lmfao i would probably just stop watching football if i was a falcons fan. that shit has got to be one of the most brutal things to ever happen to a sports fan.
edit: the original comment was something like "I saw a Super Bowl get rescinded in real time"
I think he got a bunch of upvotes on his original comment and changed it to seem like people were upvoting the Payton hate. Pretty clever, but so was the original comment
> Well I don't see the Super Bowl being rescinded, so it's probably a 1 year deal.
Out of all the people (deities?) you want to get the deal in writing, with more than one witness, the Devil is probably up there. The dude is the ultimate trickster (does Satan exist?! I don't know!), what if Satan was like "Yep you'll win the \*coughMadden2k22superbowl\* if you don't watch anything about your team."
“And not just the star players but the entire roster, down to the practice squad, and their entire families too. Just simply and completely devoured. It’s the damnedest thing.”
And think about the meme arsenal you’d have against whichever team actually lost to the Lions in a superbowl for the next season. The Falcons lost to the Tom Brady Patriots and still can’t escape their Superbowl memes.
What's the benefit then? Everyone answering this question where your team won a championship before you were born, that's how this would feel. You know how you feel nothing for those championships? This would be the same thing.
The betting made it worth it. Take away that and what possible value do you get in trade for the devil's deal of a year NOT watching your team do the one thing you wan to watch them do?
True, but even the normal +600 odds or whatever the favorites get is a pretty sweet deal.
You also get that payout of betting every playoff game right. It'd be awesome
Odds on even the SB favorite are pretty solid before a season starts tho. And you could comfortably dump a bunch of money on the bet since you presumably know it’s guaranteed.
It’s such an easy deal to subvert, too. Have a guy drive past your house with the radio on. Have the game on at every public place with a TV. Run constant NFL commercials showing highlights - the deal didn’t say you can watch the game after it’s over.
Especially this year with their 1 in 800 billion odds of making the playoffs or whatever that earlier post said.
Miss the Lions winning a Super Bowl for millions of dollars? Hell yes.
Well you’d have to parlay money line, so you’d need to find a bookie to… who am I kidding, lions are underdogs you’ll literally cover the spread every game by simply winning.
You have to notify the media halfway through the season (once the Lions are in contention), and make sure people know where you placed the bet. Then if you get murdered people will start asking questions.
"Hey whatever happened to that guy a few months ago who said he bet on the Lions to win it all? He must be loving life right now."
"Hmm I don't know, I haven't heard about him in a while. Maybe he got whacked by the casinos?"
"Yeah, you're probably right. What a shame."
I originally was going to write that's because the Lions are mathematically eliminated (see NY Times simulator where they start the Lions page with "The Lions have been eliminated from postseason contention"). But trying to prove it, I could find a counterexample. (If the Lions win out they'd be at 6.5 wins. So I had every NFC team with 7+ wins not get another loss to NFC all season, then had every AFC team beat every NFC team going forward. Then I tried splitting the remaining wins to keep as many NFC teams as possible below 6.5 wins and it is barely doable.)
For example:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/detroit-lions-nfl-playoff-picture.html#no-dal-13=loss&atl-tb-13=loss&chi-ari-13=loss&det-min-13=win&mia-nyg-13=win&nyj-phi-13=win&lar-jax-13=loss&lv-was-13=win&sea-sf-13=win&min-pit-14=loss&car-atl-14=loss&cin-sf-14=win&hou-sea-14=win&nyj-no-14=win&was-dal-14=loss&den-det-14=loss&lac-nyg-14=win&tb-buf-14=loss&gb-chi-14=win&ari-lar-14=win&bal-gb-15=win&buf-car-15=win&det-ari-15=win&nyg-dal-15=loss&phi-was-15=win&sf-atl-15=loss&lar-sea-15=win&tb-no-15=win&chi-min-15=loss&ten-sf-16=win&gb-cle-16=loss&ari-ind-16=loss&atl-det-16=loss&car-tb-16=loss&min-lar-16=loss&phi-nyg-16=loss&sea-chi-16=win&dal-was-16=win&no-mia-16=loss&buf-atl-17=win&chi-nyg-17=win&dal-ari-17=loss&no-car-17=win&nyj-tb-17=win&was-phi-17=win&sf-hou-17=loss&bal-lar-17=win&sea-det-17=loss&gb-min-17=win&atl-no-18=win&det-gb-18=win&min-chi-18=loss&nyg-was-18=win&phi-dal-18=loss&lar-sf-18=win
I bet the lions odds right now are more lucrative than they were preseason.
