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12 Reasons to Hate Football
November 24th, 2007
I don’t like sports. While there are a few I can tolerate like tennis, others such as football, make me want to pull my hair out. I’m not an athletic type and never saw the appeal in sitting on a set of bleachers during 30 degree weather just to watch a bunch of overweight athletes tackle each other senseless. This makes no sense to me and I can’t understand the obsession. Really, there’s no worse species than the football fanatic. Why do I despise football so much?
- It’s always on – Football is always on. There’s the normal major league football or whatever it’s called and college football. I also see football on during the warmer months though I’m not sure why. It ruins my weekends and delays my programs. There’s no need for a whole weekend’s worth of football. I can live with a game or two spread out over a couple of days, but all day every day? On all the networks plus several cable sports channels? What if we did that with figure skating? How would men like it if Steel Magnolias aired on a dozen channels all day throughout the weekend.
- Thanksgiving – If weekends aren’t enough, my whole Thanksgiving is taken up with football. While I admit, it’s a good way to keep the men from picking at the food in the kitchen, it’s never a good idea to hold sporting events at times when family is to gather around a table and pay homage to a large bird. It’s an even worse idea to turn off the television to announce dinner in the middle of a game. Trust me, I know.
- Instant replays – Look, if you’re too dumb to see it the first time, you don’t deserve to have it explained over and over and over again. This is why football takes so long.Ten minutes of circling players and footballs with those white chalk looking thingies. Here’s the thing, if you have to spell it out for your audience, you probably have the wrong audience.
- Time Outs – Are you kidding me? What kind of athletes have to stop the clock every time they stub a toe or need coaching? Look, if your players can’t get the job done in the allotted time, find someone else who can do the job right.
- The two minute warning – Why does this always take 20 minutes?
- Half time – You know what’s worse than the game? Listening to the commentators analyze each play to death over and over again. More chalk, more preaching to the choir. Been there, done that. Move on. If you’re going to do this than you need to eliminate the instant replays.
Football fans – Is there anything worse than a 300 pound 40 year old sitting in the stand in 12 degree weather with his face painted his team’s colors and a greasy logo on his bare chest? Is there anything worse than a living room filled with screaming men while the house falls in various stages of disrepair around them? Is there anything worse than a group of sports fans arguing about why their teams are best, knowing full well no one in the bunch is going to convert to the other side?- Fantasy Football – It’s not enough to be happy with one’s chosen team. Now we have ways to invent our own dream teams. While this is obviously a ploy to let football totally consume their lives, grown men pretend they’re owners and managers and create teams, trade players and analyze football games. It’s like Dungeons and Dragons except instead of playing it in your parents’ basement, it’s taking place in plan view.
- Superbowl Sunday – It’s just not right to center a whole day of sales, expensive commercials and parties around a two hour sporting event.
- Uniforms – Yeah the butt-hugging tight pants are cute in the early stages of a player’s career but wait a few years until they start filling out. All of a sudden those pants don’t paint such a pretty picture anymore.
- The salaries – hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for a few months a year? Why can’t teachers get the same deal?
- The Touchdown dance – Enough said.
Whenever I talk about how I don’t like football, I’m told I don’t get it. You’re right, I don’t. The whole game makes absolutely no sense and just as soon as you think you know all the rules, you find out there are more. I’d much rather remain blissfully ignorant.
Fantasy figure skating, anyone?
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HA!
I dont like it either. Thankfully Marc doesn’t watch it much and even with 5 boys in the family we probably watch much less football than most people. Yay.
However…put a dressage event on t.v. and we are in front of the tv in a minute.
Wow. One of the worst articles ive ever read.
If you don’t like it, then shut up, no reason to annoy the rest of us with your nagging, I feel bad for your husband… I don’t even like football that much myself, but my goodness. Go back to your soaps!
Guess which reply is from somebody who loves football…. rofl.
When men are watching football, you are not supposed to pay attention. You are supposed to be making sandwiches. Or leave the house.
Be honest with yourself Deborah, it is one of the worst articles I have read too. You are quite the misandric aren’t you? BTW you don’t have to approve my previous comment I won’t be hurt if you don’t.
When I was a job coach I worked with a kid who got a job working with a college football team. I have never in my life seen people treated as badly as those players (who, granted, did not seem to mind). The coaches were so mean about everything. Also, the football players were always asking for my business card right by the locker room. The only thing worse than football outfits is football players with only wet towels on.
I’d also add that one reason to hate football is the violence. Superbowl sunday is statistically one of the biggest days of the year for domestic violence incidences and studies show it’s because men get angry about the game. Lame. I hate football too. But I do like that drawn picture of you Deb; did you do that?
@Jennifer - Debbie Ridpath Ohi drew that picture when she interviewed me a couple of years back.
Why do you hate America?
Note to it sucked: Lighten up Francis.
This babe makes some great points. However, let me rebut:
1. It’s always on. No it isn’t. It’s not on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Those are replays of the weekend games.
2. Thanksgiving. You are right. Only because they are almost always the worst games.
3. Instant Replays. I hate them, too.
4. Time Outs. They’re mostly so we can look at truck, beer and beef jerky ads with scantily clad women sometimes featured. So, there is a purpose to them.
5. Two minute warning. That’s so at halftime the consession folks can sell more beer and at the end of the game so you can get to your car before anyone else. AND see number 4.
6. Half-time. Listening to these guys is pretty horrible. I’d compare it to Oprah or Larry King. The only purpose for halftime is so we can run out and buy more beer.
7. Football fans. I weigh less than 2 bills, thank you very much and I have never painted myself in my team’s colors and gone to a game bare-chested. Did I tell you I’m from Buffalo?
8. Fantasy football. I hate it, too. But because I’m a man, they take away my union card if I don’t participate. It’s the milleniums version of not asking for directions.
9. Superbowl Sunday. It rocks. There’s always a great party and half the time nobody really cares about the game. Corrollary: It only doesn’t rock when you’re team loses. Did I tell you I’m from Buffalo?
10. Uniforms. Those butts stay the same generally throughout the players’ careers. You need to focus less on the lineman and more on the skill players for better butt action. Ooops…I think I know a little more than I am supposed to on that subject. Please disregard.
11. Salaries. Cuz it’s entertainment. Nobody minds that George Clooney or Donny Osmond make a brazilian dollars just for looking pretty and acting like themselves all the time. These football players have mad skills. And let me just remind you…if the school systems brought in a billion dollars a year, Mr. Hollis would still be teaching music.
12. The Dance. Did we tell you that football has cheerleaders? They generally dance when the guy that scored the touchdown is dancing…so we generally miss that, too.
Figure Skating? If those folks could put a puck in the net, and get checked into the boards every once in while, that would be cool. Then I’d watch.
Wow…you would have thought you were knocking their mothers or religion, wouldn’t you?
i hate foorball
Now that, Buff, is an intelligent response. Here’s to Tuesdays and Wednesdays. And those two days in July when there’s no sports.
A Better reason to dislike football.
http://www.mensjournal.com/feature/M162/M162_CasualtiesoftheNFL.html
“Superbowl sunday is statistically one of the biggest days of the year for domestic violence incidences and studies show it’s because men get angry about the game.”
