Why is the NFL important?
 

What service does it provide? The ability to brag that your demographical location is FAR superior to the others?..Hatfields and McCoy....ape-like territorial piss-wars?...it make no rational sense when you step back and reflect.


The synthetic rivalry is so intense...they can exploit you for $35 to park and $9 a beer....just to show how serious you re about your..."something".

It's a joke..being played on all suckers. It doesn't differentiate...just steals your cash.

They are a mega-corporation...and their main objective if to exploit you for $$..while acting like they are actual living breathing entities. It's sham 101.

#BlackPlauge

Every castle needs a jester.

Why is it so important to step back before you think about it?

Nobody in KC cares about the Vikings....its just Bernays's derivative emotional extortion

Because when you get the sense you are being exploited...you usually are. The whole master/slave thing....

My OP was a question..why do you care enough to spend money that toggles into the "gouge" range...

Is the appeal an organic community in a digital world? Is the community more important than the actual sport?

I'm essentially asking..why do you give a shit?

It's entertainment and escapism.

Crack is a bad drug.

Oh no, there's no crack smoking here. The hippie lettuce is strong with this one. I'm thinking a playlist filled exclusively with Greatful Dead and Widespread Panic songs is set to go at all times.

I think the answer is pretty obvious.

For generations, hell centuries, fathers and sons have bonded over sports, and emotional attachments are made to the teams that you've bonded over.

That bonding has grown to include mothers and daughters over the last few generations.

It's something to do.

This. For many sports becomes a large portion of ones culture of sorts. All of my family and friends are diehard Royals and Chiefs fans, and for many who move away we still keep in touch and discuss our teams on almost a daily basis. To milkman point, my closest bonds to my dad and grandfather also had to do with sports, and them coaching me and bonding over the teams we followed. As one who's travelled and worked across the US, sports are not pretend, they are a part of what makes you who you are and how people get to know one another. There is a big difference for sports fan watching Cleveland or Kansas City celebrate a championship versus NYC.

When you start thinking like you are life can lose its luster. Cheer up, not everything has to be a world changing event.

Life is full of other things
NFL is not that important
Fun entertainment but not a requirement or all that important

Importance of anything depends on what you compare it to. NFL is just for fun. I love it.

Its an entertainment service.
People will pay what the market can support for any particular service or good.

Also tribalism. Humans are still tribal animals.

If the made up territorial "wars" and high prices are the basis of your question, you should substitute "NFL" with "all pro sports". If your question is why are pro sports important, I can't give you a worded answer. I would, if I had the ability to do so, take you back in time and drop you off at any gathering in KC on 11/1(into 11/2)of last year, or the parade a few days later. Then we would wisk off to the streets of Cleveland on 6/19. I'm sure your question would be answered there.

Because I like graceful violence, performed at an elite level by world-class athletes, and presented in a neat, dramatic package.

You are a schmuck if you go to every Chiefs game every year, though.

What the **** is a plauge?

Shut the **** up

You are a total ****ing idiot. Get off the pills dude they are frying you

WTF? It's entertainment...just like any other sports league, just like TV, just like (most) books, just like magazines, just like radio, just like music....

Ask the Europeans why soccer is so important. Ask avid opera and theater fans why that is so important. Ask people why spending 150.00 to see a concert is so important.

Geez dude, are you even human?

Take your Progressive Marxist politically correct BS elsewhere !!! American sport is the last bastian of true real American combat outside of the military and even both the military and American sport have been severely hindered by your Progressive ideological ilk and their lawyers who strip us of our rights,property and $$ everyday !!

"Progressivism" seeks to gut the American way of Life and especially American Spirit of every American individual every day. You don't see this because you don't know history.


Yes, I was political in this forum because YOU were political !! As Patrick Henry said, "Give me Liberty or give me Death" !! Ban me if you must.:rolleyes:

You're a dumb **** too

Come on, mods! Make it happen!

Tickets are a good tax deduction

It's not.

You need a distraction from your shit life and an excuse for your alcoholism. NFL does both.

Sure it's rigged, but so is all TV including reality. Do you not watch movies or TV show? Do you just sit inside a cardboard box all day?

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True. If there wasn't football-there would be something else to entertain us or take up time.

Of course it's a mega-corporation. Evey NFL owner just got their $222.6 million for the 2015 season.

Yet taxpayers need to pay for this shit?

Yea. Don't go knocking vicarious warfare. It is almost always preferable to the real thing.