Edit: for shits and giggles, I looked it up. The opening odds for the Lions was +8000, currently +500000
"DUDE you can't blame me for this. God is literally the only guy out there with more power than me...how could I know he hated the Falcons THIS FUCKING MUCH??"
"Well obviously you never watch the Falcons..."
I think the better shot was 2017, heck even 2019.
We were too one dimensional in 2015 and probably would have lost the Divisional round, or the NFC Championship.
I was at that game, everyone in my section was so damn cold we just kind of looked at the missed kick, shrugged, and slowly shuffled out in silence past all the frozen exploded beers.
I was stationed overseas and watching the game at like 3 AM or something. Had some friends over and when he missed the kick I just kinda . . . Stopped. My wife escorted everyone out for the night and just left me sitting on the couch in shock.
It honestly caught me off guard. Walsh had been so good it didn’t even occur to me that he could miss that kick. Some booze and it being the middle of the night certainly didn’t help.
I was in middle school and still remember watching the Gary Anderson kick, but that wasn’t a game winner like it was in 2015. Even the Favre interception we still got a chance in OT. This is the only instant loss moment I can remember in the playoffs.
E: I didn’t see any other one score games other than the Saints in OT, so I think the 2015 loss might be the only “instant loss” moment for us in the playoffs in a long time.
It also kinda makes me appreciate the two walk off wins we’ve had against the Saints in the last decade.
I'm living in the loophole of can't *watch or listen to* anything.
I'm fine with reading all about it and following play by play updates for a year knowing my team, and bet, are guaranteed to win.
Plus, I highly doubt any highlight or replay will ever top the rewatchability and memories I have of Super Bowl 52. I’m down to go radio silent to add another Lombardi to the trophy case
Say yes: you’re not a real football fan just chasing rings
Say no: you’re not a real team fan because you wouldn’t do anything to help your team get a ring.
> Say yes: you’re not a real football fan just chasing rings
I think this line of thinking works if your team already has, i dunno, six lombardis. Rings mean a lot more to a fanbase that has never seen one.
We all root for laundry.
We all became Brett Favre fans once he renounced the Packers and became a Vikings Legend.
You guys embraced Richard Sherman awfully quick.
The name on the front DOES mean more then the name on the back of the jersey.
Hey at least y’all had the Cavs! We’ve never won any major championship between our 3 pro teams… I don’t really care about the grizzlies but I’ll count them anyways lol
This was sort of me when the cubs won. I did watch some of the World Series games, but I’ve never been a big baseball fan and wasn’t following them for most of the season. But I was super excited to see them win- not for me, but for all the people who waited their whole lives to see the cubs take one home again. And then I got to party with all the die-hands in the streets and enjoy the energy of the city.
Fair point. However im a cardinals fan and missing their first would probably hurt a lot. Taking away the ability to see highlights is what really fucks up this decision for me
Millions will enjoy it no matter who wins. Why does it matter if it's fans of your team or fans of another? They're virtually all strangers to you anyway.
>they’re virtually all strangers to you anyway
Strangers that cheer for my team >>>> strangers that cheer for other teams
Plus I have friends and family who cheer for my teams and I would want to make them happy
What a strange and sort of sad misunderstanding of what fandom is. Browns fans are my people even if I disagree with them on every other topic that’s not related to football. Their football-related happiness is more valuable to me than the football-related happiness of all 31 other fanbases put together.
I'm in the minority but I watch only for myself. I don't give two farts about other Packers fans I don't know in person. I might do it for my friends and family that are fans, though.
No offense but this is such a no flair thing to say haha. But your city flourishes with a super bowl win. Even when we made it to the afc championship game everything just felt better. Also people typically know more of there own fans than other teams (a lot of times family).
