The NFL Thread - Root for your favorite team (or laugh at the Browns, whichever's easier)

[GeorgeHWBush]

Are we even talking about football anymore? Lol. Usually I couldn't give less of a shit about the sport but that game was great. Super entertaining for the one day a year that I actually care about the NFL. Also, seeing SNEED on someone's jersey on a massive broadcast nearly put me down

The Super Bowl is the only NFL game I ever watch each year. College football is much better imo and there seems to be more team spirit. I don’t watch unless I watch a game with friends though. I only recently took an interest in sports in general but it’s pretty fun!

 

[Rotollo 2]

Total Sneed Victory
I will now buy a Sneed Jersey and await ralph having his hubris double

 

[CHARizard]

The only reason I entertain the rigging schizotheory is because of how shit refs have been all season.

 

[Echo_Ender]

I heard that the ads were extra pozzed this year, were they?

No more pozzed than the last few Superbowls. Actually, I think they might've been LESS pozzed due to no longer pushing Covid, MeToo, or BLM propaganda.

Still very obnoxious and pandering to the "Hey, I remember that thing/person/event!" crowd.

The ADL's "Stop Jewish Hate" one made everyone laugh their asses off because it started off with #HitlerWasRight on screen in bold letters.

The bizarre "Blind guy with black woman" commercial got a bunch of "Eww. That's weird and gross..." reactions too.

The foot washing one was the only one I recall that got literal WTF reactions out of people.

 

[Harvey Danger]

I don't give a shit about sports or Taylor Swift but conservatives seething over her is both baffling and entertaining.

Is this some Twitter, normie, or grift sphere thing? I haven't seen conservatives seething over her at all. I dipped into poast/FSE/NA on the fediverse and didn't see anything, they were cheering the Chiefs because of Sneed as well.

I did see a handful of lefty rags pushing breathless "Taylor could move the election!" articles a few weeks back. Maybe that caught some automatic clickbait backlash, but I still haven't seen it. I'm sure someone did a video (outrage clickbait is the Rule 34 of politics), but there doesn't seem to be widespread chatter.

(Also saw an article theorizing she could juice the economy by getting pregnant. which is hilarious, because it suggests women lack so much agency they make huge life changes based on whatever is popular.)

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

As a Colts fan I can't believe I'm going to say this but I miss the Pats and Brady. This Chiefs dynasty blows and is just unfun to watch.

It would be the one thing if the Chiefs didn't suck so bad that they had to make their games of Refball so blatant you'd have to be blind not to see it. We WERE in a Chief's dynasty for the past few years, but the Chief's were actually on the down swing this year and their dynasty was actually ENDING. Assuming Patriots Deflate Gate levels of Refball doesn't come in, the Chiefs shouldn't make it next year.

I don't give a shit about sports or Taylor Swift but conservatives seething over her is both baffling and entertaining.

Taylor Swift Derangement Syndrome thread when?

The only people seething are the ones who put money on the 49ers not thinking Swiftbowl wasn't in full swing.

Meanwhile, in an alternate universe where Americans adopted standard rugby instead of making football, the NFL would never exist.

What makes you think the NRL would ever be different be any better or different?

As a non-American, there is something utterly surreal about watching American football and the Super Bowl. It's a game of four quarters that last fifteen minutes, and yet despite this the game runs for four hours. It is the definition of hyperreal; the event of the Super Bowl has more significance than the actual game itself. People talk about the ads that run and the celebrities who sing to the point it feels like a national holiday for the glorious worship of sportsball

As a football loving Burger, yes. The Super Bowl is a full blown event. It's practically a national holiday. The games suck usually. Sometimes they don't. Last year's game was great.

As far as your assessment of the sport. Yes it's an infinitely slower paced game. It's part of why people like it. Other sports like soccer are practically white noise. An exciting moment happens, and it's gone in that same moment. There's no chance to breathe or appreciate the great minor moments of the game and players who aren't giant playmakers don't get the same time to shine. Football is probably more of a team sport than any other professional sport, and so it's slow pacing and constant replays at least give you a lot of time to notice the things like important blocks and good pass coverage. It really does make you appreciate them more because you're only as good as your weakest links. So yes. It's exactly like trench warfare. Burgers find trench warfare exciting.

That being said, it's overly complicated for something that's actually quite simple.
The Wild Card games are just the games for the teams not guaranteed an immediate playoff spot.

Can't help but notice none of those soldiers are black.

That halftime show was SHIT, did they not learn Usher sucks live from his abysmal performance at E3?

Fixed it for you.

It’s frankly just really dumb and nobody seems to like it.

The foot washing just made it seem like a Tarantino directed commercial.

 

[Meat Target]

Is this some Twitter, normie, or grift sphere thing? I haven't seen conservatives seething over her at all. I dipped into poast/FSE/NA on the fediverse and didn't see anything, they were cheering the Chiefs because of Sneed as well.

I did see a handful of lefty rags pushing breathless "Taylor could move the election!" articles a few weeks back. Maybe that caught some automatic clickbait backlash, but I still haven't seen it. I'm sure someone did a video (outrage clickbait is the Rule 34 of politics), but there doesn't seem to be widespread chatter.

