I’m in Europe, where american football isn’t a thing and the NFL is nothing we care about.

We also tend to have better standards to serve and eat our food.

So why am I to find this crap in Lidl?

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    Shitting on other people’s lifestyles and the things they like because you don’t like them and don’t understand them seems kind of antithetical to the philosophy of this community as I understand it. No? Would it be appropriate for Americans to start mocking English football and their scarves?

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      the post looks more about a consumerism critique rather than shitting on personal preference of favourite sport

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      I don’t think it’s shitting on American football or Americans. It’s more why would they sell stuff we just don’t have any connection to. It’s like if wallmart would start selling shirts about Raymond van Barneveld (Dutch darter).

      It wouldn’t make sense.

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        They wouldn’t be selling it if they didn’t have a market. Just because it doesn’t make sense to you, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t make sense.

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          Sometimes the try to sell shit and nobody buys it, pretty sure that’s the case here. It’s probably because Aldi also owns trader joes, and they just try stuff.

          Edit oh this is Lidl nevermind

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      Yes? As most americans already do? I wouldn’t feel insulted or aggravated.

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          You want to conflate personal identity and affirmation with sports? Really?

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            Incapable of abstraction and introspection? Sports is a really weird thing to be a small minded bigot about.

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              Why the caustic attitude?

              You can argue that sports play a role in building character. I’ll agree with that point to a degree. Character and values are built and taught at home, then sharpened outside.

              I’m not a supporter of competitive sports in any kind or fashion and even less nowadays, as sports are poisoned with the overarching influence (meddling) of sponsors.

              As someone who knows individuals connected to professional sports, both athletes and coaches, I loathe the overcompetitive mentality they pass down to their own children and the children they coach. This severely alters how these children relate to others, introducing a quasi darwinist mentality of survival of the fittest; our society has left behind those laws the moment we decided to change our surroundings to better fit us.

              So, kicking down on sports even more on one that is known for being highly destructive of an individual’s health and mentality is really not on par of attacking an individual or group for being who or what they are.

              p.s

              And even then, that has nothing to do with why I posted that picture.

              American footbal has no representation whatsoever in Europe (yes, apparently some games are played here, like some sort of tour). Given this, why the flying crocodile on a bycicle am I seeing anything relate to it on a supermarket? On a novelty story? Okay, fine, it is a novelty but in this context it makes no sense.

              And if you think I’m being cruel, what other people were saying about that item on the shelf was several degree worst.

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                  Gratuitous and uncalled for?

                  Yes, I am an angry man; why, it is not relevant for the conversation at hand. Dealing with it is a life long commitment. Hate, it is not something I harbor; there is nothing worthy of such sentiment from me.

                  Any other remark you feel necessary to release, in order to relieve yourself?