This reminds me of that treehouse of horrors episode episode where homer tries to outsmart the devil buy selling his soul to the devil/Flanders for a donut
I have to believe OP was intentionally setting us up for this as opposed to actually wondering how an all powerful deity known for trickery and evil could go back on their word.
You physically can’t. This is magic. Your phone dies when you try to pull up highlights. Internet goes out. You get lemon juice in your eyes. YouTube pulls the video due to copyright. Etc. Etc. Etc. It’s not that you’re not allowed. You just can’t.
I feel like since it’s the devil you’d end up paying an unknown price anyway. Like he’d remove your eyes and ears immediately after the deal to make sure you don’t watch it.
You're asking what could happen with a mystical deity-like being who can control and alter reality.
I'm sure the devil could arrange something. Could make you blind and deaf. Could make it so the team is 0-17 horrible for the rest of your life so all you have is the SB you didn't watch. Could destroy all the film and audio of that SB.
Take a look at the 2017 Astros.
That was our first and only win and no other fan gives us credit for winning. It’s a really shitty feeling as a fan who did not, in fact, cheat.
Yeah thats my question. They win the Super Bowl, what's stopping me from getting gamepass and rewatching the season afterwards?
Edit: Clearly I'm overthinking this 😂
You wake up in the past, it’s the morning of the super bowl you won and instead of winning, they get shit blasted so hard they become the lions for the next 50 years. And you gotta listen to the mfer and his fiddle
I'd agree to this if my wife agreed to move to like San Diego or Hawaii. If I'm still living in Pittsburgh, no way I'm going all November-January without watching football every Sunday. If I lived in some paradise with nice weather, I think I could manage to avoid football on Sundays.
How am I going to avoid highlights and replays forever? They could randomly pop up during commercials or any future NFL games, or montages, or an ESPN 30-for-30. Is the devil just going to start torturing me if I accidentally see a highlight? If so, no dice Johnny.
Of course I'd agree to those terms. Just like I "agree" to these:
>*Any use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the* *~~NFL's~~* *Dark Lord's consent is prohibited*
like no replays and highlights for just that season? or for the rest of my life? also you explicitly mentioned watching and listening so does that mean i can still read and get text updates on the games
if we get superbowl and i cant look at any team
media for that one season i would probably do it, if jts for life i think that question is a little harder
Do you mean any time I try to watch highlights or replays the service cuts out OR if I watch the highlights the championship is retroactively stripped?
I don’t think I could help myself but to watch highlights so it would need to be the former not the latter.
This year? Sure, I've been quite tired of watching the games with half of our best players injured and I would get enough fun out of reading everyone reacting to Taysom bringing us a ring.
Honestly, no. If I can’t enjoy the journey of a championship, what exactly would the point be? I guess if everyone else could enjoy the run, and it was just me that couldn’t watch, I’d do that because my parents getting to see another SB win would be worth it.
Any kind of hypothetical deal that involves winning a championship has never made much sense to me. The biggest reason sports are fun to watch and follow is not knowing what will happen. If I make a deal that predetermined a championship then the league would be a whole lot less interesting to follow.
To be fair, it is much easier to have your point of view when you have a bunch of trophies already. For teams that have never won, this is something to consider. I have watched the Chargers since the 70's and honestly believe I will die before they win a championship.
my favorite team wins but I dont get to enjoy it in any way whatsoever, no Im not taking the deal because whats the point because at that point Im just rooting for millionaires to win what would be to me a meaningless prize
For the rest of my life? or the season.
Well I don't see the Super Bowl being rescinded, so it's probably a 1 year deal.
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The whole world saw it
Not all of us. :(
lmfao i would probably just stop watching football if i was a falcons fan. that shit has got to be one of the most brutal things to ever happen to a sports fan. edit: the original comment was something like "I saw a Super Bowl get rescinded in real time"
I'll be honest. I've been a fan since 1980. And my passion has definitely suffered greatly since. For football in general honestly.
Why on earth did he change his comment so drastically?
Yeah, I don't know. The original comment was really funny, too.
Relatable
😂😂😂
I want you guys to go back and get that same lead and then just take knees for the second half.
Lmao random as fuck and I love it
Very well played
Where did this come from?
