Do any of you guys watch sports, or are you all just computer nerds?
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Super Mahrio
Deeply Horrible Person
BasilisK
Good day, pusscake.
I'm a big fan of hockey. The other half loves football and basketball so I was dragged to several Mavericks games this season. Now they are doing great, so I've jumped on the bandwagon.
Yay for our large German who throws up the Shocker when he scores.
Yay for our large German who throws up the Shocker when he scores.
Chromatose
Squid pro quo
I used to play fantasy football and always cleverly named my team names such as "Enemies of Reality" and my buddy would use "The Sanity Assassins"
I don't like football ,but playing fantasy football made me enjoy it a lot more, I had interest in watching all the games, not just one for a particular team or such (woo go Giants).
So yeah, fantasy football is pretty fun.
I don't like football ,but playing fantasy football made me enjoy it a lot more, I had interest in watching all the games, not just one for a particular team or such (woo go Giants).
So yeah, fantasy football is pretty fun.
FretsAflame
Undercover Shredder
eaeolian
Division Guitarist
Chromatose said:
It definitely made me enjoy the crap games I get see, since I can't get DirecTV and I'm 750 miles away from where the only NFL team that actually plays in New York is. (Of course, lately, there's no guarantee I'd enjoy the crap I'd get to see if I still lived in range, bu that's another story.)
BWN @ Work said:
yea man, im rooting for the mavs BIG TIME. i cant stand miami. they think theyre the best team in the league's history and well.......theyre not. pure luck they played detriot when they were in a rut. and if they ran into san antonio they would have gotten their asses handed to them as well.
IronGuillotine
Demented Clown
Personally, I don't really get anything out of watching most sports. I'd much rather be playing them. I do enjoy watching fights, though. Ultimate Fighting Championship, martial arts, boxing, etc. Hell...even some wrestling can be fun to watch.
neal
wizard in black
Played Soccer for about 13 years, fucked up my heel big time, lost interest, havent done anything in years. My dads a huge NCAA Basketball fan so I used to watch it with him all the time, still watch it now and then with him.
FretsAflame
Undercover Shredder
FretsAflame
Undercover Shredder
I mean - if two multi-billion dollar international industries are 'pointless' then I'd love to lead a pointless existence.
Regardless, they're both just forms of entertainment. Technically anything outside of eating and breathing are 'pointless' but then again, if that's all you've got, maybe life is pointless.
Regardless, they're both just forms of entertainment. Technically anything outside of eating and breathing are 'pointless' but then again, if that's all you've got, maybe life is pointless.
derek
Grey Eminence
Sport means as much to some people as music does. I suppose if one invests enough of their time and energy into a passion, the feelings it can impose upon you are similar to every other passion.
I love sports, watching, playing and I know the aggression, sadness, overwhelming joy and anticipation it can create and music does exactly the same.
Countering a sports fan with "it's idiots kicking a ball about" could as easily be fired back with "it's idiots using machines to make noise" it's all relative.
Sports rocks. Music rocks. It's just good to be passionate about something, otherwise we might as well be dead.
I love sports, watching, playing and I know the aggression, sadness, overwhelming joy and anticipation it can create and music does exactly the same.
Countering a sports fan with "it's idiots kicking a ball about" could as easily be fired back with "it's idiots using machines to make noise" it's all relative.
Sports rocks. Music rocks. It's just good to be passionate about something, otherwise we might as well be dead.
Chromatose
Squid pro quo
But I don't know of anyone who could put sports watching on the same level as music, where individuals can proclaim that music has an impact on their lives emotionally or spiritually, above simple entertainment.
Do people really get this passionate about sports?
Do people really get this passionate about sports?
derek
Grey Eminence
Watch a team from childhood, go to games as a kid with your grandfather and when he's dead and gone, being at the sports ground, seeing the team win it means more than just sport. To me that was spiritual. I saw my team win the Scottish Cup, I saw them finish second in a league where two other teams have dominated for over 50 years.
My grandad never saw his team do that, be he loved them all the same. I saw them lift the cup, I saw the Captain dedicate it to fans the world over and I knew the old guy woulda been celebrating wherever the hell he is...point is, sport means stuff to people, just as much as music does to others.
My grandad never saw his team do that, be he loved them all the same. I saw them lift the cup, I saw the Captain dedicate it to fans the world over and I knew the old guy woulda been celebrating wherever the hell he is...point is, sport means stuff to people, just as much as music does to others.
Chromatose
Squid pro quo
Yeah, the more I thought about it as I was sitting on the toilet, I fit the two hand in hand.
I was thinking it more of a different aspect of individual vs group mentality. Music seems to be an art that is mostly respected individually, although there are exceptions. Thus my connecting it on a spiritual level, because spirituality is something that is only attained through self.
Sports on the other hand affect the emotions of pride, such when viewed as competitions. Just an evolution of war, trivialized into fun, but still profoundly affecting one's pride, whether it be nationalism or a localized version thereof, rooting for the hometown. Of course there are exceptions here as well.
Also I was considering on the grounds of "fanboyism," i.e. the differences between someone who hangs posters of a band over his wall's vs that of jersey's and sports pennants, but then it also occurred to me music as sense of pride (being entirely devoted to a "scene", or used as a sport like american idol), and conversely sports as a spiritual sense of self-fulfilment, like you mentioned.
I now agree with steve's statement, regardless of whatever sense he originally intended it.
I was thinking it more of a different aspect of individual vs group mentality. Music seems to be an art that is mostly respected individually, although there are exceptions. Thus my connecting it on a spiritual level, because spirituality is something that is only attained through self.
Sports on the other hand affect the emotions of pride, such when viewed as competitions. Just an evolution of war, trivialized into fun, but still profoundly affecting one's pride, whether it be nationalism or a localized version thereof, rooting for the hometown. Of course there are exceptions here as well.
Also I was considering on the grounds of "fanboyism," i.e. the differences between someone who hangs posters of a band over his wall's vs that of jersey's and sports pennants, but then it also occurred to me music as sense of pride (being entirely devoted to a "scene", or used as a sport like american idol), and conversely sports as a spiritual sense of self-fulfilment, like you mentioned.
I now agree with steve's statement, regardless of whatever sense he originally intended it.
derek
Grey Eminence
Yeah, I think there is an (understandable) tendency to trivialise a passion that you do not personally have.
Very eloquently put, though.
Very eloquently put, though.
lets see... i used to be a die-hard sports freak when i was younger... i played everything... ice hockey was my favorite... but very expensive, so i had to stop. then after my back surgery, which caused me to stop playing football and baseball, i got into music and got a job. my job had me working all the time and i lost a lot of interest in sports because i didn't have time to keep up with it. but i got back into sports now. i'm big into hockey... Flyers fan until i die... and football is up there as well. I enjoy going to baseball games, but i can't really stand to watch them on tv. and basketball... i just hate basketball. can't stand it at all.
