I get the hate for the NFL but for the sport it self I don't understand. I like to watch football because most of my youth I played football either with my friends or for my schools/pee wee football teams, from 1st grade to highschool. I made a lot of friends and enemies playing football. I loved the fact that it was a team sport and you had to rely on others to be successful and the instances of bring up others who weren't good at the sport. I like the physical nature of football and trying to over come adversity when a bigger better team came into town to play against you, you'd win or lose, but you always took something from those types of games that you could apply to the real world that made you better at life. The cerebral part of football were you adapted as the game went on to fool or out play your opponent, to attack their weaknesses to win the game. Which would later in life serve as a teaching tool to problem solve which would aid you in over coming work/life problems that would arise. I can go on and on. NFL is shit yes but I don't think the game in it self is.