Super Bowl trash-talk thread
 

I've heard it's happening this weekend…

feel free to talk about it.

Are you talking about Super Boll Weevil - the crime fighter from the deep south who attacks villains with streams of cotton balls?

I'm pretty sure it's that big cereal eating competition they have in Duluth...

No, it's that chain of portable outhouses. They are pretty trashy to begin with, though.

You guys are so funny… I don't have much TV here, and I don't know many football freaks around me. I only realized it was this weekend, about yesterday or so. :)

The team that I support is far superior to the team that you claim to support. This team with which I identify will trample all over your identified with team and will bring shame to you and your village. The sport to which these teams belong will not soon forget how soundly my supported team performed. You should count yourself lucky if your supported teams performance proves so utterly abysmal as to be quickly forgotten and not worthy of the effort to be remembered.

GO TEAM!

I also enjoy the advertisements.

Have fun watching the pig skin fly around. We see enough pig skins up in the Canadian farm… in summer, that is.

:p

eh, who cares about pigskin. No cheerleaders this year, so what's the point? :D

Some of the chunkier cheerleaders are pigskins in themselves! :p :p

(Joke)

I'm in the UK, and I don't even understand the hysteria and man-hours -- and most importantly, MONEY -- that is devoted to football (soccer) here.

We've just had the "transfer window", when teams buy and sell each others players. So how you can feel any allegiance to a particular team when the players could all be playing for someone else next week, God only knows. In fact the ownership of the clubs change hands quite frequently too.

The Geography doesn't help either: most Chelsea fans can't afford to live in Chelsea; Arsenal and Millwall have moved to different sides of the river from their origin; and it's a well known fact that if you support Manchester United, then you're not from Manchester.

At best, it's just a base tribal instinct: "we are the blues; you are the reds." The fact that people say: "We beat you", when they weren't actually involved, I find extraordinary.

I can understand someone appreciating the skill of a particular player, or a nice bit of teamwork that results in a goal. In fact, perhaps it would be better to support players, not teams, and change your allegiance as they change theirs.

As for American Football: in the words of a young Robert Downey Jr in the Rodney Dangerfield film "Back to School": everyone knows it's just a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.

I agree. My dad, in fact, says that it would be nice to play soccer/football by removing one player at a time, to really see how the "team" manages.

A fight to the death? Last man standing?

Now that would be worth paying them £50,000 a week for.

Forget that. See how they last against the other team's supporters! :)

wow, sounds like you're aiming for Rollerball (the original, not the cheesy remake).

European futbol (football, ie soccer) has a way more competitive league and support in the USA. American Football is on par with that. American football is like shot bursts of chess meets athletic skill. There is strategy involved and when you fail, it hurts bad.

Then look at major competitive sports as small nations with in a nation. Every team has their own home town following, they wage battle against other towns. Each city has it's own lingo, dialect, accent, and slang. It is in many ways like small scale war between small nations, though the battle field is the sports arena and the war is waged in sport.

Ironically, politics sometimes follows the same rules as a spectator sport.

On the rare occasions that I've seen AF, there did seem to be a lot of stopping and starting, which I found rather irksome. I also don't understand the significant that seems to be attached to the "playbook". (I saw an article recently about the NFL considering iPads for playbooks.)
Seemingly, the playbook is a list of set piece moves that each team does, and if you know what their plays are, you can always beat the other team.

I have to say, I'm not really a huge fan of any "sports". Though as my grandfather would say: "there are only three sports: hunting, shooting and fishing. All the rest are games and pastimes."

My understanding of US politics is sadly on a par with my knowledge of US football. My understanding is as follows:
When you're born, the Sorting Hat declares you to be a "pinko" or a "freedom-ist". You cannot switch and there are no other options. The President can't do anything because the Senate and House have an opposing majority. The pinkos want to ensure people make shoes that don't pinch your toes, and the freedomists put clauses in about killing kittens into the shoe laws.
I think that's how US politics works, isn't it? Or have I misunderstood? ;)

My dad was teaching our math class this morning, then he decided to talk about the game. He did all sorts of stupid moves that cracked everyone up, to "represent" what he thought of the sport.

The purpose of professional football (soccer) is to divert our simple minds away from the otherwise dreary life we lead.

And now the season is over. Oh, woe is us.

This is why God invented beer. :p

Did you get that from FinderPop or something? ;)

No, from my refrigerator. Does FinderPop provide beer? Cool feature, if true.

The author makes one thirsty. Good thing I'm not driving.

God invented beer to make those of the opposite sex appear more attractive than they really are thus aiding in the propagation of the species. Hence beer is an acceptable alternative to football. Well, for an hour anyway.:)

I see you're not a West Ham fan.

I have never in my entire life watched a soccer match. Or a hockey game (no offense, Canada). Never watch any professional sports. Just not a fan of "pro" anything... no, I did not watch the Super Bowl. Just lost all interest decades ago when the pro baseball players went on strike to increase their million dollar salaries to multi millions ending up in canceling the season.... never went back.

That said, I am an avid fan of collegiate and amateur sports.... in particular college football. Go, Hogs. (University of Arkansas Razorbacks).

Defies logic, but there it is.:)

p.s. Had to google West Ham to figure out what it was.

I watched some of the World Cup during my trip to France. I was disappointed at the low quality of their games. That said, I didn't even see the Super Bowl.

What good YouTube videos are there about this year's Super Bowl?

Same here brother. My favorite teams are the ana synchers and the thunders. These are the team my children play on. No egos, no trash talk, just good on fun watching the kids play just for fun. Half the time, I don't even know what sports in season until I over hear it from someone.

Professional sports is way over rated and their value to society is nil to none.