That guy
SHOTS FIRED
This is my favorite time of year in some respects. One of those reasons why is because football is at its peak, and it starts irritating all the non-fans. We all know that guy. That one friend who doesn’t like football, but instead of just not paying attention they go and make a point to tell everyone just how much they don’t care about football. Not liking or caring about football, or anything, is fine. When you start parading that fact around in such a way that makes you seem “superior” to those who do enjoy it, then it makes you hilarious. But not in the way you think.
Honestly I just wanted to make this comic so I’d have something to troll those people with when they show up on my news feed.
Also, on an unrelated note, You may have noticed the comics having fewer panels and such. I’ve gotten much faster at producing the comics, and I’m also trying to critically examine them and I’ve realized that I can probably make things simpler pretty easily without losing impact, which would allow me to…possibly…Update 3 times a week. I’m going to play around with that idea when we hit the offseason.
Edit: To the people getting weirdly hung up on the shirts: Liking Dr. Who or LOL doesn’t make you into That Guy. It’s just two things I’ve noticed That Guys tend to be into. I could have also listed the shirt to be Minecraft, or comic books, or anything nerdy. Don’t get hung up on the details.
Honestly, I expected a comic about The Hobbit vs The Forehead (if you know what I mean)
But hey, you’re busy, so just keep it up!
Oh, and as for the “3 times a week” thing, I think you’ll burn out ideas, because the last offseason, most of the comics were just pretty much random topics, or about how you miss football so much
True, but believe it or not I prefer the offseason to the regular season. The real season has way too much material which makes it really hard to narrow it down, then everyone gets mad at me for not mocking the thing they expected me to mock. The offseason can get a little dry, sure, but it’s sparseness gives me more time to experiment a bit. I have more time to actually take the artistic side of the comic seriously, which will help improve it later when I have no time during the season.
And it wouldn’t be just suddenly :NOW UPDATING 3 TIMES A WEEK: it’ll be more a bonus theme on saturday (like, vintage football saturdays) just to play around and see if my schedule affords it. And if it works, possibly going full time into 3 comics a week. But at first It’s just going to be a test.
Confession time: I used to be one of those people. I am so sorry for my old, buttheaded ways.
Also a MWF Draw Play would be amazing, but like Chris said, especially given the offseason approaching, quality > quantity.
Hey, if Goodell marginalises kickers anymore by nixing the Extra Point, I’M going to start calling it HandEgg.
I think he had his heart broken by Scott Norwood back in SB XXV, still hasn’t gotten over it and wants ALL PKs to feel his pain.
Hey, couldn’t you have used a different shirt for the neckbeard? I love football and am a rabid Whovian. We aren’t all neckbeards!
Yeah dude, c’mon, the Doctor is awesome. You can love watching grown men in tights play slap ass and still love you some Dalek action. Respect Doctor Who.
Not that I don’t still love this, of course, because I do have that one friend who is weirdly and INTENSELY into the Whoniverse… and hates football…
Yeah! I tun up for college every day with my Patriots jersey on, always sporting some nerdy t-shirt underneath. Anything from Transformers and TRON to My Little Pony and Spider-Man. I’m proud to be an American football (and other sports) loving nerd.
Go Doctor! Kick some Dalek ass! And go Pats! Kick some Jets ass!
Nerds who love football, UNITE!
Bronies Raus.
Ain’t not a one of you ever seen a titty
Why would I want to? I have some.
Watching Doctor Who doesn’t make you That Guy, but That Guy often watches Doctor Who. It’s a nerd show for nerds that That Guy likes to parade around as more ~sophisticated~ than the brutish sport of handegg.
Personally I prefer my nerd games for nerds, not much of a BBC fan but I’ll probably be playing some Persona on my PS Vita during the Bruno Mars halftime show.
Thank you. Nice to see someone got it instead of jumping to conclusions and thinking I’m saying watching Dr. Who or liking LoL makes you That Guy
Maybe I’m wrong, but wouldn’t the Bengals fan in the background be very familiar with how it feels being owned?
I’m that Bengals fan being portrayed. Trust me, we know. It happens every year.
You know NOTHING.
Handegg is hilarious, because it makes sense, objectively.
Football only uses the ‘foot-ball’ aspect for about a grand total of 3 seconds per 60 minute game. Like whirlwound says, if extra points are eliminated, we’ll miss half the actual foot-to-ball action.
I’m glad I don’t know anyone who trolls football though. I refuse to acknowledge those people in real life.
Football is football because it is played on your feet, as opposed to being played on horseback. When football was first being developed that was a useful distinction.
This is actually quite true. It’s also why there are multiple sports referred to as “football”, as they all descended from sports that were played on foot and with a ball.
