Me, I followed/played pretty much everything but football (including soccer, wrestling, track, baseball, softball, and my favorite, hockey).

I enjoy watching a good football game… I am gay (although being a bear, I'm apparently not as gay as I could be) but I find, like a Star Trek episode, if I don't start from the beginning and stay engaged all the way through, it's no where near as enjoyable. Games have better opportunities to get replays and such… but it's still playing catchup which removes you from the enjoyment.

Football games contain elements of strategy, like a good chess game… which can have a level of engagement for the observer that ranges from "King Fisher Gambit of the Dutch Defense" for one person who's into the game to "He moved the little plastic peice… on the board" for someone "who just doesn't get it"

It also contains emotional responses from anger when your favorite character is cheated or betrayed, (A bad call by the refs)… to Tension when the main character has one last chance to energize the transporter to save the life of his comerage who's falling to his doom (4th down and long, need a 6 points to win the game, 3 seconds on the clock). Perhaps you might enjoy the game more if it were translated into Star Trek metaphors

That and like Star Trek, it's not a form of entertainment for everyone's interest… that's why every other special channel runs marathons of random shows to suite your tastes.

Now, what is this about another IT Crowd season???

As for me…well, it's all about penetrating into your opponent's "end zone." It's prison rape with cheerleaders.