Are You Ready For Some Football?

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I believe this is the very kernel of social importance of team sports. To create safe space for natural need to fight for your people.

not fighting. just found this post a tad obnoxious and off topic...


Get two "Wrong Planet" members together, and you'll most likely have three opinions spouted.
To me, it's ok to think that sports are a way to numb the dumb masses---I don't think that, but I can see it.
And each poster has their own way of putting things...it can be a challenge to get used to that.

BTW... did you manage to catch any of last night's game? I honestly don't think Houston was terrible, they just ran into a buzzsaw. The Texans should win their (weak) division again...and be eliminated in the first round of the playoffs

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agreed. kc is going to be good. again. i was happy for andy reid when he finally won the sb last year. i wish he had been able to do that during his time with philly.

The NFC was so good when Reid coached there, that his consecutive Championship Game streak is more impressive than a single Super Bowl victory!
Y'all had some crazy good defenses, and some great rivalries with the Cowgirls

I can see it as well. But if you don't have something nice to say, or at least something that has to do with the thread, I feel it's better to stfu.

But if you don't have something nice to say, or at least something that has to do with the thread, I feel it's better to stfu...

Welcome to (You're) Wrong Planet.

lol

Does that include taking a pro-censorship stance?

No. But it does include a non-insulting people stance.

As I live and breathe, yees, YESS!! I am fundamentally opposed to much of the way the American football league sports are operated [and don't even get me started on the monopolies in the US on merch]. Being who I am [progressive, moderate liberal] and living where I do [the confederate states of America], football used to be one of the only safe topics to discuss with locals here aside from weather. Now that weather conversations lead to politics here [global warming is apparently a commie/nazi/liberal conspiracy] and NFL conversations lead to politics [Black Lives do not Matter at all to most locals here] I avoid talking to anyone in public, which goes against my personality [but so do the locals here, thank the Maker more and more northerners and westerners are moving here every week for affordable rent and land {not to mention that most locals do not believe that the pandemic is actually real and won't socially distance or wear masks....}].

But yea, I am a lifelong New Orleans Saints fan by birth, and a Tennessee Titans fan by location. In the college leagues, I avidly support Louisiana State University Tigers [reigning champion, for now], Tulane University Green Wave, Oregon Ducks, and the Oregon State Beavers.

I support the latter two teams in not playing this season, playing during a pandemic is an awful idea but... money, I guess. Rich folks gotta make it all or let others die trying, that's the American way!! It annoys me when people complain about the high salaries; American wages are so stagnant and economic determinism so enshrined here: professional sports, music, and acting are some of the only means of class mobility left in the "land of opportunity" so just leave them alone. It is ridiculous that US cities must pay for stadiums when the economic impact of football arenas never comes close to repaying the cities for the taxpayers' expense.

I do find it incredibly ironic that sports always gets the "bread & circuses" comments, yet never Hollowood big budget films, or reality TV game shows, but to each one's own. I remember back when I was still on Fakebook, a friend [who enjoyed cosplay for sci-fi and fantasy films] commented that it was ridiculous how sports fans wear jerseys to games or at home... to which I had to comment, "Yeah, it's not like movie fans ever dress up as characters from films they love at movie premiers or parties...."

Since you did not use the qualifier, "AMERICAN football", are we also talking about the return of British Premier League play...? Wondering if Liverpool can pull it off again, but I'm not holding my breath... at least we never walk alone!!

People think of jocks as dumb, but Football is an incredibly complex game. It has so many variables that its much harder to analyze than say hockey or baseball.

Each coach is like a General who has a basic strategy that he imparts to his platoons. There is often a frenzied re-evaluation at halftime!

I grew up in poor benighted Baltimore, and I respect the Ravens, but I am currently on the New England Patriot bandwagon.

There is also a lot of obvious anthropological stuff going on when one watches football.

Totemism happens when a tribe equates itself with an animal and then worships it to secure the well being of a group

(it sucks to worship Jaguars right now)

and Eagles.

The NFC East is so cray-cray that I wouldn't be shocked if the Iggles (or the Washington Football Team ) won it.

But having said that, a statistical case can be made that Carson Wentz is off to the worst start of any QB in NFL history.

Who saw that coming?

I predict there's a 3-way 1-2 tie for first at the end of this week. And I didn't see Wentz's horrid start coming at all.

Speaking of dumb jocks...did you know that Dolphins QB Ryan Fitzpatrick scored 1,580 out of 1600 on his SAT's?

(Before the College Board dumbed the test down utterly)

He was an Economics major at Hah-vahd!