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?

  • Hubi@feddit.orgEnglish
    393·
    14 天前

    I’m in Europe, where american football isn’t a thing

    You’d be surprised. I know a number of people that organize Super Bowl watch parties every year here in Germany.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      151·
      14 天前

      I knew someone from Newcastle who was a bigger Green Bay Packers fan than a lot of the Americans I’ve met. And they had no connection to Green Bay; they just liked the franchise.

  • bjorney@lemmy.caEnglish
    222·
    14 天前

    Retailers don’t bring in products unless they have reason to believe they can sell it.

    and the NFL is nothing we care about.

    The viewership numbers of a game that happens at lunch time says overwise

  • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
    2611·
    13 天前

    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?

    • EddyBot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      112·
      13 天前

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

    • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      71·
      13 天前

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

        • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
          51·
          13 天前

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

          • Wolf314159@startrek.websiteEnglish
            13·
            13 天前

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

            • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
              1·
              13 天前

              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.

                • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
                  1·
                  13 天前

                  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?

    • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      31·
      13 天前

      Give this person a medal! This is the best comment on the thread up to this point!

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      9·
      14 天前

      i think the top thing is a lid that opens to a bowl, for chips. the things in the front inside the facemask are trays for chip dips or nuts or other little things.

    • qyron@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      81·
      14 天前

      That is supposed to be a snack tray. The top of the helmet is an ice bucket and the face guard has two small trays for - I don’t know… - peanuts and salty snacks?

      • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        14 天前

        I couldn’t tell … I thought it looked like some sort of strange hospital bed pan … or a toddlers toilet trainer

        And if they were those things, I thought it was funny that it was all sponsored by the NFL … and judging by the way the US is going, I wouldn’t be surprised if this contraption was meant for toilet use.

  • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.socialEnglish
    31·
    14 天前

    Taylor Swift. I think it’s cause of her that we’re getting hoodies and socks in Aldi with NFL logos etc, they seemed to appear about the time she got with that lad.