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I used to watch football. I realized it's because I liked looking at men's butts. Football players do have nice butts but, meh. Guys who ride bicycles have really nice butts and I don't have to watch TV because I see them all the all the time riding by my house. (Yeah, that means you have a nice butt, James. I don't see you because you live in Canada and I don't. I see the people who come to train in the high altitude of Albuquerque.)

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As I live in Europe, watching "football" means "soccer".

I actually can't stand American Football. It has too many breaks, and therefore too many adverts. TV has definitely advanced - nowadays, it's all about the adverts!

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I confess that I love (American) football. I have no justification. I enjoy the strategy. Sigh. Go Steelers!

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I have a love hate thing with pro football: I hated it until I was in my 40s when I’d spent my entire Sundays watching pre game shows, a few games and topped it off with the post game shows. Then I discovered the link between the players and violence off the field and now I hate it again. It’s really small wars in every game: trying to take territory away from each other.

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I don't like organized sport, or religion. Some people think sports and religion are one in the same. There was a fella named Billy Sunday, in the early 20th century who said that Christianity is masculine. He encouraged athletics and physical fitness. I think some people take that idea too far, and turn their masculinity into a toxic brew of religion and narcism.

My mother's second husband watch football. I had no interest in it. At the time I was only interested in Music, Art, Science, and Witchcraft.

When I was in broadcasting in the 1980s, the baseball and football players went on strike. My attitude at the time was "Stay on strike, who fuck needs your sorry greedy asses." When they went on strike they fucked a lot of people, and not in the fun way. People who worked at the stadiums didn't work, and didn't get paid. People who owned concession stands at the stadium lost tons of money. People who had season tickets got royally fucked. So I said, "stay on strike you sons-of-bitches." but not on-the-air. I once farted with the mic still open, but no one seemed to notice since I was playing Jimi Hendrix "Purple Haze."

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