15 Funny Jokes About Football - 4 minutes read
It’s that time of year again! The time where we sit down every Sunday, Monday and (ugh) Thursday to watch large men slamming into one another to get an oddly shaped ball from one side of a 100-yard field to another (or fail to do so if you’re the Houston Texans). Whether you’re a fan or not, football has tackled itself into American pop culture and, thus, into comedy as well.
And so, here are some football jokes riddled with C.T.E. (comedy that’s entertaining)...
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Key & Peele knows you can’t be cocky on the field. Just do two pumps and avoid the penalty; it’s not hard!
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Robot Chicken made a football sketch about Star Wars because, of course, they did. Nerd stuff is their thing, naturally.
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On The Simpsons, Lisa is thrown off-guard after finding out how strangely forward-thinking the Pee-Wee football team is.
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In The Waterboy, Sandler gets to defend the good name of H2O in one of his more celebrated insane sports comedies.
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“Whatever your team says they are, that’s what they should have to be. If you’re the San Francisco 49ers, your entire team should be 49-year-old men. Just in the huddle complaining of hemorrhoids and bad backs… Chicago Bears should come out as real bears with helmets on, playing against 11 dolphins just dead on the field by halftime.”
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“I actually like Florida State, but that tomahawk chop thing drives me nuts. It has nothing to do with the Native American thing; it’s the fact that they do it every three seconds. You know white people came up with that in the 1920s when they got sound in movies. ‘What do they sound like?’ ‘I don’t know.’ They got some moron on the set just going (stereotypical chant). ‘That sounds good; put some rouge on his face and have him do it with an ax.’”
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On King of the Hill, Bill Dauterive relived his past high school football glory for one last play. Was it worth the multiple ligament and muscle tears? No.
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Katie Nolan, the lip-syncing talents of Rob Riggle and booze help explain how Teddy Roosevelt prevented football from becoming a banned sport in the U.S.
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Again, Hans Moleman was too ahead of his time.
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When Slate watches football, she likes to imagine that the team is made of best friends who like to dress alike and “run after the toy.”
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Saturday Night Live goes into the history of football and the time when firearms were officially banned from the sport.
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Many argue that football deserves the “America’s Pastime” label instead of baseball, but Carlin isn’t sure. However, he can contrast how different these sports are from one another, mostly by how optimistic and bright baseball is compared to how negative and war-like football is.
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Regan is best known as one of the most respected stand-up comedy veterans today, but back when he was in school, he had great potential to possibly go pro on the gridiron. In fact, NFL Films did a short feature on him.
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There’s a reason Key & Peele kept revisiting this premise throughout their show. Possibly the series’ magnum opus. (Which, come to think of it, could have been a player name.)
Source: Cracked.com
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