Sports fans are LOSERS!
 

I'll admit, I don't get sports at all. Why so much passion over your home team?

Help me understand!
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I was unaware that you were capable of hate

dudes with pink fixations are LOSERS

GO LIONS! 0 for 08!

It's true. "Hate" is not a word I use much. I was just trying to get a response. :)

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wh!?!?

Awesome!

We all have Daddy issues! ;)

my partner knows nothing about sports and doesn't care. there are lots of men who don't. some are gay or effeminate types but lots just never got bitten by the bug when they were young. i think having a father or older brother who watches and follows sports is a big influence. and playing team sports as a kid. as soon as i was old enough i fell in love with all sports - i read every newspaper and magazine, watched everything i could.

i think guys who build their whole lives and identities around following other guys compete are pathetic. i like sports because each game is a real life story/drama and in only 3 hours i know the ending.

any guy over 30 who is wearing the jersey of a favorite sports team is a joke, and if he puts his own name on his back he really needs to just admit he failed at life.

So very true. I love football, but can't sit through an entire game without changing channels or wandering off doing something else. Maybe it's because my mind wanders, or maybe I'm not there in person so it's less important to me. I can't imagine living and dying with everything a local team does.

I guess I'm a big football fan cuz I played Pop Warner and High School. Working hard to become a good team and winning was why I like it.

It's the team thing. The winning the losing. The pizza and beer. The cheerleaders:thumbsup:thumbsup

that makes a ton of sense.

heh heh.... I hear ya.

I grew up playing it and it's just in my blood.I'm not hardcore but it makes me happy

Most people I know who grew up playing sports now lead some sort of athletic/healthy lifestyle, are for the most part couldn't be bothered with watching professional sports.

The ones who didn't participate are now the ones who are Gung-Ho sports, but don't play...just get too wrapped up in watching.

That makes a ton of sense. Kinda like how people who play instruments seem to be the ones who like "Jam Bands."

Fixated!? Who, me??? ;)

Have to admit (without watching video), pretty strange title coming from Hal.

I don't follow sports at all. My dad was the artist-type and was never into sports & so I just kind of never got into it either. I'm a music guy.

All that being said, I'm renting out my waterfront pool home for the 2009 Superbowl this year for 10 grand :) just 20 miles from the game in a kick-ass community - I just put it up on ebay a few minutes ago, so if you are a sports fan hit me up!

I'm not about sports but I am about the $$$ ;)

what happened to your legendary tolerance Hal?

Sports are for dudes that like to sit around watching other dudes in tights wrestle around, tackle each other and flex their muscles on TV. It's not gay though. *cough

Is he really anymore of a joke than all of us that sit here on a message board days, nights, weekends and holidays posting and arguing with people we've never met?

I enjoy sports but I don't follow. If someone wants to wear a jersey and root for a team and a tradition that they grew up with since they were little... what's really wrong with that? They are happy and having a good time... man if that makes someone a loser, count me in and hand me a beer.

I am a sports fan, and have the jerseys to prove it. ;)

As to the why, it's just one of those things. It's intensity, rivalry and competitiveness with my friends, drama, passion, and more things than I can think of at the moment.

That said, I *maybe* watch a movie every couple of months, and popular tv shows run their entire series and go off the air, and I will never have seen them.

Sports are just my thing when it comes to spectator entertainment.

LOL, I'm not a sports fan myself. I find it a bit boring. But wishful thinking to be in tennis club.

I got my love of sports from my father. He played college football and was a huge Dolphins fan (I grew up in South Florida), and through that I became a huge fan of every South Florida sports team. He was a workaholic so spending the day with him at a Dolphins game was something I lived for as a kid. Since I am 35 most of the South Florida sports teams, like the Marlins, Heat, and Panthers, only came around in the last 15 or so years so I watched them from their infancy, and went to many of their first games.

I also played every sport, but I was especially good at baseball. Back then the college recruiting rules were that schools couldn't contact you directly until your junior year in high school, but they could send you what was called an "introductory letter", which was a letter telling you about the merits of the college. In actuality it was a backhanded way of saying the school was interested in you. I got several of those letters after my sophomore year. Unfortunately, by that point I had grown my hair down to my ass, and was more interested in being in bands than I was in playing high school sports. I ended up quitting part way though my junior year.

I went to college at the University of Miami, and although I didn't play sports there, I still follow their sports teams fanatically. Unless you have gone to a college with a football team, you have no idea what it feels like to sit in the stands in the student section, cheering on your team and doing all of their traditional chants.