This is wrong.
http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/superbowl.asp
Since you hate football so much, can you tell everyone what they should LIKE, instead?
Oh, and the football season is only 5 months long. Do the math.
I use the time the rest of my family uses to watch “Football” to do something more productive, like practicing the piano.
It’s not even real football!
This is real football
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29
Well gee thanks for taking the time to write out that carefully thought out nag. You don’t like football. Who gives a shit? You are not football’s target audience and they are not trying to impress you. I don’t like the lifetime network or Danielle Steel but I’m not going to write an entire article about it. Because clearly I am not supposed to enjoy those things as much as the people it is targeted to and my complaints would just make me sound like a joyless, lonely hag of a person, much like yours do. A woman doesn’t like football STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES
there are reasons to hate football, sadly, most of these don’t pertain to your post. if you could explain an ounce of football, then maybe we’re game.
1. its only on Sunday/Monday and Thursdays (AFTER Thanksgiving) (last year, they played NFL on more days, but it failed miserably)
2. A lot of families watch disney movies every year. Can I b*tch about 12 reasons why I hate Disney?
3. eh, i could go either way with instant replay, but the truth is, the human eye is not a robot. there are somethings that the eye cannot see in real time.
4. football is one of the most complicated games with the amount of plays you can run (offensively and defensively).
5. 2 minute warning… got nothing to say, but its certainly not 20 minutes. stop exaggerating.
6. most commentators are horrendous. especially the ones you see on TV. this goes across for all sports really.
7. Yeah, there are a lot of things worse than 300 lb men screaming at the top of the lungs. i don’t this really counts as a valid reason for your argument. and yes, i can think of a lot of things worse than 300 lb men.
8. don’t really have a valid argument other than the competitive-ness.
9. superbowl sunday is almost like a holiday. the city that hosts the game gets a huge boost in sales as well as providing a great tourism for attending the game. this probably isn’t important to you, but there are different ways to look at this.
10. only a girl/woman would gripe about uniforms.
11. salaries - yes, they make a lot of money, but the NFL has the best salary cap in sports. most of the contract values you see is based on incentives. you think they only a “few” months a year? football starts in september and ends in january. there’s also the offseason training which is usually a month or two. not to mention, players train during these off times as well. yes, some athletes make waaaaay too much money, but they have to work a lot harder than you think they do. sure, to you, its just playing a game, but practice is a daily task. studying game film and opponents is also a daily task. these guys just don’t suit up once a week and run around.
12. yeah, we can get rid of the touchdown dance, but the NFL has done a decent job of limiting what a player can do.
sorry for the long post, but if you’re gonna gripe about something, at least make some valid arguments. Jim posted a good article.
I learned something today: If I go to a country that uses the word “football” as a term for what Americans (and, surprisingly enough, some other countries!) call “soccer”, I should be ignorant and use my local term for the sport, as opposed to the term used in that nation. In America, even though football (American football, for ease) is called football, we should call soccer “football”, because much of the rest of western culture does the same.
I’d better go to the local pub and order myself some crisps, whilst watching football and drinking a hogshead of ale. I mean, it’s only culutral ignorance when Americans do it.
Anyway, “real football” is not as fun to watch as non-Americans or American soccer fans would lead you to believe. It’s a fun sport to play, but so is “armored wankball”, or whatever the obviously cultured and non-ignorant European crowds call American football.
Bitchy woman + list = shitty article.
Reference: http://www.cosmeticsurgerywife.com/articles/20/1/10-reasons-why-people-think-you039re-a-bimbo-if-you-have-implants/Page1.html
Seriously, lists are the lowest form of writing.
Now, to rebut a couple of your points:
Instant replays – There is a lot going on during a play. I’d love to see you keep track of over 20 men running around beating the crap out of each other. Additionally, it is there to fill dead time while the next play is being set up.
Superbowl Sunday – How is this a point? I don’t think it’s up to you how companies and people should invest their money.
Good lord, that was just an awful, AWFUL article. Inaccurate, painfully unfunny, and ultimately pointless. Did you for a second think that this was something people wanted to read? You have every right to dislike sports, but if you’re going to criticize something at least make valid points, or at the very least, be amusing. This was neither. I tried to be objective when reading this but, I gotta say, it’s just a total mess. If I were you I’d delete this entirely and learn from your mistake.
Shut your whore mouth and get back in the kitchen.
So out of all of the football fans, only a couple of you offer well thought out rebuttals. The rest of you venture towards cursing and insulting, but not really offering any thought provoking insight.
Way to represent, football fans.
I don’t mind opposing points of view but please be respectful.
A couple of points:
@nicxvan: I don’t watch Soaps. I only saw Oprah once and that was in a doctor’s office. I don’t watch Lifetime or Oxygen, nor do I believe in group hugs.I don’t read Danielle Steel or Harlequin Romances and I find Tyra Banks annoying. And for the record, I love men.
@Byron - Thank you for a mostly respectful post. You’re certainly welcome to gripe about Disney. May I join you?
@Nick - I’m not telling you to hate football, I’m telling you why I hate football.
@all who called me a nag - I am not nagging. I am telling you why I don’t like football. I didn’t tell you not to watch football, over and over, I listed my own personal reasons for not enjoying the sport. Lighten up and please be respectful.
make me a sandwich
This article should have been called, “I never get laid, so I’m going to lash out at men for things they like.”
Here’s a list of things I don’t like (and choose not to understand) that women watch:
1) American Idol
2) Sex and the City
3) Grey’s Anatomy
4) any of the insipid dramas on the WB
The list is longer, but we men don’t like to sit around complaining about what we hate about women.
What I find interesting is how many men really can’t make their point without swearing and name calling. Most of the rebuttals don’t even have a point except to prove that football brings out the worst in people.
Why come here and spew hate? If you don’t agree move on. Would you talk this way to your own mothers, sisters or daughters or is your computer’s anonymity making you feel all sorts of brave?
First, you’ve been greenlit at Fark so these responses have actually been quite tame. Secondly, you entire article is really a expose on your ignorance of the subject. You obviously spend enough time forming an opinion to actually investigate the topic you are covering. Instead it was full of misinformation and blatant lies. All of this adds up to a very UNfunny blog post. Better luck next time.
@ Rob - While I do watch Sex and the City, I pretty much agree with most of your list. And also? My diatribe is against football, not men. Please, if you’re going to comment again, be respectful.
HAHA you famous now, your list made it on fark..
Loser!
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Awww, it seems like someone’s little princess was not asked to the prom by the high school’s quarterback, and 30 to 40 years later, still holds a grudge.
Reason #13: read the replies on this blog to see what many people who “love” football are like.
Holy crap! I’m embarrassed to say that I’m a football fan. Sheesh. It’s not a personal attack, people. It’s opinion.
Maybe I should berate my friends who don’t get the whole football thing. Anyway, I have to go make a sandwich for my DH. It’s almost time for kickoff.
Well, I have to say that the poster has certainly brought out the wrath of the weak & the sexless.
What kind of man, and I use the term loosely for the not so “merry band of eunuchs”, who have found the post an insult on their manhood, when it is an individual’s right to her opinion. The kind of right she is guaranteed to express, which real men have fought to protect.
