Lifelong football enjoyer here, but I can no longer stomach the NFL anymore. I realize the league is, and has always been, an entertainment business but they don’t even bother hiding the massaging anymore. They’re clearly feeling threatened by the fact that college football is more interesting now with the CFP and transfer portal, so they’re desperate for dramatic narratives. wilL iT BE A ThREEPeAT? wILL keLCe PrOposE to tayLOR SWIfT? dID wE MEnTIon TAyLOR swIFT iS HEre?
Anyways, good thing I got into rugby recently cuz it’s Six Nations time
Never been a football fan. But I very much want to see the entire stadium call Drake a pedophile at halftime.
It was awesome
And they did
They removed “end racism” from the end zones so no, I will not be supporting an organization that is pro-racism.
Honestly I stopped years ago due to how they handle concussions/injuries and just generally how vile the org is. But one more reason lol
Yeah, that was another “they’re not even trying to hide it anymore” moment, considering they made that announcement right after Trump announced he would be at the game.
The wildest part of that press release was when the NFL spokesperson said that “Choose Love” was more fitting than “End Racism” because the country has been dealing with tragedies such as the LA fire and the DC plane crash. Like… how will choosing love prevent natural disasters and vehicle accidents?
I thought those were different at every stadium kinda like the helmet messages where they get picked by the player. Don’t the teams pick what is on the end zones? I have season tickets to the Bills and have never noticed the endzone message say stop racism I’ve never actually looked at the message so I don’t know exactly what it says but I think their message was always “Stop hate”
Nope. Honestly fuck the NFL.
Nope. Been a thoroughly dispiriting season for the Niners, and I have absolutely no wish to watch the Chiefs win yet again.
And that was before Trump, the End Racism thing and so on.
Also a Niners fan, yeah that was rough. I can’t help but feel like there’s something going on institutionally that’s causing all the injuries, like players are being pushed too hard in practice or players are being pressured to return from injuries too early or something. Just too many injuries in one season to chalk up to bad luck.
Yep. I mean a few years of going deep in the playoffs probably takes its toll, but still, it was ridiculous.
What really got me this year though was what seemed like an unbelievable amount of errors and stupid (and costly) penalties. I’ve not looked at the numbers to see if this is more than just my impression, but I feel like they shot themselves in the foot so many times, much more than the average.
Fingers crossed for a rested and healed team, and a good draft!
You think they’re scared of the CFP? I thought college football was worse than ever this year.
Nope.
Kinda done with football now given the overal fanbase around me are MAGA heavy.
Same! I was looking forward to seeing Kendrick Lamar perform the halftime show. But I will just look it up later on or tomorrow on YT. And fingers crossed that Donny gets booed by the crowd.
Not going to watch but I will be looking up highlight clips of the crowd booing Trump.
Its on but not paying too much attention. Hard to find any joy in the world right now.
Usually I look forward to it and watch it every year. This year I have no desire to watch all the American patriotism that surrounds the game…
Yes
i love my Seahawks and I usually catch the Superbowl but IDGAF about the chiefs winning any more and the eagles are not exciting
the commercials are shit. the halftime show is shit
only the gathering matters
Yes. I know how shitty the league is but my family is in love with football so why not. Not really cheering for either team.
Ita almost impossible to avoid the shit now. I know plenty of corps are horrible and I still buy from them, in fact its rarer to find a corp that’s not shitty than one that is. But if I stop supporting anyone whose business I didn’t agree with then I’d probably turn to dust tbh.
It’s kind of a funny thing, I don’t think I can miss the super bowl. I used to play football at lunch in middle school, and loved watching and following it then. Once I learned about concussions, I pretty much stopped watching. Not a huge fan of the halftime shows lately, and the ads have definitely gotten worse. The thing the super bowl is just a great time to go out and hang out with friends, so I’m going to watch it every year for a while.
No? What does the superbowl have to do eith Midwest emo music?
Came to say this.
Nah. I don’t really care unless my team (Steelers) is playing in it. Though, I will watch Kendricks halftime show performance afterwards, hoping that he decides to give a big “Fuck you” to drumpf, while ignoring drake entirely (the ultimate diss). But today is Leg day, and thou shalt keep holy the day of Legs, so I’ll probably catch some while it plays at the gym.
Hopefully the eagles win, so they can snub drumpf like they did last time. The chiefs would probably accept the invitation to the white house and be all giddy about it 🙄
