Real football being played
But is Urban Meyer there?
I’m in.
Lol at the fake dvotes. Bullies!!
Football is here?? Wasn’t ready for that.
He co-owns a restaurant in my town and on their website is a picture of this happening. Kinda funny, pretty cool they all have a sense of humor about it too!
Football on every weekend until Super Bowl
yes!
The most unwatchable game of the year. Hard pass.
I’m watching classic UM games on YouTube instead.
What is your favorite classic to watch? Mine I think is Under the Lights 1.
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:51 PM ^
Please stop posting all the time, or at least temper yourself a little. You are always either the first or second person to post and then you keep posting conversationally throughout. Your conversation is not what I visit this site for.
Sorry.
"Real" football.
CFL has been going on for over a month and it's way better than NFL preseason.
I love football. I love watching it. It's awesome.
But the preseason is so, so awful. I'm so thankful that there are summer things to do still.
I always watch the lions just to see how the rookies look
That's fair, but honestly it's too depressing for me. I'm more tuned in to Michigan's roster than the Lions, though, so if Michigan played meaningless preseason games I'd probably watch every down.
Not real football. I’ll only watch preseason on Hard Knocks.
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^
Preseason is garbage IMO
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^
NFL is so boring it's hard to watch.
August 2nd, 2018 at 10:37 PM ^
I agree
August 3rd, 2018 at 12:00 PM ^
It really is. The only watchable NFL to me is the post season games. NCAAF is by far a superior product (I'm not talking about play on the field).
August 2nd, 2018 at 11:28 PM ^
I was trying to keep up with this game at a concert that my wife and I took my daughter to, I was that starved for football. Not even sure who the hell was on stage, I was that starved for football.
August 3rd, 2018 at 12:18 AM ^
Football is objectively just not a great sport. Michigan football is a great spectacle and event.
Please take this in the friendly tone in which it is intended:
Football is objectively not just a great sport, it's the greatest sport (FTFY).
You can't judge football based on the HOF preseason snoozer any more than you can judge tennis on an early-round low-seed ace-and-error fest at Indian Wells, soccer on a dreary 0-0 draw between Leeds United and Sheffield Wednesday, hockey on an awkward October trap-fest in front of 300 bored fans in Vermont, or basketball based on any game Bo Ryan ever coached.
Football has incredible strategy, beautiful athleticism, a startling diversity of physical gifts, exquisite tension, and spectacular moments of brilliance. In addition, it operates better than any other sport on scarcity of product, holding only one game per team a week for only a few months of the year. As a bonus, this scarcity allows it to be accessible to far more people, so that even people who barely follow sports can catch a highlight or two and the final score and feel included, while crazy folks like us can spend the entire week breaking down every player's grade on every play.
In addition, as you rightly mention, college football in particular does spectacle and event and rivalry like nobody else. Tailgates and marching bands and fan interaction and massive crowds. And games that matter--One rivalry can make a legacy. One game can turn a season. Moments that matter--one play can turn a game. Inches that matter--one second or one yard can turn a play.
Every game. Every play. Every second. Every yard.
It's not a great sport. It's the greatest sport.
Appreciate the thought that went into the reply...though I would've expected you'd be on board with hockey being the greatest sport on Earth!