Post by Dave on Mar 27, 2009 18:41:14 GMT
If you were set a challenge to sell the game of football to a group of people who knew nothing about the game, what one angle would you come from.
I have found myself doing this many times over the years and I have nearly always used one thing to try and sell football and that is Football Emotions. What else can you do in your life that lasts for one and a half hours that will give you every single emotion possible and not only for the one and a half hours, but emotions that could start days before the game and even last for many days after it has finished...
While you may think you know how you will feel before any game, you will never know how you are going to feel after it, or how the rest of your weekend will be as a result of the outcome of the game.
Your emotions could start a few days before the game, you may feel hope and that turns into excitement as the game draws ever nearer, even closer and you could suffer from a dose of nervousness, it could be a big game that has so much riding on it.
The excitement levels rise as you get to the ground and now you feel anxious and even nervous again, but that soon turns to pride as you heroes come out to do battle. A wave of happiness sweeps over you, but it will not last.
Your main player has been badly fouled and now you are so angry and steam is coming out of your ears, but now you feel concerned as your player still has not moved on the floor. He’s up and relief is what you now feel, but the refs just made a bad decision and the angry is back inside you.
Then just a few seconds later your team score a goal and you are on the biggest high ever, some say a goal feels better than an orgasm, but I would disagree with that one. A confident feeling is with you now, the pride is back as your team is just so good, but wait a stupid mistake by your defender, now you’re mad again and at him, it gets worse as the other team go on and score.
Now you are sad and maybe feeling hurt, real disappointment and even confusion as you can’t understand what your player was trying to do. After that your team could score again and win, or the other team gets a second and your team ends up as the losers.
The final whistle goes, how are you feeling? Well if you won you will be jumping up and down and as the players come over to the Popside, you feel proud, pleased, delighted and your weekend is going to just perfect.
Mind you it your team had lost, it may not be so straight forward, lose to a big club in the FA cup and your team played well and gave it their best shot, you will feel disappointment of what might have been, but you will feel proud and go home and still enjoy the weekend.
If the team only lost because they were so unlucky, once again gave everything they could to try and win the game, it’s that disappointment again, but still feeling pleased with the effort made.
Lose the game because the team were rubbish, did not put in any real effort, the line-up was all wrong, poor substitutions, now you go home really angry because now its what should have been is the issue, your weekend may now suffer as not only did the defeat hurt, its giving you a new feeling, one of losing heart, no longer believing.
What ever feelings you come away from the game with and no matter how long they may last, another game will soon come around and the whole cycle starts all over again.
All that for just paying to watch a football match for one and a half hours, that’s why I love football and the reasons I tell everyone, so what angle would you come from, to convince non football people why its such a great game to be a part of.
I have found myself doing this many times over the years and I have nearly always used one thing to try and sell football and that is Football Emotions. What else can you do in your life that lasts for one and a half hours that will give you every single emotion possible and not only for the one and a half hours, but emotions that could start days before the game and even last for many days after it has finished...
While you may think you know how you will feel before any game, you will never know how you are going to feel after it, or how the rest of your weekend will be as a result of the outcome of the game.
Your emotions could start a few days before the game, you may feel hope and that turns into excitement as the game draws ever nearer, even closer and you could suffer from a dose of nervousness, it could be a big game that has so much riding on it.
The excitement levels rise as you get to the ground and now you feel anxious and even nervous again, but that soon turns to pride as you heroes come out to do battle. A wave of happiness sweeps over you, but it will not last.
Your main player has been badly fouled and now you are so angry and steam is coming out of your ears, but now you feel concerned as your player still has not moved on the floor. He’s up and relief is what you now feel, but the refs just made a bad decision and the angry is back inside you.
Then just a few seconds later your team score a goal and you are on the biggest high ever, some say a goal feels better than an orgasm, but I would disagree with that one. A confident feeling is with you now, the pride is back as your team is just so good, but wait a stupid mistake by your defender, now you’re mad again and at him, it gets worse as the other team go on and score.
Now you are sad and maybe feeling hurt, real disappointment and even confusion as you can’t understand what your player was trying to do. After that your team could score again and win, or the other team gets a second and your team ends up as the losers.
The final whistle goes, how are you feeling? Well if you won you will be jumping up and down and as the players come over to the Popside, you feel proud, pleased, delighted and your weekend is going to just perfect.
Mind you it your team had lost, it may not be so straight forward, lose to a big club in the FA cup and your team played well and gave it their best shot, you will feel disappointment of what might have been, but you will feel proud and go home and still enjoy the weekend.
If the team only lost because they were so unlucky, once again gave everything they could to try and win the game, it’s that disappointment again, but still feeling pleased with the effort made.
Lose the game because the team were rubbish, did not put in any real effort, the line-up was all wrong, poor substitutions, now you go home really angry because now its what should have been is the issue, your weekend may now suffer as not only did the defeat hurt, its giving you a new feeling, one of losing heart, no longer believing.
What ever feelings you come away from the game with and no matter how long they may last, another game will soon come around and the whole cycle starts all over again.
All that for just paying to watch a football match for one and a half hours, that’s why I love football and the reasons I tell everyone, so what angle would you come from, to convince non football people why its such a great game to be a part of.
Not at Weymouth it's not! ;D