So to make a long story short, it is pretty easy to become fanatical for your home team when you grew up around them and they were such a special part of your life. Oh, and I wear my Dolphins and marlins jerseys all the time, and anyone who doesn't like it can blow me :thumbsup

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Well, I didn't say "hate," I said "LOSER!"

But it was really just my attempt to have the same sort of irrational passion and us-vs-them mentality as a sports fan.

Call me a failure

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there are more than a few theories as to the psychology of sports fans.

Included are:

Escapism
Sense of belonging
Drama induced euphoria/stress
A replacement for the need for hunting parties in hunter/gatherer days
Pride/esteem

There are others.

I did not say "hate" either. The thread title took me aback when I saw the author. That's all. Your rep has you as too sweet to say something like that even if you thought it. :)

It's in our genes to compete.

Rome built huge amphitheaters all over the empire as part of sharing Roman culture with the World. Cities as small as 40,000 people might have an amphitheater that could seat 10,000. Just think how staggering that is. And of course witness the Flavian Amphitheatre ( The Colosseum ) and her prominance in Rome. On particularily good years citizens might enjoy upwards of 200 days of games in a single year!

I recently watched a documentary about tesosterone. Women can actually tell men that have higher levels of tesosterone just from pictures. It's a natural thing and must be part of the original courting process. Just as men are attracted to large breasts and hips, so too are women attracted to Tesosterone.

Levels of Tesosterone are not static. They flucate depending on all sorts of things. When men get together and compete you can actually measure an increased level of Tesosterone through out the game. Interestingly enough the winning team will tend to have a higher peak level and a slower ramping down process than the losing team.

Anyway, like I said, it's in our blood.

More interesting tidbits from the dawn of our society, the Roman Empire.

Did you know that although most Gladiators were slaves, it was considered noble. A man went in to combat and gave it his all because he was asked to.

On the opposite end of the table, being an Actor in the theatre was the least noble accomplishment. Actors were always slaves, never free men. It is said that because you take on the role of somebody else, you are not being true to yourself and thus lacks any sort of nobility at all.

Joe, you are not a failure. The LA Kings on the other hand... :winkwink:

FYI, on the inside joke; the LA Kings are in last place in their division, while the local team here in the Bay Area, the San Jose Sharks, are in first - neener, neener!

In fact, the Sharks have the most points in the NHL right now - double neener, neener!!!

See Hal, that's what sports is all about...the drama, the competition, and fans living vicariously through their team.

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Nothing wrong with sports, that's like saying jazz is for losers

I generally hate sports too. I can watch Boxing/MMA though

I think it's a form of escape. You have a bar full of hard working blue collars guys with nagging wives, pain in the ass kids, and bills. It's one day they have to escape that shit and focus on their team.When the home team succeeds they feel like they are part of that success, after all every home team needs it's fans.

A guy who dies his hair hot pink, wears eyeliner, and lives inside a ball of fur, thinks sports fans are losers.


What a shocker.

I LOVE soccer! :)

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I misspelled "dyes".

I'm glad you still love me, even though I'm dumb.

I wasn't much of sports fan until I started going to Live Kings games and getting awesome seats.

Non-sports fans are either one of these two... idiots or fagsssss.

No different to wearing a band t-shirt. I've met some really interesting people who have approached me because of a shirt I've been wearing. Sometimes a band shirt and sometimes a sporting shirt.

I think in a day and age where communities are becoming a thing of the past, people are becoming less and less friendly and people don't even know their next door neighbour, it's sad to see someone criticise one of the few things left that does bring all different kinds of people together to have a good time.



You'll Never Walk Alone is the club anthem of both Liverpool and Celtic. How can anyone say that's not an awesome sight?

Disappointing to see you make a post like this. :(

Hal...let me put this in a way you might get it...

A sport's fan is like a burning man's fan, same passions same highs same lows and same can't wait til next year when it over:thumbsup

If you don't feel that way about something...then you are a loser in my book:Graucho

Hal...let me put this in a way you might get it...

A sport's fan is like a burning man's fan, same passions same highs same lows and same can't wait til next year when it over:thumbsup

If you don't feel that way about something...then you are a loser in my book:Graucho

sorry for double post:error

i dont watch much sports but i play bball weekly..and snowboard in the winter and golf all summer long

id golf in the winter if the balls were orange and they stayed on top of the snow

Couldn't said it better myself... I grew up in south shore of Montreal and we all had skates on at the age of 4 and where playing hockey at 5.

Being in a team is cool and we where always proud to wear our jerseys :thumbsup

I still love watching hockey and I am a Habs fan without the jersey :winkwink:

It's a man thing... LOL!

Same here. Dad liked books and music and passsed his passions onto me. I never understood how people can get so wrapped up in watching other people play a game.