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Originally Posted by rubecube
It's easier to like a league when you've got a rooting interest in one of the teams. There's a reason the CFL is a Canadian-only phenomenon and the NFL dominates the rest of the world.
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Nobody cares about football outside of the US and Canada. The NFL doesn't even register, and there's a reason it never worked when they tried taking it overseas - IT'S BORING! "NFL dominates the rest of the world" - what a joke.
Your bolded statement is why the NFL is popular, along with fantasy teams and a culture built around gameday, as the games aren't nearly exciting enough on their own to entice fans from other countries. NFL blows goats and has since the late 80s; I'd 1000X rather watch American college ball or the CFL.
The one thing the league does excel at is hype and flash to cover up the fact that 95% of the game is sheer tedium and maybe 5% mildly entertaining. "Ooh, a fair catch!" "Wow, 2 yard run into the line!" "Look, he threw the ball 4 yards downfield!" "Another fair catch!" Now that's excitement!
Again, I don't spend the whole NFL season in the NFL threads putting down the grinding borefests that pass as professional football games in the US, so why do people insist on coming into a Canadian football thread and making the same tired observations about how the CFL is bush and the NFL is the realm of gods who kindly condescend to come down and play football for the entertainment of their worshippers. Every year it's the same crap and it gets real old, real fast.