Why Is Football So Popular?
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Bartram
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Good question...great thread! :tup:
I don't really know the answer, but I DO know there's nothing more exciting than watching your team run a touchdown, or catch a touchdown pass. :jump:
I grew up on football...it's my first :love: My Mother took me to all of SU's games, ever since I was knee high to a duck's ass. I love the sport...I played it when I was younger, w/my boy cousins. I played Powder Puff football in high school. Too girly though...all we did was pull each other's flags.
I love the intensity of the game...the coaches, players and fans all have it. There's nothing like halftime...(well, at least at a black school)...there's nothing like tailgating...especially, at SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY! We knows how to throw a football party baby. :nod:
Another thing so amazing about football, is it is the sport that we use the most metaphorically and as hyperbole in relation to the military/war and visa versa, yet war is such an unpopular thing increasingly in this country.
Just think about all the terms used to describe, for example, Schuartcoff's push to Bagdad in the first gulf war,, i think they called it the "hailmary" or the "end run",, all football terminology. Likewise many military/war references are made in relation to football, like "in the trenches" (the trenches were some of the most brutal warfare known to man in WWI, the civil war and earlier) and "field general", having to go to "boot camp" or "camp" and "big uglies" for linemen("big uglies" were the names given to B-52 bombers during the Vietnam era if i'm not mistaken) or he has a "cannon" for an arm, "passing/air attack" "defense/offense"(from defensive positions holding ground while fighting a war or going on the offensive/offensive maneuvers during a battle).
Actually the military and football (team sports in general but especially football with the controlled violence) have a lot in common in terms of individuals training intensley together to function as one unit and their performance depending on every individual on the team, so i guess it's only natural that the two have such symbiosys in terms of terminology to describe them.
Then there is the south (of course) who had to turn football into a "Blue-Grey" game where one team symbolically (and geographically) represents the original confederate states and the other teams represent the rest of the states from the civil war era and you have the virtual civil war fought every year, symbolically of course.
With technology these days, yeah tailgating is a huge draw. If I was a supporter of Alabama/Auburn I wouldn't bother going into the game, i'd just park the camper, put up the satellite, fire up the grill, catch the best shots of the game and enjoy the tailgating.
Robber
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Wanna know how popular football is??? Yesterday was JSU's Media Day. Y'all know what the temp was like. The team took pics at Memorial. When they got back to campus, they saw us out by the practice field with tents up, grills smoking, and the DJ jamming. We gotta get our fall preseason tailgating practice in, too. 
Y'all shoulda seen the people driving by staring at us with a "I can't believe them fools are out in this HEAT tailgating for a damn scrimmage game." Party started at high noon. Scrimmage started about 6:30. We finally left about 9:15 or so. It was a celebration. All for the LOVE OF THE GAME!!!
Y'all shoulda seen the people driving by staring at us with a "I can't believe them fools are out in this HEAT tailgating for a damn scrimmage game." Party started at high noon. Scrimmage started about 6:30. We finally left about 9:15 or so. It was a celebration. All for the LOVE OF THE GAME!!!Even though I'm not a huge footbal fan, that line of thinking makes the most sense. Good post.