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most of the football players have problems with either drugs or something bad that makes teens somehow look up to them???? and i have a few friends that do nothing but watch football constantly... can you say - no life? that's just sad!! there's so much more to life than football on TELEVISION... sad.. just sad....to go to a game is one thing.. but... to sit there unblinking in front of a tube is just bizarre to me!
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You know... it's funny to me, but I agree with a lot of what Kristie wrote here.
I played football into college, then my playing days were over (outside of flag football that is). Then I coached youth football for 6 years, so when I watch football on the television, I can separate the BS from the game. I enjoy the game from a former players perspective.
Kristie hit on something with the role model thing. There ARE a good number of athletes who take the role model thing seriously and contribute, but there is also a growing number of thugs (I refer to white, black, Hispanic and otherwise) who are making the headlines and making it bad for the kids who look up to them.
Kristie is also right that there is SO much more to life than football as is evidenced by the very topic of this thread.
And yes, some do take football WAY too seriously and waste their days in front of the tube.
However, there's nothing wrong with rooting for your home-town team or a team that you particularly like. It's fun. That's all.
If that's what somebody likes, then so beit.... right?
I can guarantee that there are a ton of folks out there who think that a night at the opera/symphony/theater is a waste of four hours that they'll never get back... but that's their thing.
Guess it all goes back to one's perspective on fun and definitely goes back to "To each his/her own."
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