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    The most fun take I heard about this: “Why are they playing a football game at the Bad Bunny concert?”

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    It was weird when American food franchises started advertising that they would show “the big game this weekend” in Canada and no one knew what they were talking about.

    Then it started defaulting to that it must be that American game. Now I imagine most people hear about it from the internet before those signs go up.

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    If we’re doing bread and circuses in a state-funded colosseum, at least make it interesting and turn some wild animals loose or something. Even the Romans did better than a bunch of sweaty guys tossing around a pig hide in between ads.

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    And again, two bands of brawlers beat themselves up over a ball, and they call this uncivilized bar fight “football” despite carrying the ball in the hands most of the time.

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    My folks’ fav characters got killed off a few episodes ago but for some reason everyone is still hyped for the finale

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      Meh, I’d like sportsball better if they didn’t spend my taxpayer funds on stadium construction.

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        Or at least if we retained ownership of the stadium afterwards. I’d be a lot less annoyed if we were charging rent to the teams who use them.

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        Yes that is something that’s not right and you are entirely justified in being upset about it.

        However it’s kind of unrelated as here you are being kind of a douchenozzle and shitting on people for liking different things than what you like. Which is kind of ironic give how much supposedly a lemming should be different from others and liking other things, like Linux over “Normie” windows.

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    Best time to go grocery shopping, stores are empty

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      the superbowl is the great american holiday of spectacle. the people who watch it for the game are frustrated the best games happened in the playoffs, not the superbowl and that it’s bloated with ads. the people who watch for the commercials are frustrated that they’re less inventive and that they get pre-released before the super bowl. the people who watch for the halftime show are stuck for 2+ hours waiting for the part they like. the people who watch for the bloodsport don’t like that the rules have been adjusted to reduce the harm players experience for their entertainment. the only thing that’s holding all these groups together are a mutual desire to eat tortilla chips, dips, and sausages.

      and nearly 50% of all americans watch. more people watch than vote. and none of them are happy with it. and we don’t even get a day off for it. it’s our most bizarre national ritual.

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    I’m surprised I didn’t see anything like this yet… Years ago, I heard the superbowl was one of the most important events to… traffic children. It makes sense because a lot of people are traveling internationally to one city. No one is going to question big families traveling together or an uncle traveling with many young ladies. Hotels can be reserved by entire entities who can trade/sell people floor by floor. The cover is that it’s a party. It’s terrible and terribly easy…

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    Everytime one of my frienda where’s a scarf of our local soccer club, I’m gonna tell them their cosplay looks fabulous.

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      The scarf is a stretch cuz the players don’t wear scarves, but I love it when my non-sports friends call my sports apparel fabulous. Wearing a jersey with a player’s name and number is inarguably cosplay. If they’re wearing too much apparel (usually the shirt and the shorts), the traditional insult is “full kit wanker”.

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      Is there a /r/ihatesportsball equivalent for douchey people like you who think they are above liking sports?

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        You lead a very sheltered life as a sports enjoyer if you think this comment belongs in an “I hate sportsball” community.

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        We don’t just think it. It’s 100% true and you are annoyed by us because you know it is too!

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          How do your farts smell? Lmao.

          I personally couldn’t care less about the Superbowl or American Football, I am just not a fucking douche and I let people enjoy things even if I don’t enjoy them.

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    they say something about football and then it’s a bad bunny concert, a massive ad show and some handegg things