Meh.
I dont watch football, so they can do whatever.
Let’s just see if a number of people on FR have the backbone to finally stop watching themselves. Seems to be really hard for a lot of them.
“Let’s just see if a number of people on FR have the backbone to finally stop watching themselves. Seems to be really hard for a lot of them.”
For a lot of men, as I have long observed, pro sports is their common ground and bond with other men. And a thing they seem to have much pride in their knowledge about (standings, stats, odds, trades, game highlights, on and on).
Without it, many seem to have little to talk about or get excited about. And it’s a way to take excitable sides in battles without harsh animosities, unlike politics and religion.
After decades of that peer group activity, it’s probably hard to go without it.
I quit caring about sports in the 80s.
Easy if you try.
“Let’s just see if a number of people on FR have the backbone to finally stop watching themselves. Seems to be really hard for a lot of them.”
Since escaping Mordor (metro DC) in 2013 I’ve watched one NFL game, the AFC Championship last year. I was visiting my brother and wanted to see Patrick Mahomes play. Our cabin in the mountains has no television connection so watching any sports is in the rear-view mirror for me. I thought it would be really hard to kick the televised sports habit, but to be honest with you it wasn’t and I don’t even listen to baseball on the radio (I used to listen almost every night). I would like to say I was giving it all up as a practice of virtue, but the truth is it was not available as a practical matter and I was too busy with rural life anyway. I lost interest in it almost immediately. I cannot even tell you who has won various championships since 2013.