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I'm doing both, since neither team is my team I'm only half paying attention to it.

I also think it's hilarious how so many techies love to brag about not caring about football. I'd have thought that hackers would enjoy the complexity of the game (most of the programmers I know love football, and meeting up for beers on football Sundays is a ritual for us).

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People think that sports and programming are mutually exclusive for some reason. As if you can't be a good programmer unless you hate sports.

Personally, I like to hack and I hold football season tickets.

I don't watch sports, but a good half of my team at work does.

My attention span is way too low for something like Football. I love soccer because most of the time, people are actually playing instead of standing around.

I find that in soccer they're usually rolling around on the ground peeking out from behind their hands.

Also, maybe if anybody ever scored in soccer it would be a little more interesting. At least hockey has better fights and the players don't fall down so much.

Football fosters too much conformity, just like every other organized religion.

Hmmm, I'm not watching the Superbowl, and I'm Catholic.

Edit: Thought you were serious :-/

Bullshit. Conformity is when you like something because other people like it. Not liking something because other people like it is conformity, just conformity with a group you think you should be a part of.

It was obviously a joke.

Ah, sarcasm on the Internet: got me again.

The complexity is actually one of the reason's I'm less attracted to American football than, say, soccer. In my experience programmers like simplicity and elegance, of which the NFL, with its large collection of seemingly arbitrary rules, has neither.

That's not to say I don't enjoy watching it (especially being a Wisconsinite...).

Could have to do with the presentation. I'm interested in better understanding the complexity of the game, but all the hype and advertising can be a turn-off.

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