NFL Discussion

yancy wrote:

yancy wrote:Still, fuck that closing ballad & military montage.

No offense to Members-Only Ninja Turtles Fan Forum's resident American hero Ned Braden, I just have a kneejerk distaste for patriotism, especially in a sporting context.

raj bigson wrote:Some of you have probably already seen this from a few days ago, but if not, its worth a read. Laughed so hard I had to take breaks before finishing it.

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/30/5351052/breaking-madden-super-bowl-broncos-seahawks

Ned Braden wrote:I was watching the puppy bowl.

undo wrote:

Ned Braden wrote:I was watching the puppy bowl.

This was horrible television. And I say this as someone who watches 2 hour-long Dog Shows whenever they're televised.

undo wrote:And I say this as someone who watches 2 hour-long Dog Shows whenever they're televised.

petey wrote:

raj bigson wrote:Some of you have probably already seen this from a few days ago, but if not, its worth a read. Laughed so hard I had to take breaks before finishing it.

http://www.sbnation.com/2014/1/30/5351052/breaking-madden-super-bowl-broncos-seahawks

This is great

The NFL is awful. In its size, its cultural omnipresence; in the comfortable planes of orbit its gravity provides for the dipshittiest commercial expressions—don't let your disapproving nag-harpy of a wife keep you from watching football with your bros, bro!—of self-entitled dudebro avarice; in the soft-focus gauze of mythological virtue and leadership with which it shrouds its asswipe heroes—Vince "Winning Is Everything" Lombardi, Bill "A Complete And Total Fucking Psycho" Belichick; in the relentless enforced stupidity with which it talks about itself; in its callous disregard for the well-being of the people whose toil is its lifeblood; in its glorification of brutality, its reckless conflation of itself with actual combat; in its cynical defenses of its status quo, its monumentally disingenuous half-gestures toward improved conditions for the workers who make it go, and in its enabling of the continued enrichment of a churlish little shitbag vulgarian in a feathered headdress, the NFL embodies everything that is worst—dumbest and most destructive and reactionary—about American capitalism. Like American capitalism, it is a malignant cancer, and deserves to die.

It's not going to die in 2014. Hell, the confetti from the upcoming Super Bowl will scarcely have settled before coaching-carousel intrigue, free-agent movement, draft speculation, and talk of their fantasy football implications will rev the fan-interest engine back into motion. Realistically, it's not going to die in 2015, either—or 2016 or 2017 or 2018. Hell, it may very well outlive most people who will read this. But, it deserves to die, and horribly, and in scandal and disgrace and shame, and soon, and the world will be a better place when it does. Here's hoping.