Are You Ready For Some Football?

[HTRN]

I love me some hockey.

I love me some old time hockey!

[SoupOrMan]

Baseball's going from the long slog to Autumn Hype Season.

US Soccer is going from "Ah, the insufferable heat of summer!" to "Why are we wearing shorts in this weather?"

European soccer is going into full swing and trying to be more hyperbolic than the ESPN's coverage of Division I and the NFL.

Football is being football. My high school team is having delusions of grandeur, my college team is the same, and Colts gonna Colt.

Hockey is here. Now, if only I was cleared to skate again, I'd be happier.

I hate autumn, yet all the sports that I bother to watch are playing.

[Rod]

I'm such a Redskins fan that I bleed maroon and gold but that game last night was a disgrace and should be stricken from the record books.

[HTRN]

Well the Steelers got trounced by the Ravens, but they absolutely crushed the Panthers. Let's see what happens on Sunday's game against the Bucs.

[John_in_Longview]

The answer to "Who DAT?" is ... Tony Romo!

[Aesop]

Loved the Dodgers, and I'll listen to Vin Scully until he dies. But between the strike, and the O'Malleys selling the team to a douchebag, meh, whatever.
Then we had the Lakers, from West & Chamberlain to Magic & Kareem, Chick Hearn, threepeat. Then it became a soap opera, and all about the trials and triumphs of a rapist-star. Meh.
And we had a football team, called by Dick Enberg, until the stupid owner drowned himself and left it to his bimbette, who first destroyed the team, then moved it.
Then Al Davis dragging the tRaiders here to give the league the finger, sucking the idiots and the city dry, and then slinking back to Oakland where they always belonged. Football? I've heard of it, but I can't recall the reason.

Sports I follow? As if.
I'm glad people enjoy them, Monday Night Football will always be an eminently watchable spectacle designed perfectly for TV, and the game-within-the-game of an epic MLB baseball game puts a paltry Grand Master chess match to shame, but live or die on the vagaries of the behavior of a bunch of crybabies and felons? Life's too effing short.

The last team I really rooted for was Houston, in the finals.

[Vonz90]

They are one of the big reasons I've been steadily losing interest in professional sports since college. Also, change the 'j' to an 'm'.

I rode home on the school bus in first grade, 1969, chanting "Let's Go Mets!". I'm too old to change now. Although I don't follow baseball like I used too, the strike soured me and I never came all the way back.

The '84 and '85 pennant races were bad. Annoying to lose each time to a team full of guys, each having career years. But that means it's just their year, so oh well. '86 was nice.

The divisional series in '88 broke me. Then they basically traded a guy who would be a perennial contender for batting champion in the 90's for Juan fucking Samuel. Words still fail me, I cannot find words to encompass my loathing and rage for that move.

Then for the better part of 10 years we had retread clowns (like say Vince Coleman) clogging up the roster. Yeah the guy who was so stupid he got injured by being run over by a tarp.

Then for a little while they had a better grade of retread clowns and made the playoffs a few times. It didn't take.

I kind of miss hating the Mets. The pennant races between the Cards and the Mets in the mid-80's were epic.

That rivalry has faded now that we are in different divisions. Of course the Mets are still pond scum.

[BDK]

Baseball is, fundamentally, aesthetically pleasing.

Its up there, almost, with watching cattle feed in a good pasture.

Don't care, who's playing, and it's FAR better in person.

I can respect the skill and athleticism present in football, but... There's something I've never really enjoyed about it - too many ghouls looking to see pain, I guess. (Although, a GOOD boxing match - which is very rare, as thinking boxer is a bit of an oxymoron, can be fascinating.)

[MiddleAgedKen]

I can respect the skill and athleticism present in football, but... There's something I've never really enjoyed about it - too many ghouls looking to see pain, I guess. (Although, a GOOD boxing match - which is very rare, as thinking boxer is a bit of an oxymoron, can be fascinating.)

Olympic boxing in the 1970s. Sugar Ray Seales, Sugar Ray Leonard, Teofilo Stevenson of Cuba. Great boxers. Used to be one of THE highlights of the Summer Games.

[Greg]

I kind of miss hating the Mets. The pennant races between the Cards and the Mets in the mid-80's were epic.

They were.

That rivalry has faded now that we are in different divisions. Of course the Mets are still pond scum.

The worst cokehead pond scum on the 80's Met pennant race teams was a former Card.