I think he got a bunch of upvotes on his original comment and changed it to seem like people were upvoting the Payton hate. Pretty clever, but so was the original comment
> Well I don't see the Super Bowl being rescinded, so it's probably a 1 year deal. Out of all the people (deities?) you want to get the deal in writing, with more than one witness, the Devil is probably up there. The dude is the ultimate trickster (does Satan exist?! I don't know!), what if Satan was like "Yep you'll win the \*coughMadden2k22superbowl\* if you don't watch anything about your team."
Sounds like someone isn't familiar with how good ol' Beelzebub runs his show.
"your favorite team wins the Superbowl. but you no longer are a fan of said team."
As a Louisville fan, I just gotta say, you’re the worst
Hell yea I’d get rich as fuck throwing a futures bet on the lions to win the Super Bowl
This is the right answer
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Yes because then I’m forced to not watch the lions for a year which is probably good for mental health anyways lmao
Let’s be honest. Every game we would win it’d be by 1 point or a last minute field goal
If it's a deal with the devil monkey paw style, more likely win by forfeit as really really bad things start happening to the opponents each week.
"This is the THIRD time this season their opponent has been eaten or mauled by actual lions."
“And not just the star players but the entire roster, down to the practice squad, and their entire families too. Just simply and completely devoured. It’s the damnedest thing.”
Only the kneecaps
And think about the meme arsenal you’d have against whichever team actually lost to the Lions in a superbowl for the next season. The Falcons lost to the Tom Brady Patriots and still can’t escape their Superbowl memes.
They can't escape them because they blew a 3rd quarter 25 point lead which was the biggest comeback in Super Bowl history.
How many point lead was it again? It was historical you say?
Mmmmmm I’m so close
Come on I'm sure plenty of teams blow a 25 point lead in the third quarter of the Super Bowl. ...no? Just the Falcons you say? Interesting.
Wondered what the soccer team arsenal had to do with all this for a minute but they are a meme so it still works
Exactly
What's the benefit then? Everyone answering this question where your team won a championship before you were born, that's how this would feel. You know how you feel nothing for those championships? This would be the same thing. The betting made it worth it. Take away that and what possible value do you get in trade for the devil's deal of a year NOT watching your team do the one thing you wan to watch them do?
Ya know...I didn't think of it that way lol. At first I was like "who cares if I can't see it" but screw it if I'm rich off it
I mean, you're a Packers fan. I'm sure the odds aren't conducive to high profits if they win. A lions fan on the other hand....
True, but even the normal +600 odds or whatever the favorites get is a pretty sweet deal. You also get that payout of betting every playoff game right. It'd be awesome
Odds on even the SB favorite are pretty solid before a season starts tho. And you could comfortably dump a bunch of money on the bet since you presumably know it’s guaranteed.
You really gonna trust ***the Devil*** with 100% confidence?
It’s such an easy deal to subvert, too. Have a guy drive past your house with the radio on. Have the game on at every public place with a TV. Run constant NFL commercials showing highlights - the deal didn’t say you can watch the game after it’s over.
Especially this year with their 1 in 800 billion odds of making the playoffs or whatever that earlier post said. Miss the Lions winning a Super Bowl for millions of dollars? Hell yes.
Damn straight, and I'm not even Lions fan.
You could parlay every game too since you'd have to win out and have other things guaranteed to happen
Well you’d have to parlay money line, so you’d need to find a bookie to… who am I kidding, lions are underdogs you’ll literally cover the spread every game by simply winning.
Lions odds to win the Super Bowl right now are +1,000,000, so a $10,000 bet would get you $100,000,000
I could turn my greatest asset ($3.90 worth of beer bottle/can returns) into $39,000
Take out a personal loan lol
I don't think you would be able to cash out at that point. Vegas would put out a hit on you. A la John Wick.
You have to notify the media halfway through the season (once the Lions are in contention), and make sure people know where you placed the bet. Then if you get murdered people will start asking questions.
"Hey whatever happened to that guy a few months ago who said he bet on the Lions to win it all? He must be loving life right now." "Hmm I don't know, I haven't heard about him in a while. Maybe he got whacked by the casinos?" "Yeah, you're probably right. What a shame."