Wait, then aren’t baseball and basketball essentially “football” too? Since both are played with a ball and on your feet?
To me, this is a lot like walking into a house party that everyone is enjoying. You’re not, but instead of just leaving and being quiet about it like a normal human, you walk into the most central bathroom and proceed to take a shit with the door open.
Just an unnecessary way to ruin everyone’s good time.
This might be my favorite comment of all time
Epic win!
But unlike the guy in the comic, you gotta respect the guy in your comment, it would take some serious balls to do that!
I come from the UK where we have a big American football following (6th biggest sport, achievement!). There’s actually even ADS this year for the Super Bowl… On 3 channels!
Some people insist on calling it ‘hand egg’ here and I’ve even heard American Rugby, but American football is the fastest growing sport. I play college football as a kicker/punter/backup QB and I love it. I love the physical aspect.
I get trolled a LOT and to trolls I say…
Just because you are a miserable piece of shit with nothing good in your life, doesn’t mean you can spoil everyone’s good time. Don’t like American football? Don’t play it or watch it. Just don’t insult the 12 million people in the UK that DO like it and go to the games or watch them on TV/in sports bars (BTW, 12 million, that’s four times the population that live in my country: Wales). Or better yet, just kill yourselves. Online. And that way you can have a healthy existence out in the real world. Can’t troll anyone there.
Somewhat agree with you. Sadly, the world’s most popular sport, soccer or football however you call it, is only like the 4th most popular here in ‘Merica.
People here can be VERY douchey about their dislike for soccer even though they’ve never played it or are less athletic than a quadriplegic nazi child molester. To those people, I’d say to go suck a railroad spike and kick rocks, but they can’t kick rocks, for they are pathetic and unathletic.
Football. Where did you even get soccer from? Not insulting or anything, I’m just genuinely curious.
And not everybody loves it over here either. The most played sport here in Wales is rugby. And any time we play the English it’s like ‘fwcio Sais! Cymru am byth! Mae hen woad fy nhadau…’ And because American football is the sister sport of rugby, we’ve really embraced it over here. I go to games in London every year along with around 83,000 people per game (it was around 170,000 people went to NFL games in the UK last year). I stood in a 4 hour queue to see the Lombardi trophy and at the game I sat next to a guy who kept cheering ‘Let’s go Steelers!’ And singing their fight song or something. We’re VERY passionate about our US football here in Wales.
But football being the fourth most popular sport? That’s a good achievement too. (Not a football fan. Yeugh)
*Mae hen wlad fy nhadau’ sorry.
I don’t speak welsh…
But I imagine it’s some sort of derogatory chant.
Rugby is interesting though. Never played it, but looks painful.
No, not really derogatory, but ‘screw England! Wales forever!’. And ‘Mae hen wlad fy nhadau’ is our national anthem, it means ‘the land of my fathers.’ The full lyric is ‘Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn anwyl i mi’ which means literally, ‘the land of my forefathers is very precious to me.’ It’s a beautiful song… About slaying the English and counting our dead.
Rugby is a great sport, the Six Nations is starting the day before the Super Bowl, Wales is facing Italy. I played rugby with George North on the Wales squad, he was in my class.
Soccer’s a slang term for Association Football, developed in the US to distinguish British football from Murkan football. Fun facts!
Soccer is actually an English abbreviation for Association Football.
Thank you!
I’m a huge Doctor Who fan, but this is just an awesome job! BTW, you could replace “Football” and “Super Bowl” and this strip would fit for any discussion on the interwebs.
Ah well, I don’t mind them, I just remember that they’re making such a big deal out of not caring because they can’t play sports or understand them, and that this is their way of trying to deal with the unbearable emptiness that is a life without football.
people get madden never even play sports just think video games are real and trying to go to doctor skool
yo fuknigga imposer vontaze, get the fuck outta hea #foh #smh
As a Bengals fan, this account confuses, slightly frightens, and amuses me. All at once.
Yeah I’m still on the fence about ol’ vontaze…
What have you got against League of Legends?
What does League of Legends have against the entire world?
http://imgur.com/ih09m
*smugface*
What’s the over/under on how many minutes of actual playing time we’ll see in this edition of the superb owl? http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406
WSJ is heavily editorializing that article. That “standing around” is the coaches planning their next move, and the players setting up the plays
I feel like the Seahawks are taking the place of the New York Jets and the Broncos are like the Baltimore Colts. Pretty much everyone thinks the broncos will win, something in the back of my head is telling me they won’t.
This is what it feels like every time I talk to a smug rugby fan, minus the neckbeard and fedora and whatever else.