this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024

637 points (85.9% liked)

Unpopular Opinion

6186 readers

109 users here now

Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!

How voting works:

Vote the opposite of the norm.

If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.

Guidelines:

Tag your post, if possible (not required)

If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].

Rules:

1. NO POLITICS

Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.

2. Be civil.

Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...

Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.

5. No trolling.

This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

637

The Superbowl is nothing more than watching rich people fight over a ball while companies spend obscene amounts of money to blast advertisements at you. (dubvee.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

235 comments fedilink hide all child comments

No offense or judgement meant to anyone if that's your thing (to each their own). That's just how I see pretty much all professional sports - the super bowl is just the poster child for it.

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Yup, it's Bread and Circuses all over again.

also something to note: they intentionally edge the fans constantly - the game's only an hour long. but we gotta pause play for commercials every few fucking moments, over and over again. punctuate edging with violent conflict - add in the lore/fanfic/tradition/dream job aspects - oh yeah, it keeps their attention.

all to watch grown men run around in spandex playing a children's game for millions of dollars, giving each other crippling brain and body injuries that will follow them into their graves.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Everything sounds weird when you break it down to the right essentials.

Watching sequential images arranged to trick your brain into experiencing a story while you crush mutated grains between your teeth.
Manually manipulating on-screen pixels at meaningful times to change later output.
Interpreting shapes of printed ink in an attempt to replicate another person's mental patterns with the goal of experiencing a shared hallucination.
Touring elaborately-staged displays of old junk and household items, sometimes with commentary.

"Everything is weird when you think on it too overly." And as a correlary, everything is frivolous when you essentialize it too uncommonly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

A man from England told me this, when talking about the difference between Rugby and American Football. Rugby is a thug sport played by gentlemen. Football is a gentleman's sport played by thugs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you confused football with Amerixan football. It is referring to what you would call soccer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Nope. This was a comment from a Brit when we were discussing the difference between Rugby and American football. I found it an apt description at the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is a very well known phrase in England, but it refers to football (soccer) and rugby. I have never heard this in reference to American football and cannot even imagine how the meaning would translate.

The meaning of it comes from football being a supposedly gentle game of skill, but played and loved by the common people and with a long history of bad behaviour on and off the pitch, versus rugby being a rough, bruising, injury riddled sport that was played by aristocratic rich kids in private schools who are all excellent young men destined for greatness.

Of course this is mostly oversimplified bollocks, but with just enough truth behind it to make it funny.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Feels… vaguely racist.

Maybe not even vaguely. Like I really cannot think of what the distinguishing line between “rugby players” and “American football players” is that would make one group ‘thugs’ other than “one of them is predominantly black”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He was describing American football players/teams as thugs. It is not meant with race in mind at all. For a little context there was some big argument going on the TV and the American team was throwing a hissy fit and screaming at the officials.

Edit, to add: Rugby can be quite violent, but the players have some respect for the game and officials. I don't really follow sports, but I found Rugby fascinating when I was over there! What a neat game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I read it as American vs British, disregarding race.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've never cared much about football and it's almost impossible to live in the US without constantly having to hear about it. I have to admit I've enjoyed the fact the Taylor Swift is now being shoe horned into football and people are mad cause they don't want to hear about her. If either fell off the face of the earth I wouldn't lose a second of sleep but oh the sweet sweet irony of listening to football fans whine about having to see and hear something they don't care about shoved in their face, Oh I'm so sorry that's happening to you, whats that like? Please tell me all about it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Huntin’ deer, chasin’ trout

A bud light with the logo facin’ out

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

All sports, all awards shows, all reality TV (though sometimes starting poor people (working for rich people)).

Don't forget the bullshit showings of patriotism and military recruiting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

bad post, clearly a popular opinion

load more comments