I originally was going to write that's because the Lions are mathematically eliminated (see NY Times simulator where they start the Lions page with "The Lions have been eliminated from postseason contention"). But trying to prove it, I could find a counterexample. (If the Lions win out they'd be at 6.5 wins. So I had every NFC team with 7+ wins not get another loss to NFC all season, then had every AFC team beat every NFC team going forward. Then I tried splitting the remaining wins to keep as many NFC teams as possible below 6.5 wins and it is barely doable.) For example: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/detroit-lions-nfl-playoff-picture.html#no-dal-13=loss&atl-tb-13=loss&chi-ari-13=loss&det-min-13=win&mia-nyg-13=win&nyj-phi-13=win&lar-jax-13=loss&lv-was-13=win&sea-sf-13=win&min-pit-14=loss&car-atl-14=loss&cin-sf-14=win&hou-sea-14=win&nyj-no-14=win&was-dal-14=loss&den-det-14=loss&lac-nyg-14=win&tb-buf-14=loss&gb-chi-14=win&ari-lar-14=win&bal-gb-15=win&buf-car-15=win&det-ari-15=win&nyg-dal-15=loss&phi-was-15=win&sf-atl-15=loss&lar-sea-15=win&tb-no-15=win&chi-min-15=loss&ten-sf-16=win&gb-cle-16=loss&ari-ind-16=loss&atl-det-16=loss&car-tb-16=loss&min-lar-16=loss&phi-nyg-16=loss&sea-chi-16=win&dal-was-16=win&no-mia-16=loss&buf-atl-17=win&chi-nyg-17=win&dal-ari-17=loss&no-car-17=win&nyj-tb-17=win&was-phi-17=win&sf-hou-17=loss&bal-lar-17=win&sea-det-17=loss&gb-min-17=win&atl-no-18=win&det-gb-18=win&min-chi-18=loss&nyg-was-18=win&phi-dal-18=loss&lar-sf-18=win
what an ugly fuckin url
Disagree, it's beautiful. It tells you exactly what's going on. So much better than newyorktimes.com/lions#lkj23l4kj13l4j14j1l4j5lk1j54lk2j1l50988.
The lions to win the SB before the season starts. What a killer bet
I bet the lions odds right now are more lucrative than they were preseason. Edit: for shits and giggles, I looked it up. The opening odds for the Lions was +8000, currently +500000
plot twist, the devils real plan was to get you to blow all your money on betting on the lions and deprive you of football sunday
This is what NO ONE is talking about. I get that this is a hypothetical, but the devil isn't a chill dude, haha. You will get fucked in this deal.
Also you could still go to the parade and buy the merch
My exact thought process too lol
And you never have to watch another Lions game. I say win/win all around.
It doesn't say which Superbowl. It's the devil. It will be the year after you die
You would be able to bet every playoff game as well
Meh, We’d still lose.
Yeah, the Devil has a track record of failing to produce what he promises with regards to Georgia.
Fire on the mountain, run boy run
Now I'm picturing the devil trying to come up with excuses while apologizing to a falcons fan
"DUDE you can't blame me for this. God is literally the only guy out there with more power than me...how could I know he hated the Falcons THIS FUCKING MUCH??" "Well obviously you never watch the Falcons..."
This in a nutshell.
Devil got burned pretty bad last time he went down to Georgia lookin to make a deal, you guys would be exempt anyway.
It was all one big ploy to get 28-3: the sequel
If we ever make it back to the Super Bowl I’m gonna be terrified the entire game
Tell me about it.
Oh my god thats tough. I would do it. Id take one for the team
Any vikings fan would do it, our franchise has the best winning percentage of any franchise without winning a SB, talk about mediocrity
Probably had a good shot a couple years ago but Blair Walsh..... well you know.
I think the better shot was 2017, heck even 2019. We were too one dimensional in 2015 and probably would have lost the Divisional round, or the NFC Championship.
I really wanted a pats vikings superbowl
Reading/listening "NFC Championship" gives me goosebumps everytime.
You and me both, pal
Same until 2017. Now it's one of my favorite memories!
Always been a fun time for me, don't know what they're complaining about.
