I'm actually interested to hear your reasons for disliking football. I can give a few reasons why soccer frustrates me, although I do enjoy soccer from time to time. I can give a few reasons why the NFL pisses me off too. I'm curious what your reasons are though.
How to articulate my hatred for football... hmm, for one (and this is IMO), there's never a flow to the game. More the fault of greedy cable companies. With baseball, it's starting to go that route with the instant replay. However, I literally could not stand the "score td or field goal, commercial break, kickoff, commercial break" trend. It killed all the momentum for me.
Second. Over saturation. It's just too much. With college football, it's become an entity rather than an extra-curricular activity. The kids' educations are nullified because they are a profit maker for the school/boosters. The kids are not seen as a future asset to the community, rather a way to make more money. (granted, these are not every schools' agenda). Anyway, back to over saturation. I mean, doesn't it get nauseating to hear about the same things over and over and over? I can't honestly think that a wide majority of people actually cared about "deflategate". But, the media controls what you watch/listen/and to a lesser extent talk about. I use to like stuff like MLB network and NBA tv, but they too have gotten bit by the over saturation bug. I have just come to the conclusion that the sport of football is only popular because the media has deemed it so. You can bash me all you want for that view, but it's something I believe to be true. They'd make us understand cricket, and obsess over it just the same if they wanted to. The media controls it. So, I stop watching the media. If I do see it, I don't click/listen/care.
Third, and this is more of a sociological aspect than anything else, it paints an unfair picture of what a "man" is supposed to be. All this,again, ties back to the media dictating what is what, but they depict a man that is supposed to be big, strong, tough, and not afraid to stand his ground with the use of violence. Also, how commercials depict men too. That's a whole other discussion. However, and again this is my opinion, and how I am as a person (and not to say you or anyone else is not this whilst being a fan of football), I don't believe men should have to act macho to be a man. Again, it paints a false picture of what masculinity is supposed to be. The same way (think about this holistically, not gender-to-gender) a female was "feminised" back in the 50's and 60's... hell, up until the 80's really. Humans are supposed to be who THEY want to be, despite their gender and how their gender role is defined. I just do not like the boxed approach to living, I suppose. Be who you want to be. Again, all this being said, if how you are fits the mold of how society views men, and you know within yourself that that's who you are, I have no problem with that. But, if the media is molding our society and there's a blind eye towards it, that's where I have a problem with it. A strong opinion, I know, but it's one I'm passionate about.
Well, there's my rant. I probably have a layered disdain for football. But, I tried to articulate it more than "F U MEDIA, U SUCK BB."
And that's how I end this long post. Go me.
