D&D 5E Jocks and Nerds: If you like D&D, do you like ... the NFL Draft? (POLL)

If you play D&D, are you also interested in the NFL Draft?

  • 1. I will be watching the prime-time coverage of the First Round!

    Votes: 15 17.9%
  • 2. I want to know who is drafted, but I am not interested enough to watch.

    Votes: 17 20.2%
  • 3. I have an NFL team, but c'mon, who cares about a draft.

    Votes: 11 13.1%
  • 4. I don't live in America. Isn't football doing the Champions League right now?

    Votes: 12 14.3%
  • 5. I play D&D. I don't root for laundry.

    Votes: 23 27.4%
  • 6. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

    Votes: 6 7.1%

  • Poll closed .

Oofta

Legend
Many, many reasons:

Local teams are an integral part of the region's history and community.
The team have a huge effects on the local economy.
You enjoy the competition and strategy.
You enjoy the camaraderie of analyzing and discussing the teams.

It's no different than any hobby.
Intellectually I get it and my social life would probably be improved in some ways if I could give a furry rat's posterior. I just can't bring myself to care.
 

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As sports go, I honestly think that modern US football is one of the worst out there. First, it's simply not a good game. Fundamentally, the rules are designed around selling commercials, and keeping high cash generators in power, not around sport. I accept that all professional sports do this to a certain extent, but the level that the NFL does it seems to be the worst that I am aware of. Combining that with the issues of flagrant cheating with no consequences, protecting players who are dangerous criminals, and literally causing brain damage to the players, and it's simply not a league I can support.
 


payn

He'll flip ya...Flip ya for real...
There is a huge overlap between fantasy football and RPGs, even though some refuse to accept it.

Kind of important to note though: no one REALLY watches the draft... it's just usually on while you're doing something else.
Yeap, this. We are going to BBQ tonight and have the draft on in the background. Something to do is all.
 

Marc_C

Solitary Role Playing
I don't watch sports but I like cycling. I prefer fiction or working on my rpg ideas.

In the 80s I used to travel to my friend's home with my AD&D books in side-bags on the back wheels. 30 minutes going down. 30 minutes going uphill after the game. Wished it was the opposite! I was in great shape.

Last summer I took out my bike ride at least once a week. This summer I want to bike more often.
 

Rabulias

the Incomparably Shrewd and Clever
There is a huge overlap between fantasy football and RPGs, even though some refuse to accept it.
Reminds me of this from Order of the Stick's Rich Burlew:

Humor - Rich Burlew - Fantasy Fantasy League.gif
 

DEFCON 1

Legend
Supporter
I've watched the 1st round of the NFL draft live almost every year for probably 25+ years. The only times I didn't watch it live were because I had a theatrical performance to be in, and in that case I recorded it and then watched it the next morning.
 


Mind of tempest

(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
Many, many reasons:

Local teams are an integral part of the region's history and community.
The team have a huge effects on the local economy.
You enjoy the competition and strategy.
You enjoy the camaraderie of analyzing and discussing the teams.

It's no different than any hobby.
that is oddly the exact reason I do not get sports teams at all, I have no connection to communities
 

Snarf Zagyg

Notorious Liquefactionist
Don't give him ideas.

If I did, he'd go from none to one!

I'll be pulling for ya, but ... you already know he's going to Gettelman this. Why not resign yourself to the inevitable, instead of wondering, sometime around 9:15pm, why Lucy lifted the football and you're staring up at the sky again?

"With the eleventh pick of the first round of the NFL draft, the New York Giants select ....... MICHAEL PARSONS, LINEBACKER, PENN STATE UNIVERISTY."

And at that moment, I will feel I great disturbance in Force, as if millions of Giants fans suddenly cried out in terror and anguish at yet another year of Gettelman.
 

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