Football is of the devil.

[MaxKaladin]

Get off your high horse and come chill with us commoners sometime. You might even have fun.

I've been around it all my life. I grew up and live in Texas, where Football is a second religion. I was the only male member of my family not to like sports. I've spent pretty much every holiday of my life around lots of guys hanging out watching sports and bonding. It doesn't really do anything for me. I've been to sporting events. I did sports photography for my high school newspaper one year and all that got me was yelled at by the fans in the stands because I was bigger than some of our football players and I had the audacity to not be on the team. I think if it was going to "click", it would have happened by now.

I'm not trying to be stuck up about it. I did some of that when I was younger, but I've outgrown it. I just wish people would stop acting like an interest in sports was manditory.

 

[Crothian]

Would as many people pay to watch two people play Mortal Kombat on a giant big-screen TV? It would arguably be as entertaining, and have a hell of a lot less time-outs in it.

Only if they were really fighting

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Would as many people pay to watch two people play Mortal Kombat on a giant big-screen TV? It would arguably be as entertaining, and have a hell of a lot less time-outs in it.

How about watch 4 really good players playing Super Smash Brothers Melee? That can be insanely entertaining to watch.

 

[AIM-54]

I'm not trying to be stuck up about it. I did some of that when I was younger, but I've outgrown it. I just wish people would stop acting like an interest in sports was manditory.

Well, it came across that way, whatever the intent, but that's the nature of this form of communication. :\

I don't think anyone here, at least, cares whether anyone else is a sports fan, but some of the generalizations and ignorance is enough to raise anyones hackles a bit.

And Crothian's right...this sorta stuff happens all the time in the General forum where people do this kinda stuff about gaming.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Football is just pointless. Rabid fans with makeup on their face screaming watching a bunch of no-neck guys, most of whom barely have a high school education, try to get a little leather object from one end of a rectangle to the other end of the rectangle. It might be more entertaining if they could actually use their brains to accomplish this task, but they have to just beat each other senseless in order to accomplish it. So, that's not very interesting. If I wanted to see that, I'd just watch boxing and be done with it.

Indeed. Football is pointless and stupid. Meanwhile, sitting around a table rolling dice and pretending to be an elf is such a great and productive pasttime.

 

[Mystery Man]

I played defense in high school. The one thing I enjoyed about playing football was the ability to legally try to smash someone into a pulp and get away with it. Plus you have pads on so it doesn't hurt...that much. Knocking someone on their ass after you just hit them as hard as you could, well, I'm getting a warm glow just thinking about it.

Plus you had all that learning to "play as a team", "character building" stuff too.

 

[der_kluge]

Indeed. Football is pointless and stupid. Meanwhile, sitting around a table rolling dice and pretending to be an elf is such a great and productive pasttime.

Totally not the same.

In one activity, I'm watching a game.

In the other, I'm participating in the game.


Thanks. Drive through.

 

[CarlZog]

Would as many people pay to watch two people play Mortal Kombat on a giant big-screen TV? It would arguably be as entertaining, and have a hell of a lot less time-outs in it.

Well, you're not the only one thinking that....

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=148551

Carl

 

[Ranger REG]

I'm not trying to be stuck up about it. I did some of that when I was younger, but I've outgrown it. I just wish people would stop acting like an interest in sports was manditory.

Isn't interest in RPG mandatory here?

 

[Dark Jezter]

Totally not the same.

In one activity, I'm watching a game.

In the other, I'm participating in the game.


Thanks. Drive through.

Hobbies are hobbies. You think that watching football is a stupid and pointless way to spend a weekend, and I'll bet that a lot of football fans would think the exact same of playing RPGs.