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How much do you enjoy watching American football?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by SonicBoom, Sep 16, 2015.

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How much do you enjoy watching American football?

  1. ALOT

    13.7%
  2. A Fair Amount

    7.8%
  3. A little

    27.5%
  4. Not at all

    51.0%
  1. kageshiro

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    wow I couldn't relate more
     
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    Guys in tight pants tackling each other? It's hard not to enjoy :lol:.
     
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    You could take my total interest in football and easily fit it into the navel of a fruit fly.
     
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    I grew up and lived all my life hating football.

    I lived most of my life thinking , like myself, all gay men hated football.

    It was only a few years ago did I knew that gay sports bar existed.:eusa_doh:

    No offense to gay football lovers , but up until when I knew gay sports bar existed, I thought the phrase gay sports bar was an oxymoron. :roflmao:
     
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    I can fully understand how one might go through life thinking gay men hate football. But it's yet another stereotype. When you get down to it, the only certainty with a gay man is that he is sexually attracted to other men.

    Interestingly, there would be the view that straight men should love football, and yet there are straight men who aren't interested. I remember seeing a comment from one such man on another forum who got accused of being gay because of his lack of interest in football. He apparently responded about how football was watching a bunch of men running around wearing tight pants, and slapping each other on their butts at certain times. With, of course, the suggestion that anyone who enjoys watching this must be gay. Apparently there was dead silence after he said this. :lol:
     
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    I find it's too slow-paced for me. So many whistles and lines and stopping and starting and stopping and starting :confused: I really only enjoy watching hockey and lacrosse, in terms of team sports.
     
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    Yes, being from Detroit I looooooooove hockey, but men in tights ball is lame.
     
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    I feel this way about most sports.

    I felt this way about American football the whole time I was growing up. But I was unable to completely avoid gaining some understanding of it over the years...just too ingrained into the culture (ok, and I admit that I like the food and drink that accompanies Super Bowl parties, so I watched a few games, and had people around me talking about it, *just* for the perks).

    Anyway, as I did gain my (still quite small) level of understanding, I did come to appreciate some of the skills in the game...the notion that there is actual strategy, and quite a bit of impressive technical prowess. That was enough for me to say that I enjoy watching it a little bit. I rarely see more than the Super Bowl in any given year...but I do watch that (with appropriate food and drink, of course), and at that frequency, I enjoy it at least as much as anything else I watch (and I watch very little).

    So as long as watching sports generally is held to a minimum, I can enjoy (about in order of preference) watching hockey, soccer, football, tennis, and curling. But not baseball. *That* shit is like watching paint dry.
     
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    I will say one thing about baseball I'd take it over basketball any day. Basketball is a height competition, nothing else. The mechanics are super easy, and nothing unusual happens, it's routine, 48 minutes of the same shit. In baseball there is a chance that something wild you'll only ever see once a season, or less, happen.

    Basketball is awful.
     
  10. waitwhat

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    I don't really like watching any sports. I don't understand football all that much either.
     
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    Out of the few times I've watched it, all I can say is... boys <3 :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
     
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    Same with me, just no interest what so ever.
     
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    Occasionally tbh XD tho I do enjoy watching it with my dad
     
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    A basketball game is only 48 minutes long? Damn, shows how much I know about it. I don't see the excitement in it, either. How can it be exciting watching someone score every few minutes for the entire game? Like you said, too routine.

    I can see how American football could be interesting (although I prefer real football), but basketball?
     
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    You should watch hurling and maybe gaelic football if you like fast sports

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    I hate Handegg

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    Srry i had too
     
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    Not even a little bit.
     
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    TRUE! :thumbsup:
     
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    I don't watch American football, I'll occasionally watch the CFL, but only one or two games, and that's only if my dad's watching.
     
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    Sports are only fun to play. Watching them is boring