Football: simple entertainment for simple people.

I'd say following a team gives me a tribal identity that it's not easy to find elsewhere in modern life. It gives me a way of instantly bonding in a pub with a stranger. I have friends solely because we follow the same team and met because we were in the same place one time, watching that team. It gives me hope, it gives me joy, it gives me a break from having to think about work, and the bills, and whether I'll ever get married. Call it mindless and I won't disagree but sometimes I don't want to think. Sometimes I want to feel.

I can be hurt in a relationship, my friends can let me down, my family can disown me, I could be living in a gutter. I still have my team. For my whole life, I will have my team. It won't die or leave me or cheat on me. And once in a blue moon, like 25th May 2005, my team will be directly responsible for the best day of my life so far.

If you want to take that away from people, fine, but before you do you'd better find something pretty fucking marvelous to replace it with.

I dissagree. I'm not a football fan, never watched it, I dislike it. Saying such things are just completely wrong, espcially the bit in which you imply footballers to be stupid, when in actual fact a lot of them are quite smart.

In truth, I could probably apply this to the majority of things you find pleasing.

What a foul mouthed rant.There are many things in life I don't like,from some types of sport,to some music genres,even to ignorant people,amongst other things,but I hope I could have a reasoned conversation with someone without resorting to bad mouthing like this.

But tell us how you really feel.

So harsh. :/

"People who watch it just glug-glug-glug, swill-swill-swill for hours and talk shit, the most inane fucking crap about their uneventful lives."

That's just was socializing is; for many many people, not just football fans. lol

It's okay to be disgusted by the behaviour, but don't pass judgement on all enthusiast because of the badly behaved few.

Open your heart to acceptance and prune out the intolerance. You only have control over yourself and how you behave, there's no sense in stressing about this stuff.

I HATE football it is a waste of money when there are people that could really do with a fraction of that money! The people that I know that watch it are uneducated morons & it is In my opinion the most boring thing too watch ever.

Ah, I thought you were gonna bash soccer.

You sound angry. Maybe you should smoke a joint and chill out in a bath full of nasal fluid.

I love football. I am not a redneck. How can you say its a redneck sport when most football players are black? Stop being ignorant and stop hating! You just don't understand the game. A lot of mentality goes into it because each team is not only competing physicaly but they are always trying to find ways to outsmart one another. Maybe your just angry because you got cut from your highschool team?

WATCHING = BORING
Who care's what people you don't know do!

PLAYING = FUN
Doing anything physical that takes skill and effort is fun, whether it's competitive or not, so long as it challenges oneself!

GAMING = FUN
Video games are fun because there are clearly defined goals which require skill to achieve. Playing against the computer, yourself, or others is still a challenge, and surmounting challenges are always fun.

THEORIES
A. MANY people fake enjoying watching sport to be able to bond / be closer to others that they believe enjoy watching sport.

B. People also fake it from peer pressure or because they think it's normal to.

C. People enjoy watching sports because it distracts them from their own lives and routing for a team means when the team succeeds, vicariously they themselves feel like they've achieved something, and in their lives this happens too seldom, so they take what victories they can.

SUMMARY
Why would watching strangers have fun be fun... I don't think it intrinsically is. We have to fool ourselves.

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Please, don't refer to Aussie Rules as "Football'', one of them is a very entertaining sport; the other is a horde of psychos running about & putting each other in headlocks.

I like how fans go "OOHHHH!" when someone gets tackled. It's a pointless waste of breath, right? SoO SHUT UP!

I imagine only a small portion sports fans are hooligans though football/soccer seem to have the largest following by far. I certainly have no sympathy for thugs. I sure got some chuckles from the colourful invectives in your angry-guy rant!

jealousy is a curse, the fittest the cutest the best

Go die

You sound boring