Why You Love Football...........?

[GrnBay007]

Men, Women and Children Love it......Why?

Why do SOOOO many people LOVE football?

Did you love football before you fell for the Green Bay Packers....or....were you born-raised a Packer fan and loved the sport since?

Curious what makes us Rats tick in respect to love of the game of football.

[Bretsky]

Love football because teams pretty much have a fair shake.

Baseball, with current salary rules, is a pathetic excuse for a sport. You know every year the Yankees will buy their way into the playoffs and maybe a title, and a quarter of the teams at least have little to no chance at the beginning of each season.

Pro Basketball, well, if you don't truly love the game, it's just not interesting enough as you can watch the last five minutes of most games and not miss that much.

But Football is the sport where every team truly has a chance at the beginning of each season. It's the most equitable sport salary wise and with a competent GM a team can turn around a franchise within 2-3 years.

I'm a Packer fan, but even without the Packers I'd still love football.

[Mazzin]

Because it's like a drama show, you always want to know whats going to happen next, and then you also have Fantasy Football, that makes it addicting! But I dont know when i see that green and gold on the field my spine gets all tingly!

[Harlan Huckleby]

BS, Mazzin. You like to see the rippling muscles of the strapping black men, forbidden fruit, guys who would get your dad nervous if you brought them home. You think about Donald Driver every night. You can fool the others, but I know you.

But I dont know when i see that green and gold on the field my spine gets all tingly!

ok, well, at least you are getting close to the truth.

[Zool]

Projecting much?

[Harlan Huckleby]

maybe a little. Driver is a very nice man.

[jack's smirking revenge]

Honestly, I don't know why I love professional football. It's annoyingly complicated with all of its crazy rules. It's a game where a few weak links can bring down a whole team. Its players are WAY overpaid for the level of entertainment they provide. The financial disparity between teams (the haves and have-nots) and egomaniacal personalities of those people who own teams can be irritating. It's overblown, overmarketed, overdone...

And its simply entertainment.

So why do I love it? Simply, the Green Bay Packers. If they did not exist-- with their history, their roots in small-town America and their ownership structure--I don't think I would've become so passionate. My love of the Packers has emboldened my love for football itself. The Packers may be "cheesy", but their classiness, integrity as an organization and down-to-Earth aura provide balance in a league overrun by flash, glam and mercenary players and owners.

No team is perfect. Hell, the Packers signing K-Rob has made many across the NFL and in the media go "Huh?" But desperate teams do desperate things in order to appease the masses. The Packers are no different. They want to win and BAD. I believe the GB environment--the virtual "Tundra-ness" of the locale and the city--reduces the ability of players to have a me-first attitude.

tyler

[Harlan Huckleby]

lately, I've enjoyed watching college games more than pros. The college game is a little more wide open. The pro defenders are so damn fast, it is hard to really have any spectacular running plays.

[Zool]

maybe a little. Driver is a very nice man.

He certainly is.

Ive been a Packer fan for as long as I can remember. My oldest memory is from a Sunday at Grandmas sitting around with 6 uncles watching Packer football. Even though they sucked, everyone watched intently every weekend. You just dont see that with many other sports fans. I've been hooked ever since.

[GBRulz]

What B said pretty much hit it dead on for me, but I would like to add a few things....

Those tight ends are an added bonus

The season isn't too long. Then again, even if the NBA were only 2 months long, I still wouldn't watch it.

The social aspect of it. People are usually up for having a get together to watch the game. I am thinking back of the last time I had friends over for a Brewer game where we grilled brats, drank lots and followed the game? Hmmm, I think never is my final answer!

I do have to say though that being a Packer fan has increased my love of the game overall. My Dad moved us to FL for about 8 years while growing up, moved back to WI when I started H.S. so I didn't really start following them religiously until the Majik years. Living in FL I was pretty much a Fins fan. Loved baseball, but at the time, the closest team was Atlanta. Then the strike happened and I said "screw baseball"....

[Badgepack]

Born and raised in Wisconsin, every Sunday, whether it be at home, at a relatives, or over to a friends house, everyone would be watching the Packer game, always.

So, I guess I was a Packer fan before a football fan.

[Tony Oday]

There are a lot of reasons I love this game

Season length EVERY GAME COUNTS! You go on a 10 game tear it means something. You do that in any other major team sport and you have a nice little run.

Players are uniformed and covered up. Sounds stupid but I am so sick of the thug attitude coming from the NBA it is rediculous. I dont want to watch a bunch of malcontents on the field/court/ice.

Hitting this is also why I like hockey

Salary cap. When Buffalo and Green Bay can spend just as much as Washington and New York you know you did something right.

Scouting and drafting. Draft picks can have an immediate impact and if they suck you can cut them and not have to pay them the whole contract. In the NBA you have guys like Nddi Eubie who have never payed a minute of NBA ball but made 13million for being drafted STUPID!

Preseason. Its short and you get to see the young guys play.

Fantasy Football

The fact that people like my Dad and my wife can watch the game and like it even though they dont know the people on their teams!

The fact that my Dad traveled 48 weeks out of the year but was home on weekends and we would go to Eau Galle Wisconsin to watch The Majik Man and Lynn and Dillwig and Woodside. I loved those days.

Football is the one sport in the US that you can take a nice relaxed approach to have some friends over and watch a game that means something.

College football blows in my mind because they should be getting paid a salary since the schools and the NCAA make so much why do they get a monopoly?

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

Brett Favre

[jack's smirking revenge]

Brett Favre

Good answer, but what happens when he's gone? (It's inevitable.)

tyler

[MJZiggy]

I, like others loved the Packers first as that's who was on in the living room growing up. As I watched the Pack, I learned football and here's why:

Football is a thinking sport, as in it's 3rd and 4 what are they going to do? Pass it? run? reverse? is there a trick play coming? How will the defense handle it? On 4th down, will they go for it? FG? Punt?

It's also the ultimate team sport. You can be really good a what you do in football, but without the rest of your team it doesn't mean anything. A star receiver is nothing if his qb can't throw. A Pro Bowl running back won't get very far without a line blocking for him and on and on. Individual performance is merely a cog in the larger wheel here.

It's explosive. Suddenly, everything goes right and you break a run for 40 yards. When's the last time that happened in tennis? Or even soccer?

And, as some others said, any team can win on any given week. You can't really say with all that much certainty who will win (even if you are doing really well in your pick 'em). Besides, I know more about football than my Dad-in-law. It's almost like I'm the football fan kid he's always wanted.