Am I The Only One With No Interest In The Super Bowl?

February 3rd, 2008, 7:16 PM EST

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Posted in Liberaland by Alan

Responses to this post...

  1. I’m close. I’m mostly curious about whether the NYG wins, but I’m looking at news videos now, and typing here. Btw, there’s a Soldiers and Concussions story on here: http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=6245821&ch=4226723&src=news

    See Health section.

    Posted by WFG
    February 3rd, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  2. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/358/5/453

    Posted by WFG
    February 3rd, 2008 at 8:10 pm

  3. No Alan, both of these teams suck. I’ll join you in having no interest.

    Posted by Brandon
    February 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm

  4. Allen, I for one cannot stand the Super Bowl. It is truly the crowning moment of the ignorant, by the ignorant and for the ignorant. Mindlessness at its best. Ah, such is America.

    Only Mike Gravel and Richard Dawkins can save us.

    Posted by Adam Abeles
    February 3rd, 2008 at 9:16 pm

  5. but I don’t mean “suck” as in the quality of their teams, I just don’t like either of them at all, and I don’t like or dislike one team more than the other to the point where I even want one to win and the other to lose.

    Posted by Brandon
    February 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm

  6. Allen since you are bored,

    Check out my Youtube channel and SUBSCRIBE!

    http://www.youtube.com/TrueAdonis

    You will enjoy!

    Posted by Adam Abeles
    February 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm

  7. Spygate..that’s why I didn’t watch the SB. Allen your mission (should you accept) is to find out why those tapes were destroyed and report back here.

    this message will self destruct in 5 seconds………..well maybe not

    Posted by ROMNEYs thundersticks
    February 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 pm

  8. Alan,

    What the hell is wrong with you. You can’t make us Liberals look like girls (sorry if I am offending anyone but most girls I know don’t care about the game either). Besides, your picture is of a guy playing soccer. That makes your stance even lamer. I didn’t care for either team really but it is football. Football, man!!!!!!!! This is something you should keep to yourself.

    JadedSage
    http://www.jadedsage.com

    Posted by JadedSage
    February 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 pm

  9. Superbowl? Is that something like the so-called “World Series”? Yet another American contrived derivative sport that the rest of the world doesn’t even care about!

    Posted by Pat McGroyne
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:27 am

  10. I was listening to the BBC coverage of the Stupid Bowl tonight and it was most amusing to hear their voices dripping with barely constrained disdain. I’ve heard that a lot on the BBC lately, especially with election coverage. The attitude was encapsulated in one offhand, vinegary remark, “To turn to news OUTSIDE of the U.S. now,…”

    Posted by ypsidixit
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:32 am

  11. I’m sorry but the attraction of sitting down for several hours to watch groups of millionaire atheletes run back and forth across a grassy field has always been lost on me, too.

    America!! Get off the couch, put the beer and potato chips down and get some exercise. You need it.

    Posted by anonymouse
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:41 am

  12. My 350-lb neighbor says: “you don’t like football, boy?”

    “What’s the matter with you. You ain’t like us. You ain’t normal.”

    Posted by anonymouse
    February 4th, 2008 at 12:44 am

  13. Performance enhancing drugs, criminal convictions, dog fighting, gambling, womanizing, and “God knows what else”–thanks, but I think I’ll throw a Sopranos disk in the DVD.

    Posted by RC from Smithtown
    February 4th, 2008 at 1:49 am

  14. Is there a reason several people can’t spell Alan’s name properly? Maybe it’s some kind of joking nickname. Had Alan been born a girl, would his name be Alice? Had I been, mine was going to be Victoria something-Lynn, or Lynn-something.

    Posted by WFG
    February 4th, 2008 at 3:29 am

  15. No, Allana would work better, wouldn’t it? Anyway, just pointing out that the show isn’t hosted by Allen Thicke, or whomever.

    Posted by WFG
    February 4th, 2008 at 3:30 am

  16. American Football is just girls’ rugby. Put them on a field without their armor and a Welsh rugby team would tear them to shreds and send them running for their mommies.

    Posted by jake
    February 4th, 2008 at 3:45 am

  17. I live in Australia. What is SuperBowl? Is it a kind of soup?

    Posted by david
    February 4th, 2008 at 5:50 am

  18. I’d rather watch grass growing.

    And that’s being nice about it.

