I used to enjoy it before all of the showboating shuck and jive. The headslap and just a generally tougher game made it a worthy spectacle. Now it is chock full of grossly overpaid prima donna's that the media loves to stick a microphone in front of as though they actually had something to say.

It’s hunting season

I could care less about professional football.

I quit caring when I woke up and realized what happens when you take a football deer hunting or take a football to a gunfight.

During the last Super Bowl I was standing in front of a Dillon 550 loading 9MMs.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr

I quit caring about football and baseball when I was a teen and stepped off the field.

Imo if I couldn't play it I didn't want to watch others play it.


I personally don't understand the love people have for professional sports

gambling & fantasy football

The day the cowboys hired Barry Switzer I was out. Firing Jimmy was bad enough.

I would post Clint Smith's opinion about pro football, but its a little rough for OT...But it is my opinion!

I can understand people watching a game here or there, or even get into the habit/tradition of watching all afternoon on the weekend. It's a free country. It just never has been for me; huge time suck. What I worry about is guys like one son-in-law of mine - if the TV is on, it's on sports. And the TV is always on if they're awake. I worry about my grandkids getting a very skewed view of the world. Oh, they'll be able to compete, there's no doubt about that, but there are a lot more aspects to a full life. And I think hunting teaches a whole lot of good things.

I always enjoy your in-law posts Creek.

There's a line in The Ghost and the Darkness where the older, black tracker asks Val Kilmer's character if he likes his wife. Val Kilmer says "Of course, I love my wife". The tracker replies "I have five wives (or maybe he says 'seven'), I don't like any of them." I feel the same way about son-in-laws. (I have three. 'Just had supper with one, not the one mentioned above. I must have really messed up somewhere along the way. )

I watch it to stay awake at night. I'm never not reading during the day. Reading at night puts me to sleep.

I watch a few games a year, usually because it in on in the place I am a guest at. But I do not like putting up with those that are obsessed with it, they are annoying.
It is like they are sheep following the football ads and hype trying to find meaning, sad people.

Dang, lots of “elitists” on here........

I guess I’m one too as I don’t care much for it anymore.

I don’t think it’s an elitist attitude at all.

I just think there are those who choose to invest their time into something tangible and then there are those who don’t.

There are a lot of good qualities to be had in playing sports. I just don’t find them in watching sports.

That's it. I am quiting watching my team i grew up with. Going to take up quilting or fossil hunting...

Women's beach volleyball is good to watch

Team you grew up with? Did you play on the team at some point? Do they call you and check in on you from time to time? Know your kids names or swing by for BBQ’s on sundays?

Now that’s something we can all get behind

Cowboys bro. America's team actually, so not technically mine. Grew up going to most games with my father. Still go to his house many Sundays to eat and watch them together. My 14 yr old son is 20 feet down the hall now finishing homework. Drove an hour tonight to watch him play in Ennis. He took a kickoff and took a good hit out of bounds. Anyway, I enjoy it. Probably would be way different if I didnt get to do that with my father. He never hunted or fished or golfed. I have tried with him but it's best he stick to watching football.

most of us

Same.
I went to every Texans home game from 2006 to 2011, probably didn't watch a combined 10 minutes of game play. I doubt I could name 5 current professional athletes. I'm not trying to brag and I don't look down on people that like pro sports. I just don't understand the attraction.

Now if they want to stop all this namby pamby, cry baby, he hit me too hard, I need to get paid more than anyone else, I demand tv time, crap...... and just play the game and hit harder than they just hit the last guy, I might start watching.
Pro football would be much more interesting to me if it was more of a blood sport.

How about some full contact ML Baseball?

Basketball would be awesome if these guys would just stop the “He is looking at me” “Don’t touch me or I will fall on the floor and have a tantrum” “I deserve a free throw”

like this?

We had those pictures and original newspaper articles framed in our break room at work until just a couple of years ago. New corporation bought us out and it didn’t fit their idea of art.