By the way boys the American Pastime (sport) is still baseball.
While I may not agree with everything she has written, it is no excuse to mindless,(no, that’s to harsh and they might not understand,)okay those of little brain and/or testicular fortitude or even possession thereof to rail her for her opinion and personal thoughts on HER blog.
Hey guys, LIGHTEN UP! You probably need to anyway from too many snacks and too much armchair coaching.
If you don’t like what she wrote, simply post a comment that you disagree without the personal attacks. You might appear more grown up and mature and even more like a man then worthless PUKES, who don’t have what it takes to be a man.
…and to you who don’t cotain the matter to know that my name refers to one kind of Real man, I am and always will be a United States Marine.
P.S. The blogger is not my wife but she seemed to need another man to step up to her defense…. and
GO PATS!!!
Not a bad piece of writing, but on Grey Cup day? Eh?
I am a woman and I like football. Does that mean I disagree with Deb’s blog? NO! She has valid points and, I know this is difficult to accept, but it is an opinion!
Besides, it is a great blog post because she did EXACTLY what a blog intends…get readers!!! So HA! All of you that came to read this article and post some lame comment actually gave her what she wanted!
Hmm.
Since I live in WI, I suppose I ought to send her some cheese to go along with her whine.
It made me think of the following:
Why do the people who haye guns know so little or nothing about them?
Wow. This may be the worst article ever written.
I hope the slit that wrote this is being forced to filate a donkey right now.
/Its inter-species erotica, f*cko!
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TO: jarhead,
There are REAL MEN who are REAL AMERICANS.
There are RREAL AMERICAN MEN who like football.
This REAL AMERICAN MAN likes several AMERICAN sports.
BTW-I see you have a little shove-it-down-their-throats site connected to your sceen name.
I also saw your cutesy little elevator operater’s costume.
Does your elevator go all the way to the top?
I doubt it because, so many of us HM2’s have had to drag your ass everywhere.
This HM3, then HM2 then 3 again(lol) was in the shit in the 60’s.
Most of the time we heard “corpsman up” was when a jarhead was so drunk, he couldn’t stand.
Ahhh, football, a great AMERICAN sport.
You know, a REAL MAN can disagree with the subject of this blog WITHOUT insulting the woman who wrote it.
I will clearly state that there is one thing she said with which I totally agree, the end zone “look at me” dances.
There isn’t one of those little assclowns who could hold a candle to Sweetness, Jim Brown, Sammy Baugh and those REAL MEN who just went about doing their jobs.
The “look at me’ dancers are like those who need to make a site in their costumes to say, “look at me, I’m a big mans”.
The picture you used, of the University of Tennessee men’s basketball coach, was taken at a University of Tennessee women’s basketball game. If you complain about fans at football games being painted, at least use a picture of people in 12 degree weather in a football stadium, not a basketball arena.
Hello,
You so called inteligent people who are fanatically afraid of the truth.
Now first of all “football” is supposed to be a 60 minute “game”. In reality with only about 6 minutes of action. And really only 60 seconds of action worth watching.
You have to be very stupid to waist 4 hours of your time to watch 60 seconds of meaningful action.
How much money could you have made in the 4 hours of useless screeming over endless replays. I do like the comment you have to be very stupid to watch the replay when you dumb brain missed it the first time.
Cannot understand why supposedly inteligent people waist their presious time with senseless nonsence of committee meetings intersperced with random acts of violence.
Maybe that is why they are brainless, they got beat up too many times on the field without a helmut.
Maybe they like the wife beaters and murderers that are accociated with “football”.
I am a woman and I love football. I actually write about sports for a living. I thought the piece was actually a little funny and assumed Deb was just exaggerating the Cathy cartoon based off a similar list.
Though I disagree with every single one of her points, she’s entitled to her opinion.
By the way, Deb you can win a lot of money playing fantasy sports
some more thoughts from a female football fan.
First, most of what inthebuff said, except that Thanksgiving Day comment. Best game is always the Cowboys vs. whoever; bestest when the ‘Boys win!
What I do hate about football is the gender stereotyping. Maybe it’s because I’m from Texas (another category of stereotyping there …), but I know a lot of women, like me, who love the game. And some guys who don’t. Go figure!
But then, I like most sports and football has alway been a big part of my family’s life, includng holiday celebrations. To each his own and good luck, Deb, as the season cranks into high gear!
You know, I hate football too. With a passion. I can appreciate how there are others that love the sport, though, but I just don’t “get” the game. When I tell others that I can’t stand it, they look at me as though I am morally offensive to them. LOL Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone on this one, Deb!!! Kudos to you!
Alright, I’m not gonna make fun of you or anything, but seriously, what are you doing? Half your reasons don’t make sense or are inaccurate, and others are whiny. Instant replay is for the game, not the fans. If you don’t get a very solid look at it the first time, you need to review it at a different angle so you don’t make a bad call and ruin the game. Time outs are for when you need more than 5 seconds to discuss a strategy or important moment in the gameplay.
Actually, those are the only two reasons you had that pertained to the game itself and were not how what you don’t like is stupid. So yeah, go watch tennis or something incredibly complicated like that.
I just can’t stop laughing about this. First your article, Deb, just hit as humorous on so many different levels. What a great piece of personal writing!
Secondly, the comments. From the wrath you invoked you’d think you said that you were in favor of beating children and kicking animals. I’m not sure whatever happened to perspective, but clearly many who commented don’t have it.
I’d never judge someone’s value as a person based on whether they liked (or didn’t like) a game.
Glad that I found the 7 Babe site!
Looking forward to a blog on the many reasons kickyball (soccer) is mind numbingly boring. Or better yet, 12 reasons to hate “The View.” BTW,Superbowl Sunday is NOT statistically one of the biggest days of the year for domestic violence incidences. That’s a myth. Look it up. “Is there anything worse than a group of sports fans arguing about why their teams are best, knowing full well no one in the bunch is going to convert to the other side?” Oh sure there is! Religious fanatics who believe their religion is the correct one. Look at all the damage it has done to humanity through the ages. Of course myself, I don’t believe in the invisable man in the sky. I’ll spend my Sundays watching football.
What I find is amusing is that some of the responses tell you to get laid, while others call you a whore. Which one is it, does she need to get laid or is she getting laid too much?
I also find it amusing that people who spend their Saturday nights on Fark are telling a blogger she needs to get laid.
You are a dumb cunt, your article sucks and you are ugly. 3/3
To: American Veteran…I’m sorry I must have hit on your insecurities in my earlier post. Did I call you less a man because you like football. No!
I was ticked off at the imbecilic hoards ganging up on Deb.
She didn’t attack your manhood unless you were one of those imbeciles taking personal offense on her post like it was sacrilege,. And again,I didn’t attack you either.
All of our vets are real men and women as well. Perhaps you need to reread my post. You certainly missed my point, unless again you were one of the mindless hoard attacking the poster of her blog.
Lastly I am a football fan, but I have a real life too. You must have missed this line too. GO PATS!!!
Sorry that you don’t like in your face statements whatever they were.
Pats fan since they were the Boston Patriots in the AFL.
