Is your town or city football crazy during football season? Where can I where nobody cares about football? (store, buses)

[jtur88]

Indiana. They never stop thinking about basketball, and have little time for football. Or North Carolina or Kentucky.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by edujop

the media obsessing over the local football team gives me a sick feeling. It's like football fills the void in people's lives. It's pathetic.

It's called "entertainment". No doubt you entertain yourself in ways that others would call "pathetic".

[Katarina Witt]

Try Champaign, IL. J/K!

[JJG]

Originally Posted by edujop

the media obsessing over the local football team gives me a sick feeling. It's like football fills the void in people's lives. It's pathetic.

That's kinda sbobish...

Why would other people obsessing over football bother YOU so much?

[DubbleT]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Indiana. They never stop thinking about basketball, and have little time for football. Or North Carolina or Kentucky.

Yep, whenever I visit my family in IN I know I will be 'treated' to lots and lots of basketball talk. At one point I would have thought Larry Bird was the second coming, because of all the worship for him.

[citylove101]

Whole thread strikes me as kinda strange.

Football is basically just entertainment, and it seems as if there is no corner of America that is immune to reporting in the media about entertainment, or to entertainment itself, in all its different guises. Saying I want to live in a football-free zone is just as strange to me as saying I want to be somepace where no one talks about movies or no one gabs about what's on TV. It's just not realistic. Using the lack of football and football news as a criteria for choosing where to live isn't wise, I d say. Better to look at places for what they offer that you really like and are attracted to, and just acknowldge that football is a personal entertainment choice that you can ignore by doing other things, seeing other peoploe, going other places--or just turning off the TV.

[smpliving]

OP: Stay away from Iowa City. Hawkeye football rules eastern Iowa.

[Craziaskowboi]

Originally Posted by edujop

the media obsessing over the local football team gives me a sick feeling. It's like football fills the void in people's lives. It's pathetic.

Both my current hometown and my childhood hometown go bonkers for football, and I'd have it no other way.

[snj90]

Originally Posted by Gnutella

Both my current hometown and my childhood hometown go bonkers for football, and I'd have it no other way.

This is also how I feel.

[2e1m5a]

Probably LA or San Diego. Football at 10AM on Sunday probably puts a damper on things.

It's pretty easy to ignore anywhere though-even Philly.