Falta Magia

There are a lot of reasons why I don't like American Football. The biggest of them is that i am not really sure i know one tenth of the rules! But there are some stronger reasons which definitely state that even if this was not the case, even if i completely understood every little detail about American Football, even if i would be able to be an American Football referee, i would still hate it, disgust it, feel sick about it and threw up just because of it!

A few days ago i went to an irish pub to watch for an american college football game. That was a game which brought against each ohter two Texas teams. We have some Texas friends here in Vienna so i thought it would be cool to watch their team playing. It wasn't!

The biggest reason why i hate it is because american football is like Oprah, Dr Phill, Jay Leno, whatever: it has breaks every 4 minutes. But the worst thing is that during the breaks you don't just wait for the rest of the game watching for some commercials, you actually can listen to some interviews with the most famous men playing that day, you watch other lengendary games' best moves, you watch three enormous guys with huge headphones and microphones discussing the game's best shots! And then, when you think that's it, the game is about to restart now, then the commercials begin! And even the commercials are filtered so that the ones you watch have football players stars (matching with the ones playing) stating things like "you wanna be as fast as i am on the ten yards? Drink Gatorade!". Now that doesn't concern me that much, it only makes me feel bored. However, i'm an altruistic man, and i was just thinking about football fans and what would be their feeling if a guy who just missed the easiest touch down ever, came up in a commercial like that, claiming he is the fastest man in the american football championship! I would destroy my television if i watched a commercial of Postiga saying "para cabecear como um campeao!" just after watching him missing a head shot one metre away from the target!

After 45 minutes of this, i got really bored in that pub, so i asked "how long does this game take?" and the answer was "3 hours!". What a fuck?!

I think the only reason why americans like their own football is because of the cheerleaders and because they really need to have something traditional, just of their own, to be proud of!