Professional football, and to a lesser degree college football, is so popular right now in the US. Folks spend more time dissecting football, including fantasy league, betting, and just simple (simpletons more like) fans. Don't get me wrong football is fun (I used to play waaay back) and entertaining. However, it occurs to me why it is so popular, especially with the male populace of the viewing world, it's like bad sex. For the most part men will take sex in any shape, form, or outlet whether it's good or bad. American football is the same, huge anticipation on each play, and if it develops into a "big" play, it's like premature you know what - messy with spilled liquids and jumping around. If one's favorite team "scores" it's a victory dance, not unlike most dweebs who get laid for the first time. I see why baseball is more attractive for women (at last survey done by Rasmussen a few years back more women prefer baseball to football between the two, basketball wasn't part of the question) it's more a longer process, where one has to work harder to score points (runs if you will) and to win a close game requires concentration and attention to details. Football can be sloppy and guys will still "take the win", baseball can be sloppy but the results are more mixed between the sexes on who wins or loses. Guys will always be satisfied with "at least getting the W", women generally care not only about winning but how you won to get the "W" or if you did everything you could. I tend to dislike gender stereotyping, and for the most part I find the differences between the sexes to be not that big (if there is much at all to be perfectly honest). However, in general popular culture (which most of us actually pay attention to even if we claim we don't which I do) there is this obvious disparity about football.
Football, are you gonna go for it on "4th and inches?" Baseball, who do you bring in for relief? The lefty or righty? Sorry, but football is much more condusive to the basic male mentality of "at least they scored, it wasn't pretty, but they scored". Just like sex, guys erupt and it's good for them, regardless. So football is just the same, every play offers the opportunity to shoot one's wad, whether it's a big hit, a long bomb, a kick return, a winning field goal in overtime, etc etc. In baseball, there are these similar types of situations but they are few and far between and the effort involved to get there to the end requires much more mental focus for the fan. Football doesn't, at least the watching of it, not the mid-game updates or the pre/post game analysis or fantasy totals and that nonsense, but just viewing the game itself.
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