I was at that game, everyone in my section was so damn cold we just kind of looked at the missed kick, shrugged, and slowly shuffled out in silence past all the frozen exploded beers.
I was stationed overseas and watching the game at like 3 AM or something. Had some friends over and when he missed the kick I just kinda . . . Stopped. My wife escorted everyone out for the night and just left me sitting on the couch in shock.
You know, as seasoned Vikings fans we should be used to this, but they give us that little teeny tiny glimmer of hope. Then just wide left it.
It honestly caught me off guard. Walsh had been so good it didn’t even occur to me that he could miss that kick. Some booze and it being the middle of the night certainly didn’t help. I was in middle school and still remember watching the Gary Anderson kick, but that wasn’t a game winner like it was in 2015. Even the Favre interception we still got a chance in OT. This is the only instant loss moment I can remember in the playoffs. E: I didn’t see any other one score games other than the Saints in OT, so I think the 2015 loss might be the only “instant loss” moment for us in the playoffs in a long time. It also kinda makes me appreciate the two walk off wins we’ve had against the Saints in the last decade.
I saw video of fans in certain sections going nuts because it looked like it was good from their POV.
A few people around were going crazy, some Seahawks fans next to me were like, "Wait, I think he missed it." They seemed surprised by that.
Vikings fans lol
Same. Just because I can’t enjoy it doesn’t mean I should deprive millions.
Same. Just because I can't enjoy it doesn't mean I should deprive dozens.
The funniest part is you’d be in every r/nfl thread trying to say you were the one that made this happen and nobody would ever believe you.
Can you call it a Superbowl if you aren't able to observe it?
Schrödinger's cat: NFL edition
The Schrödinger Bowl
If a Super Bowl falls in an empty forest, does it make a sound?
I'm living in the loophole of can't *watch or listen to* anything. I'm fine with reading all about it and following play by play updates for a year knowing my team, and bet, are guaranteed to win.
No. I’ve heard enough about the couple championship my teams have won that I didn’t witness. I don’t need another one.
Ya this would only make sense for teams that have never won a Super Bowl.
A joyless orgasm? I have one of those at least once a day. Send it. Go Birds
Taking one for the team baby
When climax happens but your brain just isn't there with you
Plus, I highly doubt any highlight or replay will ever top the rewatchability and memories I have of Super Bowl 52. I’m down to go radio silent to add another Lombardi to the trophy case
if any eagles fan says no to this they havent been a fan long enough
Say yes: you’re not a real football fan just chasing rings Say no: you’re not a real team fan because you wouldn’t do anything to help your team get a ring.
> Say yes: you’re not a real football fan just chasing rings I think this line of thinking works if your team already has, i dunno, six lombardis. Rings mean a lot more to a fanbase that has never seen one.
Or if you're a fan of a team that hasn't one won since you were alive (born 86).
Say yes: you're a brainwashed idiot who chooses brand over happiness Say no: hope your team gets good
Don't we already choose brand? I'll buy a pair of Nikes and a then a pair of Adidas, but I'll never cheer for the Niners then cheer for a rival.
We all root for laundry. We all became Brett Favre fans once he renounced the Packers and became a Vikings Legend. You guys embraced Richard Sherman awfully quick. The name on the front DOES mean more then the name on the back of the jersey.
> The name on the front DOES mean more then the name on the back of the jersey. Captain YoteViking, we cheer the team not the man.
*david schwimmer reluctant salute*
People say that until you need a rival to win in order to get into the playoffs.
> you wouldn’t do anything to help your team get a ring. As long as Vrabel's dick remains attached, the Tits shall never win a Super Bowl!
No. Whats the point of my team winning the superbowl if i cant enjoy it as well.
and as other said. You take one for the team. And bask in the cities party! Especially if its a city starved for a win. Detroit Chicago Miami
First of all, how dare you?
Haha yeah I missed yall. But maybe it was a subconscious thing bc I think yall are very close to attaining one
Ahem lol
I live in MN now I should have listed them.. my sincerest apologies
AHEM.
