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NowhereMon [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 07:11:46 PM
I'm too busy painting my D&D miniatures...
 
The Bad Astronomer [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 07:33:49 PM
NowhereMon: I'm too busy painting my D&D miniatures...

That would be funnier if you weren't reading Fark during the game.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 08:42:32 PM
I prefer Jeph Jacques footbaw commentary.
 
traylor
2012-02-05 08:55:24 PM
Every time a football is thrown, it's briefly in orbit... but the Earth gets in the way.

You could also say, that every time a football is thrown, the Earth gets pushed into orbit around the ball... but the ball gets in the way.
 
mamoru [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 09:01:54 PM
Shenanigans! There isn't a single science fact about Owls, superb or otherwise, on that list!

:-/
 
Dead for Tax Reasons [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 09:09:50 PM
Football science fact: stephen hawking was a rising nfl star until an onfield injury relegated him to a wheelchair, after which he dedicated his life to theoretical physics
 
Mayhem of the Black Underclass
2012-02-05 10:50:12 PM
Well, now that you've told everyone why I was kicked off the HS football team...

/Too big a dork for football!
 
djscram [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 10:59:40 PM
FTAL 10) Halftime for the Universe was 6.86 billion years ago (+/- .12 billion).

That would only be true if the universe ends in 2012 (+/_ .12 billion years).
 
Donnchadha [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 11:02:08 PM
Dead for Tax Reasons: Football science fact: stephen hawking was a rising nfl star until an onfield injury relegated him to a wheelchair, after which he dedicated his life to theoretical physics

It's true. James Harrison has given seven people Lou Gerhig's Disease this season alone.
 
jayhawk88
2012-02-05 11:02:53 PM
Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?
 
Donnchadha [TotalFark]
2012-02-05 11:04:45 PM
jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

i0.kym-cdn.com

That happened when this became "cool". It's like a hipster-geek thing.
 
aerojockey
2012-02-05 11:10:18 PM
Nine of twenty facts obtainable by solving 2nd-degree polynomial.
 
deanayer
2012-02-05 11:13:26 PM
Does it explain why Madonna looked like Betty White during the halftime show? Was that some sort of coronal mass ejection or something?
 
32oz High Life
2012-02-05 11:19:11 PM
jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

I'm a nerd by trade, so I share many similar characteristics with geeks.

Personally, I felt today's event was quite the sporting competition. Each team performed the tasks required of them by the rules of the game to the best of their ability and it was thrilling to see the victory awarded to the team that had the most points at the end of a predetermined interval of time!

GO SPORTS TEAM!
 
bighasbeen [TotalFark]
2012-02-06 12:02:16 AM
jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

Well, when the great Sportsfan Civil War between Purists and Statsists broke out the geeks saw an opportunity to gain some social territory and a potential ally in the calculator wielding stats oriented sports fan. They didn't stand to lose anything with the Purists (who have been shoving them in lockers and crapping in their tubas for decades) by adopting an openly hostile and demeaning attitude toward sports and the Statsists would feel compelled to prove their intellectual superiority over the Purists to the geeks to maintain the intello-lib coalition against hostile anti-intellectual forces.

Or it's a good way to sell shiat to people by making them feel better than the "mainstream".
 
vrax
2012-02-06 12:20:51 AM
I always enjoyed playing sports. Watching them was never one of my greater interests. If anything I found most of the sports fanatics to be more geeky than me. Stats, card collections, posters, action figures, uniform clothing etc, etc.

i56.tinypic.com
i42.tinypic.com

Hmm, football fans. No, not dorky at all.
 
God-is-a-Taco [TotalFark]
2012-02-06 12:27:44 AM
jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

Short answer: women

Long answer: With girls and women having more opportunities now in school and work they are free to pursue the more intellectual pursuits. However, they are still females and are far more social than males.
 
tankjr
2012-02-06 04:56:24 AM
God-is-a-Taco: jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

Short answer: women

Long answer: With girls and women having more opportunities now in school and work they are free to pursue the more intellectual pursuits. However, they are still females and are far more social than males.

