Indeed.  We must not lose sight of the fact that there can be good points about 'the ball'.

In days past, whenever I happened to have either been dragged over a house with an active super-bowl party or so unfortunate as to have stumbled into one, I have been happy to drink the beer and delighted to eat the snacks.

And then finding literally anything else to do, such as playing with the Dog, snooker, the kids and helping the house Mrs. to clean up.

The conditions of satisfaction for the 'bro's are that you claim to inhabit a male body and have active respiration, heartbeat (or even having a heart) being unnecessary.  Being coherent or even conscious appear to be optional.  It's fine to be passed out drunk.
On 1/24/22 4:08 PM, Zane Healy wrote:

Super Bowl Sunday is my favorite day to go shopping, assuming I need to go shopping.

Zane
On Jan 24, 2022, at 1:03 PM, Thomas DeBellis <tommytimesharing@gmail.com> wrote:

Funny you should mention that.

For several years, the only time I noticed that the super bowl had happened was first, during my morning commute, after the game.  There would be a rather large number of individuals (all men, it seemed), lovingly going over each particle of activity, never coming to any conclusion, but never getting tired of it, either.  It was the same thing coming home.  However, this was certainly better than them yelling, but either way, my earphones went in and I worked remotely via cellular based VPN.

At work, football analogies abounded for a few days, which I often needed to Google, having not paid any attention whatsoever for the other 364 odd days.  I eventually found that knowing the terms was unnecessary because the people using them weren't saying anything that a technologist needed to hear.  I could concentrate multi-tasking on something else.

I adore being weird.
On 1/24/22 2:42 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:

As a person who spent the first 1/3 of his life being criticized for being interested in technology and furthering our understanding of the universe, rather than (for example) watching grown men chase a ball around in the grass, I'm sensitive to the word and it's most common connotation.
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