Heres Why Im Done With Team Sports Viewing

[Royalty]

I think this is a very good thing!  Hobbies are much better than watching someone else make millions of dollars playing games meant for middle school children.  You get so much more out of hobbies such as building a car.  You learn valuable skills, get a sense of accomplishment, set goals and are actively engaged in the activity.  

 Plus there is no end in sight.  Its not like it matters one bit if this team wins or that team wins, they are just going to do it all over again next year which renders it all irrelevant.  Even if someone`s preferred team wins the whole thing, so what?  What happens next?  They are done.  They achieved the highest they could.  What impact does that have on the fan?  Happy for what really?  

I assume the fan either is trying to empathize with the victory and what it took to get there, or they think they are part of the team or they just have nothing better to do.  Does not matter though if any of the reasons are true, the fan gets absolutely zero benefit from any of it and there is no satisfaction either.  If there were any kind of satisfaction to be had, nobody would be watching it anymore or they would stop when their desired goal is reached. So that leads me to believe people are just watching to watch and never really thought about why they are watching it, because if they did, they might realize its a lot of time wasted on a passive activity with no great benefit whatsoever.

What if the players were white? Would it be different?

[The True Adonis]

What if the players were white? Would it be different?

Sure.  Hockey watching is just as brainless.

[avesher]

I think this is a very good thing!  Hobbies are much better than watching someone else make millions of dollars playing games meant for middle school children.  You get so much more out of hobbies such as building a car.  You learn valuable skills, get a sense of accomplishment, set goals and are actively engaged in the activity.  

It takes absolutely zero thought to watch a bunch of black guys chase each other and their balls around and then watch them pray to jesus christ and then go to jail after they blow their money.  Plus there is no end in sight.  Its not like it matters one bit if this team wins or that team wins, they are just going to do it all over again next year which renders it all irrelevant.  Even if someone`s preferred team wins the whole thing, so what?  What happens next?  They are done.  They achieved the highest they could.  What impact does that have on the fan?  Happy for what really?  

I assume the fan either is trying to empathize with the victory and what it took to get there, or they think they are part of the team or they just have nothing better to do.  Does not matter though if any of the reasons are true, the fan gets absolutely zero benefit from any of it and there is no satisfaction either.  If there were any kind of satisfaction to be had, nobody would be watching it anymore or they would stop when their desired goal is reached. So that leads me to believe people are just watching to watch and never really thought about why they are watching it, because if they did, they might realize its a lot of time wasted on a passive activity with no great benefit whatsoever.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh THIS THIS THIS

this is right on the fucking money

[wikkedonez]

Florida State hasn't lost in 2 years and their ranked 3rd...fuck u ncaa and Condoleza Rice...fucking politics..go NOLES!!

[SF1900]

Sounds like a wiener roast either way.

Damnit! 

[SF1900]

Watching Olympia's from the 90's actually motivate me to train harder. Especially the shows with Yates.

I must admit, I enjoy watching old school bodybuilding videos, but I do not get all crazy about them. I am not cheering when a specific bodybuilder wins or anything.

[SF1900]

1) Sexual fantasy in a single setting.
2)Sexual fantasy in a group setting.

Its like asking someone if they like rice or beans on their taco.  Just depends on what one is in the mood for I suppose.

I prefer number 1. I prefer to be in the privacy of my own room with my thoughts. 

[ChristopherA]

How does one choose which college team they like?  Do you pick it based on the mascot?  Logically, it would be the school that one attended, but that certainly is not the case for most fans.  How does one choose?

How about motocross, TA? Baddest sport on the planet. Lots of kickass tracks down in NC too

[Ronnie Rep]

Florida State hasn't lost in 2 years and their ranked 3rd...fuck u ncaa and Condoleza Rice...fucking politics..go NOLES!!

This.

[CalvinH]

How does one choose which college team they like?  Do you pick it based on the mascot?  Logically, it would be the school that one attended, but that certainly is not the case for most fans.  How does one choose?

Don't know why I chose the college team I root for but for baseball it was passed down from my family. my grandparents who were Italian grew up in Bayonne NJ.
so they loved the Yankees and the Italian players, DiMaggio, Berra, Rizzuto.

[Tennisballz]

I've always likes individual sports where you have no one but yourself to blame at the end of the day.  I play soccer and hockey which I love for the fun and exercise, but any professional level team can fuck right off in my opinion.  I don't buy jerseys or any other apparel for these shit teams.  I always chuckle when i talk to someone who has seahawks season tickets to the tune of 1600$ along with 6 different jerseys, hats and wristbands and other crap.  Grown ups with little kid fantasies living vicariously through other men who don't even know or care if they exist...always seemed pathetic to me.

[Andy Griffin]

I've always likes individual sports where you have no one but yourself to blame at the end of the day.  I play soccer and hockey which I love for the fun and exercise, but any professional level team can fuck right off in my opinion.  I don't buy jerseys or any other apparel for these shit teams.  I always chuckle when i talk to someone who has seahawks season tickets to the tune of 1600$ along with 6 different jerseys, hats and wristbands and other crap.  Grown ups with little kid fantasies living vicariously through other men who don't even know or care if they exist...always seemed pathetic to me.

If you want to see pathetic, check out some of the meltdowns on the sports board.

[Tennisballz]

If you want to see pathetic, check out some of the meltdowns on the sports board.

These fans violently defend their 'favorite' player, or quarterback or whatever....then their favorite player gets traded to another team and their little boy fantasies fall apart when they realize that player didnt give a shit about them or any other fan of that city.  Grown men argue about how 'their' team is better than another cities team.  When you think about it, being a die hard fan is the ultimate schmoe experience.

[James28]

I don't watch any sport apart from golf or tennis. And 'favourite player'? LMFAO,  I'm not an impressionable 10yo. There's some players whose skill I admire but I still wouldn't take the time to piss on them anymore than I would my neighbour nine doors down.

Being a 'fan' is something I literally don't have the capacity to understand. The closest I could get is liken in to a troop of baboons that run in a pack and would on occasion declare war against another troop of baboons over a tree or something. Pack behaviour and all that.

[Tennisballz]

I don't watch any sport apart from golf or tennis. And 'favourite player'? LMFAO,  I'm not an impressionable 10yo. There's some players whose skill I admire but I still wouldn't take the time to piss on them anymore than I would my neighbour nine doors down.

Being a 'fan' is something I literally don't have the capacity to understand. The closest I could get is liken in to a troop of baboons that run in a pack and would on occasion declare war against another troop of baboons over a tree or something. Pack behaviour and all that.

haha....well said sir.

[El Diablo Blanco]

growing up my dad was always telling me how sports are fixed.  He'd guess the winner right almost everytime for any big sporting event, world series, superbowl etc...  He'd even tell me how long a series goes.  he'd explain the flow of money and why a certain team will win over another.  I being green thought he was full of shit and beleived everything was legit but as I get older I know exactly what he was talking about.

[The True Adonis]

growing up my dad was always telling me how sports are fixed.  He'd guess the winner right almost everytime for any big sporting event, world series, superbowl etc...  He'd even tell me how long a series goes.  he'd explain the flow of money and why a certain team will win over another.  I being green thought he was full of shit and beleived everything was legit but as I get older I know exactly what he was talking about.

This the same guy who tried to breed a Hyena with a Pitbull?