Sports Fans, Just Stop!

[Storm]

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

Not everything has to be productive.

I agree entire.

That said....

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...

To which I'll add this:

"Even when it isn't archaeology season, the media follow noted archaeologists. They drive fast cars, date beautiful women, advertise fragrances, and sometimes they go to nightclubs and act in the worst possible way. Scandals erupt as the tabloids follow these new celebrities when they're not searching the past for answers. It is entirely possible you can recite the names of certain researchers, even if you don't pay attention to archaeology. You don't know what transfer season is, but you know that someone was transferred to a dig in Peru for a sum of money that could fund the London Underground for two whole days."
How Football Sounds To People That Don't Care. This Guy Nails It.

 

[Viker]

Huh? I don't unnerstand. Especially at this time.

 

[Uberpod]

Huh? I don't unnerstand. Especially at this time.

An ego boost of some kind? Fewer side effects than narcotics, I suppose.

 

[Flankerl]

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.

No.

 

[Valjean]

American football gradually eclipsed baseball as America became more militarized and hyper masculine. Correlation?

People rabidly support their local sports teams, even to the point of violent confrontations with opposing fans. For what? The teams aren't religious or political and don't directly affect their fans lives in any way. The opposing teams are identical to the home team in everything but location.

People are innately tribal and love conflict, just for the fun of it. World peace is the last thing people want. If there's no conflict people will invent one.

Till we recognize and learn to suppress our inner cave man, war and strife will continue to plague the human race.

 

[Smart_Guy]

Well, let people do sports instead of killing each other in wars at least!

I hate football (soccer)... I hate it hate it hate it!

 

[Revoltingest]

Well, let people do sports instead of killing each other in wars at least!
I hate football (soccer)... I hate it hate it hate it!

It's too boring to hate.

 

[Smart_Guy]

It's too boring to hate.

Just its existence makes me hate it. Even when I mind my own business it stands in the way. They used to cancel cartoon shows just to play these stupid orgy taking place around a miserable inflated piece of rubber bag with millions of people watching it having footballgasm. This is stupid. Cartoons is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more important than sucker (soccer).

Darn it

 

[Mister Emu]

Maybe introduce them to something that will keep their brains more occupied?

I like... chess...

Perhaps a part of your issue is that you can't grasp the intellectual portions of the sports? Team sports are chess with people instead of pieces.

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...

Well too bad people talk among themselves about topics that they find interesting and you don't. You'd at least have a valid complaint if sports fans kept talking to you about sports.

 

[Thruve]

People adore porn, sports, going to the bar, smoking weed, horses, horse shows, eating out, etc. People also are obsessed with watching tv shows, specific science channels, particular movie genres, etc.
I think being obsessed with sports fits in with the above, so I cant judge a person for being obsessed with one when most people are obsessed with one or the other. Sports do not tickle my gonads so I do not watch them.

Also, "Excuse me young man, did you know smoking is bad for you?".
Me. "NOOOOOOOOOOO, I didn't know! Thank YOU!", while I observe them drinking more chemicals from they're soda.

 

[Smart_Guy]

People adore porn, sports, going to the bar, smoking weed, horses, horse shows, eating out, etc.

I don't adore any of those... well maybe just one, but you get my point

 

[Zardoz]

...Well too bad people talk among themselves about topics that they find interesting and you don't. You'd at least have a valid complaint if sports fans kept talking to you about sports.

Valid complaint, eh? How about the fact that they're wasting company time... theft actually, not earning their pay... but making MY job harder because I have to make up for their goofing off.

Useless waste of time, talking about sports, if you're only a spectator.

Now, sports one actually participates in, that's a bit different.

 

[At The Left Hand ov God]

Ill just leave this gem right here.

 

[Yerda]

See everything that anyone has ever thought was magnificent? It was diarrhea compared to Archie Gemmil's goal against Holland in the '78 World Cup.

 

[dust1n]

Should I tell my 91-year-old friend that she needs to stop watching football along with her 70-year-old daughter?

Couldn't they watch anything together? Or play games and drink tea?

 

[ChristineES]

Couldn't they watch anything together? Or play games and drink tea?

They've been watching football together for 70 years. They love watching it.

 

[dust1n]

They've been watching football together for 70 years. They love watching it.

Fair enough. I'm like you, I look at the screen of a game and can't quite figure out why I'm suppose to care in the slightest. I'd much rather watch American Pickers with my mom.

 

[dust1n]

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...

Great comedian, btw.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

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.

Why do I think there's a 'but' coming...

Adults should really grow up and grow out of watching professional sports. It's really an empty enterprise.

Entertainment is empty? Huh...go figure. Let's get rid of all light-hearted movies, cartoons, reality tv, soap operas, music without serious lyrical content, and whatever else is 'empty'.

People who are not even from your region are moving a ball around under some arbitrary rules that have no real meaning or significance.

True.

I swear watching a SOAP would be worthwhile in the off chance you could gain some insight on relationships or life in general.

C'mon now...you honestly think you can learn more about relationships or life from soaps? Phht. No way.

Guys on average are more religious about sports than they are about their actual religion, and that's sad.

I'm waaaaaaaay more religious about sports than any actual religion. However, I do like to kid myself that I am informed regarding religion.

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.

Haven't changed mine. I'd also suggest that the basis of your argument seems centered heavily on the major US sports. For what it's worth, I think female sports is one of the few places young girls can get healthy female body images portrayed to them as successful.

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

Unless they like sports. And think chess blows.

 

[Wirey]

Adults should really grow up and grow out of watching professional sports. It's really an empty enterprise.

What? Sports are the ultimate art form written on a canvas the size of the planet. When an artist paints a picture, or a poet crafts a lyric, all they want is a true emotional response from the viewer. Believe me, watching the human form at it's peak of perfection is that moment. It may be temporry and ephemeral, but it is the greatest form of art we have ever found. No sculpture could ever match the perfect fluid movements of fully trained athlete. Watch an outfielder sprint acros the grass to track down a fly ball while millions sit on the edge of their chair in anticipation. Watch the precision used by a golfer to exactly cause a ball smaller than your eye fly hundreds of feet to land exactly where it's supposed to. Feel the crowd come alive as a winger breaks for the net with the defence behind him and the entire outcome hanging between the Heaven and Hell of his and the goalie's ability. That's life in all it's beauty right there. A desperate struggle to com out on top that completely depends on th effort and skill applied.

If you don't see that when you see sports, I genuinely pity you. I can't imagine how grey the world would appear without it.