You can reduce anything to a waste of time and resources. Professional sports and sports participation seems to increase many people's quality of life so I have no problem with it. In fact in my personal opinion it is a great conversational piece and makes life a little more exciting. I'm sure if I was into a sports team I would be thrilled to watch them play and derive some sense of satisfaction if they won. For example, when you were a kid and you barracked for a wrestler in the late great WWF. Those times sure created feelings of excitement, anticipation, hope, shock and even joy. I would imagine for some people the observation of the sporting world would create the same effect.
Life could potentially be boring for those individuals in their jobs having nothing to look forward to outside of their job sport can provide that. A world without sport would not cater to individuals who enjoy observing/participating in competition. On the other hand, I think many "sports fans" become sports fans to adhere to societal norms and be apart of groups. Is there anything wrong with this? no not really. Does the individual then actually enjoy watching the sport? that I do not know as it would involve delving deeper into the sports' fan psyche. However once again I refer to my example of the WWF where I adored these wrestlers and they entertained me to the point where I could not wait to watch them perform.
So my real question to you all is, do sports fans REALLY feel a passion for their teams/people?
or is it a societal creation whereby many people are forced into it. I do not know and do not understand.... I have never enjoyed this phenomenon of watching sport. So I do not understand it although I do respect it if there is a legitimate passion or enjoyment gained from it. Why would I receive little to no enjoyment from it yet another supposedly does? this is another question that arises from this... The only time I have ever gained enjoyment from watching sport was when I gambled on a team and it was a close game.
Please note: I have attended and watched many sports on TV in attempts to get into it. Accompanied by purchasing of merchandise and really trying to gain satisfaction from it. After all how could so many people watch this, how great is it? I want to be apart of it. etc. etc. It never felt right it never felt genuine. Any ideas? I want to replicate these feelings I had as a kid it felt so exciting and inextricably enticing each and every week. These feelings greatly enhanced my quality of life and it was never forced by society etc.
