I couldn't care. Not even a little. I can't stand sports. People at work were asking me how I was picking for the win. I didn't even know who was playing. This typed an as an outcast faster than telling them I play in death metal band and I'm an atheist (I work in a hospital, which can be pretty heavy on the religious stuff. Thankfully no one in the ER gives a shit about that).
Poll: Superbowl 2013: Do You Care And Why?
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Watched and rooted for Ravens because as LA Dodgers fan, I simply couldn't stomach another SF victory after SF Giants won the World Series
I usually watch it for the commercials. For some reason they always save the most interesting and entertaining commercials for the Super Bowl. Eh, must be production costs among other things.
Huh. I never knew that.13thforswarn said:
Totally passed this one. In fact, the Super Bowl even indirectly made my day more annoying. I was brought into work on a Sunday when I shouldn't have been because of it (football fans order lots of Pizza) and therefore had to undergo the stress of driving straight from work to my drama rehearsal. On the icy roads. While being late.
*sigh*
I had to make a LOT of pizza.
*sigh*
I had to make a LOT of pizza.
I watch the home team with the family on weekends even though I don't care for sports really and couldn't care less about the score/record/whatever, when I don't have a paper to research or something like that for most of the season, but we're rarely in the Super Bowl - we all still watch it though, some of us for the game, others for the commercials. I had a teacher in HS who had us watch the commercials as an assignment for an advertising overview course and I've paid attention to them for the last decade I think mostly because of that. It's as good an excuse to sit around with family and friends, eat, talk, yell at the television as anything is what it comes down to I suppose.
If we all forgot it and missed it one year, I don't think any of us would be particularly upset, but we have a good time being together around it so I'm happy enough with that.
If we all forgot it and missed it one year, I don't think any of us would be particularly upset, but we have a good time being together around it so I'm happy enough with that.
I am in the 'Go Ravens' camp, cause the Ravens are the other team I like, and the 49ers can &%^)(^$ for %^#))(&( with a $^@$% and right in the %^&%## while %&##@$ a god damned pig
I only watched this game because after being dragged to church by my father, he wanted to watch the game and good god, these games are way too damn long. Other than I really didn't care, I just wanted to play Arkham Asylum. Also I went for the 49'ers to piss the old man off.
I watched the last little bit of it, mostly because I wanted to watch the episode of Elementary that was on right after. I generally couldn't be bothered about football unless the Seahawks are going to do something awesome, they were robbed this year BTW, that last game was bullshit.
American here, thoroughly behind the handegg option. Sport has been fucking boring for years now. Constant commercial breaks, horribly long ref reviews, plays being interrupted by refs throwing flags, an overlong halftime show by singers that usually can't sing, and oh by the way, more fucking commercials. That's literally the whole point of the superbowl - the commercials. The fact that the sport is no longer about the sport absolutely kills it for me.
I've also been spoiled by vastly superior esports, though - a great match of GSL sc2 or mvc is far more engaging than sweaty athletes throwing balls and grabbing asses punctuated constantly by fucking commercials.
I've also been spoiled by vastly superior esports, though - a great match of GSL sc2 or mvc is far more engaging than sweaty athletes throwing balls and grabbing asses punctuated constantly by fucking commercials.
I honestly have never seen the appeal of the thing. I tried watching last year and the year before, and found it boring as batshit. Run ten yards, stop for five minutes while the players and coach discuss how well/badly they ran that ten yards and decide how they'll run the next ten - thereby giving advertisers plenty of time to cram in as much as they can - rinse and repeat. But I'm not an American and easily bored, and I imagine a lot of people would say something similar about the Rugby League grand finals down here in Australia. So I won't judge if you don't.
Do enjoy the half-time shows though.
Do enjoy the half-time shows though.
Uh, what?! No, sorry, but that's rubbish.13thforswarn said:
American Football was not formalised until late the 19th century, even though traditional (whether European or native) ballgames were popular in casual contexts long before gridiron came about. Up until the 1850's college football was association football (round ball), but because of the Rutgers vs Princeton game, wherein the two unis fronted their own rules, the nuances of mob football became prominent wherein anything goes, even though it was still a kicking game, albeit with plenty of contact. The running game, with oval ball, came about shortly after rugby football was introduced to the states. Walter Camp, or one of his predecessors as conceivers of American Football, was quite taken with rugby football and combined the rules of rugby & association football into the college game with the colleges' own custom rules.
Boston rules finally formalised it shortly before the turn of the 20th century which replaced the continual play of rugby with the scrimmage, because of the apparent chaos and inconsistency of the scrummage, sort of levelling the playing field for players of different physiques (look at the builds of rugby union forwards, you have to be an almost precisely specific body type to fit into the roles, particularly locks & hookers).
The reason for the name of 'American Football', was from 'Rugby Football'. They could hardly name it after a town in Warwickshire, England, and since so many colleges throughout the country played it, it was a genuinely more national sport. Hence 'American'... the 'football' part was never even contemplated to be changed from the original definition as in association football, since the Brits kept its use in the numerous rugby systems and the Aussies in Aussies rules, though I don't know enough about Aussie rules history to make a fully informed comment about it.
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Quoted for enlightenment.Mocmocman said:
No, for two reasons: 1, I'm not American and 2, even if I was, I hold absolutely no interest in sports. So yeah, pretty simple for me.
Eurokiddies?FelixG said:
Compared to what?
The general maturity of Americans?
The mere fact that you use the term eurokiddies already proves my point.
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Even if I was interested in football, which I'm not.
I barely even watch tv when my own country is in the finals with football (or soccor, if you're not a eurokiddy)
I do not care about sports, at all.