I kind of get football when they’re actually moving- it’s the 2 hours to play a 5 minute game that I don’t get. Much like horse racing, you have long minutes of boredom interspersed with a few minutes of action.
Although I definitely approve of men having to feel the discomfort of wearing tights. And think how many of the players take ballet in the off season! If we could just talk our husbands into that…
STFU
27 consonants
19 vowels
if you discount y, which can swing either way, you have 25 consonants and 19 vowels.
According to the stupid comment filter this qualifies as only a stupid comment. Keep trying though, you were really close. Good job.
TO: the jarhead in the elevator operator’s costume.
As for your weepy little attempts to insult me when you typed:
“She didn’t attack your manhood unless you were one of those imbeciles taking personal offense on her post like it was sacrilege”
and
“You certainly missed my point, unless again you were one of the mindless hoard attacking the poster of her blog.”
Little mans, here’s what a REAL MAN said about the babe & her story:
“You know, a REAL MAN can disagree with the subject of this blog WITHOUT insulting the woman who wrote it.
I will clearly state that there is one thing she said with which I totally agree, the end zone “look at me” dances.”
Now, give back that little suit you stole.
Ah, if only. If only! For those who don’t know what American Vet is referring to, that’s Fox News and Bill O Reilly.
That’s okay Vet. You still don’t get it. I understand.
You need to check out one of the links from my site.
It is called TogetherWeServed.Com. HM2s are welcome there if they served with Marine units, because we treat them with the respect they deserve for pullin’ us out of combat and attending to our medical needs after we get wounded in combat , so we can fight again another day. Even if you didn’t serve as a HM2 with a Marine unit, TogetherWeServed.com opened the site for those who served in the U.S Navy. The Army and Air force sites should be open in the Spring of ‘08.
Have a good one and remember, GO PATS!!!
One of my Jarhead buddies was a cheesehead and his wife & kids still get together whenever the PAckers play in memory of Rybs.
Sorry Deb, but if you were exaggerating to get laughs, it only resulted in you looking very uninformed about football in general. Perhaps too uniformed to pick it apart? Thanks to whomever mentioned the salary cap.
But then again, I love football. It may be violent, but it’s also a strategic head game and great to watch. They have started with the breaks for commercials, which I loathe. But proper timeouts are almost always used for a game-related reason, and football cannot be played continuously (with stopping the clock) with any sort of accuracy because of the nature of plays. It is that very strategy that I believe pulls in so many fans. The possibility of an unexpected play or a fake, combined with the fact that you can get 2, 3, 6, 7 or 8 points to score is pretty incredible for one sport.
All of these crazy guys leaving garbage in the comments are out of line, and I’m sure you know that. And you also know that they are driving up your traffic. So we’re all winners here.
For the record, Latin American soccer fans are above and beyond football fans in terms of intensity and insanity.
I hate Grey’s Anatomy. I don’t need 12 reasons. Just one will do, it is a total rip-off of Scrubs.
Oh I have a 2nd reason, it’s not funny.
I’m a man who can’t stand football.
You wanna hook up and watch steel magnolias someitme just let me know. I have never seen it.
Oh, and I’m a Total Farker, too.
We aren’t all rude.
Every point you made was quite valid, BTW.
In an attempt to give you a reasoned response to your blog entry “12 reasons to hate football”:
1. “Always on” - as is golf, baseball, basketball, motor sports, and a variety of others. Since you can block or avoid “cable sports channels”, you may be objecting to football on “regular” channels - i.e. network channels or the main cable channels. This is ruled by popularity (read: money) and one must assume that a lot of people want to see this, with all due apologies to your planned viewing. Suggestion: a DVR.
2. “Thanksgiving” - by admitting that “it’s a good way to keep the men from picking at the food in the kitchen” you tacitly played into the “in the kitchen to make a sandwich” comment. I (one of those men…) cooked Thanksgiving dinner for myself and my girlfriend, and football was on during the cooking and during the “homage to a large bird”.
Suggestion: serve during halftime or between games, and let people enjoy both events.
3. “Instant replay” - a reasonable response to sorting out what happens when 22 players plus officials are mixed together in a sport that sometimes leads to mistaken calls. Compared to “tolerating tennis” it’s a good deal more complicated, and I’ve seen enough endless replays of “did it hit the chalk” in tennis (whether “official” or not) to make this seem common.
Suggestion: they’re trying to make it a better game - be nice.
4. “Time Outs” - it’s an extreme game, played in armor, in temperatures ranging from well below freezing to well above human body temperature. And they do NOT call the game for anything short of weather that threatens the life of the fans and players. It’s also a game of multiple personalities and strategies. All of this can require time to consider injuries, change personnel, and alter strategies.
Suggestion: a DVR, again, and fast forward if you’re not interested. We are.
5. “Two minute warning” - Two examples: The last point in a tennis match; the last 10 seconds of a basketball game. This is NOT the only time extended time in sports.
Suggestion: Don’t really have one, I just don’t agree with you.
6. “Halftime” - My apologies, but again, we’re interested.
Suggestion: DVR and fast forward again.
7. “Football fans” - I think you are more indicting sports fans (actually, later in the paragraph you say “sports fans”)in general than football fans in specific. NASCAR fans are as demonstrative, soccer fans seem to be more violent, and ANY sports fans will argue to the end about their favorites. As will people arguing politics, child care, religion, or anything they care about.
Suggestion: Examine your objection - you seem to dislike enthusiastic support for sports.
8. “Fantasy Football” - This allows fans to enjoy talented players regardless of the team they are currently playing for (which helps in today’s professional sports world) and it also makes watching ALL the games more interesting, since you can have a personal interest in a team that otherwise you might not care about.
Suggestion: Let them enjoy this - it’s harmless.
9. “Superbowl Sunday” - admittedly, it’s all about the money - but still, it’s entertainment for a LOT of people. It’s also on one network (non-cable) with sports channels tied in (cable).
Suggestion: Watch the other 3 or 4 channels (non-cable) or the other 150+ (cable). Or again, DVR.
10. “Uniforms” - It’s a uniform - they all have to wear them (hence the name). If they don’t fit as well…well…some regular people don’t fit their non-regulated clothing well either. This is a fact of life.
Suggestion: Appreciate the good, pass by the bad - just like we need to do in real life.
11. “Salaries” - again, all about the money. I don’t disagree, but I have no solution for it - if we didn’t watch, they wouldn’t get paid.
Suggestion: None. I’m lost on that one too.
12. “Touchdown dance” - long before I knew about sports and sports celebrations (i.e. when I was about 5), when I did something I was REALLY proud of, I jumped up and down and made celebratory motions with my arms. And I yelled, too. I think this is a natural response to the adrenalin rush of success in any endeavor. In a sport that intense, I would guess it would go up a notch or ten. I’ve seen tennis players and golfers do this too. Excessive sometimes, maybe. Undeserved? That’s a judgment call.
Suggestion. DVR and fast forward, again.
I have attempted to be both reasoned and reasonable in this - I can’t speak for Farkers, but as a football fan, for the most part I didn’t agree with you. And hopefully this is thoughtful enough to meet your blog standards if not your television ones.
