Wake me up.

[magooch]

I got up this morning, did my usual get the morning going routine and then flipped the TV on in preparation to watch a football game (NFL).  It was still a little early for the game, but not really watching the TV, I hear this news show and it's all about crazy sounding events--domestic and worldly--and I thought it must be some grade B sadistic. ironic spoof movie.  So I actually looked at the screen and sure enough, it was tuned to Fox News and I thought--am I really awake?  Well the game is on now, so I'll settle for that, but I'm not sure what to do about the news.  Pinching myself doesn't help.

[Lloyd Smale]

you lost me at waiting to watch a flipping football game.

[ironglow]

you lost me at waiting to watch a flipping football game.

   i don't watch  football either.. but I have plenty of friends who do.   They are decent, sensible people so far as I can see.

[Dee]

I'm watching the Cowboys play the Bill's right now. Got interested in football again after many years of lack of interest.

[Graybeard]

I guess I've not watched pro football since Joe Namath was still playing. Looking at him in commercials on TV now makes me wonder how many years that was. Dang he looks old and worn out now.

I watch some college games. This season I have watched the Bama games and Georgia games and I think I watched Michigan and Ohio State play each other. I will watch the playoff games on January 1 and the championship game on January 8 and that's it.

I've never watched a single basketball game in my life and darn few more baseball games than that. I do not watch any professional sports PERIOD.

[Casull]

Well, I watched up until Capernick.  Haven't since his putrid displays.

[Land_Owner]

At least college football is about pride, school spirit, and the appearance of sportsmanship (but not on the field). The pros, meh, they're about the money.

Basketball, you can have it. I PLAYED almost every day while I was in New Orleans.  A true 8-hour day of shooting hoops (for fun) and you can get good - like Pete Marovich - good.  Play against the inner city's "best" and you get cocky good.  Stand beside the tallest of the NBA and you feel SMALL.

I enjoyed intermural softball with all the rudiments of baseball and girls in short shorts!  Nothing wrong with that.

[Dee]

College football used to be pride and school spirit. Now its about scholarships, cars, and the NFL draft. 

[nw_hunter]

College football used to be pride and school spirit. Now its about scholarships, cars, and the NFL draft. 

Do college football players get paid?
Player advocates say the new exclusive broadcast deal signed by the Big Ten athletic conference is further evidence that college football is no longer amateurism. The Big Ten is set to make a lot of money.

Most payed players

Shedeur Sanders - $4.5M.
Arch Manning - $2.8M.
Caleb Williams - $2.6M.
Travis Hunter - $2.1M.
Drake Maye - $1.5M.
Evan Stewart - $1.4M.
Marvin Harrison Jr. - $1.3M.
Michael Penix Jr. - $1.2M
Sounds like Pro Football to me.

I quit pro football after Caperhick. Now I'm about through with college football as well. It has become (All about money)

[Dee]

College football used to be pride and school spirit. Now its about scholarships, cars, and the NFL draft. 

Do college football players get paid?
Player advocates say the new exclusive broadcast deal signed by the Big Ten athletic conference is further evidence that college football is no longer amateurism. The Big Ten is set to make a lot of money.

Most payed players

Shedeur Sanders - $4.5M.
Arch Manning - $2.8M.
Caleb Williams - $2.6M.
Travis Hunter - $2.1M.
Drake Maye - $1.5M.
Evan Stewart - $1.4M.
Marvin Harrison Jr. - $1.3M.
Michael Penix Jr. - $1.2M
Sounds like Pro Football to me.

I quit pro football after Caperhick. Now I'm about through with college football as well. It has become (All about money)

[Lloyd Smale]

and PAY. i wont watch ANY "rainbow" sport!!

College football used to be pride and school spirit. Now its about scholarships, cars, and the NFL draft. 

[Land_Owner]

College football used to be pride and school spirit. Now its about scholarships, cars, and the NFL draft. 

Has college football not always been about scholarships?  All classes paid.  Cushy room and board.  All meals paid.  FREE college education.  Fame and follow-on fortune for those that "perform" well. 

Cars, clothes, and "pocket money" have always been wrong.  The alumnae though have always found ways to make "contributions" to the program under the table.  College alumnae's getting caught put the crosshairs of the NCAA "Death Penalty" to work.  Ask Southern Methodist University - iirc.

There were some (mostly disadvantaged) with nothing from the get-go.  Getting those players to sign commitment letters came through gifts and promises to players families from alumnae (I think). 

[Lloyd Smale]

colleges give them all that crap because people watch it. quit watching and it cures everything. just saw on tv yesterday where the nfl players are demanding no more pre season games because they dont get enough time off!! there playing a (censored word) game for millions of dollars a year and there claiming there overworked!!! wonder how much theyd wine 50 feet in the air on a pole in a blizzard after working a 60 hour week. or with bullets flying at their squad car. or getting shot at in a country you never heard of 6 months ago for 30k a year.

[Lost Oki]

The following will tell you how much sports I watch.   
One day at work, on the way to lunch with a vendor (yes, free lunch) he asked who I thought was going to win the World Series.  My reply, "Don't know, who's playing...like maybe the Bears and the Suns??.  He looked at me kinda funny and the HR Manager told him not to ask me about sports, he doesn't watch any of them. 
I have gone to a black powder shoot at Friendship IN., Have watched part of a Junior high girls softball game because a friend's daughter was playing.  Other than that, I spend my time in the work shop, reloading, shooting and fishing out of my kayak and some gardening.  I do watch Sci Fi shows and I watch Gutfeld.

[Ranger99]

I haven't watched any National Felons League
related anything in years.
As long as the kneeling and phoney baloney
not-a-national-anthem is tolerated, I never will

[magooch]

Wait, I didn't mean this to be about football; it was meant to be about the insane state of the world we live in.  The news is just nuts.

[Dee]

Wait, I didn't mean this to be about football; it was meant to be about the insane state of the world we live in.  The news is just nuts.

LOL, when has any topic on gbo ever stayed on topic?

[nw_hunter]

Wait, I didn't mean this to be about football; it was meant to be about the insane state of the world we live in.  The news is just nuts.

LOL, when has any topic on gbo ever stayed on topic?

I remember one back in 2015.......I think!