Are there any other REAL men like me who hate football?

No. You are the only one. Does that tell you something?

So you're saying you like to watch muscular men running around in tights smacking each other on the ass?

I picture the Illuminati coming up with the idea of football. Sitting around thinking of how they could come up with a game to make the masses be gay without even knowing it. I think it worked.

I agree - football is ghey. Its a bunch of men running around groping each other, then piling on top of one another.

In spandex.

I have some respect for the college teams - they are in school and don't get "paid" per se, however the corporate NFL stuff is just junk.

I build stuff, run, work out, and take care of stuff around the house. It's funny to go running on sunday afternoons and see people inside their houses watching that shit, as I run by.

Well almost any real man hates football.
Sorry footballtards

glad i'm not the only one who sees what is going on with all this football gayness.

:choke:

Last Edited by The Boss on 01/25/2010 09:04 AM

I hear u loud n clear Op. I gotta bro-n law that does nothing but stays glued to the tv like u say for hrs during football season. When he's not watching it he's talking it. My is says always the same- No it's football season John's not going anywhere. There's the superbowl party where it gets even worse. I guess the deal is for all those hrs of sitting eating n drinking, if they do get up and move it mite be 1 of those prescious seconds where something actually happens. Such a waste BUT a marketer's dream!

you are FUNNY....please more :))

(POUNDING CHEST) WHIFF!!! YEAH FOOTBALL. HATE IT.

HATE ALL SPORTS.

AND I AM A HE MAN MACHO SHIT.

NFL should be called Handball.

Period.

"Football"

WTF?

football only has 11 Minutes of Action 11 Minutes of ActionBy DAVID BIDERMAN---------------------------------------------------Fo​otball fans everywhere are preparing to settle in for the NFL's biggest and most electric weekend of the season—a four-game playoff marathon that will swallow up at least 12 hours of broadcast time over two days. -----------------------------------But here's something even dedicated students of the game may not fully appreciate: There's very little actual football in a football game.[Football] Photo illustration: Jeff Mangiat, photos, Getty Images (2), Associated Press (cheerleader), NFL (replay)According to a Wall Street Journal study of four recent broadcasts, and similar estimates by researchers, the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.In other words, if you tally up everything that happens between the time the ball is snapped and the play is whistled dead by the officials, there's barely enough time to prepare a hard-boiled egg. In fact, the average telecast devotes 56% more time to showing replays.So what do the networks do with the other 174 minutes in a typical broadcast? Not surprisingly, commercials take up about an hour. As many as 75 minutes, or about 60% of the total air time, excluding commercials, is spent on shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps. In the four broadcasts The Journal studied, injured players got six more seconds of camera time than celebrating players. While the network announcers showed up on screen for just 30 seconds, shots of the head coaches and referees took up about 7% of the average show.If you think the networks are a little too fond of cheerleaders, you may be mistaken: In these broadcasts, only two networks showed cheerleaders at all. And when they did, they were only on camera for an average of three seconds. "We make it a point to get Dallas cheerleaders on, but otherwise, it's not really important," says Fred Gaudelli, NBC's Sunday Night Football producer. "If we're doing the Jets, I couldn't care less."Football—at least the American version—is the rare sport where it's common for the clock to run for long periods of time while nothing is happening. After a routine play is whistled dead, the clock will continue to run, even as the players are peeling themselves off the turf and limping back to their huddles. The team on offense has a maximum of 40 seconds after one play ends to snap the ball again. A regulation NFL game consists of four quarters of 15 minutes each, but because the typical play only lasts about four seconds, the ratio of inaction to action is approximately 10 to 1. (At the end of a game, if one team has a lead and wants to prevent the other team from scoring again, standing around and letting the clock run down becomes a bona fide strategy). For broadcasters, filling these idle moments is always a unique challenge. Ken Crippen, the executive director of the Professional Football Researchers Association, who has a collection of broadcasts that date back to the 1930s, says most early telecasts showed a constant feed of the field with a few shots of the scoreboard for variety. "It was basically just constant, live action," he says.Things began to change in the mid-1960s, when instant replay became commonplace. By the 1970s, broadcast crews had expanded to an average of eight cameras and three production trucks, a number that has only continued to grow. Mr. Gaudelli says that by the 1990s, some football broadcasts showed about 100 replays per game. In the past decade, regular-season football telecasts have evolved into major productions that can cost between $150,000 and $250,000. Networks say they have anywhere from 80 to 200 people on hand per game with dozens of cameras. (NBC says its broadcasts require seven production trucks.) Producers say all this technology has made it easier to show shots of wacky fans, demonstrative coaches on the sidelines and video segments prepared before the game. The result is that broadcasters have so many options that they have to spend a lot more time planning what to show—and what not to. Lance Barrow, CBS's lead football-game producer, says his crew meets for several hours with players and coaches from the home and road teams in the two days before kickoff just to prepare material to present during dead time. In August, Bill Brown, a senior football producer for Fox, says he met with about 100 colleagues at a conference center in New York to prepare the network's game plan for the season.video News Hub: NFL Games Lack Real Action5:27How much football is actually shown (and played) during the average football telecast? The answer, based on a frame-by-frame analysis of four games is an average of 10 minutes and 43 seconds. WSJ's David Biderman reports.According to Mr. Brown, there are often so many graphics and fillers at his crew's disposal that they've had to take pains to make sure they don't commit what he describes as the "mortal sin" of football broadcasting: missing a snap. "That's absolutely a jarring thought," Mr. Brown says.For this study, The Journal broke down every frame of the broadcasts for four games on four networks on one weekend in late December. These included games between the Buffalo Bills and Atlanta Falcons on CBS, the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks on Fox, the Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins on NBC and the Chicago Bears and Minnesota Vikings on ESPN. Each shot in every broadcast was timed and logged in one of 22 categories.In this sample of games, the networks showed some significant differences. ESPN showed 24 minutes worth of replays in its game, which was 41% more than the average of the other three networks. Jay Rothman, ESPN's senior coordinating producer for Monday Night Football, attributes this to the presence of Minnesota's star quarterback, Brett Favre. Mr. Favre, he says, is a "move-the-meter guy," who warrants a lot of extra attention.In its game, NBC devoted more than twice as much time to nongame video packages as its competitors (decades-old pictures of John Madden with his wife, anyone?). CBS devoted 40 seconds to showing Atlanta's kicker, Matt Bryant, warming up to make a kick, which was more time than the other three networks devoted to kickers combined. (The kick was blocked).In its game, Fox showed about 37% fewer replays than the other networks. Fox also showed about 16% more shots than the other networks of players on the sidelines.When it comes to showing the cheerleaders, CBS won the day with about seven seconds. NBC had just over four seconds, and Fox and ESPN had no cheerleaders whatsoever. "Cheerleaders are bigger in college," says Mr. Brown of Fox, who notes that NFL cheerleaders from the visiting teams don't travel to road games and aren't as ingrained in the game as they are in college. "It's not that we don't like them," adds ESPN's Mr. Rothman. "They're just not our motivation."What's in a Game?Click here for sortable charts to see how every minute is accounted for in a sampling of four recent NFL games on different networks.[FOOTBALLchart]The real test for any football-broadcast crew is what they do in a blowout. In cases like these, producers say they have no choice but to stray from on-field action. In the second quarter of the CBS game, for instance, the Bills and Falcons only managed to score three points. In that time, there were 88 shots of off-field elements, including 31 shots (186 seconds) where the cameras were trained on the two teams' coaches. That was 54% more than the average amount in any other quarter in that game.When the Cowboys-Redskins game flagged in the second half, NBC turned to the activities of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and Redskins owner Daniel Snyder—both of whom were sitting in their luxury boxes. Together, they got about eight seconds of air time in the first and second quarters when the game was close and more than 55 seconds in the third and fourth when the Cowboys had things firmly in hand.The most surprising finding of The Journal's study—that the average game has just 10 minutes and 43 seconds of actual playing time—has been corroborated by other researchers. In November 1912, Indiana University's C.P. Hutchins, the school's director of physical training, observed a game, stopwatch in hand, between two independent teams. He counted 13 minutes, 16 seconds of play. During last week's Wild Card games, Mr. Crippen, the football researcher, dissected the broadcasts and found about 13 minutes, 30 seconds of action.But while the game itself hasn't changed much, there's no question the broadcasts have evolved quickly.Mr. Gaudelli of NBC, who has broadcast football games since 1990, says the good old days weren't always so good. "I tell our production assistants who are in their 20s that they should have to learn how to edit like we did when men were men," he says. __________________   -------------------------------------- Read the facts and weep Football android fucking retards!!! Facts that can't be disputed! See how fucking mindless you asswipes are? Isn't obvious how stupid the networks and all in production making huge bucks know your fat asses are???!!!! huh? Huh!?! HUH!!!???!!! losers....

