For those into (American) Football - here's a cool dashboard I made

[Rob]

I like to have all the current games up on a browser tab and was getting tired of the layouts of the espn one.. found a yahoo one, but still wasn't what I wanted. So, (with the help of Claude ai) I created this one. You can move the games around, pin ones you like, etc..

https://7fb.net (i wanted something with fb in the domain.. you can remember it like 7-day football lol).

 

[KGIII]

I'm a bit of a 49ers fan, though I haven't really had time to watch a full game all year. Nope... I've not seen one full game.

I even re-found my favorite site for watching all the NFL games while wearing a pirate hat. (It had been taken down.) So, I can trivially watch any game I want to watch. (I don't get regular television, and even satellite is sporadic -- but, of course, we don't condone such behavior.) After satellite internet, I've had enough of satellites for a while. Though I did have satellite TV when my son was still living with me.

I have sort of kept up with a few articles here and there. The Niners are all injured again, so they are not doing well. It doesn't matter if I watch the game. I'm not actually able to influence the game.

On the other hand, I have watched some college ball. There are times when I'd say that I enjoy college football more than I enjoy professional football. At the same time, it's a rather exploitive situation. Given how many of them get hurt (or never advance), I think they should be allowed to earn more money than they're allowed. It's better than it used to be. For the longest time, they weren't allowed to earn any money at all.

 

[MikeWalsh]

I'm weird, I guess. Never had the time of day for football of ANY stripe. Despite them being the highest-earning & most widely-popular sport in the world, I really can't understand what all the fuss is about.

I play golf, and I'm a keen motorsports fan....especially rallying. But I'm afraid team games - like American football, soccer, rugby, cricket.....anything that involves two opposing teams slugging away at each other - bores me to tears.

Sorry an' all that, guys.


Mike.

 

[ron.alan]

Is this your own website? If so, you need to file a "SubmitDispute" on Norton's safeweb page.

 

[Rob]

Is this your own website? If so, you need to file a "SubmitDispute" on Norton's safeweb page.

It's mine, but it's just a play website for me, basically. I don't care if Norton likes it.

 

[kc1di]

I've always been a football fan ( the american type) Go Pats. Nice site Rob.

 

[KGIII]

I don't care if Norton likes it.

I, for one, appreciate that viewpoint.

Go Pats

It's not easy to be an SF fan in Maine. I don't deny that they've had some brilliant teams, coaching, and players. But I'm just not a fan. It was even harder to be an SF fan when I lived in the Greater Boston Area.

I was a more active fan, but I just haven't made time to keep up for the past handful of years.

 

[MikeRocor]

Call ne a "fair weather fan" but I only follow football when the Steelers are on their way to the super bowl.

"Go Stillers"

 

[f33dm3bits]

I never understood why it's called football because I thought if you move the ball mostly with your hands it's called handball or basketball

 

[Brickwizard]

I never understood why it's called football

Me neither, its more akin to rugby [mind you i would like to see how long some of the players would last without all that armour playing for a full 80-minute game with one break not 60 minutes speed over hours an NFL average of 3hr 20 mins]

 

[KGIII]

I never understood why it's called football because I thought if you move the ball mostly with your hands it's called handball or basketball

They use their feet. In the past, they kicked the ball more often. The quarterback would even kick the ball to pass it and move the ball forward.

 

[f33dm3bits]

They use their feet. In the past, they kicked the ball more often. The quarterback would even kick the ball to pass it and move the ball forward.

From what I remember from all the American Football games I have watched in my youth most of the time the ball is being carried by a player and only kicked for field goals and to the other side at the game start and when another team has scored. That most of the time the ball is carried in their hands by a player that makes me find it odd why it's called "football".

 

[KGIII]

From what I remember from all the American Football games I have watched in my youth most of the time the ball is being carried by a player and only kicked for field goals and to the other side at the game start and when another team has scored. That most of the time the ball is carried in their hands by a player that makes me find it odd why it's called "football".

As mentioned, the name was applied a long time ago. The QB would even kick to pass, a thing that is now prohibited in American Football. Canadian Football allows kicking to forward the ball to another member on the same team, oddly enough.

As for the name, the game existed back in 1869. The first modern 'soccer' game (which is shortened from Associated Football) was right about the same time. It was not wildly popular in the US, so they used 'football'.

Also, soccer was often used to differentiate between Rugby football and soccer. Rugby football predates both of them. As time has passed, people have stopped calling it rugby football as much and just call it rugby. If any sport has a claim of being football, it'd be rugby football.