• Zink@programming.dev
      9·
      12 days ago

      The bottom half of the pie chart is the reason I can manage to watch it. It doesn’t demand constant attention, and offers occasional moments of focused action and excitement during your conversation/meal/game/doomscrolling.

      The Live TV and ads are the worst part of trying to watch any sport live though, so I don’t actually watch much. Just a couple games the entire year. Actually I bet the superb owl was the first game of the year I watched beginning to end without interruption.

      With other sports like Hockey, I can work up the excitement to watch some games if I hear the team is good and they’re already deep into the playoffs, lol.

      • somethingsnappy@lemmy.world
        5·
        12 days ago

        I hate that I love football. Especially if you played, it hard to stop watching. NFL aways had the best camera tech, and was amazing in the 80s/90s. No other show on the TV was nearly as good technically.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
      7·
      12 days ago

      I used to work for a local TV station as a videographer. We always had to go out and get “highlights” of high school and college sports games in the area. Football was by far the worst, because it could literally take you an hour to get any 10-15 seconds of footage that was usable.

      I hated football before that. Now I really hate football.

    • FanBlade@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      725·
      13 days ago

      This talking point only reveals your own ignorance of the sport. Which is fine, nobody needs to know or enjoy football. But having an ignorant take to complain about what someone else enjoys just shows that’s there’s a good chance you don’t care and only want to complain about something you don’t enjoy.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
        13·
        13 days ago

        As a non sports ball enjoyer I’m curious, why is this is not a bad thing? Like, I have no dog in this fight. I don’t dislike football or any other sport, I’ve just never found any joy in watching sports on TV. Occasionally it’s fun to go to a game, and it’s very fun to participate in one (never played football, but have played baseball, softball, kickball, and played soccer twice), but watching it on TV has never been fun for me. So, as someone (I assume) who enjoys watching a game on TV, why/why not is a chart like above not demonstrating a negative? I’ve never really been able to pinpoint why I don’t enjoy watching sports, and when I saw the chart my first thought was “oh, is that why I don’t like watching football?”

        • FanBlade@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          141·
          12 days ago

          I can definitely see the presentation of football being off putting. I think the biggest thing is that chart is the description of shots of players just standing around. During that time there is strategy happening. Where someone lines up, how then other side responds and the back and forth from there represent the “grand strategy” of the game. If you’re into it, this can be a very compelling part. It’s an important part of the game that establishes and ebb ad flow and gives you a chance to try to figure out the strategies and where things are heading, I’m always wrong :). Outside of that part, that “dead air” I think helps generate a lot of the communal aspect of watching it. It’s a time for folks to chat about what’s happening in the game, debate about what a catch is, grab some snacks, and chat about other things.

          Imagine something like chess, even less time with “action,” at least is some game types. But it can still hold the attention and interest of the people watching. If someone were to walk in with no knowledge they would probably wonder why there’s all this downtime and how could anyone enjoy it. Not sure if that’s the best metaphor but it’s what I’ve got at the moment.

          It really is just somebody without interest or knowledge of someone’s activity then coming in to mock. Just makes it seem like they’re trying to be superior and yuck someone else’s yum.

          Hope that answered at least some of what you were asking and makes some level of sense :)

          ETA: Ads suck. Finding more ways to inject advertising sucks. Doing Picture in Picture ads sucks. You will not find me disagreeing with that aspect in any way ;)

          • baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
            3·
            12 days ago

            I feel you. Some of the best games in baseball are the pitcher duels. As my kids and wife put it, we just paid a bunch of money to see grown professionals play catch until someone finally hit a homerun.

            There’s always a game within a game and if you don’t follow or know… it’s boring.

          • slaacaa@lemmy.world
            2·
            12 days ago

            I’m in the EU, and I don’t really watch American football or European footbal (soccer) anymore, but I definitely think NFL is much more interesting.

            If we made the chart above for soccer, it would be 60% “players running around”, and then the match ends with a 1:0 (if sou’re lucky). I foud it very boring.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
        9·
        12 days ago

        People have been saying that to me for years – often angrily – but honestly, every game I’ve ever seen has been like 5 minutes of game during which a guy touches another guy the wrong way, followed by a foul or something, then at least a half hour of back-to-back replays interspersed with a few guys debating every aspect of the way each guy touched another guy, plus at least ten minutes of advertising, then repeat.

