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Guys - Who Hates Football?

#121
LiquidMidnight said:
U2 is one of my favorite bands. The next time they release an album, I'm going to tell everyone that "We released an album." Then I'll reminisce about how we played really well at Red Rocks back in the 80s. Then, even though I actually don't know any of the members personally, I'll hate Thin Lizzy for absolutely no rational reason other than they're from Ireland too and, ergo, must be rivals to one of my favorite bands.

:p
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You forgot to go running out into the street and tip over a car and kick someone's ass because U2's last album went platinum. Your work is not completed yet. :smug:
 
#124
I played a lot of sports for almost 10 years starting at age 7. My dad watched sports and so did I. He was a big boxing fan so I got to see a lot of guys beat up.

After high school I pretty much lost interest and found that spending 4-8 hours on Sunday plus college games too much of a time suck. And getting home from gigs at 2 or 3 in the morning didn't lend itself to spending the day watching TV. I had a job, girlfriend(s), rehearsals/gigs and school going on most of the time anyways.

Later on, my wife and daughter graduated from some big name schools with big time sports programs so now I get to watch a few of their alma mater's games as a social past time.

I don't "hate" sports, just pretty much indifferent to them. I'll watch some playoffs of different sports and always enjoy a great play but I can take it or leave it. Mostly leave it. I do enjoy reading the human interest stories that go along with sports finding out the back story on players, management, history, etc. Though I do wear a Laker's hat(go it cheap) and more often than not, get various comments from sports fans.

But, I do like to PLAY sports...basketball, baseball, football, whatever...nothing too organized...sometimes just throwing the ball around or shooting hoops for fun. I was a very good player back in the day.

I admit that I've watched a few more football games in the past few months because I've been studying some of the moves and learning the updated rules so I can work with my 2 grandsons since they started playing recently. I have fun taking them out to the park and teaching them a few of the moves I still have in my bag of tricks. And we do spend a few hours attending their games each weekend.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. :)
 
#128
DeathFromBelow said:
Which in turn would make you go a lot slower than the guys with co-drivers. You might be "stickin' it to the man", but Your not gonna be winning any rallies that way. ;)
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guess you just do stuff different over there. As for goin slower, even if you know whats comin you still have to drive the car and react to the steering feedback, G force and whatever else the road throws at you and you dont know what that will be till you get there, drive in the moment I say. I hardly consider that stickin it to the man, whatever thats suppose to mean. Let the driver have a look at a map and then get in and do it, much more sporting that way.
 
#129
bluesblaster said:
guess you just do stuff different over there. As for goin slower, even if you know whats comin you still have to drive the car and react to the steering feedback, G force and whatever else the road throws at you and you dont know what that will be till you get there, drive in the moment I say. I hardly consider that stickin it to the man, whatever thats suppose to mean. Let the driver have a look at a map and then get in and do it, much more sporting that way.
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Good drivers know how the car will react before it does. This is extremely important in the surface conditions present in rally. Getting a heads up is very helpful.
 
#131
Unrepresented said:
To quote the Beastie Boys, "Got an 'A' from Moe Dee for sticking to themes.":|
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You can get intersectional or you can GO HOME!


There seems to be two types of football in the world.

British football, which is a bunch of millionaire chavs with expensive haircuts, faking injuries for 90 minutes whilst some hard-nut Scotsman chews gums feverishly and shouts obscenities at them from the side of the pitch...

or...

American football which is, lets face it, bitch rugby. Guys in tight trousers and comically oversize padding and helmets slapping each other on the backside for sixty minutes and occasionally bouncing off each other like cartoon car crashes.
 
#132
bluesblaster said:
guess you just do stuff different over there. As for goin slower, even if you know whats comin you still have to drive the car and react to the steering feedback, G force and whatever else the road throws at you and you dont know what that will be till you get there, drive in the moment I say. I hardly consider that stickin it to the man, whatever thats suppose to mean. Let the driver have a look at a map and then get in and do it, much more sporting that way.
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I can't really see how having a co-driver is any less sporting. Every car has a driver and a co-driver, so it's a level playing field. Rallying is a big international sport that is decades old and it has always been a team effort. Like it or not.
 
#133
I do like football, as well as basketball. College more than pro in both cases. I occasionally get a bit wound up when it's my alma mater involved. But I've never tossed the remote or anything else.

If others don't like sports, that's no big deal to me--I have friends who feel that way, too, and we're still able to have conversations about plenty of other topics. Hey, some of us sports fans are actually multifaceted and don't fit into the stereotypes being put forth in this thread.;)

Unrepresented said:
My main issue with professional sports is the amount of resources that we invest in then to make the billionaire owners richer. Stadium subsidies are the biggest waste of taxpayer money ever.
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+1 on this. It makes me nuts that people keep voting for this stuff. Yes, a major sports team can boost a local economy, but so can other big businesses, and they don't usually get handouts that are anywhere near the magnitude of a free stadium.
 
#135
hbarcat said:
To be fair, professional footbal players are being paid a lot of money to participate in a career that averages less than 4 years (usually ended by a sudden debilitating injury), and for those players lucky enough to retire after a full career, are almost guaranteed to suffer for the rest of their lives from serious and permanent damage to their bodies.

And to be fair and balanced, this could also be said to apply to warehouse and other factory workers, as you describe.
:hmm:
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Unless someone is a complete buffoon they should know the risks of playing the game. There's a real chance you will be screwed up for life from playing a contact sport, if you accept that risk it's not my problem.

I don't know too many mechanics my age that don't suffer from hand, back and knee issues yet we don't go on strike looking for better benefits when we do give it up. We play the game and we take our chances, the responsibility is all mine.
 
#136
Mike N said:
Unless someone is a complete buffoon they should know the risks of playing the game. There's a real chance you will be screwed up for life from playing a contact sport, if you accept that risk it's not my problem.

I don't know too many mechanics my age that don't suffer from hand, back and knee issues yet we don't go on strike looking for better benefits when we do give it up. We play the game and we take our chances, the responsibility is all mine.
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You should. Everyone should be entitled to a safe and healthy workplace. Demand that yours be updated to accommodate the future of the next generation of mechanics if not for yourself.
 

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