People take their sports seriously. Dude openly admitted on a sports show that he doesn't quite get the rules but he can understand why people enjoy the game. That's pretty neat.

Yes, openly & honestly admitting your ignorance about something while not denigrating it does, indeed, provoke admiration.

"Nowadays" doesn't enter into the equation. This kind of action has always been rare.

I don't really understand the purpose of your comment, Mr Chocolate, but it's clear that you feel very passionatley about this issue, and I think that's great.

Can we start over? is this live?

All of the above plus shooting down the assumption that "you're from NY and at a Jets game, you must be one serious Jets fan!". What an idiotic way to start an interview.

Well he does live in a world where everyone he ever talks to knows everything about sports. Im pretty ignorant of team bullshit but I can pretend I know something by calling them by their city rather than their team name. I get the premise of football but I don't have any stake in any team so I admire Liam's ability to admit such on a show this balls-deep in football fandom without batting an eyelash.

>>All of the above plus shooting down the assumption that "you're from NY and at a Jets game, you must be one serious Jets fan!". What an idiotic way to start an interview.

I wrote a thing calling chumbucket an idiot, but poe glitched or whatever. I think just re-quoting him is pretty scathing too though.

They've taken his daughter and the only way to get her back is to babble on about Sanchez/Tebow.

If kidnapping were a sport, and if it were televised nationally on sports-center, and if Liam Neeson was the biggest star in the league, I would do nothing all day but watch that. I would have a fantasy kidnapping team. I would wear jerseys. It would be my life.