        I’m pretty sure even fans wouldn’t disagree with my timing breakdown.

        eta: it sounds annoying broken down like that, but I’d argue fans should be annoyed at the industry, rather than at non-fans.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
            1·
            12 days ago

            Maybe you shouldn’t argue about people having ignorant takes when you don’t bother to read what other people say and just declare them to be non-fans as if that gives them no right to say anything negative about the game.

  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    13 days ago

    i have seen a few volley ball games with beach balls break out at more than a few concerts…not that anyone was keeping score.

    • pyre@lemmy.world
      9·
      12 days ago

      as someone who’s not really into hiphop/rap that much, Kendrick has some fucking bangers, and that show was hype af.

      only watched it because conservatives are struggling to shit talk it without outright saying “I don’t want to see [black people] during an NFL game”… turns out it was lit. there’s a reason they can’t really say anything about it without being just straight up racist: “that’s not music” - yes it very clearly is & “he’s mumbling” - no he definitely isn’t and his vocals were super clear to understand to the point that I was surprised how clear it was with all the physicality involved. nah they just wanna say “I don’t speak black”.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    142·
    12 days ago

    I can’t imagine this will reach the right audience, but in the lead up to the superb owl this year I was saying that a great sketch about this country would be to have this giant hyped up spectical where everyone’s getting all fucking jazzed up and talking about how all of this epic shit is going to happen and then at the climax of the sketch you get to the actual “action” and it’s just a dude flipping a coin once.

    That’s America IMO, and it’s definitely illustrated fully in the super bowl: six hours for ten seconds of actual action interrupted constantly by bullshit and commercials and followed by idiots tearing “their city” apart because their laundry was crowned “world champions” of a sport only played by people in one country.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
    1922·
    13 days ago

    Real football*, not that American shit.

    (Association Football but Australian Football is cool, too)

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    921·
    13 days ago

    What’s fun about football, tho? I mean, it’s basically a bunch of dudes hitting a sphere for some weird reason or fighting for the pleasure of carrying an egg (and making more money than the most of us while at it)

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        152·
        13 days ago

        Not them but I do actually have a special dislike for football over most other sports, the ratio of stuff happening:boring nothing is really bad when watching and when playing

          • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            71·
            13 days ago

            Professional absolutely, and as a watching sport for sure

            But local games I can actually enjoy playing because theres way less pause between the action in BB than FB. Can get through an entire game of BB with friends or a group in a decent amount of time, though I do wish there was more to do for those on the batting side when they’re not fielded

            • capybeby@sh.itjust.works
              4·
              13 days ago

              Yeah I find watching baseball (professional or otherwise) in person to be wayyyy more fun than on the tv. That being said the recent addition of the pitch clock does make things go much faster even on the tv imo

      • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        12 days ago

        I’m not OP but I dislike football because it’s got a huge risk of TBI for the players, like way more than most sports, even with the helmets. Also it feels really nationalistic and militarized

        • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          12 days ago

          the problem is the helmets do jack shit to prevent TBIs. A TBI is when the brain hits the skull. A helmet will do jackshit to stop that.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
          2·
          12 days ago

          Yeah, I always feel like I’m just watching people give themselves brain damage for trivial reasons when I see a football game. Especially one involving teenagers (or even younger). Then it’s the parents also allowing their kids to get brain damage. It all makes me a little queasy.

      • fl42v@lemmy.ml
        4·
        12 days ago

        I don’t dislike most of them per se, I just don’t understand most of them. I mean, it’s quite impressive what those people can achieve, but I’d rather watch some dude free-climbing in the grand canion or something of that nature ('cause for me even climbing a 20m pipe was scary asf).

        Now that i think of it, football is probably singled out in my mind due to its fans doing some batshit crazy stuff oftentimes. Like dude, chill out, it’s just a bunch of people kicking a ball. Save your molotov for your friendly local politicians.