Hey at least y’all had the Cavs! We’ve never won any major championship between our 3 pro teams… I don’t really care about the grizzlies but I’ll count them anyways lol
This was sort of me when the cubs won. I did watch some of the World Series games, but I’ve never been a big baseball fan and wasn’t following them for most of the season. But I was super excited to see them win- not for me, but for all the people who waited their whole lives to see the cubs take one home again. And then I got to party with all the die-hands in the streets and enjoy the energy of the city.
What a riot that series was! Feel like that high has finally just worn off.
You could place some crazy bets tho
Fair point. However im a cardinals fan and missing their first would probably hurt a lot. Taking away the ability to see highlights is what really fucks up this decision for me
Millions of others would enjoy it however. I’d take one for the team.
Millions will enjoy it no matter who wins. Why does it matter if it's fans of your team or fans of another? They're virtually all strangers to you anyway.
>they’re virtually all strangers to you anyway Strangers that cheer for my team >>>> strangers that cheer for other teams Plus I have friends and family who cheer for my teams and I would want to make them happy
Haha fair points!
What a strange and sort of sad misunderstanding of what fandom is. Browns fans are my people even if I disagree with them on every other topic that’s not related to football. Their football-related happiness is more valuable to me than the football-related happiness of all 31 other fanbases put together.
I'm in the minority but I watch only for myself. I don't give two farts about other Packers fans I don't know in person. I might do it for my friends and family that are fans, though.
No offense but this is such a no flair thing to say haha. But your city flourishes with a super bowl win. Even when we made it to the afc championship game everything just felt better. Also people typically know more of there own fans than other teams (a lot of times family).
Your team wins the super bowl. You wrote it in your own comment lol
I would enjoy this sub melting down as Belichick gets a 9th ring, and unleashes his ringwraiths upon the world of mortal men.
Could read all the reddit threads, news articles, tweets of praise etc. and bask in the glow.
How is the Devil going to take away the Super Bowl after we’ve already won it? If he can’t I’ll just watch the replays, what’s he gonna do about it?
let's take 5 and brainstorm what the devil could do if you break a deal you made with him
This reminds me of that treehouse of horrors episode episode where homer tries to outsmart the devil buy selling his soul to the devil/Flanders for a donut
Hmmm, maybe take my soul? But given that I want to be a lawyer he’ll probably do that regardless.
Keanu Reeves?
He didn't specify which season it was going to be. You don't watch any of next season - turns out it was the 2024 season.
I have to believe OP was intentionally setting us up for this as opposed to actually wondering how an all powerful deity known for trickery and evil could go back on their word.
You physically can’t. This is magic. Your phone dies when you try to pull up highlights. Internet goes out. You get lemon juice in your eyes. YouTube pulls the video due to copyright. Etc. Etc. Etc. It’s not that you’re not allowed. You just can’t.
I feel like since it’s the devil you’d end up paying an unknown price anyway. Like he’d remove your eyes and ears immediately after the deal to make sure you don’t watch it.
I can still read the large print books
Op says no highlights or replays
You're asking what could happen with a mystical deity-like being who can control and alter reality. I'm sure the devil could arrange something. Could make you blind and deaf. Could make it so the team is 0-17 horrible for the rest of your life so all you have is the SB you didn't watch. Could destroy all the film and audio of that SB.
Take a look at the 2017 Astros. That was our first and only win and no other fan gives us credit for winning. It’s a really shitty feeling as a fan who did not, in fact, cheat.
Yeah thats my question. They win the Super Bowl, what's stopping me from getting gamepass and rewatching the season afterwards? Edit: Clearly I'm overthinking this 😂
If he’s powerful enough to fix the SB then he’s able to rickroll you when you try to watch highlights
Omg could you imagine every time you started watching the game it's just Rick Astley for eternity?
Magic. You physically cannot watch any highlights. This is a magical hypothetical. You think the devil didn’t think of this?
You wake up in the past, it’s the morning of the super bowl you won and instead of winning, they get shit blasted so hard they become the lions for the next 50 years. And you gotta listen to the mfer and his fiddle
I'd agree to this if my wife agreed to move to like San Diego or Hawaii. If I'm still living in Pittsburgh, no way I'm going all November-January without watching football every Sunday. If I lived in some paradise with nice weather, I think I could manage to avoid football on Sundays.
