The Official if you hate American football you're a huge Candy-Ass thread!

[trumad]

For all you non-football, (I'd rather sun in the park) or play frisbee golf or play Chess and eat brie, or cuddle up next to a fire place reading love stories, or spending your day at a poem reading festival, or wallowing away in silent misery, or posting on DU all Saturday and Sunday afternoon, or just start stupid threads on DU trying to act all snooty because you're just so above watching the greatest game on Earth, er......You're just a bunch of Candy-Asses! ;-)

[HuckleB]

1. Candy?! Mmmmmm. Gooooooood. Asses!? Mmmmmmm. Gooooooood.

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[ThorsteinVeblen]

2. I hate football.

I hate baseball.
I hate basketball.
I hate watching golf.
Tennis is boring.

I love badminton. Does that make me a candy-ass?

[Faygo Kid]

4. Um - well - Sammy Davis Jr. is singing in your honor

Let's just put it that way, and be charitable.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

6. I don't get the SDJ reference

But I have to say SDJ kicks Sinatra's ass. Martin's ass too.

In fact, those guys can't hold a candle to Sammy. SDJ is one of the massively underated mothafuckas ever.

[Faygo Kid]

8. "The Candy Man can, oh yes the candy man can."

Remember the song? Sorry. You asked. All of the Rat Pack kicked butt (maybe not Joey Bishop or Peter Lawford). Have a martini in their honor and watch some damned football.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

11. I hate football.

[Faygo Kid]

12. Guess you said that already.

Well, enjoy what you enjoy, and the rest of us will do the same.

[Drifter]

35. Only if you wear a ...

Tutu while playing/watching it ... Oh ... I guess wearing a Tutu while playing/watching any of those sports would ahh ... never mine.

LOL

Cheers
Drifter

[Faygo Kid]

3. Thank you, sir. You are eloquent and correct.

I defended our honor on "that other thread" (will not dignify it here). Good to have a strong and sound ally. May your teams thrive and prosper (unless they play Michigan State). Please enjoy(?)yet another Lions game on Thanksgiving Day, eat too much and belch profusely. As a great American, you deserve at least that much.

[DBoon]

5. I'd rather watch junkyard wars

I actually learn something.

[ThorsteinVeblen]

7. I do like demolition derbys

and figure 8 racing.

[HuckleB]

9. FIGURE EIGHT! Mmmmmmmmmmm. Goooooooooooood.

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[ThorsteinVeblen]

10. Even better when they are dragging boats behind the cars.

60 MINTUES of DEATH!

[The Sushi Bandit]

13. I love University of Hawai'i football

Go Warriors!!!

Beat BAMA!!!

[Awsi Dooger]

41. I loved the Rainbow Warriors last week

Beat up Army in the first half, 31-7. That was so far clear of my -14 first half wager that I even chuckled when Timmy Chang threw that ridiculous interception with about 45 seconds left in the 2nd quarter, with Army returning it 80 yards for a TD to make it 31-7.

Hawaii has some impressive athletes, especially that rangy playmaking DE whose name escapes me right now.

[JackDragna]

14. Amen.

I hate people who start "I hate this or that" threads. Fuck people if they want to flaunt their dislikes in public. I won't crap on people's likes here normally, but if people start threads to criticize things others here will like, then too bad. Football is a fascinating game to play and watch.

[nemo137]

15. shouldn't this be:

"if you like american football more than rugby or aussie rules football, you're a candyass?"

think about it, in american football, you can pass forward and wear padding. padding! and it's just two lines of guys ramming into eachother anyway.

give me rugby or ice hockey anyday.

[trumad]

16. Ya ever been on the field during an American Pro football game

Ya ever see a 250 pound lineman who can run a 4.5 forty run into a Runningback who's 225 pounds and can run a 4.3 forty? The impact is a violent as you'll ever see.... I'm not saying that rugby's not violent...but those little slow Rugby players would last about 30 seconds on an American Pro football field!

No comparison to the size and speend of American football!

[HuckleB]

18. Don't be so sure about that...

Rugby players might struggle in the NFL, but NFL players might struggle just as much in rugby. The skills don't necessarily transfer as easily as one might think, and the type of cardio conditioning needed to get through a rugby game is very different than that needed for an American football game.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

17. Oh trumad!

Just admit you love me!

You could never hate me!

I am such a sweetheart!

woooohoooo

bwahaha

[ulysses]

19. can I be half a candy-ass?

Spent Saturday tailgating and then shouting myself hoarse at the Auburn-Alabama game. Took a book with me for the tailgating part, though. :)

[commander bunnypants]

20. Bite me asscrack

I think most American Sports are for a bunch of idiot jocks, with no brains, getting paid millions, to do nothing except work one day a week, while others are on the line defending idiots like you, who want to waste their sundays watching so called men beat the shit out of each other.


