The Sports Thread
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DanDeTora
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I'm from Philly, but probably the only late 20's male that DOESN'T watch the Eagles or the Phils. My team, however, is the Flyers. Come this fall, I expect them to deficate all over the Rangers... :icon_thumright:
sundin4prez
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i' from toronto so all i have to say is , GO LEAFS GO!!
Mr Real Nice
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I really couldn't care less about a bunch of guys I don't even know playing a game. Not that it's not fun to watch once in a while, but fans confuse the hell out of me.
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DanDeTora said:
+1000!!!!!!!!!
LET'S GO FLYERS!!!!
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Max said:
Most teenagers don't these days. That's why so many of them are...ah...portly.
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SrDeMaFp said:
Sorry, what I meant was that I don't understand how people can get so worked up over a game in which they don't even personally know anyone on the team. It's like, just because they happen to be from the same city the team plays in, they feel some sense of honor and pride. It would be one thing if it was all locals playing on the team, at least. But they're just random people from everywhere. I went downtown with my friends to see the Celtics win the basketball championship game or whatever it's called, and I swear to god, after they won, it was like a social revolution. They were cheering and screaming like people that had just been liberated from some horrible tyranny.
I guess the bottom line is that I don't see the personal connection; I think it's safe to say that people get excited when something positive directly affects them. How does a team of random people winning a game directly affect anyone beyond themselves, family, and friends? Where's the personal connection to people you don't even know?
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Max said:
I don't know that "obligations" is the right word, though it could be with the level of devotion some people feel! haha, but yeah...when it gets to the point like with my brother where you start having "bad days" because the Yankees lost, you need to chill.
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I loved it when Seinfeld said that having a favorite team was like rooting for clothes. You just pick the name and uniform you like best and hope that those clothes win. 
To me it's just modern tribalism. The fans belong to their tribe and the focus is on the team which they support and feel like a part of. It probably helps maintain and us and them kind of mindset, which is helpful for a war-like society.
To me it's just modern tribalism. The fans belong to their tribe and the focus is on the team which they support and feel like a part of. It probably helps maintain and us and them kind of mindset, which is helpful for a war-like society.
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GoDrex said:I loved it when Seinfeld said that having a favorite team was like rooting for clothes. You just pick the name and uniform you like best and hope that those clothes win.
To me it's just modern tribalism. The fans belong to their tribe and the focus is on the team which they support and feel like a part of. It probably helps maintain and us and them kind of mindset, which is helpful for a war-like society.
HAHA, I didn't see that episode. And way to get philosophical. That's probably the real reason. haha
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I am not sure about the war like society bit, but some of it comes from how you grew up. I was part of a household where we rooted for a certain baseball and football team because that is what my Dad did. He lived and dies with the teams and we fell right in. I am not as big of a baseball fan, probably because I don't like the TV coverage. Boring as watching tar harden. But the announcers of yesterday on the radio made it a lot more fun. Going to a game was a lot of fun as well. I went through sports growing up, and while I never had the illusion that I was any good, it was fun. It was the social group activity. It kept quite a few questionables out of trouble. I am a big Basketball fan, but that is because the team I root for is local. I have followed my losing team for quite some time. When they were good it was very nice to be able to cheer and not be looked at as a looney. But they are not that great again, so I'll wait until times change. If sports are not your deal, so be it. It can ruin my day if my team loses, and while that might seem foreign, it is just focused interest in a subject. I have seen heated arguments about if the Beatles or the Stones were better. Not really any different to me. Go Kings! Ugh, it is going to be a long season...
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The Yankees are having an unremarkable season. The Bills are expected to have a ... typical season. I nominally support the Sabres but don't actually follow hockey; likewise for AC Sparta Praha in soccer. I don't follow basketball or any college sports. (The school I went to was once known for its sports... we won the Big 10 championship five times! ...in 1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, and 1924. :-\)
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I think I read somewhere that there is more domestic violence on superbowl sunday than other days on average...
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bpmorton777 said:
That's because wives just don't shut up.
Seriously though, watching/rooting for sports is no different than watching your favorite musician perform. There's no connection to the performer either, yet I bet all of you anti-sports snobs go to shows, and cheer in your fanboy ways.
I've played baseball and hockey fairly extensively on an organized amateur basis, in my adult years as well. I enjoy watching someone do something I can't-hit a ball 500 feet, or score on a breakaway. And what of it?
Sports=warlike society? Give me a break. Prove it. If anything, sports can bring people together, at least distract them from their differences.
Patrick from Davis said:
I agree with most points there, good post. I guess that'd about sum up my retort to Mr Real Nice better than I could at the moment. I do see his point though as when looked at from "outside the box" it does look kind of strange but, so do people dancing if you imagine them with the music off. Or even with the music on for some people. I think dancing's pretty ridiculous but, different strokes...