Note: I’m NOT discussing your points about blogging - no problems there.
So, just wondering…
When are you going to lock down comments on this post?
Peachy, just peachy. La-la-la-la-la-Icanthearyou-la-la-la-la
“Last week at a writers forum, one writer turned off comments to her blog after receiving a disagreeing comment.”
Remind you of someone else, Miss Kettle?
@PacMan - The keyword here is disagreeing. The comments shown here and at my other blogs are downright abusive.
I agree with pimp on this one..
mouth-shut it
Kitchen-get in it
I’m very sorry for the comment’s you’ve set yourself up for.
May your recovery be swift.
There are quite a few men who are not gay who feel this way, yet you will never hear them.
Why? Because to say this automatically labels you “GAY”. Case in point, Football fans say baseball games take too long. Average baseball game is now played in under 3 hours. Average football game just keeps getting longer and longer. Football is just another outlet for men who are worried about small penises and balding.
Quoting:
Look, if you’re too dumb to see it the first time, you don’t deserve to have it explained over and over and over again.
Since you’re blanketly insulting people who watch and enjoy a sport, its more than a little hypocritical of you to all of a sudden demand people be nice to you on the Internet when you end up having to answer for your opinions. No one owes you any more respect than that which you have given. I was going to respond with a point-by-point answer, but others have done so, and since you’ve obviously thought a lot about something you, *by your own admission*, do not understand, then I’m going to simply let your own words speak for me:
“Look, if you’re too dumb to see it the first time, you don’t deserve to have it explained over and over and over again.”
I think that simple statement you made speaks more than you meant it to. Don’t you?
You’re one ugly bitch.
Get back in the kitchen and make a damn sammich and quit your bitching
I don’t even like football but I hate this article.
A good portion of your insults toward football fans have everything to do with calling them fat. Does it make you feel better about your ugly-ass face to make fun of other people’s bodies? As if they’re not entitled to have a different idea of fun than you because you perceive them to weigh more.
Hey they can LOSE weight, but you’ll be a butterfaced nagging bitch forever.
I have to agree with the posters that point out the facts that:
1. You’re a dumb @#*@$.
2. You’re blogging career is no doubt in jeopardy.
3. You have a face made for the gloryhole.
Your article sucks.
In response to this terrible post:
1. It’s always on – Yeah, between college football and the NFL football is on a lot. But it isn’t like it is on every channel. Go turn on your WE or soap opera network channel and move on with your life.
2. Thanksgiving – Football is what brings my family together…we love watching the Packer’s play on thanksgiving. If that wasn’t on, we’d just be watching something else.
3. Instant replays – What’s wrong with enjoying a good catch a few times and in slow motion? I’m sure you’ve NEVER wanted to watch a movie a second time or anything. Us football fans enjoy seeing amazing catches the first, second, third and one-hundreth time. As far as reviewing plays goes…me thinks you’ve never tried to referee something. There are a million things going on all at once and refs are human. They do a pretty good job for the most part, but do miss things occasionally. But of course, I’m sure you would be perfect at it and never miss anything.
4. Time Outs – Time outs are for strategy. If an offensive line is set to run one play and the defense lines up in a way that would pretty much prevent the offensive play from going well then a time out is necessary. They need time to figure out another play and line up again. Time outs are also good for stopping the other team from running down the clock.
5. The two minute warning – 2 minutes means 2 minutes of play time. Not 2 minutes in real time. There are a number of ways to stop the clock. If it were 2 minutes in real time you’d see maybe 2 or 3 plays (between getting everyone lined up for each play and running the play).
6. Half time – This was stated before, but all commentators are pretty useless. This is a fact of sports. However, you can learn some neat stats every now and then.
7. Football fans – Anything worse than a 300 pound guy with his chest painted?? Umm..I think you have your priorities fubared. I can think of plenty of things worse…rape, murder, robbery, starving kids in africa…but no, you think some 300 pound guy with a painted chest is the worst thing imaginable. What’s it to you if someone has fun painting themselves up to support their team? It his life…lemme guess…you are pro-lifer too, eh?
8. Fantasy Football – I don’t have an exceptional comment about this…but I have to say that fantasy football is fun for some people (including me) and who are you to dis someone for enjoying something that isn’t harming anyone?
9. Superbowl Sunday – Nothing to say except you just can’t understand how fun superbowl sunday is.
10. Uniforms – what the f*ck kind of reason is this for not liking football? You definitely have too much time on your hands and too much self-entitlement to judge others. Also…focus more on the recievers for good butt action (i’m a female so i’m allowed to say that)
11. If teachers brought in billions of dollars a year I’m sure they would get paid that much. football is watched by millions of people, and those millions of people go to games and buy football items. When you have millions of people paying to see you you make money (*cough* movies *cough*).
12. The Touchdown dance – I’m sure you’ve never gotten excited and jumped up and down or did a little dance. And again…what’s it to you what people do to celebrate?
Now, as a woman I don’t think this about many other women…but seriously…you need to get back in the kitchen and shut your mouth.
You know who else didn’t like football and used to rant about nonsense? Hitler, that’s who.
// Godwinned
Horse Trainer was censored.
I think he meant that you’re a dumb kunt / coont
Hmph.
I was expecting a well-written summation of someone’s dislike for the sport (promotes excessive conformity; allegorical to war; reliance on promoting alcohol and “guy” stuff; etc.). Instead, all I found was a whine here, a whine there and straw men splattered everywhere. Generalizations, stereotypes, archetypal boredom.
You seem to have trouble assembling an argument. Don’t rely on wood (”Guy! It’s, like, on all the time.”) or straw (”OMG! Butt-hugging tight pants are cute but wait a few years until they start filling out. WTF??!11)” because the Big Bad Wolf will knock’em down every time. I advise that you stick to brick (”Is there anything worse than a group of sports fans arguing about why their teams are best, knowing full well no one in the bunch is going to convert to the other side?”).
In conclusion, yes, your stringent femininity has been duly noted. You are woman. Roar. Now go make a cake or a doily or something.
“In conclusion, yes, your stringent femininity has been duly noted. You are woman. Roar. Now go make a cake or a doily or something.”
Sammiches! The game comes on in six hours!!!11!
This was her response to someone who told her not to take the Farkers to heart:
“Deb Says:
Thanks Shannon, I appreciate that, but you know what? I don’t take heart in the knowledge. It’s not just the football posts, they followed me to other blogs. Blogs I manage for other people. So they didn’t like my football post, they’re going to affect my livelihood now? As you already know, I can handle disagreement, but the comments and emails I received were abusive and harrassing. People cant’ speak freely on my blogs and my clients arene’t so sure if I’m bringing in the kind of attention they want. So no, I don’t take heart in any of this. It’s not OK to be harassed just because football fans took issue. I don’t understand why the Powers the Be at Fark encourage harassment.”
I don’t know about the rest of the folks here, but there’s blood in the water. I can smell it.
Whoa! Lots of vitriol spewed here.
It’s your blog and you can say what you want, obviously.
There sure are some defensive 300-pound 40 year olds out there with terrible spelling and illogical arguments!
Deb. Change your picture. Please. The interwebs can’t handle the ugly.
