I don't think this opinion is unpopular (or at least not any more unpopular than not watching sports in general). But expressing it like it is unpopular is.
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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I catch a lot of flack for various opinions that I have but my unabashed disgust for organized sports seems to irk people a lot more than my disgust for religion or my pity/disdain for current republicans and extremists in general
I think its about the lack of tribalism being shown
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Let people enjoy things. You don't have to engage with it if you don't want to.
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My family and I choose not to celebrate Suberbowl anymore. We don't really sports in the house and, our close friends don't sports either.
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I've been saying this for over 20 years now, and it's only gotten worse. The money wasted on one superb owl could fix homelessness, but please, let's keep paying exorbitant sums of money to watch men with literal brain damage move ball good.
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You are mistaken. It's pseudo-gladiator cosplay voyeurism and there's a lot of freaks that like to watch it so it's legal.
This is the most Lemmy ass thread imaginable.
A bunch of wannabe hipsters thinking that they're so enlightened. Because being against the grain is the height of personality.
Apparently it takes a real personality to stop watching advertisements. To even know it's possible let alone how to.
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but only one of those groups has a massive backing from the worlds biggest corporations. our safe space doesn't come with private jets filled with hookers and cocaine.
but go head, they need you to defend them here, someone has to.
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...and it is not even a real ball!
Beyond the ads football is getting so slow, even regular season games. I don't remember it taking this long to get through a game as it does now.
Today's game was so long and so boring.
watching rich people fight over a ball
Put them in an enclosed space and let the poors sit above and laugh at them, and you might have won over the Lemmings as fans!
Clueless European here: is Superbowl something like Champions League?
It’s basically a grand final for the US’s American Football Season. I “think” teams in one league play each other whilst teams in the other league do the same. The respective top team from each league play each other in a super final.
It’s like the final of champions league