Screw You with a big S


DDQM

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Geez, Demman, Calm Down!

Wow, that was a rather massive generalization, was it not? All this education and i'm an idiot because i like to watch sports on the weekend?

Seems rather broad.
The Professor

[commander bunnypants]

22. Well I just got generalized

I just react when I get flamed for not liking sports. Never introduced when I was young.


BTW- I am just pissy on Monday Mornings, cause I hate to wake up. I probably misinterpreted the post anyway.

Good day to you.

DDQM

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Understood

I made my point, and you understood it. I understand yours. See! That was easy!
The Professor

[Nailzberg]

24. I don't hate football, I'm just not interested in it.

Really, hating would require me to have some form of emotional investment in the sport. I don't hate it, don't like it, don't watch it, and only really think about football when I'm surfing channels on a Sunday and I pass the channels that show football.

As for being candy assed, used to play this little sport called Rugby. Kinda like football, without all those pads that wimpy footballers hide under.

[KFC]

34. Football is much rougher than rugby

I've played them both. The helmet and pads protect against death, but not pain and injury. By necessity, rugby does not allow blocking or forward passes and tackling is oblique, wrapping the legs.

BTW, I prefer playing rugby but watching football.

[HuckleB]

39. I'll disagree on that one.

I've played both, and, like I wrote above, I disagree. There are some very fierce hits in rugby and a lot of not so fierce hits in football. It's not so one way or the other as it seems be made out on this board. Nevermind that there are simply fewer plays in football, with much less contact overall over the course of a game.

[Jonte_1979]

25. Candy-ass here

Call me crazy but I can't get into sports where the commercials are interrupted by the game instead of the other way around.

[leftofthedial]

26. chocolate or peppermint?

football is tolerable for about 10 minutes two or three time a year and for a whole game if it's part of a decent social occasion.

It's the perfect "national sport" for a neofascist country like Murka. Simplistic, violent and pointless.

[ZenLefty]

27. Few people would call me that to my face

And I hate American football.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

30. hockey is awesome!

YAYYYY

[hussar]

28. That would be me then

prefer Rugby my self

[TopesJunkie]

29. Hate is a strong word.

I seldom watch the game, however. I guess that just makes me an ass!

[Mr. McD]

31. Spectator sports are so boring. YAWN

[HuckleB]

38. People who yawn are so boring.

So very boring.

;)

[DinahMoeHum]

32. If you called a Rugby player a huge C.A., you'd end up with. . .

a mouth full of your own teeth.

They look at "American football" as a game for prissy prima donnas.

:bounce:

[montana_hazeleyes]

33. I love football.

But ,I miss Joe so much. First part of my name and you'll know which Joe I'm talking about.

[WillParkinson]

36. I hate sports...Especially football...so, If I'm a candy ass...

Have a good lick. :-)

[Amaya]

37. I hate football

but I like watching their tight little spandex butts running up and down the field. Ahhh what joy! :D

[drfemoe]

40. Try living with a

compulsive gambler who bets every game, including college, and then watches them all. ALL of them. Do that a couple of years and then get back to me.

[Awsi Dooger]

42. Sounds familiar, I've lost a flock of girlfriends in Las Vegas

Women don't like sports betting or the time-consuming nature of it. I forfeited several promising relationships, especially during my "apprenticeship", i.e. wild subjective stabs before doing exhaustive research via computer.

But my current galpal is a cocktail waitress who works the sportsbook area at a major casino, and she loves that we are doing so well this season! She has even been giving my first half wagering selections to sportsbook customers and receiving generous tips as a result.

I love the first half, Trumad, despise the second half. All the spread destroying "can you believe that?" crap is confined to post-halftime, which I now happly watch minus wagering involvement.

[drfemoe]

43. hey I can sit in the horse

book or poker room all day while 'somebody' plays sports .. we just happened to have been in Texas at the time. Not the same at all.

[MaineDem]

44. Oh goodie, I'm a candy ass!

:evilgrin:

Just add that to the litany of other names...no big deal. But I just don't like football.

[Faygo Kid]

46. Go Lions! Thanksgiving Day!

If you had sat as a little 11 year old in 1962 in a cold Tiger Stadium watching the Lions beat the Packers in an all-time classic, you might have a little more respect. Tradition, my friend, and memories of beloved relatives long gone.

[maxanne]

45. I am a huge Candy Ass

I hate football. It epitomizes so many things wrong in society. And why, should I, as a taxpayer have to subsidize a huge stadium that persons of my gender can't use?

Screw that. :evilfrown:

[chaska]

47. This thing showed up again?

What she said.

I'm a 100% red blooded American man who hates football and everything it symbolizes. It amazes me that Dems are even capable of watching it. To each his own. Not for me.

FYI. This is no comment on anything above (except to echo Maxanne). I didn't read any of this thread.