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Who cares about these games anyway? Should Yidden really care about a bunch of goyim running around on a field? Is this what the Am Ha Nivchar should be wasting our time with?
Do people realy get “Honaah” b/c some guy runs fast and scores?? Is it really Mashpiah on anyone’s life??
Your right. Frum yidden should better spend their time on YWN worrying about which user is Joseph, discussing cholent, kugel and every crisis that has come down the pike in the last 18 months.
hey nobody is making you watch let the rest of us enjoy it..mike i got your back 🙂
Come to think of it, I think Joseph is also Tom Brady, maybe even Danny Woodhead. Lets go Jets!
apy: Exactly.
apy: one word ROTFLMKO
joseph cant be tom brady because he is bald
We tailgate with them in the parking lot, we dont bring them home to dinner. fireman Ed just loves that Glatt Kosher kielbasa. Nothing but chassidishe shechita for fireman ed.
Who cares? Those who put money (or fantasty money) on the games 🙂
“The whole idea of getting pleasure when “your” team wins is just so foreign to me regardless of religion.”..Strange, becasue the idea of NOT getting pleaseure when your team wins is foreign to me :)….
forget pleasure of watching your team win, its just enjoyable to watch,if you don’t get it your loss
Who cares about these games anyway?
i do!
geshmakman.. r u a man?? i thought the very thing u r questioning – sports.. caring about sports..is one of the fundamental differences btwn a man n a womans psyche!
cb1 you a jets fan?
GeshmakMan – your sounding like Joseph.
But if you are serious, what is wrong with it?? You don’t understand it, great! Nobody is forcing you to. Don’t watch. Spend your time doing other things instead.
What’s wrong with sports?
Seriously it’s one of the most kosher entertainments out there and it does teach you stuff too. Ok so you can argue for a guy the cheerleaders in football, but seriously unless you’re a Dallas Cowboy’s fan you barely see the cheerleaders, except if the ball goes by them (this is on TV of course). S
So you can daven, that your team may their ball never go out of bounds and may they never have to run into the cheerleader’s area and instead just get touchdowns.
I mean seriously!
There are so many things you can learn from sports. Teamwork, work ethic, determination, never giving up hope….
it’s also great for kids…too many of them are not getting enough excersice. There is nothing like tossing a ball around with your kids…
There are actually a number of Jews currently playing in the National Football League. One of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, Sid Luckman, was Jewish. Other great Jewish football players have included Ron Mix and Lyle Alzado.
As long as people are normal about it, its fine.
When it starts taking over your life, you know you have a problem. Watching and rooting is fine, idolizing is not.
And making your wife a football widow is also taking it a bit far.
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cb1 you a jets fan?
yes i am..and proud of it!
Don’t forget Alan Vinograd, offensive lineman who won super bowl with cowboys. He became a baal teshuva and is a shomer torah umitzvos now.
I’m with pumper on this one. Sports is fine as an outlet, so long as it doesn’t become why you get up in the morning. (And yes, there are people like that.)
My Rebbeim always made choizek of professional sports players, saying they are no more worth paying attention to then the garbage men.
My Rebbeim taught us to be mentchlich to the garbage men, to say good morning, thank you, etc.
so i guess if we put together our rebbeim they are telling us to pay attention to sports!
it’s also great for kids…too many of them are not getting enough excersice. There is nothing like tossing a ball around with your kids…
There’s a huge difference between sports viewing (and following) and actively playing.
I have mixed feelings about the former, so I don’t want to get into it, but even those who are staunchly against it are generally in favor of the latter (at least in the US; E.Y. is different).
There are actually a number of Jews currently playing in the National Football League. One of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, Sid Luckman, was Jewish. Other great Jewish football players have included Ron Mix and Lyle Alzado.
and Alan Vinegrad (Now frum)
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