Poll: Football! Do you Give a Crap?

[JohanGasMask]

For me its like watching paint dry.

 

[Berserker119]

It's the only game I can really play, because I hate American football, and I can't skate to play hockey, so it works out. That compels me to watch it, but I mostly only care about teams that I like (Brazil, Netherlands, England, Italy) so I only watch them, and stop watching when the World Cup isn't on.

 

[Sodoff]

Wooo Football!

Go my country!
;P

 

[GundamSentinel]

OT. Normally I don't enjoy football, but for the WC I make an exception. Go Dutch!

I would make a remark about how we evicerated the Netherlands during the last Euro... but seeing how you're participating in the tournament, and we're not, I think I'll pass.

Yeah, but you needed a Dutch coach to pull that off.

Meh, we have a better team than the last few years, but I won't get my hopes up.

 

[TheZapper]

Woooo!!!!! Football!!!!

If you couldn't tell, I am a pretty big football fan.
I have watched as much of the WC as I possibly could so far, and I aim to continue in that fashion.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

I dislike football. IMHO the only good thing we got from football is the occassional crotch-hit and funny faces, as seen on upnextinsports(sortof like failblog (and a part of the cheeseburger-sites), only for sports) XD

Again, this is just my personal opinion, please don't hate me for it D:

*hides in an underground bunker*

 

[Thimblefoot]

"It's all here - fast-kicking, low scoring, and ties? You bet!"

Seriously though football bores the hell out of me, used to have to play it when i was a young whippersnapper, always trying to find ways to get out of it.

 

[Loves2spooge]

I live in England and let me say this; I hate football, I hate the hysteria, I think most people who claim to "hate football but love the World Cup" are bandwagoneering posers, and most of all, our team is a group of over-paid, over-idolized, uneducated sex offenders.

And the next person I hear shout 'come on England!' in front of me, I'll punch them in the throat. Stop yelling, they can't hear you, and if they could they probably wouldn't care, they get paid whether they win or not.

That's just my opinion though...

You realise there's not really that much money in it, playing for your country? Especially not compared to the contracts the players are on already. And no, you are wrong: Players get more money out of it if they proceed beyond the group-stage, and then money for each advancing beyond that point as well.

How is the England team consisting of sex-offenders then? And I'd value it was just your random opinion that they are both overpaid and over-idolized.

I can easily follow your view on the "Hate football love WC"-people though. I agree. "Bandwagoneering posers".

"Not much money in it"? Are you kidding?! This is a team of millionaires you're talking about, simply being in the team has already probably netted them all a few million, what with the sponsorships and appearances. I mean, look at the Nike advert they were in (which is a great example of over-idolizing too), every one of them would've got at least over a million for that.

And maybe using the term 'sex-offenders' was a little facetious, but a lot of them seriously can't keep it in their pants, but being stinking rich does that to people.

Let me put it this way, this is taken from an article from The Guardian:
"The average footballer was paid about £100 a week in 1966, the year the World Cup was won, and that was about five times average pay. Now the average premiership footballer is earning basic pay of £676,000, according to a survey by the Independent, although that can be doubled by performance-related bonuses. The basic figure is about 25 times the median average pay in Britain of around £23,000 a year."

Now if obscene amounts of money isn't an incentive to win, or even perform as you're expected to, then what is?

 

[oppp7]

Don't watch sports myself but I respect other's tastes.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

I don't mind playing the game itself. I hate all the hype about it though. The world cup is on and suddenly every series, every advert etc has a football theme. Buy tesco's shit and you can support England! And the obsession that some people seem to have with it is also irritating. There are human beings whos social lives consist entirely of chat about football.
Also, it's boring to watch at least half the time. And football players take every oppurtunity to dive.
So no, I don't like football. I'll play it if there's nothing else to do, but I'm not gonna watch it or support a team.

 

[Lunar Templar]

i assume 'football' means soccer, so I'll make my point with this simple statement.

I'd forget it exist if no one brought it up :3

 

[Mikkaddo]

Let me put it this way, you get two groups of sweaty overmacho guys, tell them to toss a ball back and forth at each other moving all around on the field and then call it the closest thing to real war we'll see for entertainment. We call them warriors, we praise them like real warriors, and then the news immediately calls the actual warriors evil.

I despise football. Replace the football with swords and sheilds, get rid of the pads, make it two men at a time in a ring with a sand floor . . . and then we'll call it a sport.

Or better yet, even twist and turn it up sometimes.

You put a man in a ring with a lion and wait to see who survives it. That I would pay to see . . . the man that survives it THAT man I would call a warrior . . . that man I would praise as a warrior.

Also that man I would put in the military . . .

You put two men in a ring with swords and sheilds and I would PAY to watch that.

 

[Sovvolf]

Only when the world cup is on or I'm playing it... otherwise -me'h-

 

[yankeefan19]

I don't watch unless it's the WC, then I watch it hoping that the USA, England, France, or any other team that takes my fancy wins.

 

[Tom Phoenix]

I actually don't like watching sports and usually do not care for any sort of sporting event. Having said that, things like the World Cup are such spectacles that it becomes difficult to not be at least mildly interested as to how it will turn out.

 

[spartandude]

foot ball is BS, rugby ftw

 

[AvsJoe]

I have seen just one (1) footie game in my life. It was a World Cup match between Italy and France back in the 90's. The commentators kept saying how this was one of the most exciting games they had ever seen and I was bored out of my mind. It's nowhere near as exciting as rugby or ice hockey because it's too damn slow.