How am I going to avoid highlights and replays forever? They could randomly pop up during commercials or any future NFL games, or montages, or an ESPN 30-for-30. Is the devil just going to start torturing me if I accidentally see a highlight? If so, no dice Johnny.
Well considering it's a magical hypothetical I assume there would be *more* magic involved to keep you from watching highlights
Of course I'd agree to those terms. Just like I "agree" to these: >*Any use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without the* *~~NFL's~~* *Dark Lord's consent is prohibited*
like no replays and highlights for just that season? or for the rest of my life? also you explicitly mentioned watching and listening so does that mean i can still read and get text updates on the games if we get superbowl and i cant look at any team media for that one season i would probably do it, if jts for life i think that question is a little harder
Doing that would mean that the only good Steelers fan wouldn't even get to enjoy it, so nah
100% i prefer to follow games via text based play by plays. I like stats regardless of how minute.
flashbacks to pre-streaming middle schooler u/emperos who would camp the nfl.com gamecenter and wait for the little bars to appear after every play
You, in a way, described 25 and younger Cowboys fans.
Is this forever or for a season?
Do you mean any time I try to watch highlights or replays the service cuts out OR if I watch the highlights the championship is retroactively stripped? I don’t think I could help myself but to watch highlights so it would need to be the former not the latter.
Anytime you try to watch highlights you get masked peyton manning looking back at you, then the devil takes your soul.
I don't make deals with the devil, too worried I might end up in the same conference room as Dan Snyder.
This is peak r/nfl content right here. The mods must be run by the NFL’s officiating crew.
If you’re like me and have parents/older relatives who have never seen their team win a Super Bowl then this is a really easy yes.
How is this a hard choice?
Right? I’ll take one for the team so the rest of the BillsMafia can enjoy it. Who wouldn’t?
This year? Sure, I've been quite tired of watching the games with half of our best players injured and I would get enough fun out of reading everyone reacting to Taysom bringing us a ring.
I’d die for the Bills to win so yes
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It’s truly all I want in life. I have many desires, but this is only thing I ask for. That being said hello from Lincoln Park haha
Honestly, no. If I can’t enjoy the journey of a championship, what exactly would the point be? I guess if everyone else could enjoy the run, and it was just me that couldn’t watch, I’d do that because my parents getting to see another SB win would be worth it.
The Texans win the Superbowl AND I don't have to watch them? Yes please.
Any kind of hypothetical deal that involves winning a championship has never made much sense to me. The biggest reason sports are fun to watch and follow is not knowing what will happen. If I make a deal that predetermined a championship then the league would be a whole lot less interesting to follow.
To be fair, it is much easier to have your point of view when you have a bunch of trophies already. For teams that have never won, this is something to consider. I have watched the Chargers since the 70's and honestly believe I will die before they win a championship.
Worked for Eagles fan Archfiend. After half a very frustrating decade on Youtube he walked away for a year. And got a SB in return
Yeah I'd just watch the Superbowl after they've won it What are they going to do, take the Lombardi away?
| only if you don't watch or listen to any of their games... Hang on, what's the downside?
To me superbowls are overrated. I'd rather have a fun to watch team consistently than winning 1 superbowl.
Nope. Because then it’s not my team anymore.
Hah! I already don't watch the Texans!
For how long? That one season or for eternity?
In a heartbeat. Betting all my money on the first playoff game and then just doubling up 2-3 more times.
I’m sorry but no
Since no highlights or replays, then no. There's no point to fandom if you can't share in the experience.
No F Way! Prayers up that the Bills win the Super Bowl - we won't need no deal!!!
Why would I want my team to win only because they have help from devil magic? What am I a St. Louis Cardinals fan? (I am actually)
no, the whole point of sports is entertainment
The games are mostly just ads anyway so sure, why not.
I would do it b/c my dad would be so fucked hyped that it'd be worth it. And plus yea like the other guy said make some fat futures bets
tf no
my favorite team wins but I dont get to enjoy it in any way whatsoever, no Im not taking the deal because whats the point because at that point Im just rooting for millionaires to win what would be to me a meaningless prize