Serious question for the sports fans

[Glorfindel]

we knock the ole shuttlecock around quite a bit

 

[palmettomoon]

Not to derail the thread but I've also been curious as to how people can so closely identify with a professional sports team they can act irrationally and dangerously when "their" team loses or wins a championship. Very curious. I think it has to have something to do with a void in the fans' lives.

 

[Glorfindel]

also i never played guitar, keyboard, bass, drums but i like rock n roll. never been an actor or director but like goin to the movies.

 

[timbgtm]

I played competitive softball from the 80s till the late 90s. Before that high school football till I blew out my knee.

 

[harrycalahan]

Sports are the idol of this country. It really is sad to think how many grown men sit around and spew stats of teams/players but cant/wont invest in their own family, career or community. They live vicariously through overpaid, over sensationalized athletes who run their mouth about off the field topics theyre totally ignorant about. And whatever they say is GOLD! It really blows my mind. Rant over now that Ive insulted half this forum.

 

[palmettomoon]

Sports are the idol of this country. It really is sad to think how many grown men sit around and spew stats of teams/players but cant/wont invest in their own family, career or community. They live vicariously through overpaid, over sensationalized athletes who run their mouth about off the field topics theyre totally ignorant about. And whatever they say is GOLD! It really blows my mind. Rant over now that Ive insulted half this forum.

LOL! Now point out that Trump has done one thing, one single extra constitutional thing and you'll piss off the other half! LOL!

Outstinking standing post by the way.

 

[Glorfindel]

Sports are the idol of this country. It really is sad to think how many grown men sit around and spew stats of teams/players but cant/wont invest in their own family, career or community. They live vicariously through overpaid, over sensationalized athletes who run their mouth about off the field topics theyre totally ignorant about. And whatever they say is GOLD! It really blows my mind. Rant over now that Ive insulted half this forum.

i love sports. love em. but i dont idolize the players. i see them as a form of entertainment. nothing more nothing less. they are not overpaid. they have a skill set that 99.9% of people do not possess and there is a lucrative market for their services.

 

[Bypass]

Sports are the idol of this country. It really is sad to think how many grown men sit around and spew stats of teams/players but cant/wont invest in their own family, career or community. They live vicariously through overpaid, over sensationalized athletes who run their mouth about off the field topics theyre totally ignorant about. And whatever they say is GOLD! It really blows my mind. Rant over now that Ive insulted half this forum.

I'm not offended. That is the way I see professional sports fans. Sports are different when you are not getting paid to play.

 

[rbalan]

This gets me too, how can you be a fan of the school and say “we” if you were never enrolled there?

I went to UGA, have always been a fan of UGA football, and still don't say "we".

 

[palmettomoon]

Anybody else get pissed off and scream at the T.V. when a "professional" ball player makes a stupid mistake or error?