If you were hot, we could just write this article off as you being stupid. However, since we’ve seen your picture, we have no choice but to believe that you’re just bitter.
If you’re husband is as ugly as you, you’re kids should be under suicide watch.
Hey, as a fellow b5media writer and supporter, just wanted to let you know that I’m really sorry all of this is happening to you. I’m actually a hardcore Packers fan (yay for having a Packers picture on the post!) but I don’t expect everyone to like football as much as I do. I really don’t get baseball, and I don’t see the point of it, so there’s no way I can judge. Just like a bunch of people that posted here probably don’t like or understand things that aren’t related to sports. It’s all about a difference in opinion, and you shouldn’t feel bad about sharing yours. It’s just shameful to see people be so abusive over something so insignificant. They need to get lives, and you know that everyone at b5 and I’m sure tons more people are here for you!
Sammi,
I highly doubt any of this would be happening if she had posted a logical/non-exaggerative, non-condescending argument. However, she was unable to do that and probably insulted a bunch of people. She deserves what she gets.
I’ll give some examples of illogical/exaggerative/insulting/condescending “points” she used:
-”its always on”…that word “always”, I don’t think it means what she thinks it does. There are plenty of channels that don’t show football at all and even most of the channels that do show football don’t have it on 24/7.
-The whole time out section. Time outs are not used for when an athlete stubs his toe. Most are used for a change in strategy, or when a player does really get hurt.
-The instant replay section…she automatically assumes that we are dumb if we can’t see every single thing that happens on the field at every single second. I’d like to see her try to ref something. The way she wrote this section was very insulting and condescending.
-the football fan section…this is a big insult to any football fan. Why does she care so much about what we do? Why does our belly paint and 300 pound frames offend her so? If I were to follow her logic…I would have to say that a reason I hate her blog is because of her ugly ass horsey face. But that isn’t a valid reason to hate her blog.
-The Fantasy Football section. Just by the way it was written, it comes across as very condescending. I can’t imagine she holds D&D players in high regard and she basically says FF is like D&D. But of course worse…because it is in plain view.
-Uniforms…that section doesn’t need explaining. That is the most illogical reason to hate a sport ever. “I hate because the players butts don’t look good!!!1!!!eleventy!!!”. Give me a break.
-The salary section. This could have been played off logically…but by saying “why can’t teachers make that much” she basically loses all respect for that section. I don’t have much faith in her intelligence…but she has to understand that football is entertainment, and people that are in entertainment make a lot of money. They make a lot of money because millions of people watch them and funnel money in their direction. As stated before, the same goes for movie actors. BTW…why doesn’t she start a thread about hating movie actors because they get uglier as they age and make too much money??
So, in summary, I think the moral of the story is, don’t give people illogical, insulting tripe that disses something they love…you are likely to feel their wrath. I’m sure if her post wasn’t condescending and illogical that it would have been respected…she brought this on herself.
Also, sammy…I’m a packer fan too! Go Pack Go!
Hmm…need to fix a quote “I hate sports because the players butts don’t look good…etc”…had ’sport’ in triangle brackets and it got taken out…probably because it looked like an html tag.
Those are all good points, I mean, I know why there are time-outs, and I know that football isn’t always on, but I mean, it just bothers me that there is no “bigger person” thing here. Just because someone is bashing something that you love doesn’t mean you should bash them right back. I mean you can, in essence it’s fair, but it’s just in poor taste.
I know there are tons of other people out there that are more defensive than I am, but I am a die-hard loyal Packer fan, and I’ve seen all kinds of ups and downs and I think it’s the same inside or out of the sport. You just have to stand beside what you believe in, and eventually, things will be in your favor.
10 and 1, that’s all I gotta say, haha.
I guess im a little late getting into the argument, but here it goes anyway…
I actually play college football at the D-I level(the kind where the games are always on tv). I dont mind that you don’t like watching football, but your reasons, as well as the reasons for some of the people posting are way off.
Starting with Deborah’s argument:
1. Football is NOT always on. The season lasts for basically 5 months of the year. Maybe your husband likes to watch the old replays of games on ESPN Classic but it’s not on all the time. Sports in general is on, but not exclusively football
2. Football on Thanksgiving has grown to be part of the traditions that come with Thanksgiving. A better reason to hate football on Thanksgiving would be that it keeps the guys playing (i include myself in this group) away from their families on the day that we worship food.
3. There is a lot of action going on in the game all at once. Its hard to see everything, even when you’re actually at, or playing in the game (and yes i do play for anyone out there wondering. ive started 22 straight games now). I watch the replays at the stadium all the time to see what exactly happened.
4. So should the game keep going if a player is hurt? Those are usually the longest time outs. And the ones called by the teams are called mostly for strategy. Dont forget commercials too. Someones gotta pay the bills for all those salaries
5. More strategy. Commercials.
6. Can the players not get a break? Yes, the announcers are terrible, but there are usually other games on and youre husband probably wants to see some highlights from those games too. Or, you can always flip to something else to watch for about 20 minutes
7. I’m guessing you don’t go to a lot of football games so, why does a 3 second shot of a fat guy with face paint bother you? Ok, its ridiculous, but its not hurting anyone
8. Ok, you’ve got a point there, but its just another way for guys to compete when the game has passed them by.
9. Still paying bills. I could stand for it to not be all day long but still.
10. I play offensive line (one of the fat guys who stands in front of the quarterback) and trust me, we aren’t expecting anyone to be checking us out. And why do you have to target us? We make fun of each other enough already.
11. Yeah, its a little ridiculous, but hey, this is America. And while football is played only 5 months out of the year, the other 7 months are spent getting ready for the season. I’ll probably get half of the time off that a normal student would get for christmas break. I spend my summers on campus going to summer school and working out. January through July is spent conditioning and lifting weights.
12. We can’t dance in college. Sometimes the dances are funny, but I’d rather see a guy celebrate with his teammates.
Sorry, this is a really long post but…
Jennifer:
Do you really believe that a husband is going to hit his wife because his team lost a football game? I dont buy it. And you shouldn’t either. “Im sorry hunny, but you know how i get when the Bears lose.” What a load of crap. Those women need to find husbands who will treat them right. We’re out there.
Again, sorry for the long post, but i figured since I am actually part of what you hate then I should offer up a rebuttal.
This flame session really did have a point.
It served as a reminder that when people spout off illogical and random criticisms of other people, they should understand that there is going to be a response from the very people that are being criticized.
When that response is too harsh for said person, and that person starts to chastise responders and dictate to them the rules of engagement online, then the response from that will be overwhelming.
I’m through with my hate-flaming on this little tart because I truly believe that she learned something today. She should be rewarded. I vote that we give her an apple and three cubes of sugar.
All you needed to say was what a bunch of idiots football fans are. The counter-culture of face painting, beer-swilling fist pumpers is enough to convince any reasonable person that football is the fodder of morons.
Each response by football wackos all seem to include some variation on the theme of “you suck”. This lack of objectivity/creativity serves as further evidence that your article is right on the money.
Thank you for taking them on.
