An ode to the Super-est Bowl of them all...

[drphilbert]

I found this on the internets...and it pretty much sums up my opinion of the sport which has for the past however many years grabbed American idiots by the balls

"What a boring game. At any given moment there is only a maximum of ten, fifteen seconds of actual play, punctuated by endlessly recurring minutes of nothing happening. When we’re lucky,

Comments

[snuggleszs]

I think that football makes sense if you think of it as "jocks are really just dorks that are ashamed to admit it"

jocks study the stats, rankings, players, 'game plans', and all that other bullshit the same way that a WoW adict looks up the stats of his uber equipment, the HP of a final fantasy boss, or how to make the best burn deck.

That explains sports, but it doesnt really explain why football is the most popular sport, cause it really is crazy lame to watch. like so many things, at one point, someone decided it was cool, and no one was willing to tell them no, but accepted that it WAS in fact, fun. It does beat nascar and baseball in my book though...

[drphilbert]

Nerdcore Rising

[rhoerus]

I like your quote. Mostly I agree with it, but I prefer to have my ideas expressed via comic:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/02/08

[drphilbert]

one of the top five they have ever done!

[lonetraveler]

Yeah, no kidding. Ralph Young People sometimes piss me off....

But you take what you can get, and that's all we could ask for.

Then again, some people's apathy are passed on to whom? Their KIDS! So, now we have little dumbasses running around (referring to the entire population) who could care even less!

And that my friend, leads to the fall of what we call "the Great Republican Experiment". Apathy. Nobody cares....

"So eh.. whatev..."

[_onyx]

I like to watch the commercials & hang out with friends in my livingroom. I couldn't care less about the game!! :-)

[indirectpopcorn]

well, at least if people are watching football they aren't off beating their children, or stealing or murdering someone.

and think of all the thousands of people that are employed because of the game.

Heck, you basically owe your entire college career to football.

[drphilbert]

you make a good point
1) no, they will just do it after the game when they're drunk

2) yes, but these people would probably be employed as well if we had another more worthwhile national event to deify instead

3) the Ralph Young Fund goes directly toward football, and many people donate to it instead of Scholarships because it still counts as a charitable contribution, when in reality they do it to get better seats -- if football wasn't around we might be able to focus on something else, like academics

...the best case I have for football, more specifically College Football, is that it brings the name of our fine university to the masses and keeps us in the public eye, but for what? unless someone is a raving lunatic they would hire a person with a degree from Stanford before me, even if I had a better GPA (in general)

furthermore -- I don't even want to get into how this favorite sport objectifies women as objects, and fuels testosterone injected rage