    Posted by Yakki.PsD
    February 4th, 2008 at 7:08 am

  19. I once asked a man “what’s cricket?” He told me “that thing where the rug be.” I didn’t see it.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 7:12 am

  20. I live in the USA but I’m English – what is Superbowl? (wink).

    There’s too much juicy politicking going on just now for me to investigate something as silly as sport!

    Posted by Twilight
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am

  21. What the hell is wrong with you people? It is the Superbowl. Granted, politics is more important but come on. You are giving liberals a bad name; stereotyping us as sissies. I will excuse the foreigners on this string but we Yanks must love football. And for the guy who mocked the game saying it was rugby for girls all I can say is why don’t rugby players cross over and play a sport where they can make millions of dollars? Because they aren’t atheletic enough. I would like to see a rugby player come across the middle for a pass and take a hit from a football safety. It would not be pretty. Show some cajones Yanks,

    JadedSage
    http://www.jadedsage.com

    Posted by JadedSage
    February 4th, 2008 at 1:05 pm

  22. I watched an amateur league Aussie rules football game once at a park in Griffith, New South Wales.

    No pads. No mercy. Take no prisoners football.

    But the Ginger Beer they sold at the concession stand was the nastiest stuff you could imagine.

    American football: millionaire athletes, protective equipment and pads, stopping all the time for “time-outs”. American football is played by girly-men. Pansies. Overpaid, fancy boys.

    Posted by anonymouse
    February 4th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

  23. Alan, you’re not the only one with no interest in the Super Bowl, just one of the few Americans.It’s entertainment, just like your feeble attempts at holding your own on H&C.

    Posted by DaveB
    February 4th, 2008 at 4:55 pm

  24. When you are over 40, you’ll be thankful for the use of pads, and not care as much that someone called you a sissy.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 6:07 pm

  25. I’m not sure it’s the smartest thing to brag about having more potential for injury, depending on how often one is hit, and by whom. I’d rather have pads than try to disprove a sissy label.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 6:09 pm

  26. Oh, the original post has appeared. Comment section seems a bit buggy.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

  27. i am ashamed (or proud, cant decide) to admit that I didnt even know it was happening last night until i heard all the honking on the streets (i am in ny this week)…i was too focused on polls for super tuesday :)

    Posted by jane fleming kleeb
    February 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

  28. “American football: millionaire athletes, protective equipment and pads, stopping all the time for “time-outs”. American football is played by girly-men. Pansies. Overpaid, fancy boys.”

    If this is true how come the only Aussie rules football players that play in the NFL are punters? That shows who the real pansies are, there, anonymous.

    JadedSage
    http://www.jadedsage.com

    Posted by JadedSage
    February 4th, 2008 at 9:58 pm

  29. I haven’t seen much rugby. I’m not sure the playing styles would work for both. Do rugby players hit the same way as US football players, and vice verse.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

  30. Need to pay attention to punctuation better. Anyway, my suspicion is that rugby players are fitter, but that US football players have so much mass that the padding is not only necessitated, but that if a rugby player were to play against a US football player, the latter would win in a collision. Btw, I say US football to be powitocoowee cowect.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

  31. Ok I don’t want to seem like a sissy so I’ll admit it: I used to watch NHL hockey. And I’ll always remember when the Rangers visited the Canadiens up there in Montreal and both benches emptied into a brawl at center ice.

    Now? Sometimes I watch boxing.

    Posted by RC from Smithtown
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:18 pm

  32. Aussie rules footy is closer to rugby or soccer than it is to American football (Gridiron).

    No padding. No helmets. Full contact.

    The meatpies (Skippy pies) are tastee.

    Posted by anonymouse
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

  33. I’d still rather have padding. You be manly, I’ll be secure, in more ways than one.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 10:54 pm

  34. Alan, you aint the only person who doesn’t watch the superbowl or sports for that matter. I grew up with 3 older brothers who watched sports all day, taking up my time to watch sports on my tv so i grew up hating sports because of it, i couldn’t watch my tv. Sometimes i do watch some football but i have to be extremely, extremely, extremely bored!!! then i would watch football. and only football!

    Posted by Louie The Liberal
    February 4th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

  35. I use to watch F1 and Rally.

    Posted by W F G
    February 4th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

  36. It’s not a case of being a sissy on my part. I played football in Highschool,and loved it. But watching football,either in person or on the ‘tube just puts me to sleep.

    Grass,at least,gives me a nice soft place to lay down when I pass out.

    :)

    Posted by Yakki.PsD
    February 5th, 2008 at 12:42 am