I have never understood pro football. It is utterly boring, and it is not even fun to bet on. Why people get paid millions of dollars to run and jump, while contributing nothing of real value to society baffles me.
College football on the other hand, can be quite exciting.
Only in football do players, after being behind in the score 42-0, dance in the end zone after scoring.
No thanks.
I have had almost zero interest in sports after age 13 or so. My spousal unit in recent years has become the big sports watcher and sometime ticket buyer.
Pro ball from what little I’ve been subjected to is nothing but gang colors and over used effects with absurd blabber for commentary.
At one time I hated sports in general in the early 2000s. At that time I was in public TV land and the cabal of management types who also worked all the good paying freelance gigs and loved to trumpet to the lowly mortals came up with a big money loser. ETV sports sucked up and screwed up almost every weekend.
Most of it was high school and junior college stuff that few people cared about.
I fought it for years for a few reasons and after finally winning some concessions from the cabal leader (after I had to say veteran and lawsuit in the same sentence), I went on some. I mellowed back to being indifferent.
It went back to hate for the time I was there when that person had the nerve to tell me and the rest of the mere mortals that we should have to watch sports at home on weekends to get better handles on doing replays and the like.
A selling point (outright lie) by the leader was if we lowly ones got really good there was (none) of getting in on the good paying stuff. We all knew for the longest time that one had to be in right clique. That was all that mastered. Merit and ability didn’t mean so much.
He didn’t take it so well when I said I will not waste good digital cable on ballgames and preferred turner classic and the history channel.