it's early, and it pales in comparison to my love of fantasy baseball, by a lot, a lot, but is anyone in the league down for football in the fall? my best buddy here in the city is a skins fan and really wants in if we do. i justified it to the wife as being less intense from a time standpoint because they only play once a week and it's way down my sports depth chart (mlb, nba, golf and tennis majors, ncaabb, wsop, world cup, then nfl, tour de france, olympic swimming, mma, nascar, ncaafb, and hockey fights (the rest of hockey is down with horse racing and modern boxing as sports that should never be on tv again).)
let me know and rank your sports too if you're feeling it (stand up for hockey travis; i respect it, i just can't watch it)
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I would be in for some fantasy football. Something has to get me through the winter right. My favorite sports in order of importance to me are as follows:
1. MLB
2. UNCW basketball (I know its blasphemy that I live in NC and don't give a shit about the ACC, but oh well.)
3. NFL
4. NBA (only in HD, I find it unbearable otherwise)
5. Women's curling
6. Road track racing of any kind (ovals are too boring for me)
7. Golf
Those are really the only sports I will watch. Sportscenter will show me anything worthwhile that I miss from the rest of the sports world.
damn i forgot road racing. squeeze that in right before tour de france on my list. also, in my limited experience i have found that after watching nba in hd, it is the one sport were you really can't go back to normal tv. go look at carlos boozer's neck stubble in hd; your life will never be the same
NFL and NHL are a very close 1-2 for me, followed by NCAA basketball, the aforementioned golf and tennis majors, NCAA football, MLB, World Cup (pretty much the only soccer I watch), and Triple Crown horse racing (but only when the Crown is actually at stake, making the Belmont meaningless to me at least half the time, Derby and Preakness are great though).
I think the biggest problem with people and the NHL is that a vast majority of people just don't understand the game like they do baseball or football, and thus write it off. People who go to games know that it's the best in-arena experience you can have, especially during the playoffs. I talked my father, who understands football, basketball and baseball but could care less about watching most of them, into going to a Stanley Cup Finals game last season in Raleigh. He was completely blown away and would willingly go back to a game anytime. I think also that the more games you go to, the more you become apt to watching it on TV. If you understand icing and offsides, you can understand most of what goes on on the ice, and pick up the rest pretty easily.
And as for the original question, yes, I'd be down for football.
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