How Important Is Football?

[littlebittybobby]

okay----i took off my tinfoil-lined ball cap long enough to intercept the following: the Eagles were allowed to win, so as to reduce the possibility of a major uncivil disturbance in Philadelphia that would cost billions and billions in property damage. See? Hope that helps you some.

[iris lilies]

My grandson's favorite team is the Eagles. In early November, I went with my son to a wedding. He wanted to go to the casino, so while I played the slots for a little while, he bought a $50 ticket for the Eagles to win the Superbowl. Now this was ages ago in terms of the number of teams that were still in the running, so it was definitely a long shot. He stands to make ten times that $50 bet tonight. So if you guys truly don't care about football, at least silently root for the Eagles, please.

I will bet your grandson is excited! Way to go, kid!

[littlebittybobby]

okay-----from the 'net(F-book)But yeah---see photo. Thank mee.

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[catherine]

I will bet your grandson is excited! Way to go, kid!

Thanks, IL! Yeah, that was an unexpected blowout.

[LDAHL]

trump went to the game and it cost MILLIONS of dollars for him to attend. The only president to have done so because of this! Another term of record spending?

You’re just indignant because the fans cheered him.

I do agree baseball is the only sport worth attending in person. You can sit in the sunshine with a hot dog and a beer and watch the story gracefully unfold. NFL games are to much like an overproduced action movie.

[frugal-one]

BTW.. I did not watch the game so didn’t see that. The point being the ridiculous amount of money spent and then he leaves halfway through. Probably pissed ‘cause the winning team dissed him earlier!

[nswef]

I have always felt that football is at the core of much that is wrong in this country. Overpaid sports teams, grabbing money from towns and expecting the taxpayers to build the stadiums with promises of wonderful monetary returns. Then the violence. Then the rude, crude fans, then the exploitation of players until they wised up. The mentality of win, win, win. And I could go on and on.

[catherine]

I have always felt that football is at the core of much that is wrong in this country. Overpaid sports teams, grabbing money from towns and expecting the taxpayers to build the stadiums with promises of wonderful monetary returns. Then the violence. Then the rude, crude fans, then the exploitation of players until they wised up. The mentality of win, win, win. And I could go on and on.

There will always be sports, and there will always be sports fans. Not that I'm an apologist for football, necessarily. I think it's sad that they can fill arenas with tens of thousands of fans paying a fortune for their seats but legitimate theatre has to struggle to fill seats. However, I think humans are hard-wired to be sports enthusiasts, like it or not And, living in a market-driven economy, a tremendous amount of money will be spent to draw the fans in and allow them to spend their money to sit with their tribes to dance and cheer their jerseyed tribal icons to success.

[iris lilies]

I have always felt that football is at the core of much that is wrong in this country. Overpaid sports teams, grabbing money from towns and expecting the taxpayers to build the stadiums with promises of wonderful monetary returns. Then the violence. Then the rude, crude fans, then the exploitation of players until they wised up. The mentality of win, win, win. And I could go on and on.

This is a rather…ungenerous…generalization.

I will leave it at that. It’s not your thing. Ok.

Personally, I find the game whether televised or in real life to be intensely boring but I don’t project all of that onto those who do enjoy it.

[HappyHiker]

I used to enjoy college football until I read about the serious injuries players could get (and worse in the professional leagues). Since then I just don't enjoy the "sport." Just as I don't like boxing for the same reason. Watching people get serious and sometimes lethal injuries isn't my idea of entertainment.