If football didnt exist?

major bill

What would ye do?? what would pub conversation on a saturday be like?? I know football isnt the only thing in peoples lives but to some people it plays a major role.

how important is football in your life?

CSF

major bill wrote: »

What would ye do?? what would pub conversation on a saturday be like?? I know football isnt the only thing in peoples lives but to some people it plays a major role.

how important is football in your life?

I play football on Mondays, I coach football on Wednesdays, I go to a Shels game every Friday, I have a match Saturday and Sunday morning with the coaching. Quite alot there without even considering the notion of football on TV. I daresay if football ceased to exist I'd either be screwed or blessed depending on what way you look at it:D

TangyZizzle

I would probably be a bogball fan.

The horror!

Blatter

I'd be DEPRESSED4LIFE.

flahavaj

Nowhere near as important as hurling.

Dante

Something related to porn.

Blatter

flahavaj wrote: »

Nowhere near as important as hurling.

Get out of it would ya:pac:

ScummyMan

Id be out of a username.

Paul Tergat

shudder

Warper

Its called summer

TangyZizzle

Warper wrote: »

Its called summer

Not if you're following the right league it's not.

flahavaj

SOCCER4LIFE wrote: »

Get out of it would ya:pac:

Tisn't.

Yakult

Warper wrote: »

Its called summer

And its ****ing HORRIBLE!!

Mint Sauce

The last 21/22 years would not have been as stressful.

Warper

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Not if you're following the right league it's not.

The GAA is the only show in town in the summer - much better than the "right" league you are on about where there the quality is worse than Serie Z

TangyZizzle

What pre tell league did you think I was referring too?

Warper

TangyZizzle wrote: »

What pre tell league did you think I was referring too?

Irish Premier Division

TangyZizzle

What made you think that?

frantic190

Think of how long the winters are without live footie Bill, and think of that all year round...

Don't think I could take that.

major bill

Warper wrote: »

Irish Premier Division

better than a bunch of farmers kicking lumps out of each other in stadiums with as much atmosphere as a funeral but hey lets not go down that route!!!!.

TangyZizzle

Let's not, lest you taste the ban hammer.

TheTownie

I guess the best way to sum this up is...

If football didn't exist then neither would I !

:pac:

flahavaj

major bill wrote: »

better than a bunch of farmers kicking lumps out of each other in stadiums with as much atmosphere as a funeral but hey lets not go down that route!!!!.

At least people turn up for the funeral.:pac:

/runs from thread.

MD1990

id be bored ****less in this boring country
but i would probably listen to music even more than i do already

Warper

major bill wrote: »

better than a bunch of farmers kicking lumps out of each other in stadiums with as much atmosphere as a funeral but hey lets not go down that route!!!!.

That actually sounds like a good sport, whats it called?

major bill

Warper wrote: »

That actually sounds like a good sport, whats it called?

Gaelic soccer or something like that think they play with sticks in the other sport!!!

Zebra3

Warper wrote: »

That actually sounds like a good sport, whats it called?

MakeyuppeyreactionarysporttothearrivaloffootballinIreland.

Eire-Dearg

Warper

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

That poor guy gets brought up every couple of months. He posts here as well

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Junior C at its brilliant best.:)

ceegee

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

ahem......

Eire-Dearg

Warper wrote: »

That poor guy gets brought up every couple of months. He posts here as well

Really? That picture has been everywhere. Legend.

ceegee

Eire-Dearg wrote: »

Really? That picture has been everywhere. Legend.

He must be mortified, shinpads playing hurling? thats worthy of excommunication in some GAA communities

Xavi6

Warper wrote: »

The GAA is the only show in town in the summer - much better than the "right" league you are on about where there the quality is worse than Serie Z

I want to give you the benefit of doubt and say you don't actually believe that and it's just a bit of stupid hyperbole. Don't let me down.

OhNoYouDidn't

TangyZizzle wrote: »

Let's not, lest you taste the ban hammer.

