I just don’t understand sports fans. They describe themselves as “we” and “they” as if they were somehow actually a part of the team they are rooting for. My brother in law was Niners Giants Warriors “we” and was drinking all the while. I am fortunate not to give an actual damn about any activity where I am the “we” that pays a hundred bucks so some other “we” can make a hundred thousand throwing a ball around and doing tricks with it and maybe a stick. I have not spent a single minute in 5 years worrying about which group of millionaires is going to beat which other group of millionaires at some silly game.
The man’s wife says she wonders how this could happen but she really knows and the best thing she can do is teach her kids to get fulfillment in life from something other than sports fandom.
Some need a boost to their poor self image. Put that jersey on and presto they ARE somebody.
I'm an ex-baseball fan.
It's all 'Bread and Circus', and these millionaires are paid actors to rig games. The proverbial 'squirrel' keeps us, the masses, calmer and paying less attention than we would otherwise, with the fraud that's all around us, politically and financially.
Virtue signal harder please.
“I just don’t understand sports fans. They describe themselves as “we” and “they” as if they were somehow actually a part of the team they are rooting for.”
I’m with you on this and include college football in this as well.
At the end of every season the fans of 31 out of 32 NFL teams spend at least a bit of January and February, perhaps months, somehere between pi$$ed off and clinically depressed. About something which has no direct effect on their lives and over which they have no influence or control.
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