(Also saw an article theorizing she could juice the economy by getting pregnant. which is hilarious, because it suggests women lack so much agency they make huge life changes based on whatever is popular.)

There were a few Righties (Ramaswamy, DC Draino, Jack Posobiec) bandying it about, and whorenalists seized on it.

It's worth mentioning that Swift spoke out against Sen. Marsha Blackburn for being pro-life, and yet Blackburn was re-elected easily.

 

[JaneThough]

True, but it also goes both ways as well.

The politicized liberals and the fans of Taylor Swift who love football were the same ones that preached that Colin Kaepernick was the second coming of MLK. Jr. for kneeling on a football field while comparing himself to Kunta Kinte.

So far, he not only still has no job, he’s grown into irrelevance after getting rich from a league like the NFL.

Either way, there’s no real side to choose from. It‘s just another way of seeing who can be the loudest and overbearing.

Or just, I don’t know, enjoy your non-politicized game without adding politics? Like why does EVERYTHING have to become political?

 

[Hijo de Dang Woodchucks!]

Came for the Gay and Sneed, stayed to remind people that Taylor Swift got famous for writing break-up songs.

Bitch has a body count serial killers can only dream of, and it doesn't matter if you idolize her or hate her guts, giving an empty headed ditz like her real estate in your noggin is embarassing.

 

[Cpl. Long Dong Silver]

How do you completely stop running the ball up 10-3 with Christian McCaffrey?

 

[KittyGremlin]

YEAH SPORTSBALL WOOOOOO

 

[KiwiSuperPowerUser]

It is funny to me how much AWFL's love Taylor Swift. I would think that Taylor Swift would be everything that they hate. Pretty white woman who is a billionaire living the good life. You would think they would hate her due to AWFL's being infamous for their insecurity and envy yet they all worship her like a god. Very strange and fascinating to me.

Just wait til They find out She's actually Zena LaVey. That will really blow the AWFLs minds.

 

[Echo_Ender]

the game was fixed for a Chiefs win, because the NFL sees Taylor Swift's endorsement and involvement as good publicity, and shots of her happy and excited would sell better than shots of her sad over a loss? Superbowl ads already cost a hefty premium, and I heard that the advertisers know loads of women will tune in just for Taylor, so they geared the ads more towards them than usual. It's possible the organization sees a Chiefs win as a good business move that could bring in millions, maybe billions, in advertiser revenue, right?

This is probably the truth of it. The NFL is pushing the "It was rigged for biden!" schitzo theory so no one will take the more realistic and believable "It was rigged for ratings and advertising/merch dollars" theory.

My guess is that if the Chiefs lost, the pictures of Swift crying or looking disappointed would be meme'd to hell and back, chasing her and, by extension, her fans and their AWFL money away from the NFL.

it suggests women lack so much agency they make huge life changes based on whatever is popular

With most women, ESPECIALLY "Swifties", this is absolutely true.

That said, getting knocked up would likely torpedo her career for years. No more tours, no dancing aroundon stage, no ultra-skinny designer clothes. I'd bet she values all that more than any potential children at the moment.

 

[R00T]

There have been actual studies that have shown babies tend to be born in higher frequencies than average, nine months afterwards

Date of convenience and far likely less to do with throwing a ball and far more to do with Valentine’s Day, the holiday where you treat your lover to a special day, following typically a few days behind it.

 

[Harvey Danger]

How do you completely stop running the ball up 10-3 with Christian McCaffrey?

How do you injure your leg without even playing?

 

[JaneThough]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

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so cringe.

MAGAtards started the meme war.

 

[Desktop User2]

I´m just here to mourn the death of America because of the happiness of a successful white heterosexual couple. It´s practically the holocaust all over again. Not to mention how gay it is to have a steady girlfriend who fly 13 hours straight out of a concert to support you. China just cant stop winning.

 

[The Ugly One]

I´m just here to mourn the death of America because of the happiness of a successful white heterosexual couple. It´s practically the holocaust all over again. Not to mention how gay it is to have a steady girlfriend who fly 13 hours straight out of a concert to support you. China just cant stop winning.

Taylor Swift's boyfriend won the Super Bowl! How wholesome! I'm gonna heckin' vote for Biden now!

 

[indomitable snowman]

Have they stopped playing that dumb ass "Black National Anthem", or is that still a thing?

Also, imagine cheering for that cunt Taylor Swift.

Still playing it. I have a revulsion to weave knowing it's all fake held together by glue and hair from a Chinese prisoner.

 

[Pentex]

This is the one I’m aware of that caused uproar.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=94BqlDQ-PpoNot like I can truly understand anyone’s crazy religious thoughts but “He Gets Us” is seemingly like a secular promotion of just promoting Jesus as a role model. Which pisses off conservatives because their view is “No Jesus was against a lot of stuff, the New Testament is pretty clear it’s not down with homos.” And then you’ve just got liberals who are against any form of religious indoctrination.

It’s frankly just really dumb and nobody seems to like it.

"Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."

- Jesus of Nazareth, Foot Fetishist