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WOOOT!! thanks for that!

hehe, and why soccer is called football in other countries...the illuminati has everything fucked up to get people pissed off.

"illuminati"?

They haven't made me pissed off at all. Soccer can only dream of providing a spectacle like that of the Australian Rules Football League. Which i think, is the oldest league in the world. Not sure 100%.

Yep, it sucks, would rather watch Rachael Ray on the Food channel

Watch Aussie Rules, in the NFL off season instead. No time to get bored watching the game. We'll that's a lie, you do get blowout AFL games which are boring, but overall, the AFL makes the NFL look ridiculous.

all sports that are about watching guys in tight clothing trying too impress each other who is alpha male is homo-erotic. real hetero men will not even glance at these sports.

real men would like f1, indy cars stuff like that, because cars are a very manly thing. but football, soccer, basketball, baseball etc, where men in tights hug each other, slapping each others buttocks after a point and after the game have a huge shower together...?

i mean how more obvious can you get. all in the closet homosexual activities.

now of course, these in the closet homosexuals will say i am one of them for observing this...yea sure :P

"indy cars"

Tony George fucked that up years ago.

Come on GAYme lovers! Defend yourselves against the facts- Tell us all how watching hours upon man ass smacking hours of nothing but bent over men- a GAYme that refuses to show their own cheerleaders because YOU/the viewing audience. does NOT want it, means you're anything less then sterile gay ass losers! :5:

Looks like the indiputable facts shut the football fucktards up pretty quick.lolz

Yeah, I hate football. Well except for the tight little asses on the players. That could be fun to play with. Sitting in a skybox getting blown by a waiter who's trying to make some extra tips - now that's a great way to watch a pro football game, in my opinion.

Real Man, too!

All depends on your point of view, doesn't it?

Real talk OP. All these stupid assholes fighting about sports teams, and getting depressed if some steroid chugging freaks lose a game. And if the team wins, they always yell "WE WON!" You didn't do anything, you dumbass, you sat on a couch and got drunk. Not to mention the mind control. Rome used the colosseum and gladiators as a diversion to the masses for what was really going on. Football especially is just a new incarnation of that tradition. And its so god damn boring I can't understand how it works, but it does.

And don't forget the totally ghey team names, like "Browns" and "Packers"!

Its indiSputable with an "S" fucktard. Your just mad cause your roid raging