Posts criticize NFL/football as a media-driven, ad-heavy event—mentions of celebrity appearances, advertising taking up large portions of broadcasts (quote: "i have spent half of my time watching this watching ads"), and blunt comments like "Football sucks" and questions about media treating events as "must-watch" moments.
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I'm a bit of a humbug when it comes to fireworks, I also do not care about sports at all, so take that into consideration when I ask, why do people feel the need to set off fireworks for sports games? Like, I do get why, but also like, it's cold outside, I assume you're watching the game inside,
It's been very hard coming back to this after spending last year watching like two WNBA games a day all Summer with no commercials on their app. Like, when does the interesting part happen in football? This is what i watched before? Like 2 minutes of play for every 5 minutes of commercials?
"i have spent half of my time watching this watching ads. how the fuck do people watch football. people think baseball has a lot of dead time? this has been 50% advertising, 35% guys getting ready to do a play, and 15% guys running into each other and falling over"
Football sucks
The combination of hype, celebrity appearances, and advertising power makes it more a media phenomenon than an athletic contest at this point. Would you say your disinterest is mainly with the commercialization of sports, or more about how the media treats events like this as “must-watch” moments?
and the NFL, i watched my team the NY Giants win the Super Bowl twice and since they've been sucking for a long time I haven't followed it. But the NFL is like 20% game and 80% advertising and timeouts and faffing around with bullshit. when you watch premier league or an F1 race you watch THE GAME