There's that. And violent land-acquisition games are a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.
 
Theory Of Null
2012-02-06 05:19:22 AM
vrax: I always enjoyed playing sports. Watching them was never one of my greater interests. If anything I found most of the sports fanatics to be more geeky than me. Stats, card collections, posters, action figures, uniform clothing etc, etc.

As i got older I could never get into watching sports regularly. I have nothing against it I just find it repetitive. Though at one of my old jobs I used to bet on the big events with coworkers because they always gave me that what an asshole look if I didn't.

I would watch regularly if they combined Running of the Bulls with one of the major sports.
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All they have to do is just randomly let a bull loose every quarter and see what happens, or a elephant a elephant would work too.

Another idea of mine is to give each team a taser and they get one good fully charged tase to stop a play. Picture someone going in for a dunk and all of sudden another player jumps up and zaps him mid air.
 
nulluspixiusdemonica
2012-02-06 06:14:25 AM
Wonders if subby is even vaguely aware of what the word "dork" means..

Elephantiasis is hardly a laughing matter and a perfectly valid reason for not participating in sports.
 
Kant Lavar
2012-02-06 06:31:11 AM
I tend to just prefer the Batman method.
 
HotIgneous Intruder
2012-02-06 07:15:46 AM
My penis is too large for football.

/Silly children's game
 
AdamK
2012-02-06 07:22:20 AM
jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

pretty sure sports fans are sports nerds anyways
 
Old enough to know better
2012-02-06 07:32:28 AM
It might have something to do with the fact that a lot of us sucked hard at sports in school, to the point that P.E. was a daily lesson in humiliation. Those unpleasant memories carried over into adulthood.
 
annitabonghit
2012-02-06 09:25:17 AM
tankjr: God-is-a-Taco: jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

Short answer: women

Long answer: With girls and women having more opportunities now in school and work they are free to pursue the more intellectual pursuits. However, they are still females and are far more social than males.

There's that. And violent land-acquisition games are a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.


That seems like a surprisingly specific metaphor.


files.sharenator.com

Seems appropriate.
 
tankjr
2012-02-06 09:58:43 AM
annitabonghit: tankjr: God-is-a-Taco: jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

Short answer: women

Long answer: With girls and women having more opportunities now in school and work they are free to pursue the more intellectual pursuits. However, they are still females and are far more social than males.

There's that. And violent land-acquisition games are a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.


That seems like a surprisingly specific metaphor.


[files.sharenator.com image 535x428]

Seems appropriate.

Obscurity achieved on Fark. I win the day.

www.movieactors.com
 
The Smails Kid
2012-02-06 10:39:36 AM
annitabonghit: tankjr: God-is-a-Taco: jayhawk88: Can someone explain to me why it's suddenly so important for every geek to let as many people as possible know exactly how much they don't know or care about football, and what exactly they'll be doing rather than watching the game? Since when does being a geek and a sports fan have to be this mutually exclusive thing?

Short answer: women

Long answer: With girls and women having more opportunities now in school and work they are free to pursue the more intellectual pursuits. However, they are still females and are far more social than males.

There's that. And violent land-acquisition games are a crypto-fascist metaphor for nuclear war.


That seems like a surprisingly specific metaphor.


[files.sharenator.com image 535x428]

Seems appropriate.

You might need to go Back to School.
 
annitabonghit
2012-02-06 11:19:11 AM
tankjr:

Obscurity achieved on Fark. I win the day.

[www.movieactors.com image 266x199]

The Smails Kid:

You might need to go Back to School.



I plead ignorance based on the fact that I was 2 when that movie came out.

/that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it
 
calufrax
2012-02-06 04:30:27 PM
Did you catch that ludicrous display last night?
 
Donnchadha [TotalFark]
2012-02-06 04:37:07 PM
calufrax: Did you catch that ludicrous display last night?

It's like Bradshaw was just trying to walk it in...
 
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