• HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Hot take from an American: American football actually fucking sucks big time and is incredibly MAGA coded these days.

    People supporting a sport that 90% of former professional players acquire CTE are fucking morons. Especially given how many young kids get into this shit in highschool, and get CTE and become absolute pieces of shit because of it.

    Its baffling this sport and sports with similar problems are still popular, let alone the most popular ones in the US.

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      2 hours ago

      Highschool? Everyone i knew got in in elementary or middle school. Those who tried to start in highschool never even touched the field

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      All I remember about American Football was how fucking slow the pace of the game was compared to literally every other mainstream sport. It was definitely designed for a fat ass country.

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        You dont want to watch 20 minutes total of game play, 974 ads, 40 minutes of dudes squatting in a line, 20 minutes of B-roll and 60 minutes of random people in the crowd, every week for several weeks, while also needing to pay 5-7 services to catch all of your favorite team’s games?

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          No I never watched it. I had the unfortunate pleasure of playing a few games during sports week through my UK school years. It was every bit as fucking boring as you implied. There is a reason only Americans play that shit.