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Sports Fans, Just Stop!

Uberpod

Active Member
Sports are fun to play and a great activity for children and teens to get exercise and learn about teamwork and leadership. That's all well and good.

Adults should really grow up and grow out of watching professional sports. It's really an empty enterprise. People who are not even from your region are moving a ball around under some arbitrary rules that have no real meaning or significance. I swear watching a SOAP would be worthwhile in the off chance you could gain some insight on relationships or life in general. Guys on average are more religious about sports than they are about their actual religion, and that's sad.

I freely admit I am a sports bigot. I don't feel too bad about it either, because the sports fan has a large support group - stadiums full - to help validate and soothe any wound I might inflict. I doubt I will change any minds either.

Bonus point: Aliens are going to think we are morons, so please stop.
 
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ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
Should I tell my 91-year-old friend that she needs to stop watching football along with her 70-year-old daughter?
Just because you don't like them (I don't watch them, either) doesn't mean that others don't have a right to watch them. Sports fans find it an enjoyable pastime.
 

Uberpod

Active Member
Should I tell my 91-year-old friend that she needs to stop watching football along with her 70-year-old daughter?
Just because you don't like them (I don't watch them, either) doesn't mean that others don't have a right to watch them. Sports fans find it an enjoyable pastime.
Of course they have a right. Maybe introduce them to something that will keep their brains more occupied?
 

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
I've seen sports fans do some obnoxious things. In reality, I don't see the charm. My husband watches Nascar and I just don't understand what he sees in it. It's boring to me. To Each his own, I guess.
 

Thana

Lady
I imagine you have some form of entertainment that you enjoy that others do not.

Not everything has to be productive.
 

Uberpod

Active Member
So true, but if they didn't have sports, what else would they take their frustration out on ?.
Would violence go up without it, you think? I wonder if sports serve as a substitute for tribal war to satisfy, to a degree, testosterone induced blood lust.
 

psychoslice

Veteran Member
Would violence go up without it, you think? I wonder if sports serve as a substitute for tribal war to satisfy, to a degree, testosterone induced blood lust.
That's a good thought, and I feel that it would be that way if there wasn't an outlet such as sports, so for now, I think we need sports, that is until we are mature enough to see what it does to us.
 

Zardoz

Wonderful Wizard
Premium Member
I don't care what sports fans do on their own time, but when they come to work and yammer on and on and on about sports with other fans the whole day it makes me crazy...

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ShivaFan

Satyameva Jayate
Premium Member
As usual, I have a totally different take on this. It depends on the sport, some may be more violent while others are not. You could say that about other things as well, such as music - I hate RAP music as to me it is simply a form of tribal like violence and stimulates violence. Other music is not, it is beauty or love or something else or even art. And speaking of art, some art is very violent and stimulates violence. Some religion is violent.

Sports? I love the Olympics which was mentioned in this thread. When I watch the women's gymnastics, to me it is art. Art in motion by the human body. I love the Winter downhill events, I see the ability of humans in mastering a tool such as the ski. I do not see violence at all.

Now in US Football, there is a tone of violence. Actually, I have reached a point where I am getting pretty sick of most football and basketball players both on and off the field and especially their fans. But baseball doesn't seem violent to me, more about waiting for the result and seeing how anything at any moment can happen to change the result. But then, I see more and more violent baseball fans and then that makes me incline to never go to a game.

Anyway, my point is I am sort of in the middle and "it depends". Not just for sports, but art too, music, business, religion, it isn't just sports.

I can't wait for the next Olympics.

What about dancing? Can't that also at times be a form of tribalism and expression of violence?

Hmmmm...
 

McBell

Resident Sourpuss
Sports are fun to play and a great activity for children and teens to get exercise and learn about teamwork and leadership. That's all well and good.

Adults should really grow up and grow out of watching professional sports. It's really an empty enterprise. People who are not even from your region are moving a ball around under some arbitrary rules that have no real meaning or significance. I swear watching a SOAP would be worthwhile in the off chance you could gain some insight on relationships or life in general. Guys on average are more religious about sports than they are about their actual religion, and that's sad.

I freely admit I am a sports bigot. I don't feel too bad about it either, because the sports fan has a large support group - stadiums full - to help validate and soothe any wound I might inflict. I doubt I will change any minds either.

Bonus point: Aliens are going to think we are morons, so please stop.
Good idea, but first you have to figure out what to do with millions upon millions of people you just put out of work and end up competing with everyone else for jobs.
 

Uberpod

Active Member
Good idea, but first you have to figure out what to do with millions upon millions of people you just put out of work and end up competing with everyone else for jobs.
Good point, and many of them - especially the athletes do not have any skills.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Good point, and many of them - especially the athletes do not have any skills.
Now we know what you don't like. But you must've expected that some wag would ask what you like, & then have some fun with mocking it.
So.....what do you like?
 

Uberpod

Active Member
Now we know what you don't like. But you must've expected that some wag would ask what you like, & then have some fun with mocking it.
So.....what do you like?
I like politics, chess, movies - dramas, mysteries, thrillers. None of which do I spend inordinate amount of time doing. I like talking with people one on one or in smaller groups about politics, philosophy, and life.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Politics....piffle! It's naught but gossiping & rancor!
Chess.....pish posh! It's just a childish game!
Movies....barsh flimshaw! Just sitting there watching other people pretend to do things!
None of those things rise to the intellectual & physical glory of landscaping or collecting antique machine tools!
 
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