Why do intelligent or even semi-intelligent people get so spun up over the results of sports, football bowl games for instance? They act as if they had a part in the win, as if their very act of rooting for a team or having attended school their made them a significant cog in the teams ability to win. I'm happy when a team/driver/ horse, whatever, that I happen to like wins, but I don;t go nuts about it and act like I really helped with the outcome.
I'm baffled
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Angus In Texas
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Some people like to live vicariously through others.
Jogeephus
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Angus In Texas":324qp14u said:
Good answer. The biggest Georgia fan in our neck of the woods puts black plastic all over his house and has billboards and signs all in his yard which would rival any attempts by the local high shcool PEP club. Funny thing is, he didn't go there but acts like he was there number 1 student.
Calman
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Even to the extent of big brawls and killing each other.
Don't make sence to me either.
Cal
Don't make sence to me either.
Cal
grannysoo
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This always amazes me. I have a son going to UGA who likes to watch the games, but even he doesn't get that worked up about them. He understands that win or loose, it will not put food on HIS table or increase HIS pay.
I am just amused at all of the "players" around here riding around with the UGA flags on their cars. The can't even spell UGA, much less have ever gone there........
(I guess I'm just not cool)
I am just amused at all of the "players" around here riding around with the UGA flags on their cars. The can't even spell UGA, much less have ever gone there........
(I guess I'm just not cool)
I with you on this Dun. This year when the Dallas Cowboys playeddun":10xci31g said:
some team here in Dallas, people were paying in the $1000 a ticket to see them. Also people that will go to all extremes to get Hannah Montana tickets for their young girls. Looks to me like the economy has been built on entertainment, communcations and such in the last few years. Just look at us spending money and time on this computer who would have thought of this ten years ago. We ranch in the Lake Fork area where everyone comes to fish for the Bass and then turn them lose. You cannot believe the traffic on the country roads and the beer bottles, cans and trash we have to gather out of the edge of the pasture each week.
I've got some friends whose son went to U of Tx for 1 semester and you wuld think they own the team. I even sold them a longhorn because it looked like the mascot.
You sometimes have to ask yourself - "What difference or what good has any sports team made in my life?" Odds are they have contributed little to nothing to our well being, so what do we owe them? Let's build a bigger stadium and charge super bucks for admission!!!
You sometimes have to ask yourself - "What difference or what good has any sports team made in my life?" Odds are they have contributed little to nothing to our well being, so what do we owe them? Let's build a bigger stadium and charge super bucks for admission!!!
AngusLimoX
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Angus In Texas":24j0mk31 said:
Yes , good answer. But the violence is absurd, especially around the kids.
A good crowd can influence a hockey game to some extent, I don't know about football or baseball, basketball.
Like anything else, when taken in the right context and used as it was meant to be sports ( including hunting/fishing :lol: ) are a lot better diversion than some others ( binge drinking , chasing wimmins ) :o
TREY-L
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cfpinz":29ck3ucu said:
My thoughts exactly. ;-)
All the organized, popular ones any way.
I am not a big fan, either. I like high school football and basketball. Small town football and basketball. That is a part of the fiber of a lot of small communities around here. I don't care very much for college sports and not at all for professional. Going to a Ranger game is nice every now and again, but I don't like to watch on TV or listen on the radio.
I'd rather go bowling.
I'd rather go bowling.
john250
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I watch way too much sports.
There is some magic in a good team, regardless of the sport. The merging of diverse personalities to create a united whole is fascinating. A microcosm of real life.
I think sports give people some common thing to talk about. That is important, even if it is shallow.
It is a shame we don't give biologists the same recognition athletes get. But biologists don't put 50,000 fannies in seats at $75 per cheek.
There is some magic in a good team, regardless of the sport. The merging of diverse personalities to create a united whole is fascinating. A microcosm of real life.
I think sports give people some common thing to talk about. That is important, even if it is shallow.
It is a shame we don't give biologists the same recognition athletes get. But biologists don't put 50,000 fannies in seats at $75 per cheek.
VanC
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There's nothing wrong with watching sports. It's just another form of entertainment, that's all. It can also bring people together with a common sense of community, from rooting for your local high school team all the way up to rooting for your country's athletes in the olympics.
Sure, some people take it too seriously, just as some take other forms of entertainment too seriously. In fact, some people can be downright jerks about it. But I think most sports fans know, as I do, that the outcome of a game or a season isn't going to change their lives one bit. It's just more fun when your team wins. There's nothing wrong with being proud of someone else's accomplishments, or feeling bad when someone loses.
As for determining the outcome of a sporting event, it happens all the time. It's called home field, home court, or home ice advantage. Sure, the guy sitting on his couch eating Fritos and watching a game won't have any effect, but even a few hundred people in a small high school gym, all cheering for the same team, can have a big say in the outcome of a close game.
Yeah I know all about the bad things connected with sports. Cheating, steroids, gambling, greed, even violence. But there's also a lot of good that comes from it, both for the fans and especially the athletes. The world would be a much more boring place without it, IMO.
Sure, some people take it too seriously, just as some take other forms of entertainment too seriously. In fact, some people can be downright jerks about it. But I think most sports fans know, as I do, that the outcome of a game or a season isn't going to change their lives one bit. It's just more fun when your team wins. There's nothing wrong with being proud of someone else's accomplishments, or feeling bad when someone loses.
As for determining the outcome of a sporting event, it happens all the time. It's called home field, home court, or home ice advantage. Sure, the guy sitting on his couch eating Fritos and watching a game won't have any effect, but even a few hundred people in a small high school gym, all cheering for the same team, can have a big say in the outcome of a close game.
Yeah I know all about the bad things connected with sports. Cheating, steroids, gambling, greed, even violence. But there's also a lot of good that comes from it, both for the fans and especially the athletes. The world would be a much more boring place without it, IMO.
rkm
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I don't have many vises, but must confess getting wrapped up in sports is one of them. Guilty of rooting for teams that I have no real connection. :help: I even get mad and call them bad names when they lose. :oops: Pray for me> :(
I luv herfrds
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No idea Dun.
Living in a small town can be a real pain in the a##. Have people telling me all the time that my son needs to play a sport. He is not interested. So there is no forcing him, but we still catch crap from some. I just tell them that he is not interested and the first person to put pressure on him better be ready because I would be chewing on them.
Same thing happened to a friends son. He got blamed every time the team lost, even if he never played a single second of the game. He finally quit the teams and the superintendent told him that anybody who does not play a sport is a loser.
Nice attitudes.
Give me a good NASCAR race anyday. Good mother son bonding.
Living in a small town can be a real pain in the a##. Have people telling me all the time that my son needs to play a sport. He is not interested. So there is no forcing him, but we still catch crap from some. I just tell them that he is not interested and the first person to put pressure on him better be ready because I would be chewing on them.
Same thing happened to a friends son. He got blamed every time the team lost, even if he never played a single second of the game. He finally quit the teams and the superintendent told him that anybody who does not play a sport is a loser.
Nice attitudes.
Give me a good NASCAR race anyday. Good mother son bonding.
