Football General Talk
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I'm aware I'm barking up the wrong tree on a football thread. But I started playing rugby in HS and never looked back. In football, there's about 7-10 minutes of live ball play out of a 60 minute game that takes 3 hours to watch. Mostly commercials, replays, watching huddles. I still watch a couple playoff games, but damn it can be tough to sit through a football game anymore.
If you're willing to learn the rules, rugby is a really good game to watch. Two 40 minute halves that take about that long (clock stops rarely) with a brief halftime, and the ball is in play about half that time. Yet way more action. And way less specialization as all the players have to be able to do everything.
Obviously this is an outlier of phenomenal play, but an as example of what can happen in 3 minutes on the clock...
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buxnbullz
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GO LIONS!! I'm anxious to see how Za'Darius Smith will fit in. He's no Hutchinson but he'll definitely help! Much needed!
VikingsGuy
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Played it in college (club). It was a blast. Fun to play, fun to watch. Would recommend to anyone who likes contact sports. But not nearly as strategic as American FB and not nearly as extreme athletic capabilities on display.
VikingsGuy
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As your fellow NFC North travelers will tell you - the 20% of games he actually plays healthy will be amazing and then set you up for the heartbreak of the other 80% where he is hurt. Some players are just injury magnets - he is one of those.
BrentD
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For me, one of the best things about football is that it is not constant action. Makes it easy to do other things while watching - sharpening tools, making something, loading something. It keeps me company while I do something else. I do not have to be staring at the screen 100% of the time or feel that I have missed something significant. It is a lot like golf.
I might agree with the strategy but probably not with the athletic capabilities. But to each their own!
Can't argue with that...For me, one of the best things about football is that it is not constant action. Makes it easy to do other things while watching - sharpening tools, making something, loading something. It keeps me company while I do something else. I do not have to be staring at the screen 100% of the time or feel that I have missed something significant. It is a lot like golf.
Southern Elk
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Please let the Bills beat the Chiefs today!
BrentD
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No! No! Noooooooo!!!!
seeth07
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Only because the Bears suck...man do the Bears suck
So do the Cowboys. mtmuley
Gellar
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I guess a W is a W, but that was ugly. Glad I'm at work and only caught bits and pieces of the first half.
Super ugly. I don’t feel like the Pack won that one as much as I feel like the Bears actively lost it.
Still counts as a W, and was quite a humorous ending, but yeah- not a real impressive win.
Gellar
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Im surprised lefluer didn’t get the boot. Every time the camera was on him you could clearly see F bombs and “That’s BS!” After that late hit call in the first half they showed Lefleur cussing and I swear as the side judge walked into the screen he was agreeing with lefleur.
Hem
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Sept 24^
I had to sort through 20 pages of dribble on Vikings/Packers.
Hope you are smiling @Hilljackoutlaw .
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