You post some of the most worthless and meaningless shit on the entire board. I hope for your sake and those who have to be around you in real life, that this is all trolling.

He is a DC regular. Like the rest that post over there daily he is truly that bat shit crazy.

well, yeah.

**** the Broncos.

Bread and Circuses.

You're one of the rudest planeteers...

When people talk about leaving the Planet because of people being assholes, and the tone of this place being shitty... it kind of flows back to people like you.

Your type of persona has ruined Chiefsplanet.

It's entertainment. Entertainment is important.

In its early days, it was cool civic pride. There's still a little of that, but for the most part it's turned into a big life-action movie.

People that can't help themselves from spouting religious and political opinions in the main forum on completely unrelated topics deserve all the criticism they receive, IMO.

That guy is the worst offender.

You've been around long enough to know that "You're a dumb **** too" is CP's way of saying "I respectfully disagree with your assertion as well".

SAUTO is just being polite.

It's not important, but its fun to watch. The good thing about sports is that you really don't have to pay to enjoy it. However, I've never understood the bragging aspect of it and why people feel like they need to talk shit on other fans. It's even more trivial when it comes to college because the ones that talk the most smack either didn't attend the school that they follow or didn't even attend college at all.

the most intelligent thing said in this thread

and **** THE RAIDERS

You are a ****ing hypocrite.


And pretty full of yourself too.

Hey, I found this on the floor. I think it fell out of your purse.
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ChiefsShrink should be banned from the main lounge IMO. He posts enough political and religious stuff here, even commenting that he knows it's wrong while doing it, multiple times a month. I don't come here for the political/religious nonsense. There's a reason the DC lounge exists.

:D

You can ask that same question about all societal things we do, literally. We are on a planet in a universe more vast than a mind can ever properly comprehend.

Can't wait for kickoff.

Most zealot type fans are "wannabes" who know they will "never be" thus live vicariously through their favorite sports teams, celebrity athlete,NASCAR driver, MMA fighter, even WWF wrestler:D etc..... Most feel that this is the only way to feel like a winner in their own lives because their lives are that shallow.

I love ya Lew and Jesus loves you even more !!;)

You should be banned from the Lounge.

Period.

End of story.

Agreed

The answer is obvious. Cheerleaders.

If you really are a therapist, I feel sorry for each and every one of your clients.

Shrink is a loon

Yeah, that....

...or they just happen to like the sport...

Does that moron not realize he's posted on a fan site teamboard for years??? Guess he's a zealot too.

But there are several teams (Packers is one off the top of my head, I think the Giants also) that do not have cheerleaders.

This one pretty much aligns with my perspective. Oh, and I like American style football played at the professional level.

If you're referring to why the NFL is popular more so than any other sport in the U.S right now, I think it involves a few things:

1. The sense of cultural belonging to supporting a local football team on a cool, crisp autumn evening or Saturday afternoon in the fall in high school.

2. How relatively inexpensive the sport is when compared to baseball and hockey.

3. The size of the sporting venues are larger than any other sport out there in the U.S.

4. The violence of the sport appeals to our id.

5. The strike of 1994 in MLB caused a fall in the popularity of MLB.

I'm behind this...

The better question is 'why would someone with such dislike for a sport or team spend so much time here?"

This place is like the 4 c h a n of NFL fan sites...

Irony...

Nope, more simple...

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I"ll take "hes a dumb****" for $1000

That is so rude. You are probably the rudest person in history. You are ruder than Rick Rude.

I'm more ravishing also

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I want to see a Ravishing Rico Rude mulletman character

I know this LIFE is better with football, baseball and fishing and sucks without it.

Also when you take your kids to their first Chiefs game or Royals game or them catch a big fish and that's all they talk about for a year as if it was the greatest day ever then you know that time was special. So is NFL, MLB, Fishing important? They are to me. Then you take them out and do it again because that's what it's all about.

It's amazing to see Ops transformation into this Claylike cartoon
This place does strange things to people.

You are just a shill for the corponeofascist media and the new order illuminati annunaki reptilian grey draconian lie

Also freemasons

I've asked him several times if he's had any patients that lived.

Chemtrails and haarp

LMAO

While I'll admit the OP wasn't my finest work....whiskey bender, I was just exercising the Hermetic principle of polarity...without duality, you stifle the natural flow of energy between opposites. Just keeping it alive when I'm bored...

There is no story, in written history, without adversarial components...