And time. I always ask my sports fan friends, to what end are they loyally rooting for these teams? Especially with professional sports. Wether it be baseball, football, basketball or whatever. It just goes on and on, season after season, with no end. Some of these teams have been around for 80+ years. Where is it going? Even if the ultimate goal is reached, and "your" team wins the championship, the whole damn thing just reboots the following season. Dumbest crap ever. Plus, the fans get nothing out of it anyway. These fans root, and cheer and get emotional on levels like nothing else, and they don't even stop to think that there is nothing in it for them.
>>they don’t even stop to think that there is nothing in it for them. <<
There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of individuals who spend their money that, in part, shows you to be terribly wrong. Just because YOU don’t get anything out of it (or don’t believe anyone would) doesn’t mean others don’t. It isn’t your money, so why are you worried about it? A simple, “I don’t get anything out of sports, so whatever they do is fine with me...” would more than suffice. I don’t have a problem with anyone calling something dumb when it really is, but not liking something doesn’t make it dumb.