Never watching Football live again

[GagHalfrunt]

I feel bad for you guys. You can always switch to soccer.

So you can watch for 2 hours and see 11 seconds of action instead of 11 minutes? Pass.

 

[Vdubchaos]

What I really like is skipping wasted time between plays too. When the play is over > FF for 2-3 seconds, next play it is.

I did play catch up with Panthers game but watching breaks/commercials became unbearable. So I paused did few little things, came back to FF to what I wanted to see.

I feel bad for you guys. You can always switch to soccer.

Soccer (Football) is my #1 sport. I watch BPL on weekly basis (sometimes 3-4 games on weekends).

:biggrin:

Game = 1.5 hours of none stop action.

 

[Colt45]

Real football is unpopular in america because there is no room for ads.

 

[SP33Demon]

What is sometimes even more frustrating is seeing games live. You will be sitting there and all of a sudden they stop playing and are just standing around. You are like wtf who called a time out. Then you realize that it is a TV timeout. CRAP.


No matter what you say about football, baseball is 100 times worse. I would sit through the worst football game before watching a baseball game.

Baseball is perfect with DVR or MLBTV using the OP's method. It is tough to watch with commercials though if watching live.

 

[Genx87]

Been recording games first hour for years. Lets me get into the 3rd qtr without having to watching a commerical. After watching the BCS games live because we went to bars. I think Nissan and AT&T need to diaf.

 

[Genx87]

Real football is unpopular in america because there is no room for ads.

It is unpopular in America because it is 90+ mins of boring.

 

[Arcadio]

The reason why soccer is so great is that the most exciting parts (the goals) are rare, so when they occur, it makes it worth the wait. The build up to an attack in soccer is great if you are watching great teams play (EPL, La Liga) If goals were easy to score then it would actually be boring. Plus, nations against nations (The World Cup): rivalry that no other sport can match. Of course, not everything is great in soccer: players faking fouls, teams that don't try to attack, FIFA corruption, etc.

 

[Colt45]

It is unpopular in America because it is 90+ mins of boring.

Yeah, because hours of constant stoppages (live) or commercials (on tv) are so exhilarating.

 

[96Firebird]

 

[dr150]

I always DVR games to save massive time, but it's a pain b/c I have to make space on the DVR for 4hrs a piece for college/NFL just to make sure OTs/postgame are recorded.

I run out of space on my DVR, so I always have to delete unseen eps. of my most important shows: All My Children & The View.....I keed, I keed!, but you get the idea.

 

[purbeast0]

49ers fan but you dvr playoff games.

rriigghhtt.

bet you became a 49er fan 3 seasons ago.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I find soccer extremely boring, but I love watching football. Not sure if I can explain why. Scoring is always exciting, but is supposed to be fairly infrequent in both - though slightly more frequent in American football. I think I just enjoy the non-scoring plays in American football better than those in soccer. Smash mouth run plays and well thrown passes are much more interesting to me than a soccer ball being passed around.

 

[SamQuint]

The reason why soccer is so great is that the most exciting parts (the goals) are rare, so when they occur, it makes it worth the wait. The build up to an attack in soccer is great if you are watching great teams play (EPL, La Liga) If goals were easy to score then it would actually be boring. Plus, nations against nations (The World Cup): rivalry that no other sport can match. Of course, not everything is great in soccer: players faking fouls, teams that don't try to attack, FIFA corruption, etc.

I am always going to the bathroom or distracted when they actually score a goal. Can't tell you how many times I have missed a goal being scored.

I just hate when a team has the lead and they are being very defensive and they just play keep away without actually trying to score another goal.

 

[KeithTalent]

I love both Soccer and Football for different reasons.

KT

 

[Ns1]

I love both Soccer and Football for different reasons.

KT

If I'm going INTL...

Cricket > Soccer.

 

[KeithTalent]

If I'm going INTL...

Cricket > Soccer.

I have no fucking clue how cricket works. I've tried watching it, but I don't get it.

KT

 

[Ns1]

I have no fucking clue how cricket works. I've tried watching it, but I don't get it.

KT

I just learned it on my last trip to India. It's like baseball with infinitely more scoring/action.

Ended up watching 5+ hours one night LOL

 

[GagHalfrunt]

The reason why soccer is so great is that the most exciting parts (the goals) are rare <snip>

Therein lies the most perfect explanation of the boredom of soccer ever written and it was incomprehensibly used in a futile attempt to argue the other side of things.

Let me break this down using simple, monosyllabic words:

If fun parts are rare, game sucks much. Snooze fest, don't watch.

 

[gorcorps]

What is sometimes even more frustrating is seeing games live. You will be sitting there and all of a sudden they stop playing and are just standing around. You are like wtf who called a time out. Then you realize that it is a TV timeout. CRAP.


No matter what you say about football, baseball is 100 times worse. I would sit through the worst football game before watching a baseball game.

You should be able to tell that, there are guys on the sidelines with what look like big orange oven mitts. They cross their arms to signal the officials to take a TV timeout the next stop in play.

See the 2nd guy in this article: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7...l-games-houston-reliant-stadium-espn-magazine

 

[dr150]

Rugby is a good alternative with more action.

Shame Rugby didn't become THE de-facto #1 sport in the US, as it's clearly funner to watch as a spectator. Plus, you don't have fat 300lb guys calling themselves "athletes" (of course, this is up for relentless debate) who'd get scorched in most sports.

I'm sure there's an alternate Earth where Rugby is indeed America's #1 sport.....

 

[Arcadio]

Therein lies the most perfect explanation of the boredom of soccer ever written and it was incomprehensibly used in a futile attempt to argue the other side of things.

Let me break this down using simple, monosyllabic words:

If fun parts are rare, game sucks much. Snooze fest, don't watch.

Well, at least the actual playing of the sport is not rare during a game, unlike football.

I'm kidding. Seriously, I've got nothing against other sports, but I feel bad for american football fans with the constant commercial interruption.

 

[Six]

I usually watch football with 5.1 sound setup and turning off the center speaker (the announcers and commercials) .

Redzone is nice, but you lose out on the strategy and tactics.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

If fun parts are rare, game sucks much. Snooze fest, don't watch.

That argument works just as well against American football, per the graph someone posted earlier that showed that actual playing time is roughly 5% of a televised broadcast. It's a nonsense argument; if the fun parts are common, they're also less exciting as there is no novelty. You don't scream like a maniac every single time someone scores in basketball; you'd look like an idiot. But you can do that in soccer because scoring is so much more uncommon, and therefore elicits a greater emotional response. Without the boring bits, the exciting bits don't mean as much.

But I agree that soccer is just harder to watch. I try to get into it around World Cup time, but at a certain point in a game (let's say an hour without scoring), it starts to feel less like palpable tension and more like "hurry the fuck up and DO SOMETHING." And the people flopping all over the field as if they've been shot by a high-powered rifle just because someone came within twenty yards of them? What the hell is that all about? Knock it off soccer.

 

[NoTine42]

Soccer is somewhat like Hockey ... Really, Really great hockey is very exciting to watch..but you only see that during the Olympic gold metal match, or the Stanley Cup finals.

But, everyday "great" hockey is kinda boring.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

the infrequent action does add to the intensity, but agree it can drag on. i dont like DVRing for later because its hard to avoid spoilers. But, starting late and fast forwarding through commercials is awesome.