While the bogball bigots get to abuse the LoI with impunity. Its a strange place this

OhNoYouDidn't

I hate to raise the tone, but Camus wrote about this.

Basically the reason football was so important to people was because at its core, its entirely unimportant and no matter how hot and bothered you get, you cannot influence the games. Unlike politics for example. So its a very healthy and trivial pressure release that allows you to let rip in a consequence free way.

Gavin "shels"

I'd probably be sane in all fairness, because of Shels I've lost all sanity and I've an alcohol problem.:D

TangyZizzle

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

While the bogball bigots get to abuse the LoI with impunity. Its a strange place this

Sshhhhhh

Pinturicchio

Gavin shels wrote: »

I'd probably be sane in all fairness, because of Shels I've lost all sanity and I've an alcohol problem.:D

I was thinking along the same lines. I'd probably be doing a lot better in college and would be physically and mentally healthier.

Desire.

I would be fat.

I have training Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with matches on Saturday and Sunday.

I don't know what I would do without it. I would probably have more of a social life... but then I would have no profession when I'm older.

Zebra3

Well I'd defo talk les bo**ocks for a start. :eek:

Gavin "shels"

Pinturicchio wrote: »

I was thinking along the same lines. I'd probably be doing a lot better in college

Friday usually equals a no show in college on awaydays for me.:D

Zebra3 wrote: »

Well I'd defo talk les bo**ocks for a start. :eek:

And we wouldn't have to endure it on away trips!;)

GLaDOS

Gavin shels wrote: »

I'd probably be sane in all fairness, because of Shels I've lost all sanity and I've an alcohol problem.:D

I dunno,I vent a lot of pent up aggression at the ref every friday, I think that's a healthy release!

flahavaj

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

I hate to raise the tone, but Camus wrote about this.

Basically the reason football was so important to people was because at its core, its entirely unimportant and no matter how hot and bothered you get, you cannot influence the games. Unlike politics for example. So its a very healthy and trivial pressure release that allows you to let rip in a consequence free way.

A good goalkeeper himself by all accounts.

Also true of any sport really.

I love that photo of the big fella. Hero.

dreamers75

I would know my wifes middle name and possibly even eye colour.

stovelid

I'd just hunt for other activities where I could eat curry chips, shout abuse and drink with like-minded souls all over the country.

And I'd nothing to talk to my father about.

My job's net bandwidth would suddenly increase.

GavRedKing

I'd be watching alot more MMA and NFL and probably Rugby too. No time for Hurling or GAA throughout my life so dont think that would change much without Soccer.

NeoKubrick

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

I hate to raise the tone, but Camus wrote about this.

Basically the reason football was so important to people was because at its core, its entirely unimportant and no matter how hot and bothered you get, you cannot influence the games. Unlike politics for example. So its a very healthy and trivial pressure release that allows you to let rip in a consequence free way.

Close but not quite. Spectator sports are not inherently healthy for its spectators; it is much more complex. One of the main motivations for humans is to use the great and unique intelligence we all have: in this forum, you can see brilliant demonstrations of that intelligence discussing a complex game like football, which is healthy. The tribalism and delusions of power are not healthy.

And, there is no such thing as 'consequence free'. In order for someone to win, someone has to lose. If a fan wants to experience the joy of his team winning, he has to experience comparable despair if his team loses. The more a fan buys in to it, the more joy and despair he experiences when his team win and lose, respectively.

Le King

My first love Football (Teh real one :P). But my big love is hurling since living here. Tiobraid Árann Abu.

PiE

patmac

Personally speaking I think it is great that when the soccer season ends over the water, some people have the option to enjoy their local League of Ireland club matches and others like myself without access to a local club have what is a great summer of GAA matches, I doubt that I am the only poster on here that enjoys all 3 and I pity those that hate LOI, EPL or GAA.
Anyway it’s better than living in England where all they have to to look forward to in the summer months is endless Sky Sports News Broadcasts about how many billion pounds Man City are spending or worse again having to watch cricket.