3 Things To Do Instead Of Watching The World Cup

It may not have escaped your notice but there is a little matter of a football thing about to start. In case you don’t know its starts 14th June and runs until 15th July. And it’s on about just about every night. Prime-time too with kick off being anywhere between  4 to 7 pm.  But apparently its ok as it only happens every 4 years *rolls eyes*. 64 games. 25th and 28th June England are playing, just in case, you want to catch those ones.

Now there are two ways of looking at the looming World Cup. Its 4 weeks or 64 games (some days have up to 4 football games in one day). Pick which works for you and go with it.

3 Things To Do Instead of Watching The World Cup

First up you could get stuck into a Box Set 

Some series are just made to binge watch. Here are three very different ones and all I have enjoyed so much they may be on my list re-watch instead of the football.

The Crown – 20 episodes. Only 20 episodes so ideal if you don’t want to commit to a full 64 football games as you have a life.

Breaking Bad – 62 episodes. I’ll say it now, series one can be a bit hard work and you may wonder what on earth you are watching and you think you won’t get into it. Then suddenly you’re hooked. Plus at 62 episodes it lets you watch the 2 England games.

Game of Thrones – 67 episodes. I use to be the person who said I would never ever watch Game of Thrones. Then one day I was really bored and I tried the first episode and I was hooked. Not one for any little eyes as there are violence and adult scenes. The adult scenes do fade off in the later series but the violence doesn’t as its set in a time when that is what they do.

Mad Men – 92 episodes. I think the biggest thing I loved about this, apart from the actual plot and all that, is the gradual change from 1960 to more present day. The wardrobe and props department have done an absolutely amazing job on research and carrying it through to the screen.

Walking off Over Half a Stone

The healthy choice. Now an hours walk an average person could burn around 356 calories. You need to burn an extra 3500 calories to lose a pound in weight. So a football game is 90 mins x 64 matches gives us 96 hours. Sooooo that could be 9lb weight loss. Now, of course, they are all rough calculations and going on the average person. If you ended your walk at the pub for a glass of wine you might not get the same results. But then if you vow to eat only healthy for the 4 weeks and you could be talking a whole different ball game too.

Oh and by only committing to it for 64 football games you are more likely to complete it as its more achievable than an exercise programme that has no end.

 

Watch the Best  of the Best Films

According to IMDB these are the best films of all the films. Up to you if you swap all the football matches for a film, but do remember that some days there are up to 4 football matches in one day.

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. The Godfather
3. The Dark Knight
4. The Godfather part 2
5. Pulp Fiction
6. Schindler’s List
7. The Lord of the Rings – Return of the King
8. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
9. Angry Men
10. Avengers – Infinity War
11. The Lord of the Rings – The Fellowship of the Ring
12. Inception
13. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
14. Forrest Gump
15. Fight Club
16. Goodfellas
17. The Matrix
18. The Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers
19. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
20. Seven Samurai
21. Star Wars – A New Hope
22. Interstellar
23. The Silance of the Lambs
24. Saving Private Ryan
25. Se7en
26. Leon
27. Spirited Away
28. The Usual Suspects
29. City Of God
30. Life Is Beautiful
31. It’s A Wonderful Life
32. City Lights
33. Coco
34. Raiders of the Lost Ark
35. The Departed
36. The Lion King
37. Back to the Future
38. Gladiator
39. The Prestige
40. Alien
41. Psycho
42. Whiplash
43. Apocalypse Now
44. The Green Mile
45. Memento
46. Terminator 2 – Judgement Day
47. American History X
48. Untouchable
49. Casablanca
50. Once Upon a Time in the West
51. The Pianist
52. Rear Window
53. Grave of the Fireflies
54. Dangal
55. Cinema Paradiso
56. Sunset Boulevard
57. The Great Dictator
58. Modern Times
59. My Father and My Son
60. Django Unchained
61. The Dark Knight Rises
62. The Shining
63. Braveheart
64. Amercian Beauty

Yeah, I not heard of lots of those either so maybe the World Cup is a good time to actually watch them?

 

How are you going to avoid the World Cup?