What women should be doing during football
1. Getting me a beer
2. Making me a sammich (sandwhich) and bringing a beer.
3. Getting me chips for my sammich, and bringing another beer.
4. Getting me a beer
5. Going to the store cause we are out of beer
6. Getting me a beer
See the trend? and if its NFL Sunday with games at 1pm and 4pm EST then you can repeat the process again with another sammich!
Also, dont forget the Sunday night game, I’ll atleast mute the TV and you can tell me about your day while I ignore it and watch the game….anything is better than listening to John Madden call a football game.
Dear Derek:
You suck.
I lack objectivity/creativity. But you still suck. I’m certain that you go to truck stops and wait by the little hole in the stall of the men’s room.*
Were your parents into the whole “incest” thing? Who taught you how to blow a guy, Mom or Dad?*
* These are examples of how to properly flame a cocksucker.
Derek,
Suck my cock. Call your sister and have her suck my cock too. While we’re at it, get mom in on some cocksucking. Just keep it down, I’m trying to watch the game.
Looks like Derek is learning about “fanning the flames”.
Quit while you’re ahead, son… don’t respond. Just let it go. These guys will eat you alive.
Derek: “…counter-culture…”
I don’t think that term means what you think it means…
“Each response by football wackos all seem to include some variation on the theme of “you suck”.”
We just calls ‘em as we sees ‘em! Besides, there are several comments (like Justin’s directly above yours) that are reasoned rebuttals to her list. But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of your little rant.
“Thank you for taking them on.”
You’re welcome. Now get in the kitchen and make your wife a sammich, then paint her toenails.
Whats on tonight!? THATS RIGHT!!! MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111oneoneoneshift+1
Too late. I just checked the moderator board…
Looks like someone already harvested Derek’s IP. Won’t be long before they sweet-talk his ISP out of his account details and get his home address. Not really that hard to do.
Damn Derek, you brought this on yourself. Happens everytime.
Oh the humanity.
Oh my…for someone who does not like the sport you sure know an awful lot about it!!! Its not just men who love this sport its us woman too…and no i am not a jock type…i just love the sport, i love the hype AND i love the fact that it is NOT on as frequent as EVERY OTHER sport in the USA…basketball, hockey, baseball and even GOLF are shown more often that football. Get over and go date a guy who would rather work on his car!!! HA…and you tought football was bad! Good luck woman i dont see you ever being happy! At least me and my guy have something to talk about instead of argue about!
Since y’all got in such an uproar about this insulting post I’d like to break it down and see who is really being insulted here.
1. It’s always on. Guys it’s on a lot. Always is an intended exaggeration. How does this insult you?
2. Thanksgiving - Is it not always on all day during Thanksgiving? Why is it a problem to want to spend the day with family instead of in front of the tube? How does this insult you?
3. Instant Replays - I don’t think she’s insulting the fans here. I think she’s insulting the Refs. The babes will now start taking complaints from the insulted referees.
4. Time Outs - They do waste a lot of time. How does this insult you?
5. The two minute warning may not take twenty minutes but it’s rare that it takes two minutes. Again intended humorous exaggeration. How does a long two minute warning insult you?
6. Half Time - Yawn. How does this insult you? It’s half time. People talk during half time. She offended you by saying this…how?
7. Unless you’re a 40 year old 300 pounder who paints his chest (and you know there are guys who do this) why are you insulted? Unless you spend more time with football than fixing your house, why are you insulted? And unless you spend hours arguing with your friends about football why are you insulted? If it is the truth, why are you insulted?
8. Fantasy Football - She’s dead on with the D&D comparison. I know lots of men who spend hours a day on this stuff. Unless you’re into fantasy football how does this insult you? AND even if you are into famtasy football is she so far off the mark?
9. Superbowl Sunday - It’s all about the marketing. How did this insult you?
10. Uniforms - How did this insult you?
11. The salaries - She doesn’t feel football players deserve high salaries. How did this insult you personally?
12. The touchdown dance. You’re insulted because she doesn’t care for the touchdown dance?
Guys. Let’s be honest here. You didn’t come here because you were insulted. You came here to ridicule a “babe” you felt was week. It’s your M.O. I know fark. I know what goes on there. I’m a member in good standing. You high five each other every time someone pulls a blog post or loses bandwidth. You berate, insult, and harass. You’re all a bunch of bullies.
You’re not insulted in the least by this post. If this post read “12 reasons to hate figure skating” or “12 reasons to hate tupperware parties” you’d all be adding more reasons and the more derogatory the better.
This post didn’t insult your intelligent. It didn’t call you names. Unless you saw something of yourself in here, there’s no need to be insulted.
She’s got our number.
Now that you have our number, perhaps you can call us when the sammiches are ready.
By the way, gentlemen. If this biatch (@Melissa) is a TFarker, I’ll watch The View everyday for a year.
I see the makings of another flame session.
Melissa. My bedroom. Get in it. Get kinky. Then sammiches.
Move it, toots.
Okay, I am going to say a resounding “AMEN!!!” to what Melissa said and then I’m leaving this topic alone. She said everything I was thinking but didn’t know how to put it into words as eloquently as she did.
And Huge Richard…I have come to like you and Julie Fletcher through this whole thing. I’ll admit it…I’m a fan of a farker. Dang it! And Huge Richard is right, Julie F. will make one hellavuh babe.
Okay, my husband’s asking for those sammiches. (Psst. I actually enjoy making my husband sammiches and watching football with him. He returns the favor by watching Grey’s Anatomy with me.
)
Ah man Richard…you just lost some points with me with that last comment.
Oh, darn. Guess I’ll just go kill myself now, Jules.
Sorry intertubes, Julie hurt my feelings and I’m going to hang myself now.
/updates myspace
“Really, there’s no worse species than the football fanatic.”
Nope, not insulting at all.
And the two minute warning isn’t supposed to take two minutes, it occurs when there are two minutes left at the end of each half.
Your face looks similar to that of a horse.
Your an idiot you sound like another fake American! If you hate foot ball go back to Britain you lush. Poser, you are a brit posing as an American. Football for life. And oh Yea Halftime Fucking rocks
No one cares what you think so stop filling the web up with crap.
1 more things babes don’t blog. Babes get paid. Obviously you don’t cause I don’t see any big advertising on this page. You shoulda never attacked heritage!
Well,you started off your reasons with a wrong. It’s not on dozens of channels.Here in L.A.,it’s on two channels on Sat and two channels on Sun,unless you choose to purchase a package,like NFL pass.But that would mean you love football,moot?You want me to tell you how many “How do I look” or “Design on a Dime”shows there are.How about cooking shows or the omnipresent talk show with Ellen Degeneres crying about puppies or playing pretend…football. You’re non athletic and I hope to God you don’t look like that drawing,becasue if you do,the only type of guy you’re gonna land is the 40 year old,300lber with grease on his face,so maybe you should start loving football.Lastly,if you think people are dumb for needing instant replay,how many IQ points does it take to change the channel or,heaven forbid,turn it off and read a book
Whoever it was that published Deborah’s personal contact info (home address, phone number) went over the line.
That was not cool. She should re-evaluate the blog masters that she writes for.
The picture used is not of Bruce Pearl (the men’s bball coach at Tennessee). It’s of me (seriously) and two friends at the Kansas vs. Kansas State game from 2004.
