Question; is following sports stupid?

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When it's taken very seriously, following a fighter/ team can become a cult. Less fun. Than. Deciding weather to spell right o r ho w ma n y spaces to have b e t ween words...

Or;

Do you feel stupid for following something that has nothing got to do with your l i f e?

Sometimes I do.
Maybe it's not an intellectual thing, to be thought too much about, though.
 
Yes. Wtf is the point. "Let's watch other people play with a ball" LOL
 
Lmao at lumping"sport" and "fighter" together

We root for our favorite teams because its been engrained in us at a young age. Ufc fighters come and go. Your favorite team will stay.
 
Meh- I used to follow - not so much anymore. I like to watch a good game or fight, but I dont "follow" any one fighter or team. I dont knock people that do, because its pretty easy to get emotionally attached to the outcome of a team or fighter you like.
 
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Different strokes for different folks. I personally can't stand to watch hockey or football, but I know a lot of people enjoy them.

I wouldn't say following sports is stupid. It's a form of entertainment, and I get mine from MMA.
 
I have a question ladyfriend. Do you follow any tv shows? Do you talk about them with your friends at work or when you are hanging out. Do you enjoy TMZ shows with those actors? If so why? you aren't in the show. You have no tie to the actors so why follow it and watch the next episode. We all follow things we enjoy and we follow the things we like most the hardest. You can replace the noun 'sports' with many things and still pose the same question.

This sounds like a jerk reply but I don't mean it in that tone. Just curious.
 
Ya, just thinking, people waste a lot of time and energy, sometimes money, getting really behind a Side.
 
It's not. But....


generally, the people I've met throughout my life that LOVE sports are all fuckin stupid. They're fuckin stupid.
 
I don't want to delve too deep into this, but I will say one thing. As I got older and my friends had less time to hang out because they were starting families I found I was watching sports alone most of the time rather than with other people. And I started to realize that watching sports was largely a social thing for me. Something to do with the guys. Without other people to watch and discuss it with on a regular basis, it just became too big a time suck in comparison to the level of enjoyment I got out of it. I now just watch MMA and even that I'm selective about.
 
ROKKO said:
I have a question ladyfriend. Do you follow any tv shows? Do you talk about them with your friends at work or when you are hanging out. Do you enjoy TMZ shows with those actors? If so why? you aren't in the show. You have no tie to the actors so why follow it and watch the next episode. We all follow things we enjoy and we follow the things we like most the hardest. You can replace the noun 'sports' with many things and still pose the same question.

This sounds like a jerk reply but I don't mean it in that tone. Just curious.
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Not wrong.
 
Ya actually. Also don't want to get deep into this question. So I agree with everybody.
 
Being a season ticket holding member of the Raider Nation is kinda like a cult
We obsess over our team all year long and he have our gameday traditions that we've had for decades but its fun as hell and it doesnt hurt anyone so oh fuckin well if someone else thinks its stupid
I'll be honest with you those 8 Sundays a year when I'm waking up at 4 am, getting dressed in my game gear, meeting up with 30-50 other people and then heading out to the Oakland Coliseum for 6 hours of drinking, BBQing and partying with 50,000 of my brothers before the game starts and then heading into the stadium to cheer on our team as they battle it out with the enemy on the field is the best part of my year
 
odog said:
I don't want to delve too deep into this, but I will say one thing. As I got older and my friends had less time to hang out because they were starting families I found I was watching sports alone most of the time rather than with other people. And I started to realize that watching sports was largely a social thing for me. Something to do with the guys. Without other people to watch and discuss it with on a regular basis, it just became too big a time suck in comparison to the level of enjoyment I got out of it. I now just watch MMA and even that I'm selective about.
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This is my experience as well.

I have one baseball team I follow and one hockey team... I played on a rec softball team for 6 years and half the guys on my team knew the score of every single game from every sport the night before -- like they devoted their lives to being a spectator.

I can understand if you live in a city with a pro team and have seasons tickets, especially NFL which has it's own unique tailgating subculture that no other sport really has (maybe nascar), but it's weird living in a city in Canada, 2 hours away from a pro team to see people/friends so invested, especially in the NFL to teams they have no connection to.
 
Sometimes I mock sports guys by sarcastically cheering "go sportsball"!

Then I remember I'm a fan of almost all of them.

And it's awesome.
 
I find it astonishingly stupid that people like it so much that athletes can command tens of millions of dollars a year.
 
Time spent doing activities that make you happy is not time wasted, and I don't watch sports other than some mma.
 
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