I sometimes feel i am some sort of freak,owing to the fact i am not the sightest bit interested in football .Everyone at work treats it as some sort of religion,and talk about nothing else,there has always been football but it now seems to have taken over the media and the players are treated like highly paid gods.

Your not the only one, I've also no interest in sport and its part of my job which I find mildly amusing :D

freaks! :D

never liked football, give me motor sport any day :D

Hi there folks, this is my first posting. And 'Freak' prompted me to jump in. Football?? Nope, doesn't do a thing for me. I once read that the Emporor of Rome (sorry cant remember which one) built the Colloseum and put on 'shows' in the arena as a way of controlling the masses. This article said the same applies today in football statiums. The Emperor was seen by the people of Rome as a wonderful leader and his popularity soared. Is football today a means of controlling the masses whilst extracting vast amounts of money - usually from the working man. Call me cynical ........ <_<

Personally, I'd rather watch paint dry.

Well, football clubs are private businesses.

Yeap, they are private businesses. Controlled by very powerful people. It's private business that controls the world after all. But hey, lets not get too heavy.
;)

Football has never really gripped me either but each to their own I suppose.Boxing is more my bag, baby.
I reckon towncenter has a point - Football -the new 'opium for the masses'. Yes I agree with that one.

Are you talking about American football, or what we call soccer? I know there's a difference. Football here is a big deal, but no less so than baseball. My husband is a sports lover, but not a freak about it. So, if you don't love sports like it's a religion, no, you are not a freak. However, if you DO think football is a religion, now that's a freak!
By the way, Texas Longhorns, this year's collegiate champs, YES!

The only football here is "soccer" (though never EVER say that word here in England!!). Of course there is rugby too... which is more similar to your football.

I can't stand football either, I just don't understand the attraction of kicking a ball round a field, nor can i understand why people consider it so important that the team they support wins; its someone else playing, it has no effect on anything and there are so many games that no one can possibly remember each win/lose in the future.

But what i really can't stand is the yobbish behaviour assiociated with football, its just not necessary :ph43r:

In the states, sports have become more about the fun of enjoying the game than about rivalry and competition. We have sports bars, there are the people who paint themselves, as in the tv ads, or we get together at home and make it a party so that the wives and kids can not be "Widowed" on game day. Of course, we do still have the idiots that think it's a life and death struggle rather than a competition.

Well aslong as people are enjoying the sport and not the rivalry then thats ok. I think alot of other countries take a less aggressive attitude towards sports, when i was in Australia i watched Australian football (which is much more entertaining, bit like rugby) with the family i was staying with and the attmosphere rather than them yelling at the television screen they were quite relaxed.

Its when violence and obbsession take a part in sport that it becomes a problem.