“This post didn’t insult your intelligent. It didn’t call you names. Unless you saw something of yourself in here, there’s no need to be insulted.”
Melissa,
So, from what you said (the quote above), you are basically agreeing that it is an insulting post…”unless you saw something of yourself in here, there’s no need to be insulted”. How about the idea that it may not necessarily be us that we see, but maybe its our empathy for the refs in the game and our 40 year old, 300 pound uncle who likes to paint himself up and go to a game?
Someone has to stand up for them and for the game we love. I refuse to let her trash the refs for being “dumb” because they need instant replay…I refuse to let her insult football fans who paint themselves up…I refuse to let her insult the players who’s butt’s may not be in the best of shape.
Also, as a woman, the sheer lack of intelligence in her post is insulting to me. I expect more than emotion fueled/exaggerative and illogical drivel from my fellow women. She is doing a disservice to all of us by posting this.
I’m all for people having different views on things…but be prepared to back it up your views with facts and things that make sense…not exaggerations and illogical reasoning. I mean seriously, can you honestly say it is logical to not appreciate/like a sport just because the players’ butts don’t may not look good in the uniforms? That just blows my mind.
lol go back in the kitchen and leave us alone
@Deborah: Sorry, I was PMSing when I wrote that article. Who wants cookies?
That’s the most reasonable thing I’ve seen from you, cheers!
It looks like your blog about ‘nothing’ was intended to be a charming ‘Seinfield’ type experience, but instead turned into the absolute worst ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ episode EVAR.
Better luck at this ‘no topic’ thing going forward.
sorry, im not sure what the writer of this article was doing outside the kitchen, but i think we need to shorten then chain, oh and another roast beef please
Hey Julie…Just thought I’d drop in and say hello. It doesn’t seem as if you’re getting a lot of “POSITIVE” feedback on this football post. It does come across as one long female cliche and a bit naggy.
Remember that football is like a sanctuary or refuge to a man. We bust our asses all week long, we finish the yard work early on Saturday for a chance to see our college teams play. We get up and go to church and take the family out to brunch on Sunday just to relax and watch NFL on Sunday. We talke about football at work with the fellas. We talk about football with the guys on the bowling team or on the golf course.
The LAST thing we need is some “BABE” talking about how our sanctuary is all about shiney pants, half time and inatant replay.
Be creative women. If you don’t like football, take the time to go shopping, get your nails done, talk on your cell phones while driving erratically, or form a group of like-minded women who can get together on Sunday afternoons to create lists of why you hate the things that bring joy to mens lives.
Hey it’s ok if you don’t like football, hell I hate kickball(soccer) I wrote a kickball bashing piece once upon a time that brought the kickball fans out like spring time cockroaches(at least I’ve heard they’re bad in the spring time)
I’ll have to check out the rest of your blogs to see if there is any joy, or if it’s just list of what menopausal women hate.
Hmm
Not sure if my last Komment went through.
Are you screening Komments?
If you write something as inflammatory as this, you have to have the stones to accept the onslaught of responses picking you apart.
If you are going to cowardly screen Komments, you might as well post cookie recipes and recount the number of times you’ve been kicked off “It’s a Small World After all”
I don’t happen to agree with your argument, but don’t let the criticism stop you. If nothing else, your opinion is getting a lot of attention.
So unlike my slop-slinging blogging buddies at RSB (FlyingPig & Miracle), I’ll give you some straight-forward feedback.
Football obviously isn’t your cup of tea, but I think you could have made a stronger case. “It’s Always On” could apply to just about anything. So is the Home Shopping Network. Actually, one of the great things about football is that it ISN’T always on. If you’re a college football nut, it’s basically just one day a week. Same with the NFL and Sundays.
Time outs, instant replays, etc…all a necessary part of most sports.
Superbowl hype, ridiculous salaries, and stupid endzone celebrations? You definitely have a point with those.
So blog on, girlie. Your opinion is just as important as anyone else’s.
Hey Flying Pig, thanks for stopping by.
Miracle - I have to ask? Why do you spell comments with a K? I haven’t posted any cookie recipes yet, but I did post an awesome chicken pot pie recipe here. You gotta try it, it’s great.
Shooterb- thanks for your comment. You are a breath of fresh air. Oh and I voted on your blog. By far the Miami Dolphins!!!
Worst.thing.this.season.
@Flying Pig - Wish I could do all those fun things while football is on, but someone has to make sure The Boy isn’t blowing up the house. I do try and find other things to do while football is on, but really, it bores me to tears.
@ Miracle - I don’t recall saying anywhere that I hated men. On the contrary, I adore men.
Shooter B - You are absolutely right. The Home Shopping Network bores me too though. The difference here is that I don’t have to worry about the only television in our house being taken over with HSN because none of us watch it.
Thanks for stopping by guys. Especially to those of you who were respectful. Please come back again.
@Deborah
“but someone has to make sure The Boy isn’t blowing up the house”.
That pretty much sums up the argument for you being a stupid biatch.
Deb and Julie
I came back to respond again and noticed that there are some really childish and nasty men leaving comments/komments on here. PLEASE know that dumbasses like HugeRichard (Big Dick) do not speak for all men. Hey Dick…stop being such a dick.
I simply came here to rib you gals on your football post. It was meant in good fun and I hope we can all just get along.
PEACE….Flying Pig
We get you Flying Pig. We don’t mind good-natured ribbing at all. In fact, we encourage a lively, but respectful, discussion.
I will be lively and I will be as respectful as you could expect a Pig to be.
LOL Thats great. I can’t stand 24/7 football either. I enjoy a game now and then but to much is to much. This is a joke people! If you really take this article too seriously then chances are your heads up your arse next to a football! LOL Great Job Deb, keep it up!
@Julie-
“And Huge Richard…I have come to like you and Julie Fletcher through this whole thing. I’ll admit it…I’m a fan of a farker. Dang it! And Huge Richard is right, Julie F. will make one hellavuh babe. ”
How’d I get in there? I’ve been around here since 7 Babes started…methinks I am confuzzled.
Hey Mark H
You’re the guy that tries to change the channel from the football game to figure skating or womens rhythmic gymnastics…right?
No…wait a minute. You show up at a Super Bowl party with a green bean casserole to go with the Pizza, Chicken Wings, 3-foot sub sandwich, Nachos, Peppers, chips and dip…right? “HEY…can we see what’s on the Lifetime Network?”
Naww, don’t like green beans. Actually I bring chips and home made salsa ‘cuz the other 24/7 types that show up bring nothing. Besides, I prefer women on ice to men in tights, but thats just a personal preference..
I hate the sports fans have.
Its great to see that the typical football fanboy act accordingly to part of the writer’s reason for not liking the sport.. Sport??
Is this crap you people waste time watching even considered a sport? The game is primitive just like its followers. I feel bad for women who have to put up with fanboy husbands/boyfriends.
I would rather watch bulldogs regurgitate their own feces, than watch this garbage that you primordial idiots worship, like its something great.
Don’t hate me if your girlfriend is talking to me while you’re too busy to keep her company because the game is on and you’re “bonding” with the guys…
What would you have done if your man would have been a cricket fan especially a test match cricket.