How much did you lose?
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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Counter-point - eating and drinking with everyone in a parking lot rocks.
Pre-game parking lots are the peak of white American culture.
Literally the best part of the football, and it only exists because the stadium food is so overpriced.
this is what passes for community in America - eating greasy food and getting wasted in a parking lot outside of an event you can't afford to get into
edit: (an event in which a bunch of guys brutalize the shit out of each other while billionaires rake in profits)
this is what passes for community in ~~America~~ most cultures - eating greasy food and getting wasted
FTFY. People round the world love getting drunk and eating garbage
Stone stadiums banned it. Some restricted it to VIP lots. Some require tickets to the game and you have to wrap it up early.
The billionaires hate to see a revenue stream missing.
Also - the players get paid per game. You get a career ending injury, you don’t get paid anymore.
Also the careers for most players are extremely short, and they need to move around a lot. So they can’t even establish in a city to have a community or goodwill after their extremely short career.
There’s not even any nationalism. Everyone on that field is doing it for the money, as winners indirectly make more money. The owners as well.
But because the teams have a City name, the people of the city act like they are representatives. Barely anyone on the team grew up there or has lived there for more than a couple years.
Requiring players to be from the city they play in might be an interesting league experiment.
But America being America it would result in something terrible as a result.
Feeling like this website is especially unhinged today
Sports are good, professional sports as an industry is the opiate of the masses and this is the objectively correct take
The amount of ads and commercials plastering usain sports is insane. Ads on and around the field, ads announced in between plays, ads all over the commentators' desks, every single goddamn stadium is owned by some corporation and the commentators always have to remind you they're at "Comerica Park" or "Citi Field" or "Metlife Stadium" or whatever. To say nothing about the obnoxious number of awful commercial breaks in between plays. I only ever watch sports when I'm visiting family and the commercialization of sports gets more intolerable every year. The ratio of ads to actual sports plays exceeded 1:1 a long time ago.
Back when I occasionally watched sports I would watch pirate feeds that would blank out the commercial breaks with a waiting screen, which is pretty nice.
So dumb, predictable and dystopian
Counterpoint: My underdog Detroit Lions are going back to the NFC Championship after 30+ years. And may actually have a shot at the Super Bowl.
If you had've told me this 3 years ago, I would've laughed right in your fucking face.
My team's out, but I'm cheering on the Lions cause I played with Reynolds in high school and it would be cool if he got a ring
Respect. Appreciate ya!
This is why I watch hockey, that's white people beating up other white people
you might have a point. have you thought about attending your local zoning board meetings?
I did. Made me a Maoist 👍
Zoning laws are comically evil 
I agree with this only because my Packers blew a seven point lead in the fourth quarter last night.
MY OTHER CAR’S A LATE MODEL, BROTHER
Me after i had to watch the Bills kick wide right to lose to the Chiefs in the playoffs. Again.
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I love you Americans, but kick the football around. It's better for your physical and emotional health.
(for the record I'm terrible at sports and I've never watched a game since the 90s)
I love you Americans
Bad idea honestly
https://youtu.be/xLsFSsHnoxM?si=QV5Te66X2ft7uymV this is it? the most iconic moment in sportsball is just this?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Still better than whatever Robert Crump and Bukowski were waffling about
Has anyone considered that Taylor Swift has been dating the chiefs quarterback, and they've got "a chance" at the superbowl. Seems like an easy bet to make. A superbowl with a pop star in the audience cheering on her beefy cracker ball thrower is a layer of medieval cringe I can't see the bg passing up. Will she give him a handkerchief or will he give her a red rose idk
I thought the suberbowl was in February.
It's coming up in a few weeks so the hogs are getting riled up for it