I refuse to pretend to love something that won't change my life in any way. People hinge their days on sports and I find it really sad. If their team loses they have a bad day, why? What would be different had they won (unless you're gambling)? nothing at all... same old crap. If you don't watch it, you save the money you spent in gas and the ticket or the cable bill and electric bill. So it's always a lose lose. Why cheer for someone that can't even hear you, or get frustrated when they drop a ball? Like sure, it sucks, but everyone makes mistakes -- and it's just a game. In real life, the only person that that fumbled ball affects is the player (and possibly the team, but I'm looking at it through a longer scope). Getting excited or sad over sports, I feel, is a fabricated feeling that we put together in our minds and convince ourselves matters.
Aside from all of that, I just find them to be boring and a scheme to get money out of people. Watching sports is like watching someone run on a treadmill and cheering for them or watching someone work out, which is basically what the olympics are, no wonder they're overly-boring. I like to play soccer or ride a bike just as much as the next guy, but watching someone do it just doesn't do it for me. Sure, they're great at it and that may be appealing to some people, but I just don't find anything about it interesting. For years those basketballs have been put into the same hoops but for some reason we keep coming back to watch the same thing over, and over, and over. BOO.
I must say, though, that sports put food on my table for years. My father worked for a professional sports team and so I think from there is where this all stems, I overdosed on sports as a young child. I had every child's dream in that I could walk into the locker room and get a free soda and leave and that's about how I treated it. It was so normal to me, seeing professional players was just like seeing someone that works with my father. Whereas most kids would walk in there and want to meet all those players and get autographs, I was more interested in the fact that the soda was FREE. (Who doesn't like free soda?)
Lastly, I am afraid that sports have become less about the love of the game and fans and more about looking cool. I think it all started right around when Kobe started playing and it reached it's highest point of vanity when LeBron James started playing. It wasn't about who won, but about who looked coolest while winning.
BRING IT BACK:
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