Football is of the devil.

[Ranger REG]

You're right. You can. But which is the primary focus of the hobby?

Does going to watch other people play RPGs form the primary basis your role in the hobby? Or are you participating in a regularly scheduled, organized game?

Similarly, is your primary interaction with football consist of watching others play the game? Or do you play regularly scheduled games on an organized team?

There is a fundamental difference in the nature of the activity.

Does it matter? Note I didn't say hobby in any of my posts discussed here. Both are social activities, whether you participate or watch (like being a spectator at a RPG tournaments in a local game convention).

 

[GlassJaw]

So it's not just sports fan(atics) who react vehemently to defend their "passion"....

Who's defending anything? I'm certainly not. I could care less if someone likes football or not. I just take exception to someone who negatively stereotypes everyone that enjoys a particular hobby.

 

[Crothian]

Who's defending anything? I'm certainly not. I could care less if someone likes football or not. I just take exception to someone who negatively stereotypes everyone that enjoy s a particular hobby.

Especially, gamers who have it happen to them all the time. If any group should know better it should be us.

 

[ssampier]

Meh. Before D&D, I had a normal life, played basketball (usually at my dad's urging to help me lose weight; didn't helped) and watched Celtics games. I hang with friends who prefer the Lakers (the kind of friends who find D&D alien until they become adults), and always gather around the TV set watching them go head-to-head: Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson. We trash-talked about whose team is best, yell at TV when the referee puts out a bad call or never call a foul, but all in all we had fun.

I also have friends that don't find sports interesting and that's cool.

Normal?

 

[Ranger REG]

Normal?

As in "mainstream."

 

[der_kluge]

Who's defending anything? I'm certainly not. I could care less if someone likes football or not. I just take exception to someone who negatively stereotypes everyone that enjoys a particular hobby.

Dude, where did I negatively stereotype everyone that likes football? If you like football, more power to you. I'm glad it makes you happy. I just think it's a boring, waste of time.

This has turned into a weird thread. I stated I didn't like football, and now people are psychoanalyzing me. Wow.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Dude, where did I negatively stereotype everyone that likes football? If you like football, more power to you. I'm glad it makes you happy. I just think it's a boring, waste of time.

This has turned into a weird thread. I stated I didn't like football, and now people are psychoanalyzing me. Wow.

You know some people. They have a "PhD in Bullcrap".....

And I used to think football was a "boring waste of time"... Not that I'm saying you'll change your mind.

 

[Crothian]

Dude, where did I negatively stereotype everyone that likes football? If you like football, more power to you. I'm glad it makes you happy. I just think it's a boring, waste of time.

This has turned into a weird thread. I stated I didn't like football, and now people are psychoanalyzing me. Wow.

I think this dislike of football is deeply rooted into yous subconscious.