me.

interesting...

[Blasveck]

Generalizing about a group of people generally isn't intellectual either.

The exception I make in generalizing is sports fans and fans of shitty music.

Over a sample size of several thousand people I have met in my life, 0 of them who likely sports ever interested me, and 0 of them who ever liked shitty music interested me.

Congrats, you have different tastes than other people.

[Neighbor]

The exception I make in generalizing is sports fans and fans of shitty music.

Over a sample size of several thousand people I have met in my life, 0 of them who liked sports ever interested me, and 0 of them who ever liked shitty music interested me.

Congrats, you have different tastes than other people.

I know, but there seems to be a strong correlation between anti-intellectualism and being a fan of sports in my experience.

NSG might be an exception to this.

[Occupied Deutschland]

Congrats, you have different tastes than other people.

I know, but there seems to be a strong correlation between anti-intellectualism and being a fan of sports in my experience.

NSG might be an exception to this.

Even if we assume that is predominant, I would venture to remind you of a rather old scientific maxim. You may have heard it before, so maybe you can even guess it.
Correlation is not equal to causation.

[God Kefka]

Congrats, you have different tastes than other people.

I know, but there seems to be a strong correlation between anti-intellectualism and being a fan of sports in my experience.

NSG might be an exception to this.

it would certainly make some sense as a general trend...

I mean, watching a few people kick/handle balls around for hours and hours on end just to see a few numbers go up...

doesn't strike me as terribly intellectual a pursuit. It could have a sort of spill-over effect into other areas of one's life...

Now of course this is all theory.

[Etha]

BRONCOS!!!
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