“The bright side is, I’m being taught that sports is completely unimportant.”
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It took many decades for me to slowly come to that realization.
Professional sports are irrelevant. We root for them as way of experiencing winning vicariously. You spend all this time trying to be entertained, but you are investing personal sense of self-worth out of something that you have absolutely no effect on. When your team loses, you don’t get the vicarious ego boost. When they win, and they finally win the big tamale, you jump around and shout, then you sit down and as the smile slowly drains off your face, it dawns on you. “Now what?” Because other people won something, and it doesn’t do you one bit of good in the substantial realm, and you avoid acknowledging that you got sucked into a show.
The other aspect of sports that I think is beneficial is the social aspect. Rooting and going to game with friends and family and connecting with people, but there are other ways to connect with people besides attending sporting events.
I just don’t feel much attraction to most of it anymore. I’m not saying it’s all fake like professional wrestling, but it may as well be. There is something so inauthentic to the presentation of sports in our society these days. High production value, low authenticity.
Thankfully, I never became a big fan even for the two sports that I enjoyed watching. I never watched all of the games each season, I didn’t buy any of the memorabilia, etc. When I was in college, I attended two football games because I went with some friends. I watched maybe three college football games on TV (again, with family and friends). Left to my own devices, I find other things to do such build things, or expand skills that can earn money.
I was always told that winning a title makes you a “world-class city.”